Somalia has one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced due to conflict. Now, a prolonged drought is adding to the country's many problems. A top U.N. official says he wants the Somali people to kno

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美国新晋说唱女歌手 Azealia Banks 变身大漠妖姬,带来超动感单曲《Heavy Metal And Reflective》!感觉棒极啦,飚车一族势不可挡,期待 Azealia Banks 更多更好的作品。 歌词: Fridgy froze kept, it's that f

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By Dorian Jones Ankara 04 August 2007 Turkey swore in its new Parliament Saturday. In elections last month, the Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party achieved a landslide victory, prompting some analysts to voice concern about Turkey's future

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IN THE NEWS - UN Appeals for Famine Aid for Somalia 新闻报道 - 索马里两地陷入饥荒,联合国呼吁提供援助 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 This week, the United Nations de

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 January 2008 The Inter-Parliamentary Union is calling on Rwanda to investigate the disappearance of one of its members of parliament, Leonardo Hitimana. The Geneva-based group says the Rwandan government has never come up wi

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By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 24 May 2006 In a severe blow to efforts to establish a functioning government in the Horn of Africa country of Somalia, four elected ministers, all based in the capital Mogadishu, have announced that they are quitting the gov

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 28 March 2007 The al-Qaida terrorist organization has issued a call for Islamic extremists around the world to come to the aid of Somalis fighting the country's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and its chief backer in the r

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Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said that if the government moves forward with plans to convene parliament next week, it would violate a memorandum of understanding between the two sides on power-sharing negotiations. Tsvangirai m

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Islamist insurgents in Somalia have said that they will fight against any foreign troops that intervene in the country's conflict. On Saturday, Somalia's parliament appealed to countries in the region to intervene military to help the fledgling inte

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Scott Joplin played the piano at clubs and bars throughout Sedalia. He wrote 44 original rags that put an emphasis on the off-beats within scores. He also wrote a complete ragtime opera. Here's one of those word-association games. If we said waltz, y

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A Somali woman holds her malnourished child at Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, 26 Aug 2009 (file photo) Marking World Humanitarian Day, the United Nations said Somalia remains one of the neediest countries in the world, but increasing securit

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The African Union said its peacekeeping mission in Somalia will not be deterred by Sunday's terrorist bomb attack in Mogadishu that killed 11 Burundian peacekeepers and wounded dozens more. AU tanks patrol the street in Mogadishu on 09 Feb 2009 The

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Ending Use of Child Soldiers in Somalia This week, Somali government officials agreed to begin taking steps to end the recruitment of child soldiers. The Transitional Federal Government, or TFG, and the al Shabab militant group, are cited by the Unit

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Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is reportedly calm one day after African Union peacekeepers were seen fighting al-Shabab-led insurgents in the north of the city. The incident has raised questions about whether the peacekeepers exceeded their mandate,

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GUY RAZ, HOST: Have you ever experienced hatred or - I mean, have you ever - I don't know. Has anybody ever said something to you because of who you are, because of your faith that has just been so incredibly hurtful? DALIA MOGAHED: Yes (laughter), a

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By Scott Bobb Nairobi 12 February 2008 The chief mediator in the Kenya reconciliation talks, Kofi Annan, has briefed the Kenyan parliament on the negotiations. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from Nairobi that the former U.N. secretary-general placed a medi

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The Green Party MP and co-leader, retired from Parliament today. She has been in Parliament for 13 years. She was elected as a list MP for the Alliance Party in the first MMP Parliament in 1996. At that time, the Greens were part of the Alliance Part

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By Edward Yeranian Beirut 06 August 2007 Former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel waves to supporters after voting in the town of Bikfaya, Lebanon, 05 Aug 2007 Former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel has gone down to defeat in a parliament by-election t

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 10 January 2007 Somalia's interim-government spokesman says the government cannot confirm one of the three key al-Qaida operatives involved in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in East Africa has been killed in a U.S. air

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Ever since 1921, Australia has refused to buy apples from New Zealand because some New Zealand apples had a disease called fire blight. This disease is common in North America and Europe but Australia and Japan do not have it and do not want it. The

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