Post-Ceasefire, No Signs of Peace in Burma's Kachin People who fled their homes for this temporary camp in Burma's Kachin state are bracing for the monsoon season, worrying about food shortages. Despite an increase in foreign aid flowing into Burma's

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Clothing Company Ties Sales to Ocean Cleanup Volunteers and company employees keep that promise by descending upon temporary garbage dumps that contain just about everything youd find in a typical landfill. But instead of the trash being properly dis

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Obama Calls for Action on Gun Violence Gunfire erupted on December 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where a heavily armed young man shot and killed 20 children and several school administrators. The entire nation recoiled in grief and horror. Days

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US Presidential Inaugurations Transfer Power Peacefully At noon on January 20, in the year following the November presidential election, a new U.S. president takes office, or the incumbent president continues on to a second four-year term. Inaugurati

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Floods Force Thais to Track Down Crocodiles in Bangkok Neighborhoods Thailands devastating floods swept over a third of the country in recent weeks, killing hundreds and turning hundreds of thousands into refugees fleeing inundated homes and swamped

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Scientists Help US Science Teachers in the Classroom Students in the United States in their last year of high school are not performing as well on the same science tests as their peers in many other countries. Educators say there should be more empha

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Study: Fast-paced TV Cartoons Reduce Kids' Learning Young children have difficulty learning immediately after watching fast-paced television cartoons full of images and activities that are not possible in real life, according to a new study. It's wha

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US Woman's Afghan Experience Inspires Novel Farishta means 'angel' in Dari, the widely spoken language in northern Afghanistan. It's also the title of a novel by Patricia McArdle, a retired American diplomat who spent a year in Afghanistan. Over her

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Obama, Netanyahu: Hamas Not a Partner for Peace At the White House, U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have held talks on the troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The two leaders issued statements masking

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France, Italy to Send Military Advisers to Help Libyan Rebels NATO allies Britain, France and Italy are offering military advisers to help train Libyan rebels, as the military stalemate continues on the ground. Elsewhere, in Yemen and Syria, state cr

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African Educators Discuss Ways to Develop Work Force ADEA Executive Secretary Ahlin Byll-Cataria said theres a missing link between education and employment in Africa. He said students finish primary school without job skills and college graduates ha

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Experts: Chavez's Diagnosis Weakens Re-Election Chances Mr. Chavez disclosed his condition last week while visiting the site of a proposed tractor factory. He said he had been examined by doctors in Cuba who found a lesion in his pelvis where a cance

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Fifteen years after pulling out because of Sierra Leone's civil war, Peace Corps volunteers are back in the West African nation. A look at the organization's work as the Peace Corps marks its 50th anniversary this year, March 1st. Amanda Pease is one

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Clashes in Cairo Spark Fears of Sectarian Violence Egypt's ruling military council on Monday ordered the government to investigate the killings of at least 25 people in Sunday's street battles between Coptic Christians and Egyptian security forces. T

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Hope For Peace Fades in Turkey Over PKK Attack The Turkish government has vowed strong retaliation against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), after Kurdish rebels launched a deadly attack on Turkish soldiers in Hakkari province near Turkey's border w

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Security Forces Gear Up for Muted Iranian Elections This is the exception -- Iranians at a funeral of a reform-minded cleric in Isfahan earlier this month chanting, Death to the dictator while cheering on the appearance of moderate candidate Hassan R

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Mexico Authorities Free 275 Trapped In Forced Lab Bioparques de Occidente is a tomato sorting and packing company in the municipality of Toliman in the western state of Jalisco. The management finds workers to get the tomatoes ready for export in nea

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Turkey Unrest May Impact Syria Peace Talks Turkey is a front-line state in the Syrian conflict. Turks have been the victims of bombings along the border and host to more than 200,000 Syrian refugees. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has been

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Egypt's Christians Look Ahead after Religious Violence A few months ago, Cairo's Saint Mark's Cathedral was a place of joy - as Christians welcomed a new Coptic pope. Now the streets outside the main Coptic Church in Egypt are scattered with rubble,

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Lebanon's 'Garden of Forgiveness' Aims to Nurture Peace Alexandra Asseily first came to Lebanon in 1966. She married a Lebanese man and raised her children in Lebanon. Then, in 1975, Lebanon's civil war broke out. During the war I became very distres

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