Like Sudan, the Eritrean regime has come under harsh criticism from Western human rights groups for repressive policies.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

Heavily-decorated military types from Western countries mingled with Arab sheikhs, while aircraft roared overhead.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

The number of visits from Western European countries is expected to remain stagnant.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

But India's diamond center is now desolate. Merchants in the once busy trading city say they have transacted virtually no business since last Christmas as orders dry up from Western buyers, who bought nearly 90 percent of their stones.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

"It expels us from the western hemisphere, which became peopled and civilized through the proud efforts of our fathers."

VOA: special.2010.07.22

For example, a toy from the nineteenth century has two forms, a man in western clothing and a Chinese man.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

Some people say Paul Bunyan was the creation of storytellers from the middle western Great Lakes area of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

Wallace had reached these ideas from his studies on islands in the western Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

Today on our program, we visit a town in the western state of Arizona that was saved from being a ghost town by a violent history.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

But representatives from the western counties opposed the decision to leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Sherman's western army was there from battles at Shiloh, Vicksburg,Murfreesboro, Chickamauga and Atlanta.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Miriam's Kitchen operates in Western Presbyterian Church, not far from the White House.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

It also represented the separation of western Europe from the communist east.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

The race called for flying without stopping from Los Angeles in the western state of California, to the city of Chicago, in the middle western state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Untrained soldiers from both sides fought in the mountains of western Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

They wanted to stop slavery from spreading into the western territories.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

And Turkey acts as a buffer on Iran's border from the encroachment of Western NATO powers and to some extent Israel.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

But in the soldier's hometown in the western U.S.state of Idaho, his family has known about his capture from the beginning.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

"That is what has attracted a lot of people from the Western world our colors,our songs,our dances, the Bollywood masala."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

Senator John Barrasso, from the western state of Wyoming, says Republicans support a comprehensive plan to double the U.S.investment in energy research.

VOA: standard.2009.05.23

A small group of people from the Sefwi tribe in western Ghana converted to Judaism in the 1970's.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

The ruling pro-Western March 14th coalition came under a high-pitched attack from Hezbollah leaders, as well as the Hezbollah-run Al Manar TV.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

Thirty-seven needed medical treatment and three were flown to the Western Australian capital,Perth, suffering from broken bones.

VOA: standard.2009.11.24

Separately,Islamist rebels re-took control of the western part of the strategic town of Beledweyne from government troops.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21