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A screen grab of the Nuclear Test Facility site in North Korea, via Google Maps satellite view.

Iran And North Korea: Dangers To Non-Proliferation

U.S. concerns were echoed by strong statements from other delegations. More

A patient who tested positive for extreme drug resistant tuberculosis in South Africa. (File).

Audio Improving Health In Africa

Governments that wish to safeguard the health of their own citizens must begin by helping to protect the health of people living continents away More

The United States is pursuing an ‘all of the above approach’ to develop new sources of energy.

Audio Donilon On Energy Security

“Energy matters profoundly to U.S. national security and foreign policy.”More

A baby receives an injection in a malaria vaccine trial in the Kenya coastal town of Kilifi.

Audio U.S. Sees Progress Against Malaria

Today, some 3 billion people live in areas where malaria is transmitted. More

Anti-narcotics police arrange seized packages of cocaine before burning them in La Rinconada on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia,

Audio Taking Aim At The Illegal Global Economy

Loosely defined as a network of trade relationships, it is largely conducted by transnational organized crime networks. More

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Students pose for a photo with a globe during a campaign to mark World Earth Day.

Audio Earth Day

On April 22, the United States observes Earth Day.
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School children in Guatemala. (file USAID)

Audio Toward Zero Hunger In Guatemala

We welcome the commitment of the Guatemalan government to prioritize child nutrition and are committed to working side-by-side.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) is greeted by Chinese President Xi Jinping shortly before their private meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing April 13, 2013.

Audio U.S. - China Energy Cooperation

“The U.S.-China Energy Cooperation Program has already taken real steps that have produced a real difference."
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An internally displaced woman holds her malnourished son at a new settlement in Somalia

Audio To Eradicate Extreme Poverty

“By working together to meet these and other targets over time."
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A health worker in Haiti tests blood samples. (file)

Audio Goosby On Partnering For World Health

“As we recognize World Health Day, we are reminded that disease knows no borders."
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Delegates to the United Nations General Assembly applaud the passage of the first UN treaty regulating the international arms trade in conventional arms at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, April 2, 2013.

Audio UN Passes Arms Trade Treaty

Agreement will establish standards for regulation of international trade in conventional arms.
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A rare giant soft-shelled turtle swims in Hoan Kiem lake in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Audio Protecting Freshwater Turtles

Several proposals to increase protections for freshwater turtles and tortoises were proposed by the United States and adopted this month.
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Indian street children eat food at a shanty town in Hyderabad.

Audio Calling For Child Survival In India

Conference sought comprehensive and local solutions that encourage country-ownership.
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Suman, a 25-year-old pregnant woman, lies on an examination table as a nurse places her hands on her stomach during a check up at a community health centre in the remote village of Chharchh, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Audio Boosting Child Survival

Dramatic reductions in preventable child deaths can be achieved through concerted action in five critical areas,
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Internally displaced Somali children line up with containers in hand to receive food aid at a food distribution center, in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Audio U.S. Aid To Somalia

U.S. believes that it is important to improve the country’s stability through targeted interventions.
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Vigil for Women

Audio Directive To Advance Gender Equality World-Wide

When women and girls are able to participate fully in public life, nations will enjoy greater prosperity, political stability and security.
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Robert Blake, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia (file)

Audio Why The Asia Pacific Region Matters

"Much of the history of the 21st century will be written in this broader Asia-Pacific region."
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The reactor building of Iran

Audio Non-proliferation Still A Top U.S. Priority

The United States will continue to support the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, and work toward expanding its influence.
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Workers cut shark fins at a fish market in Dubai , United Arab Emirates. (June 12, 2012)

Audio Protecting Endangered Marine Species

U.S. will support proposals to restrict the unsustainable levels of international trade on manta rays and five shark species.
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U.S. Marine Sergeant Michael Kidd works on a computer at ECPI University in Virginia Beach, Virginia, February 7, 2012.

Audio Fighting Cyber Intrusions

“America must . . . face the rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks."
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In Africa, there are over 15 million refugees and nearly six million internally displaced people.

Audio Helping The World's Refugees

Aiding refugees abroad and offering resettlement of many in the United States is a “core part of who we are as a nation.”
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Pakistan is a major recipient of U.S. foreign aid, and one program by the U.S. Agency for International Development

Audio U.S. Committed To Partnership With Pakistan

“We want to ... assist Pakistan in reaching its potential economically, socially, and politically."
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Locals manoeuvre their small vessels along the Mekong river in Phnom Penh, November 7, 2012.

Audio Dialogue Needed On Mekong Dam Project

Laos’s neighbors and the international community are again voicing concerns about hydroelectric project.
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Elephants gather at dusk to drink at a watering hole in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya. (file)

Audio Illegal Ivory Traffic Continues

Surge in recent years reflects the increasing involvement of organized crime.
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USAID’s Neglected Tropical Disease program helped treat 60 million people. USAID works with international partners to distribute essential medicines to large at-risk populations

Audio Preventing Tropical Disease

A year-old commitment to focus new resources on neglected tropical diseases is making progress.
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Fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine stand guard in Timbuktu, Mali. (file)

Audio Rice On Counterterrorism

Bangladeshi newspaper editor Mahmudur Rahman, center, is brought to a court following his arrest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, April 11, 2013.

Keeping The Press Free In Bangladesh

U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Glyn Davies (C) answers reporters' questions after his talks with South Korean chief delegate to the six-party talks on North Korea's denuclearization Lim Sung-nam (not pictured), at the foreign ministry in Seoul May 14, 2013.

Davies On North Korea

Afghan police recruits train in Kabul.

Afghanistan - U.S. Bilateral Commission

Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns at the Opening Plenary Session of the Community of Democracies Ministerial.

Audio Burns At The Community Of Democracies

Audio Abyei Attack Underscores Need For Peace

A worker picks coffee beans on a plantation on the slopes of the Poas Volcano, northwest of the capital of San Jose, Costa Rica.

Audio Supporting Growth In Central America