By George Dwyer Washington 29 April 2008 Every year millions of unwanted dogs and cats in the U.S. are brought to animal shelters, where the hope is that they will be adopted. The reality is that about half of them will be euthanized, because there a

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Pets and Disasters; Presidential Security; New Album from The Killers Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. On our show this week, we play new music from The Killers We also look at the people who protect

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The Washington Humane Society got some help from a familiar figure this year, as the Christmas holidays approached. The Humane Society is the only open-access animal shelter in the Nation's Capital, and cares for nearly 30,000 animals a year. It rece

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Thousands of Indonesians forced from their homes because of Mount Merapi's continued eruptions are restless to leave the evacuation shelters. And the volcano's ash clouds now are forcing airlines to cancel some flights. A week after Indonesia's most

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The number of migrant children detained by the U.S. government alone is increasing. That's the result of a policy decision by the Trump administration to separate children from their parents as the parents are prosecuted for cros

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Trump administration has come under fire for holding a record 15,000 migrant children in shelters across the country and for long delays in releasing those children to relatives. Today NPR has learned that the Department of Hea

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 11 February 2007 Indonesian soldiers, volunteers load piles of muddy garbage into a tractor in central Jakarta's Petamburan district. This street was buried under two meters of murky water last week, 11 Feb 2007 As floodwate

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Thousands of Central American migrants are living in shelters across Tijuana, waiting for their chance to ask for asylum at the U.S. border. They're living in close quarters, and as the temperatures drop, there are concerns about t

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