The World Bank estimates that developing nations will need between two hundred seventy and seven hundred billion dollars in financing.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

This week,we tell about the biggest system of freshwater lakes in the world, the Great Lakes between the United States and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

This really disturbs me,he says. The 1996 alliance between Israel and Turkey, made Ankara Israel's closest friend in the Muslim world.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Such demonstrations have become frequent in a country with one of the widest gaps between rich and poor in the world.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

He says the promotion of democracy should go hand in hand with efforts to end regional conflicts - in particular, between the Arab world and Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

The World Health Organization estimates that between 50,000 and 70,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with sleeping sickness, which is spread by the tsetse fly.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

From its base in Portland,Oregon, the organization also builds links between Americans and partners in the developing world who are using technology to solve social and environmental problems.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

But the end of World War II signaled the beginning of the Cold War between the United States and Russia in which CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers played a central role.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

"And indeed with that inter-mediation between wealth and poverty in the world you need to ensure that there are rules that are applied and you need to ensure that there is accountability."

VOA: standard.2009.06.10

Secretary Clinton says many people who heard President Obama's Cairo speech five months ago asked how his vision for a new understanding between the United States and the Muslim world would translate into meaningful changes in people's everyday lives.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Perhaps most importantly, there is the clash between world views, where on the one hand, there is the democratic and progressive trend embodied in the venerable and still extant tradition of Arab liberalism, and on the other hand,the bloody and violent current represented by far too many of the region's seminal figures."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18