The body said during the weekend there had been a breach of confidentiality and apologized for treating the matter insensitively.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

The issue of a new constitution for Kurdistan, which was removed from the ballot in weekend elections, triggered anxiety in both Washington and Baghdad.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

The settlement issue will top the agenda when U.S.Middle East envoy George Mitchell arrives here this weekend for separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Nicci Reisnour is a doctoral student in musicology at Cornell University, and she makes the five-hour commute to New York City every weekend for Dharma Swara rehearsals.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

"So,for this reason, we're saying that a bloodbath has occurred over the weekend."

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

I pulled him out because even if he graduates, he cannot find a job. During the weekend, thousands of activists marched to the Lebanese capital to demand rights for Palestinians.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

The slow pace of recovery is bad news for more than a million Americans who will stop receiving unemployment benefits after Congress adjourned for the holiday weekend without extending federal aid.

VOA: standard.2010.07.02

Observers say with the current reunification talks not only being seen as the best hope for reunification in decades as well as carrying the hopes of Turkey's EU bid, whoever wins this weekend's election in Turkish Cyprus will be aware there are powerful forces behind the continuation of those talks.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

People in Poland have very emotional attitudes to politics, and when he is saying something like that people think, 'oh,we will have something like a totalitarian regime if the president is also from Platforma,'" Makowski adds that the summer holiday season may also affect the vote, since wealthier Poles tend to support Komorowski and many will be leaving for vacation over the weekend.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03