Two sisters, four and six years old, died in a late-night fire that started because of an overloaded power strip. The girls were in an unattached garage that had been illegally converted into an apartment. The new apartment did not conform to Los Ang

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法国新闻社:印度开始着手整治满大街的流浪狗.新德里政府准备把大街上的流浪狗收编,把他们训练成警犬. 印度流浪狗被收编变身警犬 AFP: Stray canines roaming the Indian capital may soon find themselves at

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She looked at the man walking along the sidewalk next to the nice houses. He didn't live in any of those houses. She had seen this man several times before. He looked like a criminal. She knew not to judge a book by its cover, but this man was no goo

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By Stephanie Ho Washington 01 January 2006 The mayor of New Orleans, a city that was devastated four months ago by Hurricane Katrina, says his wishes for the new year include rebuilding the city's pro

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar, Senegal 29 August 2007 More than a 250,000 residents of Liberia's capital, Monrovia, have been overwhelmed by water from torrential rains and flooding from the nearby St. Paul River. The rains have left them without safe drink

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By Challiss McDonough Tyre, Lebanon 27 July 2006 Southern Lebanon has been pounded by more than two weeks of Israeli airstrikes and artillery, which have leveled villages and forced roughly half a million people to flee their homes. The Israeli mili

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By Carol Pearson Washington 05 September 2007 American doctors used to work as many as 120 hours a week during their hospital training, or residency. But now, new doctors are limited to a shorter, 80-hour workweek. The original schedule was designed

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Hurricane Gustav crashed into the U.S. gulf coast Monday bringing strong rain but winds that were weaker than initially expected. Most residents of New Orleans had already fled the city, where water is now splashing over the levees that were rebuilt

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 August 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross says it is launching an emergency operation this week for thousands of people who have fled renewed fighting between government and rebel forces in North Kivu in the E

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By Kathie Scarrah Washington, DC 25 January 2006 watch New Orleans report Before Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana city of New Orleans last August, 60 percent of the city's nearly half a mi

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 12 June 2006 The presidents of Sudan and Eritrea met in the Sudanese capital Khartoum in a bid to improve relations between the two countries. The leaders were expected to discuss the rebellion taking place in eastern Sudan

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Newark, N.J., is taking the concept of a neighborhood watch to a whole new level. They've installed hundreds of cameras around the city to create a virtual block watch. But as New Jersey Public Radio's Karen Rouse tells us, some pe

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The student-led anti-gun violence rally March For Our Lives takes place in Washington this weekend. Since D.C. hotels are expensive, a number of area residents are opening up their homes free of charge to the students and familie

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U.N. officials say thousands of Chadians have been fleeing the capital N'Djamena to neighboring Cameroon after two days of heavy fighting between rebel groups and government forces. Rebels who are on the outskirts of N'Djamena say they are preparing

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By Greg Flakus New Orleans 13 May 2006 Former presidents George H.W. Bush, left, and Bill Clinton shake hands Former U.S. presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton have announced several grants to

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Israeli forces have evicted scores of Jewish settlers who had refused court orders to leave a house in the West Bank town of Hebron. The violence Thursday left about 20 people injured and has raised concerns of wider protests by Jewish settlers. Isr

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By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 11 November 2007 Several neighborhoods in the Somali capital, Mogadishu are virtually deserted as residents flee to avoid fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamist-led insurgents. From the Ethiopian capital, Addis A

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By Carolyn Turner Washington 05 March 2008 The Dallas Museum of Art in Texas is currently hosting a retrospective of the career of J. M. W. Turner, considered by many one of the greatest landscape painters in the history of art. The exhibit will trav

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 04 December 2006 watch Somali Refugees in Kenya Dadaab Somali refugees In Somalia, tensions between the rapidly-expanding Islamic Courts Union and the fledgling transitional government are escalating, prompting fears of an

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 12 February 2007 India's Supreme Court has proposed a ban on hawkers (street vendors) who Indian roadside food stall worker fries an egg in Kolkata, 14 Oct 2006 cook food at roadside stalls in New Delhi - a city famed for

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