And the day the siege is removed, the day the containers are picked up, there will be hundreds of thousands, millions of people,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

The siege comes less than a month after some 12 gunmen attacked Sri Lanka's cricket team in nearby downtown Lahore, killing several police and wounding some players and a coach.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

Prosecutors say thousands were killed and wounded during the siege.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Israel had hoped that negotiations on what Palestinians call the siege of Gaza would result in the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Gaza-based militants in a cross-border raid into Israel in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Karadzic is also charged with persecution, extermination and murder as well as taking U.N.peacekeepers hostage and the 44-month long siege of Sarajevo.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Among them are Somalia, where the transitional government is under siege by hardline Islamic rebels, Guinea and Guinea Bissau, Madagascar and Darfur.

VOA: standard.2009.07.02

Earlier,the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a 22-hour siege on the country's army headquarters that ended Sunday.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Minister of External Affairs Celso Amorim told the council that the embassy has been under virtual siege by the de facto Honduran authorities.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

He also said that Israel's "siege" of Gaza had strengthened the hand of Hamas and other extremists in the region, while undermining moderates.

VOA: standard.2010.03.16

"First of all, we're asking to organize a corridor, not simply open the border, but to deploy some forces, which could lead people out who cannot get out of their houses, who are under siege, to help them cross the border, at least into Uzbekistan because it is the nearest country."

VOA: standard.2010.06.15