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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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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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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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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Mas que Nada became a top ten hit, the first Portuguese language success in American pop history. -That song, Mas que Nada, is magical. I told Jorge Ben the other day I saw him in LA. And I thank him for writing that song because there's not many son

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In 1966, the co-winner of the TV Record Festival was Chico Buarque, who became an instant star with A Banda. Buarque was praised by traditionalists as the heir to the great samba cancao writers of the 1930s, who would become a symbol of resistance to

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This became known as the festival of booing. Roberto Carlos, the most successful pop star in Brazilian history and the host of a highly successful TV music show, was of course given a hard time. And the winner, predictably enough, was a singer associ

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The main aim of Tropicalism was really shake the environment, the musical and cultural environment. This small group from Bahia thought that violence of our situation and the importance of mass culture had a lot in common, you know, political violenc

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He was the embryo of the very thing we were trying to do consciously. He had started with bossa nova, and he had added rhythm'n'blues and rock'n'roll to his thing. And he had a new synthesis that prefigured everything the Tropicalistas wanted to, to

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The timing was right for a new internationally influenced musical movement. 1968 was a year of global upheavals and rock music provided the soundtrack. In communist Czechoslovakia, Soviet tanks rolled in to end Dubceks experiment in socialism with a

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A song by Caetano Veloso expressed the anger of the times and became a Tropicalia anthem, E Proibido Proibir, prohibiting is prohibited, a slogan taken from the student/ upheavals in France. The footage of him singing the song at the 1968 TV global s

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The military took their revenge by harassing Nascimento. In the early 70s, he was estranged from his wife and son who were living in Sao Paolo and he was phoned, warning of the consequences if he tried to visit his family. Long passages of Spanish se

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In the early 70s, when Gil met them, Filhos De Gandhi were in a bad way, they were the only Bloco Afro in Bahia, playing African at ceremonies, that they have few members and werent even taking part in Carnival. Gil joined the group and brought them

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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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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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