For the past several years, Russian and American officials have been trying to agree on a post-START-1 arrangement - but with little progress.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

As soon as they were stopped at a main check post, the attackers lobbed several grenades and opened fire with automatic weapons on the soldiers there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

"It has serious trouble in the sense that those who are wedded to the idea of a permanent global jihad with Somalia as a staging post are now in the driver's seat,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

Some political analysts in Thailand say he may have hurt his popularity by taking the post in Cambodia, and by making controversial comments on the revered Thai monarchy in an interview with a British newspaper.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11