Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said the end of the operation would boost the local economy and declared a holiday to celebrate the event.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

But the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission examined more than 2,500 allegations of fraud including phantom polling stations, ballot-stuffing and police intimidation and declared a third of Mr.Karzai's ballots invalid, reversing his outright victory.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

In Washington, the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday declared carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases a threat to public health.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

He declared that he would make all of Texas and all of Oregon part of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Alaskans accepted it, and on January third, nineteen fifty-nine, President Eisenhower declared Alaska the forty-ninth state.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Serbia's main ally Russia has recognized the self-declared independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

The United States declared a public health emergency to permit the use of federal money and the use of flu medicines in federal storage.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

And finally, in seventeen eighty-seven, one of the declared reasons for establishing the Constitution of the United States was to form 'a more perfect Union'.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

They found nothing. Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were officially declared "lost at sea."

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Hawaiians accepted it, and on August twenty-first, President Eisenhower declared Hawaii the fiftieth state.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

And the third declared that no one did that slavery was legal everywhere.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

And he declared war on the southern states that tried to leave.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Technically,Congress and President Ronald Reagan declared it the "national floral emblem."

VOA: special.2010.06.15

Democrat Al Franken leads Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, and if he is declared the winner, would become the party's 60th vote.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

As opponents tried to take away his microphone and gavel, Chairman Park declared the committee's approval of the free-trade deal.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

Accordingly,La Familia's narco banner declared that they do not kill for money and they do not kill innocent people,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

The government in Rome meanwhile has declared a state of emergency for the area, freeing funds for relief and reconstruction.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

In Washington Monday, the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency declared greenhouse gasses a "threat to public health and the welfare of the American people."

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

This year marks the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth, and the Polish parliament has declared 2010 to be the official Year of Chopin.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7,1941, the U.S.declared war on Japan and Germany.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia last year, despite strong opposition from Belgrade and from Moscow.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

Abkhazia and South Ossetia declared independence following Georgia's conflict with Russia last August.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The second round was required after a U.N.-backed investigation into the vote found widespread fraud and a third of Mr.Karzai's ballots were declared invalid, reversing his outright victory.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

North Korea has declared those talks "dead" several times this year,and says it is willing to deal only with the United States as a fellow nuclear weapons nation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06