This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last month more Americans than expected lost their jobs. Job losses had fallen every month since January. The news raised questions about the strength of progress toward economic recovery. Unemployme

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AS IT IS 2015-03-11 IATA: 2014 Is the Safest Year Ever for Airlines 国际航空运输协会称2014年是最安全的航空年 The International Air Transport Association is calling 2014 the safest year ever for commercial aviation. The association s

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 September 2009 Gregorio Jimenez, 34, eats lunch with his son Darwin, 3, who suffers from malnutrition, at a hospital in Japala, Guatemala, 10 Sep 2009 United Nations agencies say Guatemala is facing the worst drought in 30

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By Michael Bowman Washington 27 September 2009 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates denied Sunday that a rift exists between the Obama administration and America's military commanders on how to proceed in Afghanistan. The secretary's remarks came aft

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By Sean Maroney Islamabad 28 September 2009 The head coordinator for the U.N. Humanitarian Affairs office in Pakistan says his agency is ready to handle what is expected to be a large number of families fleeing the South Waziristan tribal region as

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Residents in the Somali town of Beledweyne are reporting that Ethiopian soldiers, who had apparently seized the town two days earlier, have partially withdrawn from the formerly rebel-held western part of town. Ethiopia's alleged military action on

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By Margaret Besheer United Nations 26 September 2009 Members of the General Assembly take a vote on Madagascar during 64th session at United Nations headquarters, 25 Sept. 2009 Several African leaders addressed the U.N. General Assembly Friday as th

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Opposition Republicans are promising thorough Senate confirmation hearings for President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, federal judge Sonia Sotomayor. President Obama and federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor, after her nomination to th

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Russia is reported considering the withdrawal of more than 20,000 Interior Ministry troops from Chechnya and an effective end to a state of war in the Caucasus republic. The move may be linked to financial problems caused by the global economic cris

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In many countries, prostate cancer is among the leading causes of cancer deaths in men. Doctors rely on a blood test called PSA (prostate-specific antigen) to screen for the disease. But there are big problems with the PSA test. Now, the researchers

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The tide from the global recession has ebbed, but economists say the world is still feeling turbulence in its wake: continuing high unemployment, the European debt crisis and a lopsided, uneven recovery. Mil Arcega spoke with economists about the big

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Indonesia's Constitutional Court has reversed a law that gave the attorney general's Office the power to ban books. Rights activists and authors hail the verdict as a victory for free expression, but some officials say curbs on free speech are still

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New research finds that the act of imagining eating can actually make you feel less inclined to eat more. The finding may lead to more healthy diets and better treatment for addiction. What happens when you get used to something? Scientists say you b

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Researchers call it the Lazarus effect the dramatic beneficial changes that antiretroviral drugs ARVs - can bring to HIV/AIDS patients and their families. The drugs are changing lives. In the biblical story, Jesus is said to have raised Lazarus from

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Deforestation has contributed to major floods while also worsening chronic hunger problems in North Korea but now the communist-led government is supporting a small but growing effort to recover the hillsides with fruit and nut trees. For more than f

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Oscar nominations could go to Mark Wahlberg and co-star Christian Bale for their performances in a new drama directed by David O. Russell and based on the true story of a boxing champion from a working-class Boston neighborhood. Here's a look at The

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The son of a Wall Street financier and a housewife, Balog grew up in the 1950s wandering about the forests of western New Jersey with his friends. We'd stay out there for weeks in a little lean-to that we built, he says. Adam LeWinter James Balog, pi

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The world's tallest Jesus statue now reigns over a field in western Poland, on the outskirts of a small town with big hopes for tourism. But the statue reveals a lot about Polish Catholicism and the divisions within it. The tallest Jesus statue in th

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The world of tomorrow - at least according to writers of science fiction - includes human-like robots that interact with people and help society in many ways. That future is becoming a reality at Virginia Tech in Blackburg, Virginia. Meeting CHARLI I

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By Peta Thornycroft 20 October 2009 Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai during a press conference in Harare, 16 Oct 2009 Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Mozambican leader Armando Guebuza are to meet late Tuesday for talks on wa

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