By Barry Wood Mitrovica, Kosovo 22 September 2006 The city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo has long been a flash point of ethnic tension between the Albanian south side of the Ibar River and the mostly Serbian north. VOA's Barry Wood reports from Mi

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A Somali government soldier looks at car exploded by a suicide bomber in Mogadishu, 15 Feb 2010 Somali rebel group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for a failed suicide bombing attempt against the defense minister for the Western-backed Mogadishu

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Traditional Islamic schools, known as madrassas, have gotten some negative attention in recent years. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, some madrassas are accused of stoking Islamic fundamentalism and militancy. In India, a new kind of madrassa is emergin

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: We have said this more than once this week. After James Comey's firing, there are still more questions than there are answers. Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska is still asking, why now. Our co-host, Steve Inskeep, sat dow

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By Jim Malone Washington 27 December 2007 The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has taken center-stage in the U.S. presidential election campaign. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone reports from Washington on the reac

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Another New Zealand SAS soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, the second one in a month. He was Lance Corporal Leon Smith, from Wellington, aged in his mid thirties. He is the 4th New Zealand soldier to die in Afghanistan. SAS means Special Air Ser

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