Other research has linked smoking to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

But some questions remain. Activists say, for example, that the G-20 promised $100 billion for multi-lateral institutions like the African and Asian Development Banks, but did not specify where the money would come from.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

The multi-lateral route is the way to go." Unlike Spain and several other concerned countries, the United States has not recalled its ambassador from Tegucigalpa, stressing the need to keep channels of communication open with the Honduran people.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

Besides urging the Obama administration to oppose any further consideration of the Goldstone report in multi-lateral forums, or measures stemming from it, the resolution also reaffirms support for Israel's security and right to self-defense, and its right to defend its citizens from violent militant groups and their state sponsors.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

In a speech on Monday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, General Xu pledged "unremitting efforts" to build China's military relationship with the United States, because,he said,it is an important part of one of the most important bi-lateral relationships in the world.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"We have been tasked by our respective presidents the foreign minister and I, to put meat on the bones, so to speak, to get to work to make sure that the expectations of both President Zuma and President Obama are met as we work more closely together on our bi-lateral relationship as well as on regional and global challenges.

VOA: standard.2009.08.08