Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Voice of America: Vote Counting Under Way in Zimbabwe's Presidential Polls

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Vote Counting Under Way in Zimbabwe's Presidential Polls
Jul 31st 2013, 23:01, by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

Polls have closed and vote counting is under way in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai faced off in a presidential contest marred by pre-election claims of fraud. Late Wednesday, the head of the country's elections commission told reporters to expect partial results as early as Thursday. Rita Makarau also said she believes the election was "free and fair." The 89-year-old Mugabe and 61-year-old Tsvangirai were the main contestants in ...

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Voice of America: Indian Who Helped Announce British Royal Birth Returns Home

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Indian Who Helped Announce British Royal Birth Returns Home
Jul 31st 2013, 18:52, by webdesk@voanews.com (Henry Ridgwell)

The story of a worker at London's royal residence Buckingham Palace, who played a key role in announcing the birth of Prince William and Kate's baby last week, has ignited a debate over immigration and visas in Britain. The large crowds that had gathered outside Buckingham Palace last week celebrated when the official notice of the birth of Kate and William's baby boy was posted on an ornate golden easel in the palace grounds. But few of the witnesses, or the millions watching on television ...

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Voice of America: Conservationists Excited by Tiger Population Rise in Nepal

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Conservationists Excited by Tiger Population Rise in Nepal
Jul 31st 2013, 21:24, by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)

The number of wild Royal Bengal tigers in Nepal has increased to 198, a 63.6 percent rise in five years, a government survey of the big cats showed.   The findings are crucial for the protection of endangered tigers facing the threat of extinction from poachers for the lucrative trade in their parts, encroachment of habitat by villagers due to the rise in human settlements and loss of prey.   Conflicts between people and wild animals are frequent in Nepal, which has pledged to ...

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Voice of America: Thousands Hiding, Hungry in Bush in South Sudan’s Pibor

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Thousands Hiding, Hungry in Bush in South Sudan's Pibor
Jul 31st 2013, 21:40, by webdesk@voanews.com (Hannah McNeish)

Continued violence has forced more than 100,000 people from a minority tribe into the bush in South Sudan's Pibor County. This follows another round of ethnic violence in Jonglei state. Aid agencies are struggling to mount a humanitarian response to feed 60,000 people who have been surviving on leaves - some for more than six months. But aid access is limited and many people are too scared to come to the towns for fear of abuse by security forces. Near Pibor town, scores of women have ...

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Voice of America: Vote Counting Under Way in Zimbabwe's Presidential Polls

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Vote Counting Under Way in Zimbabwe's Presidential Polls
Jul 31st 2013, 23:01, by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

Polls have closed and vote counting is under way in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai faced off in a presidential contest marred by pre-election claims of fraud. Late Wednesday, the head of the country's elections commission told reporters to expect partial results as early as Thursday. Rita Makarau also said she believes the election was "free and fair." The 89-year-old Mugabe and 61-year-old Tsvangirai were the main contestants in ...

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Voice of America: Conservationists Excited by Tiger Population Rise in Nepal

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Conservationists Excited by Tiger Population Rise in Nepal
Jul 31st 2013, 21:24, by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)

The number of wild Royal Bengal tigers in Nepal has increased to 198, a 63.6 percent rise in five years, a government survey of the big cats showed.   The findings are crucial for the protection of endangered tigers facing the threat of extinction from poachers for the lucrative trade in their parts, encroachment of habitat by villagers due to the rise in human settlements and loss of prey.   Conflicts between people and wild animals are frequent in Nepal, which has pledged to ...

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Voice of America: Indian Who Helped Announce British Royal Birth Returns Home

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Indian Who Helped Announce British Royal Birth Returns Home
Jul 31st 2013, 18:52, by webdesk@voanews.com (Henry Ridgwell)

The story of a worker at London's royal residence Buckingham Palace, who played a key role in announcing the birth of Prince William and Kate's baby last week, has ignited a debate over immigration and visas in Britain. The large crowds that had gathered outside Buckingham Palace last week celebrated when the official notice of the birth of Kate and William's baby boy was posted on an ornate golden easel in the palace grounds. But few of the witnesses, or the millions watching on television ...

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Voice of America: Thousands Hiding, Hungry in Bush in South Sudan’s Pibor

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Thousands Hiding, Hungry in Bush in South Sudan's Pibor
Jul 31st 2013, 21:40, by webdesk@voanews.com (Hannah McNeish)

Continued violence has forced more than 100,000 people from a minority tribe into the bush in South Sudan's Pibor County. This follows another round of ethnic violence in Jonglei state. Aid agencies are struggling to mount a humanitarian response to feed 60,000 people who have been surviving on leaves - some for more than six months. But aid access is limited and many people are too scared to come to the towns for fear of abuse by security forces. Near Pibor town, scores of women have ...

