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UN Spearheads Drive to Protect Journalists After Deadly 2012 When shells fell on the Syrian city of Homs in February 2012, a building used by foreign media took a direct hit - killing renowned Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin, along with Frenc...
M23 Rebels Urged to Protect Civilians Humanitarian agencies in the eastern DRC are scrambling to locate displaced civilians and provide assistance following the M23 rebel groups takeover of Goma. For years, the town has been the center of aid operati...
Economics Report - A New China-Taiwan Agreement Protects Investors This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. China and Taiwan may disagree on political issues. But on Thursday they reached an agreement to protect investors. The agreement is i...
China to mark up protected zones for its territorial sea base points BEIJING, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- China's State Oceanic Administration (SOA) on Tuesday released a series of measures to select and protect areas as the base points of the country's ter...
Officials Say New Orleans is Better Protected This Time Around Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina hammered the U.S. Gulf Coast with a storm surge eight and a half meters high and winds that blew apart buildings. The storm overwhelmed the levees that...
Economics Report - A New China-Taiwan Agreement Protects Investors This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. China and Taiwan may disagree on political issues. But on Thursday they reached an agreement to protect investors. The agreement is i...
BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature on Tuesday started to review a draft amendment that would impose new regulations on the country's privately offered funds, a move aimed at preventing illegal fundraising and trading. This was the f...
Activists Urge NATO to Protect Afghan Women's Rights Like so many Afghans, Manizha Naderi has concerns about the fate of her country after 2014, when international forces complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan after more than a decade of war. The...
US Neighborhood Watch Volunteers Help Protect Communities Baruti Jahi, a longtime Washington resident and father, knows he can't take his family's safety for granted. I'm up at four in the morning looking out my window because my dog is barking, and...