For example,husbands and wives in some ethnic groups are tested for the possibility of having a child with Tay-Sachs.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

"Mississippi Masala" was a nineteen ninety-one film about an ethnic Indian family exiled from Uganda when Idi Amin comes to power.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

But that attempt was canceled after a storm caused a giant mass of snow to slide down the mountain, killing seven ethnic Sherpa guides.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Hispanics are now the nation's largest ethnic minority, and a fast growing group of voters.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

It originally began as a separatist movement of ethnic Dioula fighting for greater autonomy from the government in Dakar.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

And that involves the intentional destruction of a group in whole or in part for religious,ethnic or racial reasons.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

A member of Romania's ethnic German minority, Mueller knew persecution under the rule of the Ceausescu regime.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

The election will help shape Iraq's immediate future, either allowing sectarian and ethnic divides to deepen or giving more nationalist forces a boost.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

A key stumbling block was Kirkuk. Ethnic Kurds would like to see the oil-rich city under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Premier Wen also said the Chinese government works for the equality of all ethnic groups, a point disputed by China's Tibetan and Uighur dissidents,among others.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

Dr.Louis Sullivan says minority health care professionals fill a key role in serving ethnic communities.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

A delay in the final vote count is raising fears of further instability in a country already divided by a Taliban insurgency and smoldering ethnic tensions.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

a secular,left-leaning party whose members are mostly from the ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities;

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

About 150 young people of all ethnic origins packed a small room at the French Immigration Ministry on Wednesday night, for a debate hosted by Minister Besson.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

He added that he rejected linking terrorism to any ethnic group or religion, again a point debated by Muslim Uighurs who have been rounded up in anti-terror sweeps.

VOA: standard.2009.11.07

The American Liver Foundation says one in 10 Asian Americans have the virus, a disease that's 100 times more likely to strike Asian Americans than other ethnic groups.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

He is also expected to face a strong challenge from a candidate representing Macedonia's ethnic-Albanian minority,Imer Selmani, who has been nicknamed the Macedonian Obama after the United States president.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Political analyst Zadeh says state discrimination against ethnic Baluchis and the poverty of the area, also a center of drug smuggling, give Jundallah more than enough support from the local population.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Presidential candidate Ivanov has told his supporters he wants to help overcome nationalistic divisions in Macedonia, which narrowly averted civil war in 2001, following a peace deal between ethnic-Albanian fighters and Macedonian security forces.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

Though Mr.Yala is from the country's ethnic majority, which has long controlled the military, he was toppled in a 2003 coup before unilaterally declaring himself president and temporarily seizing the presidential palace in 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

U.S.officials are concerned such a prolonged political process will create an opening for al-Qaida to try to foment ethnic strife, just as tens of thousands of U.S.troops are scheduled to be leaving Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

The Tamil Tigers,long classified by the United States as a terrorist group, waged a 26-year war for an ethnic-Tamil state in the northern part of the mostly-Sinhalese country before its defeat and final surrender in May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

Pope Benedict denounced what he called "the clouds of evil" over Africa that have brought war and ethnic rivalry, reducing the poor to slavery and depriving "future generations of the resources needed to create a more solid and just society."

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

The ethnic Uzbek leader, who was a candidate in the country's 2004 election, is widely reported to be at least partly responsible for the alleged massacre of some 2,000 Taliban prisoners after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and a cover-up of the deaths.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

Khin Ohmar, a member of the Forum for Democracy in Burma, says ASEAN needs to press Burma to talk with the democratic opposition and ethnic nationalities about the release of political prisoners and a halt to human rights abuses against ethnic minorities.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09