For years,rich slave owners had talked of taking the southern states out of the Union to save their way of life.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

For the wise man who had led the Union through four years of bloody civil war Father Abraham -- was dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

After three and a half years of fighting, hundreds of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

But in the last twenty years, H.I.V.and the collapse of the Soviet Union helped raise death rates in thirty-seven countries worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

In January, in his State of the Union speech, President Obama promised to double exports in five years.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

During the first two years of the Civil War, the Union captured several southern ports: Fort Hatteras and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Until two years ago, the Red List of Threatened Species of the World Conservation Union said Przewalski's horses were extinct in the wild.

VOA: special.2010.06.22

Four years of bloody fighting had saved the Union of states.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Al-Shabab also opposes the presence of 4,000 African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, who have been in Somalia for the past two years.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

A senior delegation from the European Union visited Zimbabwe on Saturday, the first time in seven years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

[But a Palestinian state is something the European Union has been defending for years back."

VOA: standard.2009.11.17