United Nations officials say about 40,000 Tamils have returned to their villages in the past two weeks under Colombo's resettlement plan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

For the past five weeks,British forces have been clearing the territory between Lashkar Gah and Girishk in Afghanistan's Helmand Province.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

But the process has been stalled by Mr.Yar'Adua's absence from Nigeria in the past few weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

"We have detected certainly an increase in the past couple of weeks of the rate at which people are being allowed to return home,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The cumulative total of Americans receiving unemployment benefits has reached new record-highs in each of the past 10 weeks, and now stands at 5.73 million.

VOA: standard.2009.04.02

Some 175 people have died in the past two weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

The call is an apparent challenge to Israel, which has brought in thousands of additional police to prevent clashes like the ones that have broken out sporadically in the city during the past two weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

But there is a lot of uncertainty, and of course that is manifest in the share price which has lost about 40 percent of its value over the course of the past six or seven weeks."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"Iraq has known many challenges. And in the past several weeks we have seen that there are still those who would kill innocent men, women and children to deny the Iraqi people the future they deserve.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08