Unit 6 Lost and Found The weekend was over, and Begbie had returned to town, restless, and strangely unhappy. There was within him a curious sense of something lost. He unpacked his suitcase listlessly, compared its contents with the catalogue of his

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 22 May 2008 A couple has embarked on a journey around Australia in a car powered by leftover vegetable oil from fish and chip shops. Rachel and Gerard Mimmo plan to drive 18,000 miles in a specially designed four-wheel drive. Fr

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Now, what may be the ultimate Internet service, one that helps you clean out the garage? NPR's Ted Robbins explains. Deron Beal is really proud of his home office in Tucson. More to the point he's proud of how he got what's in the office - a compu

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Oil prices began bouncing back Wednesday after members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to a modest production cut of 500,000 barrels a day, during a meeting in Vienna. Lisa Bryant reports for VOA from Paris. OPEC head

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By Nico Colombant Monrovia 26 February 2008 More and more disabled people in the war-scarred Liberian capital Monrovia are gathering in downtown areas begging for money, saying they are struggling to survive. The country's health minister says many p

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Syria's Internally Displaced On the Rise Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled their nation's civil war and their numbers keep growing. Many are in the camps of neighboring countries. But not all Syrians seeking safety are able or willing to lea

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Libya Faces Economic Challenges in Post-Gadhafi Era Moammar Gadhafi is dead, but Libyans still face many difficulties now that their long time leader is gone, including how to repair a battered economy. Before the uprisings, Libya produced roughly 1.

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The U.S. economy is showing further signs of recovery, even as America's national debt continues to skyrocket. U.S. dollars Despite some of the most challenging economic conditions in decades, American consumer confidence jumped unexpectedly this mo

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Ukraine Receives Additional Aid As Tensions Rise WASHINGTON Tensions are rising in Ukraine even as assurances of international aid to stabilize the countrys battered economy have started pouring in. Despite the promise of financial help, the ongoing

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It's been many months since hurricanes Irma and Maria hit the Virgin Islands, but hospitals there are still recovering. Even now, patients are being flown to the U.S. mainland for certain surgeries and specialized care, as

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Dias and his crew were the very first northern hemisphere sailors to make it around the Cape of Good Hope, making Mossel Bay a start point for 500 years of European involvement in South Africa. Dias merely stopped here to replenish supplies and met p

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 18 July 2006 At least 320 people are dead, hundreds are injured and nearly 3,000 have been left homeless by the tsunami that battered the Indonesian island of Java Monday. Aid agencies are assessing damage from the powerful

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 06 September 2006 Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, with NATO's secretary-general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer after exchanging signed documents of an accord to boost security and development cooperation in Kabul, September 6

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations 14 December 2006 Ban Ki-Moon of South Korea has been sworn in as the eighth U.N. secretary-general of the United Nations. VOA's Peter Heinlein at the U.N. reports, Mr. Ban will take over the job when Kofi Annan steps

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 19 March 2008 U.S. Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is touring Israel and meeting with Israeli leaders as part of his Mideast tour that has taken him to Iraq and Jordan. VOA's Jim Teeple re

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By Steve Herman New Delhi 19 November 2007 Aid agencies in Bangladesh say the death toll from Cyclone Sidr is likely to rise sharply in the coming days. VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Delhi that millions of Bangladeshis have seen the

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Indian stock markets have plunged sharply as worries about the global financial systems rock the world. Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the Indian market was among the hardest hit in Asia. An onlooker reacts as he watches stock prices on a s

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By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 30 September 2009 Vietnamese police officers provide goods, foods to flooded area in Quang Tri Province, 30 Sep 2009 The death toll from Typhoon Ketsana has passed 300 as the storm swept across Southeast Asia, destroying th

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By Michael Bowman Washington 06 October 2009 Gold coins and bars at California Numismatic Investments in Inglewood, California (file photo) Officials in several Middle Eastern capitals are denying a published report that petroleum producing countrie

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