Although the case is reminiscent of episodes from the Cold War, Russia hailed the exchange as a positive development.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

Development in Haiti has suffered repeated set backs from political violence, poor leadership,corruption, a lack of law and order and natural disasters.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Both were able to start businesses in Washington with a small loan from the Latino Economic Development Corporation.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Charlie Scheiner is an analyst from Lao Hamutuk, a rights organization that monitors the development of East Timor's social and civic institutions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

He says the new Obama war strategy, which also includes a major rehaul of civilian development projects, sounds like a hopeful change from the past.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

Thirty-four of the players considered came from those invited to a team orientation camp in Chicago and about 40 others from the National Team Development Program.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

"Canada is not leaving Afghanistan,". "Canada will be transitioning from a predominately military mission to a mission that will be a civilian humanitarian development mission after 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Paul Pillar,a former senior CIA intelligence officer now with Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, favors a shift away from direct combat operations to a concentration on training Afghanistan's army and police, and economic development.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

But,she warns this progress is fragile. She says the momentum for health development could come to a grinding halt because of problems stemming from the food and financial crises, the changing climate and the H1N1 influenza pandemic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

Clinton spoke in Morocco at a democracy and development conference called the Forum for the Future, which joins foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations with officials from North Africa and the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03