Ghana Bamboo Bikes Gain Worldwide Attention 加纳竹制自行车得到全世界的关注 APPAH, GHANA Bamboo does not get much respect in Ghana. Farmers see it as a nuisance to be cleared from their land. Construction workers use it to prop up build

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Shelling Sends Donetsk Residents into Stalin-era Shelter 炮击发送顿涅茨克居民到斯大林时代的住房 WASHINGTON Fighting in eastern Ukraine has sent some residents fleeing to bomb shelters from previous wars. Despite a cease-fire reache

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Young Kurd Artist Contributes in His Way to Struggle for Kobani 库尔德青年艺术家用画笔描绘美好明天 SURUC, TURKEY Sherzad Ebrahim is on a mission. 舍萨德伊布拉西姆正在执行任务当中。 The 27-year-old artist comes from t

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Ebola Increases Threat to Sierra Leone Pregnancies KAILAHUN, SIERRA LEONE Sierra Leone has one of the worlds highest infant mortality rates, and the Ebola outbreak is likely to push it even higher. Health officials say almost all pregnant women infec

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Racing to Save the Cheetah A wild cheetah sprinting across the African savannah has been described as poetry in motion. Dr. Laurie Marker can understand why. The award-winning conservationist and renowned cheetah expert has devoted her life to the pr

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Comanche Chief Quanah Parkers Century-Old House Falling Apart CACHE, OKLAHOMA One of the most fascinating people in U.S. history was Quanah Parker, the last chief of the American Indian tribe, the Comanche. He was the son of a Comanche warrior and a

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Talks to Resume on Winter Gas for Ukraine 争取恢复对乌天然气供应的协商继续进行 LONDON Ukrainian and Russian officials will meet again next week in an effort to settle their dispute over natural gas supplies that threatens to leave U

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Yale Researchers Project 90,000 Ebola Deaths In Monrovia Alone 耶鲁研究员预计埃博拉在蒙罗维亚就会导致九万人死亡 The latest figures from the World Health Organization show that Ebola epidemic has claimed nearly 5,000 lives, mos

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ActionAid: Many Unknown Ebola Cases 行动援助:许多未知的埃博拉病例 While the West Africa Ebola outbreak did not start in Liberia, the country has been the hardest hit with the most cases and deaths. The group ActionAid says its not clear

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Baseball's World Series Returns to Heart of the USA 世界职业棒球大赛重返美国的核心 KANSAS CITY Major League Baseballs World Series is under way between the San Francisco Giants and the Kansas City Royals. While the Giants have won the

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Turkish Border Towns Hosting Thousands of Kobani Refugees 土耳其边境城镇竭尽所能帮助数千难民 SURUC, TURKEY The fighting in Kobani, northern Syria, has forced some 200,000 residents to flee into southeastern Turkey. Residents in nearb

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'Fishing Without Nets' a Dramatic Story of Somali Piracy NEW YORK Its a familiar premise in Hollywood film: a good man in need of money is talked into participating in a crime against his better judgment. But in Fishing Without Nets, by first-time di

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US Candidates Tap into Fears to Mobilize Voters 美国中期选举:两党候选人互打恐惧因素牌 CAPITOL HILL Recent opinion surveys reflect an undercurrent of unease among American voters ahead of the November 4 congressional, state and local

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Americans Anxious Over Ebola 美国人对埃博拉过度焦虑 WASHINGTON A recent survey shows more than four in 10 Americans are worried they or a relative might catch the Ebola virus, even though so far there has only been three confirmed Ebola ca

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Americans Still Struggling Despite Falling Unemployment 尽管失业率下降美国就业仍不景气 WHITE HOUSE The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent last month -- the lowest since the 2008 recession. The White House is touting this figure

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New US Ebola Case Raises Fears 美国新埃博拉病症引发人们担忧 U.S. health officials are scrambling to respond to a new Ebola case - that of a nurse in Dallas, Texas, who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week. Amer

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Liberians Living in US Struggle From Afar as Ebola Ravages Homeland The more than 8,000 Liberians in New York City the largest concentration outside Liberia itself struggle from afar as the Ebola virus ravages their homeland. Most Liberian immigrants

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US General: IS Militants Adapting to Air Campaign WASHINGTON Americas top military commander says Islamic State (IS) militants are adapting to a U.S.-led air campaign, making targets in Iraq and Syria harder for coalition forces to identify and elimi

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'Kill the Messenger' Puts Integrity of US Media in Question The journalistic integrity of U.S. media; an illicitly-financed, CIA-backed war against Nicaraguan Sandinistas; the crack epidemic of 1980's urban America: these are the main subjects of Mic

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Repeated Conflicts Scar Generations of Palestinians, Israelis 持续不断冲突对一代又一代的巴勒斯坦及以色列人造成影响 GAZA In the last six years, there have been three wars between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In the lat

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