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By Catherine Maddux Washington 28 April 2006 During nearly two decades of civil war in northern Uganda, an estimated 30,000 children have been abducted by rebels and forced to fight or become sex slav
By Robert Raffaele Washington, D.C. 22 August 2006 watch Cleanup report Various agencies are working to clean up the devastation inflicted on Lebanon's environment, and remove dangerous remnants of the month-long fighting. ----- While bulldozers cle
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 01 June 2007 Kidnapped BBC Gaza Correspondent Alan Johnston appeared for the first time Friday in a videotape released by his captors. VOA's Jim Teeple has details from our Jerusalem bureau. Handout image released 01 June 2007
The United Nations has confirmed that four of its workers were abducted early Monday in Waajid, in south-central Somalia. According to the U.N., the workers include three foreigners and one Somali. U.N. spokesperson Dawn Blalock said the staff membe
By Peta Thornycroft Harare 07 May 2007 After the high-profile police beating of senior opposition politicians in March, state-sponsored political violence in Zimbabwe is now targeting mid-level opposition activists and ordinary citizens who are being
By Steve Herman Tokyo 14 December 2006 Shinzo Abe (File photo) The Japanese government has told families of Japanese abducted by North Korea that the fate of their relatives will not take a back seat to improving ties with the communist state. VOA's
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BEIJING, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Tents, quilts, coats and other relief materials have been sent to southwest China's Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in the wake of an earthquake that jolted the area on Sunday, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said Monday. Loca
By Paula Wolfson Washington 08 February 2006 President George Bush is calling for an end to violent protests by Muslims who have been enraged by cartoons that depict the Prophet Muhammad as a terroris
GUIYANG, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and four others injured, including three who were seriously injured, in a coal mine blast in southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities said Tuesday. The blast occurred around 5:25 p.m.
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 09 May 2007 Attackers carrying assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a transport vessel carrying oil workers off the southern coast of Nigeria, kidnapping four Americans late Tuesday. Gilbert da Costa reports
By Carol Pearson Washington, D.C. 05 July 2007 An American man who traveled internationally with tuberculosis - despite instructions not to - has a new diagnosis and is not as sick as government doctors initially said he was. As VOA's Carol Pearson
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 15 May 2007 Israeli and Jordanian leaders have held a summit in Jordan's Red Sea resort of Aqaba in a bid to advance the peace process. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, an Arab land-for-peace proposal t
KUNMING, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Eight people have been confirmed injured in an earthquake near the border area of southwest China's Sichuan and Yunnan provinces on Tuesday, local authorities said. The 4.9-magnitude quake, which occurred at 10:46 a.m. wi
BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's central authorities initiated a level-four emergency plan on Sunday afternoon in response to severe flooding in southwest China's Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality. The National Commission for Disaster R
KUNMING, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Some 2,350 people in southwest China's Yunnan Province are working to put out a forest fire that broke out on Thursday afternoon, local authorities said Friday. The fire erupted around 3 p.m. in the border areas between t
BEIJING, May 31 (Xinhua) -- Precipitation has helped ease a lingering drought in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces and conditions will further improve as rainy season arrives, the drought relief authority said on Thursday. Recent rainfall has alleviated 2
GUIYANG, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Hail and thunderstorms have killed one person and forced the relocation of more than 1,600 people in southwest China's Guizhou province since Tuesday morning, local authorities said Wednesday. Ten counties have been hit by
Multiple quakes hit SW China, killing 64 ZHAOTONG, Yunnan, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Sixty-four people have been confirmed dead and 715 others injured after multiple earthquakes struck a mountainous region in southwest China on Friday, authorities said. A