India put the peace talks on "pause" following last November's terror attack on Mumbai, which is blamed on militants from Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

The United States withdrew its ambassador from Damascus in 2005 following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, in which Syrian officials were implicated.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

Speaking at a news conference following the meeting Saturday, the Chinese premier spoke of his recent trip to North Korea, which ended a few days ago.

VOA: standard.2009.10.10

The White House says President Barack Obama is considering four options, which range from following General McChrystal's advice to sending as few as 10,000 to 15,000 troops.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

The short movie,which began as an undergraduate project at Flinders University in Adelaide, has become an advertisement for cultural harmony following a series of assaults on Indian students in Australia.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

A resurgent Taliban have been able to extend their influence to larger chunks of the country, which is now facing potential political turmoil following a presidential election tainted by allegations of fraud.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Major Nidal Malik Hasan is conscious and able to talk, according to Army officials overseeing his care following last week's incident in which the suspect was shot four times by a civilian police officer.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

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

"I am following the energy policies of almost all the big countries of the world, and there is no other government which is as dynamic as the Chinese government in putting energy policies in place."

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

The offer of talks comes nearly a year after New Delhi virtually put on hold a peace dialogue between the two countries following last year's terror attacks in Mumbai, which India blamed on terrorists based in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Pyongyang says a resumption of the propaganda campaign will also compel it to totally shut down the Kaesong industrial complex, where more than 100 South Korean firms employ about The two countries have no diplomatic relations and technically remain at war following a 1953 truce which ended the three-year Korean War.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

"In terms of foreign policy where Iran comes in, all three parties are following the same interventionist policies which gave us the Iraq war, the wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the world and I think on that even the Liberal Democrats - despite being perceived as softer - they're following the same underlying policies.

VOA: standard.2010.04.30