U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Monday urged the parties in Kenya's reconciliation talks to compromise and share power. The U.S. official met Kenyan leaders Monday during a one-day visit that was seen as raising international pressure for a political settlement to the disputed Kenyan elections. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from Nairobi.
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TBILISI -- Mikheil Saakashvili may have successfully retained his presidency, but he still has a mountain to climb in getting the country behind him again.
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It used to be called "The Club of Dictators." The African Union (AU), and before it the Organization of African Unity, lists among its alumni such infamous characters as Idi Amin, Charles Taylor, Sane Abacha, Mengistu Haile Mariam and Joseph Mobutu.
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The political values of Iraqis are increasingly secular and nationalistic, according to a series of surveys of nationally representative samples of the population from December 2004-March 2007.
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In some respects, the Armenian parliamentary election scheduled for May 12 may prove to be very similar to the 2003 vote that returned to power the incumbent three-party coalition headed by Prime Minister Markarian's Republican Party of Armenia (HHK).
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The United Front for a Worthy Future for Kyrgyzstan is the newest opposition movement in Kyrgyzstan and, with former Prime Minister Feliks Kulov as one of its leaders, it is already stirring up the political waters.
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Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar is now the presidential candidate of Nigeria's fledgling opposition Action Congress Party. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa reports that Atiku's party switch has provoked a debate on his status as vice president.
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The U.S. military in Iraq says a suicide bomber has killed 15 people and wounded 15 others in an attack on a police recruitment center in Baghdad.
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