But George Mitchell, the American special envoy for Middle East peace, has traveled between the two sides for months of indirect, or proximity,talks.

VOA: special.2010.08.21

A doughnut is a round piece of fried dough with a hole in the middle or filled with cream or jelly.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

Some people criticize his art for only showing a false or very limited image of America, one that is white and middle-class.

VOA: special.2010.09.20

New secretaries traditionally start with Europe or the Middle East.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

"When you compare the purchasing power the foreign purchasing power would be much higher than the middle-class or upper-class purchasing power in Thailand.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

The study suggests that the Obama administration work with Middle Eastern allies to repeal laws that restrict citizen freedoms, hinder political activities or suppress freedom of expression and assembly.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19

"And the U.S.State Department sentenced no opposition figures, intellectuals,journalists or bloggers to prisons in Syria,Egypt,Saudi Arabia and elsewhere around the Middle East, where they were subject to torture, rape and murder.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

But a new United Nations report shows that numbers are on the rise: more than 400,000 people are currently living with HIV across the Middle East and North Africa region,or MENA.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

"One of the worst things about human trafficking it is that the people who actually are the traffickers or who become the middle-men for the traffickers are very,very close to the victims of trafficking,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

While there is advice aplenty on how to lose pounds or kilograms, a new study focuses on middle aged and older women who maintain normal body weight, or BMI (Body Mass Index) and do not diet.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

Charles Bolden, the head of the US space agency, NASA,and Lisa Jackson from the Environmental Protection Agency,or EPA, came to this Washington,DC middle school to encourage these youngsters to focus on math and science careers.

VOA: standard.2010.05.10

"It's important for many reasons, really,to give the confidence to the ground teams -- all our American GIs as well as our coalition partners on the ground -- that if they do get injured, there's somebody to go get them, whether it's in a benign situation or in the middle of a firefight."

VOA: standard.2010.04.27