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After a flight across the ocean, a major ceremony on Capitol Hill, and a meeting with President Obama at the White House, anyone would be exhausted. But not Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the opposition party in Burma’s parliament and, for more than two decades, the voice of freedom in a nation under a heavy-handed military dictatorship.

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Ottawa South MP David McGuinty joined a team of experts sent to the Ukraine to assess the country’s upcoming parliamentary election.

McGuinty is a member of a U.S.-based National Democratic Institute (NDI) delegation which was sent to check out the country’s electoral conditions ahead of the country’s national elections on Oct. 28.

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Members of the 53RD legislature, in partnership with The National Democratic Institute (NDI) has concluded a weeklong tour (3-8 September 2012) for the sole purpose of to examining the nature of housing conditions faced by the poor, vulnerable and low income earners in the country using a quick scan survey approach.

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Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai - recently in North Carolina, USA, to attend the Democratic National Convention - sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the Voice of America's Violet Gonda. Here is the transcript of their discussion:

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Luka Biong Deng, co-chairman of the Abyei Joint Oversight Committee and a former Sudanese government minister, said he was impressed with U.S. President Barack Obama's acceptance speech Thursday at the Democratic National Convention in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

Deng attended the three-day convention as a guest of the National Democratic Institute (NDI).

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While students may have been tuning into the Democratic National Convention this week, an Eastern student and graduate experienced President Bill Clinton’s speech first-hand and met with political leaders across the country.