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Voice of America: Indian Who Helped Announce British Royal Birth Returns Home

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Indian Who Helped Announce British Royal Birth Returns Home
Jul 31st 2013, 18:52, by webdesk@voanews.com (Henry Ridgwell)

The story of a worker at London's royal residence Buckingham Palace, who played a key role in announcing the birth of Prince William and Kate's baby last week, has ignited a debate over immigration and visas in Britain. The large crowds that had gathered outside Buckingham Palace last week celebrated when the official notice of the birth of Kate and William's baby boy was posted on an ornate golden easel in the palace grounds. But few of the witnesses, or the millions watching on television ...

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Voice of America: Thousands Hiding, Hungry in Bush in South Sudan’s Pibor

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Thousands Hiding, Hungry in Bush in South Sudan's Pibor
Jul 31st 2013, 21:40, by webdesk@voanews.com (Hannah McNeish)

Continued violence has forced more than 100,000 people from a minority tribe into the bush in South Sudan's Pibor County. This follows another round of ethnic violence in Jonglei state. Aid agencies are struggling to mount a humanitarian response to feed 60,000 people who have been surviving on leaves - some for more than six months. But aid access is limited and many people are too scared to come to the towns for fear of abuse by security forces. Near Pibor town, scores of women have ...

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Voice of America: Vote Counting Under Way in Zimbabwe's Presidential Polls

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Vote Counting Under Way in Zimbabwe's Presidential Polls
Jul 31st 2013, 23:01, by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

Polls have closed and vote counting is under way in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai faced off in a presidential contest marred by pre-election claims of fraud. Late Wednesday, the head of the country's elections commission told reporters to expect partial results as early as Thursday. Rita Makarau also said she believes the election was "free and fair." The 89-year-old Mugabe and 61-year-old Tsvangirai were the main contestants in ...

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Voice of America: Conservationists Excited by Tiger Population Rise in Nepal

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Conservationists Excited by Tiger Population Rise in Nepal
Jul 31st 2013, 21:24, by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)

The number of wild Royal Bengal tigers in Nepal has increased to 198, a 63.6 percent rise in five years, a government survey of the big cats showed.   The findings are crucial for the protection of endangered tigers facing the threat of extinction from poachers for the lucrative trade in their parts, encroachment of habitat by villagers due to the rise in human settlements and loss of prey.   Conflicts between people and wild animals are frequent in Nepal, which has pledged to ...

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Voice of America: Vote Counting Under Way in Zimbabwe's Presidential Polls

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Vote Counting Under Way in Zimbabwe's Presidential Polls
Jul 31st 2013, 23:01, by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)

Polls have closed and vote counting is under way in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai faced off in a presidential contest marred by pre-election claims of fraud. Late Wednesday, the head of the country's elections commission told reporters to expect partial results as early as Thursday. Rita Makarau also said she believes the election was "free and fair." The 89-year-old Mugabe and 61-year-old Tsvangirai were the main contestants in ...

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Voice of America: Thousands Hiding, Hungry in Bush in South Sudan’s Pibor

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Thousands Hiding, Hungry in Bush in South Sudan's Pibor
Jul 31st 2013, 21:40, by webdesk@voanews.com (Hannah McNeish)

Continued violence has forced more than 100,000 people from a minority tribe into the bush in South Sudan's Pibor County. This follows another round of ethnic violence in Jonglei state. Aid agencies are struggling to mount a humanitarian response to feed 60,000 people who have been surviving on leaves - some for more than six months. But aid access is limited and many people are too scared to come to the towns for fear of abuse by security forces. Near Pibor town, scores of women have ...

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Voice of America: Indian Who Helped Announce British Royal Birth Returns Home

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Indian Who Helped Announce British Royal Birth Returns Home
Jul 31st 2013, 18:52, by webdesk@voanews.com (Henry Ridgwell)

The story of a worker at London's royal residence Buckingham Palace, who played a key role in announcing the birth of Prince William and Kate's baby last week, has ignited a debate over immigration and visas in Britain. The large crowds that had gathered outside Buckingham Palace last week celebrated when the official notice of the birth of Kate and William's baby boy was posted on an ornate golden easel in the palace grounds. But few of the witnesses, or the millions watching on television ...

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Voice of America: License Plate Readers Spur Privacy Concerns

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License Plate Readers Spur Privacy Concerns
Jul 31st 2013, 20:26, by webdesk@voanews.com (Jeff Swicord)

Privacy advocates, already reeling from leaks on the government's surveillance of private citizens, have found another concern.  Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. are using powerful camera technology to scan license plates and build databases on the movements of millions of Americans. Arlington County Police Detective Mohammed Tabibi is with the auto theft unit.  He uses license plate readers, or LPR's, mounted on the hood of his car, to look for stolen vehicles. "It ...

