Next month he will seek to begin the process, which starts with collecting public comment.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

There's a six-month course of the Department of Wildlife, which is run by the government.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

That was a volunteer at this year's Capital Fringe which ended last month.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

In the North, people mourned. One man wrote: "The events of the last month or two have done more to build northern opposition to slavery than anything which has ever happened before, than all the anti-slavery pamphlets and books that have ever been written."

VOA: special.2009.07.02

Jackson was preparing for a series of 50 concerts in London, which were set to begin next month.

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

Earlier this month Syria and Turkey signed what is being described as an historic agreement, which allows visa-free travel between the two countries.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Saudi Arabia,which hosts the Hajj and grants visas to participants, first recommended restricting participation last month.

VOA: standard.2009.07.23

The 90,000 seat Soccer City is to host the opening and final matches of the month-long World Cup which kicks off on June 11.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

The Democratic Party, which will form a government later this month, pledges to help Japan's poor.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

The British government, which has also closed its embassy there, is hosting a conference later this month designed to boost Yemen's ability to fight terrorism.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

Saffi employs 450 people at his Kabul Milli Factory, paying them between $400 and $900 per month, which is well above the average wage here.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

She says she can make as much as $150 a month as part of the cooperative, which has opened her eyes to a world outside Kebon.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

The FIFA Under-20 World Cup ends Friday, at which point the world's sporting attention shifts to the U-17 World Cup, beginning later this month in Nigeria.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Levy and his co-founder, Minha Kauser, recently attended an Iftar meal in which Jews joined Muslims who were breaking their daily fast during the holy month,Ramadan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The traditional Independence Day military parade was canceled, in wake of the mutiny a month ago by borders guards in which 75 people died, mostly army officers.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The documents come from an appeal against his 2001 conviction, which was dropped just before he was released from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds last month.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Giving women hope for the future is one of the goals of the station, Nisaa FM,which started broadcasting this month from the West Bank town of Ramallah.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

This month a leader of Thailand's yellow-shirt movement, which says it is protecting the monarchy, was charged with lese majeste for quoting an opponent who allegedly defamed the monarchy.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Lavrov briefed Clinton on his visit to North Korea late last month, which was the first by a major-power diplomat since Pyongyang announced it was quitting Chinese-brokered negotiations on its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

Nash says this training will be especially important because Iraqi forces will handle security during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins in a few weeks, and parliamentary elections slated for January.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

He described Barak as a war criminal. Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reluctantly imposed the settlement freeze last month, under pressure from the United States, which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Although the U.S.jobless rate continues to spike higher, the actual number of Americans who lost jobs during the month was the smallest since last September, the fourth consecutive month in which the pace of job losses slowed.

VOA: standard.2009.06.07

Mr.Netanyahu has been a strong supporter of Jewish settlement in all of the biblical land of Israel, but he imposed the construction freeze last month after urging from the United States, which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

U.S.-Venezuelan relations since the populist Mr.Chavez was first elected in 1998 have been increasingly difficult, and he said in Moscow the new arms are to counter a U.S.-Colombian agreement last month under which U.S.forces will have access to several Colombian military bases.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Gambari said that during the secretary-general's visit last month to Burma, which is also known as Myanmar, Mr.Ban met with the country's senior leadership and asked them to free Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners as well as take steps to enhance the political process leading to next year's elections as a gesture of their credibility to the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.08.11