New assurances this week from NASA that theworld will not end on December 21st. This comes as one British newspaperreports that people on the globe are stockpiling supplies just in case. Join me now was Andrew Fraknoi, the astronomyprofessor of Footh

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 万花筒2012年

By Sonja Pace Istanbul 30 November 2006 U.S. President George Bush went out of his way Thursday to show Washington's support for the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as the two men held talks in Jordan on ways to stem the violence in Iraq

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The mystery of the dying birds. There has been another incident of mass deaths. This time in Italy. Is this now a global phenomenon or are we just paying more attention to nature work? Here is Matt Guttman. Theyre calling this the Aflockalypse. Turtl

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Morgan Cohen walked into the campaign office for Hillary Clinton. He claimed to have a bomb strapped onto him. He told the five workers to go about their business, but he ordered them not to try to leave. If one of you tries to leave, he said, I will

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By Bill Gasperini Moscow 27 May 2006 Russian police prevented gay rights activists from marching in Moscow Saturday, and dozens of people, including the rally's main organizer, were arrested as Russian nationalists confronted the activists. --------

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Tragic scene?.This morning dozens of people are dead and hundreds more are feared dead after a migrant boat sank off the coast of ED?, Italy. ABC's Longma Harson joins us now. Longma, what do you know? Good morning to you, Gorge. Here's what we know

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Commentator Jill Vaughan has a small farm in upstate New York. And right now, that means she's hiring teenagers who aren't afraid of really working at their summer jobs. We still need peasants in our corner of the country. On our farm, we make hay

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 31 May 2007 Intermittent fighting between rebel groups in Senegal's southern Casamance region has led1,000 or more refugees to flee across the border to The Gambia. Naomi Schwarz has more for VOA from Dakar. After more than two

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By Benjamin Sand Paktika, Afghanistan 22 May 2006 As violence flares across Afghanistan, U.S. military officials say the new Afghan National Army will have to shoulder greater responsibility for defea

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By Douglas Bakshian Manila 28 March 2007 Leftist parties in the Philippines say their members are being harassed by troops sent to poor sections of Manila. The military says the soldiers are there to help with public works projects and assist the pol

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Diplomatic efforts to end the Gaza conflict have intensified with high level talks in Egypt, Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah. But, there were no signs of an imminent cease-fire as Israel pursued its ground and air offensive in Gaza. Fro

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Seizure of Oilfields Fuels Kurd Statehood Dream LONDON Along the desert horizon around Kirkuk, the bright flares from oil wells puncture the summer haze. An estimated 4 percent of known global oil reserves lie beneath these sands. It is a prize that

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Bacteria Might Share the Blame for Eczema 皮肤湿疹可能是细菌惹的祸 Your skinlike many other parts of your bodyis crawling with microscopic critters. It's a microbial zoo in a sense. Heidi Kong, a dermatology researcher at the National Ins

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 19 December 2007 More than 40 people are dead and many more are missing after a fleet of boats transporting fuel to cell phone company Vodacom's local offices capsized in a river in northwestern DRC. This was the second boat ac

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By Stefan Bos Budapest 22 February 2008 Serbian President Boris Tadic has called for an end to violence after rioters opposed to Kosovo's declaration of independence ransacked U.S. and other embassies in Belgrade, killing one person. The call comes a

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It is an illegal continental football craze that has been catching on at English grounds all too quickly. And the authorities have had enough. This incident happened at Aston Villas home game against Tottenham at the end of October. An assistant refe

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 28 November 2007 Nigeria plans to reform its gas sector by introducing new pricing rules and providing infrastructure to improve supplies to the domestic market. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports that another key co

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 05 October 2006 Renewed violence in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta has reportedly killed nine soldiers in the latest firefight involving militants and government troops. Nigerian seperatist rebels brandish weapons in a show

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 03 May 2006 Destroyed police jeep is seen at the explosion site in Jalalabad, May 3, 2006 Violence continues to escalate in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, a provincial governor

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By Kari Barber Port Harcourt, Nigeria 07 June 2007 Newly instated Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua will face as one of his first challenges controlling the unruly and lawless Niger Delta. Kidnappings of foreigners have escalated as armed militants a

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