But a local group came to his aid. The Arlington Street People's Assistance Network is also known as A-SPAN.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

The president said Fiat will contribute billions of dollars in advanced technology as well as a global sales network.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

Intelligence officials say Balawi was a double agent, posing as a Jordanian informant but working for the al-Qaida terror network.

VOA: standard.2010.01.09

That distinction belongs to the broadcast network itself, which takes as much as one-quarter of the commercial time to promote its own shows.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

South Korea's main 24-hour cable news channel network cited intelligence officials Monday as saying the North Korean vessel was probably destined for Burma.

VOA: standard.2009.06.22

He cannot afford health care. So he comes regularly to this free clinic run by the Inner City Muslim Action Network, also known as IMAN.

VOA: standard.2010.03.15

The two cabinet secretaries say the United States still wants to deter, defeat and dismantle the al-Qaida terrorist network, as President Obama said in his statement on strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan in March.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Kenyan parliament member David Koech, serving as chairman of the Pan-African Parliamentarians' Network on Climate Change, which organized the event, said Africans expect global action because they are experiencing the harsh reality of an unfriendly climate.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

"They are known as the younger, new Taliban,many of whom, particularly those working in the Haqqani network, are perceived as being even more radical and more, let us call it bloodthirsty, than their elders,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

"How do we get creative and think not just of what they have done, but what they are going to do next and next and next?" But the homeland security secretary says the U.S.government must also take care not to intrude on citizen privacy as it ramps up its defense of the worldwide electronic network government agencies, businesses and individuals increasingly depend on.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11

Does it need refinement in some way?" "And if it does need some adjustment in light of the events that have taken place over the last number of months, including the election and so on, and then what are the implications of that in terms of General McChrystal's resource request?" The secretary said the United States will not abandon its core mission in Afghanistan, which President Obama described as the destruction of the al-Qaida terrorist network, because it is "critical" to U.S.national security.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23