Lives improved. Within those first one-hundred years, transportation links had helped form a new national economy.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

J.I.has links with al-Qaida. Police say they tracked seven suspects to a house on the outskirts of the town of Solo in Central Java.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Prosecutors say the gift that Mr.Taylor allegedly gave to Campbell links him to so-called "blood diamonds".

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

The power structure in Kandahar is led by President Hamid Karzai's controversial half-brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, with alleged links to drug trade and local militias.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

The five American suspects were said to be in contact with an outlawed Pakistani militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammad , that has links with al-Qaida and Taliban extremists.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian student with alleged links to al-Qaida, tried to detonate explosives just before a U.S.jetliner landed in Detroit on a trip from Amsterdam Friday.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

Several detainees returned to Yemen from Guantanamo Bay are now known to have links to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which has been linked to the attempted airline attack.

VOA: standard.2010.01.05

Also on Friday, Pakistani intelligence officials said they believed a U.S.missile strike in South Waziristan in late August killed Tahir Yuldashev, an Uzbek militant leader with links to al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

This is the first time the alliance of more than a dozen militant groups with links to al-Qaida has claimed responsibility since its former leader Baitullah Mehsud was reportedly killed in a U.S.missile strike.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

U.S.military officials said the commando operation took place in the coast district of Barawe in southern Somalia, which is heavily controlled by al-Shabab, a radical Islamist terrorist group thought to have direct links with al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Adow says al-Shabab, listed as a terrorist organization by the United States for having links with al-Qaida, has identified certain government officials and supporters as enemies because they have been vocal critics of the militant group.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Clinton said Iran's arrest of several Iranian staff members of the British embassy in Tehran for alleged links to post-election unrest was deplorable and that the United States continues to support Britain in seeking the release of those still held.

VOA: standard.2009.06.29

It is not clear what it will be able to do to help revive energy talks with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, During negotiations in the Czech capital,Prague, the three natural-gas producing nations were not convinced by E.U.offers of more trade and stronger transport links in exchange for their participation in a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline, known as Nabucco.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11