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Recalling the moment recently when she met young players of a girls' soccer team in Afghanistan, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a Washington audience on May 10 that she could not help noticing the striking contrast to the scene four years
12:52 May 11, 2006 PST
After the roar of the aircraft was silenced, the steady clicking of heels could be heard marching closer and closer. Suddenly, a group of Airmen, weapons contrasting starkly against their white gloves, formed up to begin their own performance: rhyth
12:43 May 11, 2006 PST
Two prominent U.S. lawmakers are reintroducing legislation in Congress to fund the promotion of democracy and human rights in Central Asia.
12:38 May 11, 2006 PST
The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has approved $350 million in financing that will allow National City Bank to expand its lending in emerging markets, with a focus on facilitating housing construction loans in the signatory nat
12:34 May 11, 2006 PST
'This is an important breakthrough. WFP and the DPRK have agreed on the terms of implementation for our new operation,' WFP's Regional Director for Asia Tony Banbury said in Beijing after a two-day visit to the DPRK during which he signed the $10
12:31 May 11, 2006 PST
Deliveries of lifesaving radioactive isotopes to hospitals across the globe are too often held-up or blocked during international transport, with patients potentially missing critical medical treatment or diagnosis due to skittish airlines or nation
12:27 May 11, 2006 PST
I want to congratulate Indiana on the remarkable progress that has been made here in building a network of 28 stations that can dispense E85 in a little more than a year. Once again, the Midwest is showing the rest of the country how to get things
11:06 May 11, 2006 PST
Internationally renown oscar-winning actor and screenwriter Matt Damon has just returned from Zambia, where he visited United Nations health and anti-poverty projects as part of a 'listening and learning' trip sponsored by the advocacy group found
11:02 May 11, 2006 PST
The 15-member Council voted unanimously after hearing a briefing on the situation in the Horn of Africa country from the chair of the sanctions committee for Somalia, Qatari Ambassador Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, on the report of the Monitoring Grou
10:57 May 11, 2006 PST
A major settlement involving federal and state regulators and the Hartford-based Metropolitan District (MDC) will significantly reduce illegal discharges of raw sewage into the environment throughout the Hartford, Conn. area from the MDC's wastewat
10:46 May 11, 2006 PST
The U.S.-led coalition has made great progress in helping the people of Afghanistan take back their country from the Taliban and its al-Qaida allies, but significant security challenges remain, says U.S. General Karl Eikenberry, commander of Combine
09:06 May 11, 2006 PST
With children under 15 accounting for one in every six global AIDS-related death and an estimated 15 million children worldwide made orphans by HIV/AIDS, parliamentarians should unite to protect children from the global scourge and ensure legislatio
08:51 May 11, 2006 PST
As the waters continue to rise in rain-flooded areas of Suriname, a six-member United Nations team is headed to the South American country to assess the situation of the tens of thousands of people who have been affected, the UN Office for the Coord
08:51 May 11, 2006 PST
Coalition and Iraqi Army forces and Iraqi emergency services personnel responded immediately to a bomb detonated by anti-Iraqi forces May 9 in Tal Afar. The blast left at least 16 Iraqi civilians dead and 134 others injured.
08:06 May 11, 2006 PST
The General Assembly has elected 47 nations to serve on the new Human Rights Council that will replace the discredited U.N. Commission on Human Rights in June.
08:02 May 11, 2006 PST
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