The regional security group includes China,Russia, Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Security was tight and a large group of bodyguards escorted the Venezuelan President, who said,"I have Italy in my heart."

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

More than 2,000 times last year, counterfeit medicines caused illness and death, according to the Pharmaceutical Security Institute,a watchdog group.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Authorities say gunmen ambushed the group as it was traveling by car to meet security officials in a nearby village.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

They had been harassed,she says, by Muslim youths, but since a volunteer group was formed, security has improved.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

The rising power of a militant group called al-Shabab in neighboring Somalia has also added a new security challenge in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

It is a founding member of the United Nations and was part of the first group elected to the Security Council in 1946.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Meanwhile,the terrorist group released a set of demands for the release of a French hostage who was acting as a security advisor to the Mogadishu government.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Since their abduction, the British hostages have appeared occasionally in videos, but last month the bodies of two other security contractors in the group were released.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

Security forces have also launched a door-to-door search for members of the group.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

Alexandra Toma is a nuclear security expert with the group Connect U.S.Fund.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

"It is not getting weaker." Sidney Jones,a terrorism analyst with the International Crisis Group, says security experts are now learning of a growing alliance of militant groups in Southeast Asia.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

But she noted that the United States and its partners in the P-Five-Plus-One group the five permanent U.N.Security Council member countries and Germany are pursuing a two-track strategy of incentives for Iranian nuclear cooperation and "consequences" if it fails to fulfill international nuclear obligations.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09