The communist North called off reunions in response to what it considers South Korean President Lee Myung Bak's hard-line policy.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

Israel says its three-week assault on the Gaza Strip was an act of legitimate self-defense in response to years of Palestinian rocket attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

That appointment is in response to offers the South has made for talks since last month.

VOA: standard.2009.06.05

Organizers say many Hondurans are hurting since foreign aid groups have suspended assistance in response to the ouster of leftist President Manuel Zelaya in June.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Arby says the song is about ending war in Africa and around the world and was written in response to political unrest in Northern Mali.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

Israeli war planes struck targets in Gaza on Tuesday in response to a rocket attack.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Nigerian Information Minister Dora Akunyili told reporters a range of measures have been introduced to boost security at airports in response to the failed attack.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

He says the strike began in response to a new 70-percent tax on merchants by the government, and the strike has continued despite major government concessions.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded the island in response to a coup in Nicosia by supporters of a union with Greece.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

The Taliban have launched their spring offensive in response to the U.S.push into Kandahar to flush out the militants and provide civilian aid to the population.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Mr.Erdogan accused Israel of "barbarian acts" during the 22-day Gaza incursion, which Israel launched in response to a wave of deadly rocket attacks from Palestinian territory.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

In the course of an entirely different experiment, Hargreaves and his team of researchers discovered that the skin produces its own capsaicin-like molecules, in response to pain.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

The Obama administration has boosted the number of federal agents and augmented other resources along the U.S.border with Mexico in response to the increasing violence by drug gangs.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

The NATO move is in response to last year's spy scandal in Estonia in which one of that country's defense officials was jailed for passing alliance secrets to Moscow.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30