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Voice of America: Cambodian TV Show Reunites Families Split by Khmer Rouge

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Cambodian TV Show Reunites Families Split by Khmer Rouge
Jul 31st 2013, 20:48, by webdesk@voanews.com (Irwin Loy)

After a four-year reign that killed one-quarter of the population, the Khmer Rouge regime collapsed in 1979, leaving many families disbanded and unable to reconcile the past.   Like many in her generation, Seak Mala's childhood was anything but normal. Separated from her family during the genocide, she found herself alone-no parents, no siblings or aunts when the regime collapsed.   While she and one uncle were born only a year apart, it has been decades since she last saw him, ...

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Voice of America: Conservationists Excited by Tiger Population Rise in Nepal

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Conservationists Excited by Tiger Population Rise in Nepal
Jul 31st 2013, 21:24, by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)

The number of wild Royal Bengal tigers in Nepal has increased to 198, a 63.6 percent rise in five years, a government survey of the big cats showed.   The findings are crucial for the protection of endangered tigers facing the threat of extinction from poachers for the lucrative trade in their parts, encroachment of habitat by villagers due to the rise in human settlements and loss of prey.   Conflicts between people and wild animals are frequent in Nepal, which has pledged to ...

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Voice of America: Nigeria Opposition Coalition Cleared to Run

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Nigeria Opposition Coalition Cleared to Run
Jul 31st 2013, 21:28, by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)

Nigeria's electoral commission has approved the merger of three main opposition parties into a bloc that could pose the most credible threat yet to the long-ruling party of President Goodluck Jonathan.   Since nearly three decades of military dictatorship ended in 1999, the People's Democratic Party (PDP) has ruled more or less unchallenged, winning every presidential poll.   But recent internal wrangling has weakened it, and the coalition of the Action Congress of Nigeria ...

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Voice of America: Discussion on US Domestic Surveillance Continues

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Discussion on US Domestic Surveillance Continues
Jul 31st 2013, 21:55, by webdesk@voanews.com (Michael Bowman)

Top U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials say the government's vast domestic data collection activities do not infringe on citizens' privacy but do help identify and defeat terrorist threats.  Officials testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee hours after the Obama administration released documents detailing telephone data collection programs exposed by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. Revelations that the U.S. government collects telephone records have ...

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Voice of America: Rising Seas, Regulations Push Poor New Jersey Residents to Move Inland

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Rising Seas, Regulations Push Poor New Jersey Residents to Move Inland
Jul 30th 2013, 21:51, by webdesk@voanews.com (Brian Padden)

The devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy last year along the northeastern coastline of the United States has convinced many skeptics that global warming and rising sea levels are now a real and present danger. The state of New Jersey is spending millions of dollars to build up sea walls and sand dunes to protect popular beaches but, in some poor coastal communities people are being urged to flee their homes and move inland. William Bowen is the oldest living resident of Money Island in New ...

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Voice of America: Formal Mideast Peace Negotiations to Begin by Mid-August

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Formal Mideast Peace Negotiations to Begin by Mid-August
Jul 30th 2013, 23:37, by webdesk@voanews.com (Suzanne Presto)

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators held a second and final day of preliminary, face-to-face talks in Washington Tuesday. The talks included a meeting with President Obama at the White House.  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, with Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, said the goal is to reach a final status agreement during the next nine months.    "We all understand the goal that we're working toward: two states ...

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Voice of America: Pentagon Report Foresees Need for Afghan Support Beyond 2014

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Pentagon Report Foresees Need for Afghan Support Beyond 2014
Jul 30th 2013, 23:59

A new Pentagon report to the U.S. Congress says substantial long-term foreign military assistance will be required to support Afghan security forces once NATO combat troops leave the country next year. In a twice-yearly report on war progress, top U.S. military officials say significantly more security training and foreign financial aid will be required to ensure that the Kabul government can hold off the ongoing Taliban insurgency. Tuesday's report comes as U.S. negotiations with the ...

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Voice of America: Rising Seas, Regulations Push Poor New Jersey Residents to Move Inland

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Rising Seas, Regulations Push Poor New Jersey Residents to Move Inland
Jul 30th 2013, 21:51, by webdesk@voanews.com (Brian Padden)

The devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy last year along the northeastern coastline of the United States has convinced many skeptics that global warming and rising sea levels are now a real and present danger. The state of New Jersey is spending millions of dollars to build up sea walls and sand dunes to protect popular beaches but, in some poor coastal communities people are being urged to flee their homes and move inland. William Bowen is the oldest living resident of Money Island in New ...

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