BP says it may find out in the next 12 to 14 hours whether its latest attempt to cap a devastating oil spill works. CEO Tony Hayward concedes it's risky. Earlier, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen announced that the damaged pipe spewing crude from the f

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BP and the federal government are still not saying whether they plan to go ahead with the test that could shut down the well that's spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. More details from NPR's Richard Harris. BP had planned to start the test yesterda

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A popular sound in the nation's capital where snow blowers are hard at work as white stuff keeps falling. Forecasters say the winter storm blanketing the Mid-Atlantic States could be the biggest in mode

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1. It was a good night for Tea Party candidates in Delaware. Christine O'Donnell rode a surge of support from Tea Party activists to win the Republican Senate primary. She defeated nine-term Congressman Mike Castle. The winner in the general election

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1. A gunman in Ohio killed at least one student and wounded four others at Cleveland area high school. The suspect has been taken into police custody. Police have not released the motive. 2. The National Association of Realtors says sales contracts f

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Some milk drinkers like what they call real milk, also known as raw milk. This is milk that has not been pasteurized or homogenized. A cow named Iris is milked for raw dairy products under a cow sh

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AS IT IS 2015-08-04 Digital Solution Helps Shield Online Activists 数字解决方案帮助保护网络活动人士 Chris Doten knows how dangerous conditions can be for democracy activists and journalists working under hostile governments. He is the

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Water Crisis in US City a 'Disaster, Not Just an Emergency' Civil rights activists, politicians and residents are calling the contamination of drinking water in an urban U.S. city a disaster, not just an emergency. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder recen

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AS IT IS 2016-06-12 Fighting Climate Change with Movies How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Cant Change is the latest movie from filmmaker and climate activist Josh Fox. The movie is the third film in a three-part series about

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Japan and South Korea have reached a historic deal to settle the issue of comfort women forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War Two. Japan offered an apology and will pay 1bn yen (8.3m USD, 5.6m Pound) to a South Korean-administered fund

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This is Manuru. When his father died, 这是Manuru。当他父亲死的时候, his uncle trafficked him to work with him in the mines. 他的叔叔把他卖到自己在工作的这个矿场。 When his uncle died, Manuru inherited his uncle's debt,

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Two months after Beijing introduced the new smoking ban local authorities describe the control efforts as satisfactory. However, they are confronted with a shortage of personnel- there are more than 4 million smokers in the city, but only around 1,00

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Business Facebook and privacy Sorry, friends 商业 脸谱和用户隐私 对不起,朋友 The giant social network is castigated for serious privacy failings 社交网巨头因严重隐私缺陷而遭受公众谴责 FACEBOOK has been playing with

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Around 25 animal activists protesting the killing and eating of dogs gathered outside the city government offices in Yulin as a local festival where residents cook and eat dogs gets underway. An activist expresses his concern. At the Dongkou market t

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Chinese state media and netizens have decried high pollution levels in the northeast city of Shenyang, which activists have said could be the worst ever air quality seen in the country. 中国官方媒体和网民们对中国东北部沈阳市的重度

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Nobel laureates sometimes display as much ingenuity when deciding how to spend their prize money as they did on the work that won them the award in the first place. 有的诺贝尔奖得主使用奖金的方式就像他们的获奖作品一样匠心独

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克里姆林宫发誓不干涉乌克兰事务 MOSCOW, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Russia is concerned with situation in Ukraine, including rise of Russophobia there, but is not going to intervene in Kiev's domestic affairs, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov sai

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PARIS / WASHINGTONU.S. President Barack Obama urged world leaders to rise to this moment Monday, telling them their progress at a U.N. climate summit in Paris will be measured by the suffering that is averted and a planet that is preserved. Obama sai

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CAPITOL HILL The U.S. Senate has confirmed President Barack Obamas pick for defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, after a bruising nomination battle that saw widespread Republican opposition to the former Republican senator by a vote of 58 to 41. Hagel wil

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Dozens of Egyptians have been arrested after deadly clashes between Christians, Muslims and security forces. At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 were injured this weekend.A recent attack on a southern Egyptian church sparked the violence

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