Campaign Begins to Ensure Free Press The African Union has launched an effort to rid East Africa of colonial-era defamation and sedition laws. Since independence, many countries have used them to clamp down on freedom of the press. The effort to have...
Kerry Returns to Mideast to Press for Talks Kerry returns to the region after talks late last month produced what he called real progress. With a little more work he believes the start of final status negotiations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
World Press Freedom Declines Just one out of six people across the globe enjoyed a free press last year. Freedom House President David Kramer says the global decline in press freedom is a huge concern. A free press is critical to any country's democr...
South China Sea Nations Vary in Approaches to Press Claims Beijing says its live-fire exercises in the South China Sea are meant to defend against naval and air attacks in the contested waters. But Vietnam says those Chinese patrols endanger navigati...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 24 May 2006 An international press-freedom organization accuses the Ethiopian government of blocking personal Internet Web sites known as blogs that are critical of the government, a charge the authorities deny. Paris-based...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 02 May 2006 On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, Ethiopian journalists and others in Kenya are calling for the Ethiopian government to release more than a dozen journalists...
Arie Haan Press Conference All a very good morning! It's still the night for me, so excuse me sometimes. When I know more about the Chinese football at the beginning, we have of course, have some goal...
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INTRODUCTION TO ACT I Today on TUNING IN THE U.S.A., Susan Stewart is at her parents home in Riverdale. There is a special reason for her visit today. A newspaper reporter from the Riverdale paper is coming to talk to her. He wants to know about Susa...
By Gary Garriott Broadcast: November 25, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. From the beginning of human history, people have used oils from seeds and nuts. Most...
