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The first China-Eurasia Expo is coming to a close in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Some 50,000 officials and business people from China and about 30 countries, regions and international organizations attended the five-day t
Broadcast: Jan 29 2003 Two senior U.N. officials warn the HIV/AIDS pandemic in southern Africa is changing the nature of 1) famine in the region and is 2) unleashing a disaster that threatens the exis
By Bill Gasperini Moscow 17 May 2006 A Russian special forces officer guards the wreckage of a car outside Nazran 17 May 2006 A powerful car bomb killed a top police official in the southern Russian r
By Steve Mort Addis Ababa 21 December 2006 watch Darfur Crisis Peacekeeping Kofi Annan Outgoing U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for intervention to end the killing in Sudan's Darfur region. His appeal came in a farewell speech earlier t
By Catherine Maddux Washington 04 May 2006 The pressure on Sudan's warring parties in the western Darfur region is growing as a third deadline approaches Thursday to reach a peace deal proposed by the
By Noel King Khartoum 09 January 2007 The governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, visited Sudan's Darfur region on Tuesday in an attempt to get holdout Darfur rebel groups to agree to a 60-day ceasefire with the Sudanese governmen
By Noel King Khartoum 18 November 2006 United Nations Humanitarian chief, Jan Egeland, has painted a grim picture of life for millions of civilians in Darfur, following his return from the war-torn region. On Saturday, Egeland appealed to the Sudane
By Noel King Khartoum 16 August 2006 The United Nations says deteriorating security in Sudan's Darfur region is severely hindering humanitarian aid. The World Food Program, WFP, says the number of Darfuri civilians who have been cut off from food ai
By Brian Padden Irbil, Iraq 23 August 2007 The electricity shortage in Iraq continues to plague the country. Power blackouts have become a telling symbol of the difficulties Iraq's government and the United States are having in improving life for ord
By Catherine Maddux Washington 22 May 2006 The implementation of the peace accord to end more than three years of war in Darfur, Sudan, appears to be stumbling, amid accusations of cease-fire violatio
By Noel King Khartoum 26 March 2007 The U.N. Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs has warned that the massive aid operation sustaining Sudan's war-torn Darfur region is on the verge of collapse if insecurity in the region continues. Noel King has
A rebel group in Ethiopia's arid Somali region has issued an urgent appeal for humanitarian assistance, accusing the government of blocking aid deliveries. The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) insurgent group says people and livestock are dyin
By Pearse Lynch Nairobi 04 July 2006 Map of Sudan, Darfur region Rebels from the Sudanese region of Darfur have carried out an attack outside the region on a town about 400 kilometers from Khartoum. Government aircraft have been sent to Hamrat al-Sh
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 06 February 2008 Two explosions have killed at least 20 people in the port town of Bosasso in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, Puntland has gener
By Douglas Bakshian Manila 08 October 2007 The Asian Development Bank says Asia and the Pacific are behind in meeting certain parts the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. A new report by the ADB and the U.N. Development Program says progre
By Noel King Khartoum 09 December 2006 In another blow to emergency aid operations in Sudan's embattled Darfur region, the International Committee of the Red Cross says it has been forced to evacuate staff from the town of Kutum in northern Darfur d
In the Pacific state of Hawaii, U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday told leaders of the 21 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation economies that the region will be key to U.S. economic recovery. With much of the formal summit activity, including a worki
VLADIVOSTOK, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- First Far Eastern paralympic sports festival opens in Khabarovsk on December 18. The athletes from four regions of the Russia's Far East take part in it, RIA Novosti news agency reported. About 100 athletes came to th
Residents of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia voted for a new president Friday, three years after Russia recognized the region, and another breakaway area, South Ossetia, as independent states. Three candidates are hoping to replace Presiden
Musicians from Chinas National Symphony Orchestra are embracing the cultures of Yunnan province. Having visited in person, they composed pieces based on the regions music and performed them on site for the locals. The concert in the Grand Theater ope