The Palace of the Governors on the central plaza is the oldest continually occupied public building in the country.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

In the next few weeks, American forces occupied Puerto Rico and the Philippine capital of Manila.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Earlier this month, on July twelfth, Neptune reached the same area in the sky that it occupied when it was first observed by Johann Galle.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

They demand that Israel freeze all construction on Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank before any negotiations start.

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

Anti-government protesters in late 2008 occupied Bangkok's international airport for a week, costing the travel industry hundreds of millions of dollars.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

They were built on lands in the West Bank that Israel captured and occupied after its victory in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

" These obligations include the total freeze of settlements including the natural growth in all the occupied Palestinian territories including East Jerusalem."

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

The Palestinians insist they will not go back to negotiations until Israel freezes all construction on Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

But instead of accepting the proposed halt in settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Palestinian leaders rejected the peace offering, as "nothing new".

VOA: standard.2009.11.26

He said Germans who worked at the Sobibor death camp in then Nazi-occupied Poland, where Demjanjuk is accused of working as a guard, were acquitted in previous trials.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

The Palestinians say direct talks will not happen until Israel stops building in the occupied West Bank and in East Jerusalem, a precondition they had not placed in prior rounds of negotiations.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

Just over two weeks after the start of the German invasion in the west, Soviet troops entered Poland in the east and later occupied the Baltic states as well as parts of Finland and Romania.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

were at the top of his agenda. An Arab summit, earlier this year, called for Israel to accept a 2002 Arab peace plan, which calls for "full normalization, in exchange for the return of occupied lands."

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

The Saudis said they will not make concessions beyond a 2002 Arab plan put forth by King Abdullah which offered recognition in exchange for Israel's return of the occupied territories and allowance of a Palestinian state.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Despite U.S.demands for Israel to stop or restrain construction of Jewish housing in disputed East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, during the Biden visit Israeli officials announced their approval of construction of 1,600 new Jewish housing units in East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

At the Chicago White Sox U.S.Cellular Field on Chicago's South Side, the 30-year-old pitcher retired all 27 batters from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays without allowing anyone to reach first base, pitching a perfect game and putting his name in a record book occupied by only 17 others in Major League history.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24

A senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group in Jerusalem,Rob Blecher, says frustration over continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the general lack of progress toward achieving a Palestinian state,has prompted the Palestinian leadership to look for new strategies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03