By Selah Hennessy London 29 September 2009 An international aid group says East Africa is facing the worst humanitarian crisis in 10 years. The Britain-based agency, Oxfam, says climate change is leading to extreme drought, killing cattle and threat

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By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 29 September 2009 Conservation groups say creating a global market for trading carbon credits from uncut forests is critical to fighting climate change and should be part of a United Nations-backed agreement being whittled

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By Sonja Pace London 29 September 2009 British PM Gordon Brown gives speech to Labor Party conference, 29 Sep 2009 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown addressed the ruling Labor Party conference in the seaside resort town of Brighton Tuesday with a

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By Margaret Besheer United Nations 29 September 2009 Afghanistan's foreign minister told the United Nations General Assembly that his government welcomes the assessment from the U.S. and NATO commander in his country that more troops are needed to f

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 29 September 2009 India will see a large increase in nuclear-power generation in the coming years, helping the country bridge its huge energy deficit and combat climate change. India says global efforts to prevent the sp

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This is All Things Considered from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. Even in this era of Madden Football and Grand Theft Auto of Gameboys and PlayStations , you can still read an account of Hezbollah's raid across the Israeli border as Nasrallah's gambit

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(France is known for its hundreds of) cheeses. The most famous is perhaps the soft round Camembert, now enjoyed all over the world, but to be considered a real Camembert, the cheese must be made in Normandy, in northwestern France from the milk of No

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Scientists at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts say it's fortunate for humans that the Y chromosome is not on the verge of extinction. That's because the Y is the chromosome that makes males males. The outlook is less favorable for

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A new survey of Internet security says the computer attacks are increasingly being used to make money, rather than simply to make mischief. Virus writers are finding also ways to amplify their powerthey're renting out robot armies of computers under

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One of the world's most amazing migration is about to begin in earnest: 300 million monarch butterflies spread across North America are about to converge on small forests in the mounts of Mexico. This year, the butterflies have an unusual company as

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Commentator Aaron Freeman's twin daughters are getting ready for the ninth grade, but long before they were preparing for high school, he taught them a lesson about their bud Mitzvahs . Ours is an upper middle class community with a healthy percentag

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It's All Things Considered. I am Melissa Block. And I'm Robert Siegel. Today the State of South Carolina opened a new trade office more than 7 thousand miles away from the statehouse. It's in Shanghai. Trade with China has been a sore subject in Sout

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 21 September 2009 Thailand's king, the world's longest serving monarch, has been hospitalized on advice from his doctors. The hospitalization of the revered monarch is causing concern among the Thai public. Thai King Bhumibol A

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By Kent Klein Washington 19 September 2009 Michelle Obama (file photo) U.S. President Barack Obama's wife Michelle is joining her husband's campaign to reform the nation's health care system. The popular first lady is speaking out for the president'

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By Zulima Palacio Carroll County, Maryland 22 September 2009 The bog turtle In Maryland, environmental officials are working to save one of the smallest and rarest turtles in North America. The bog turtle had the power to move an entire highway proj

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By Ayaz Gul Islamabad 23 September 2009 Pakistan army says that its ongoing operations have severely dented the Taliban-led insurgency in the country's northwest. Military officials say the campaign is being gradually extended to what they consider

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By Jim Randle Pittsburgh 25 September 2009 Leaders of 20 of the world's leading and emerging economies are gathered in Pittsburgh, seeking ways to fight the recession, and keep economic troubles from breaking out again. Friday, presidents, prime min

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 18 September 2009 A boy stands in a Menik Farm displaced persons camp in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka (May 2009 file photo) Sri Lanka has pledged to send home nearly 300,000 ethnic Tamils being held in refugee camps. The assuranc

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By Andr de Nesnera Washington 17 September 2009 Russian President Dmitri Medvedev (L) shares a laugh with US President Barack Obama at Group of Eight (G8) summit in L'Aquila, Italy, 10 Jul 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart

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By Greg Flakus Houston 17 September 2009 Theodore Roosevelt In an age when green, as in environmentally friendly, is all the rage, one of the most prominent U.S. historians has written a book about a man who provided the foundation for much of the c

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