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Humanitarian Aid for Ethiopia Ethiopia has been suffering the effects of a devastating series of droughts, which began three years ago when the El Ni?o weather pattern caused higher temperatures in this country of 100 million people. While an above a

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Transcript: For thousands of years the Maasai people in Kenya had no doubts about their relationship with the lions who shared the land with them. They were enemies. The lions wanted to kill the tribes livestock and the Maasai had to protect the anim

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??Do you remember from our last lesson what message Moses and his brother Aaron took to the king of Egypt？The God of Israel says, Let my people go! ??Do you remember Pharaohs proud answer？No! ??Would you want to have to go back again and aga

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A warning sign on a path in England near a farm where foot-and-mouth disease was found Farmers in England have been worried about foot-and-mouth disease among their cows. The viral sickness is one o

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Plans for Haiti's recovery from the devastating earthquake are on the agenda at the United Nations donors' conference, March 31 in New York. Among the country's top priorities are the estimated 600,000 people who fled the capital, Port-au-Prince, for

澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2010-11-01

Qatar Airways has admitted that one of the bombs posted from Yemen last week was originally transported on two passenger planes before being seized in Dubai. Two suspected al-Qaeda packages from Yemen were intercepted in Dubai and Britain on Friday.

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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. When farmers and wild animals share land, conflicts can be hard to prevent. But the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is trying to help. The FAO and other groups are developing what t

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Below average rainfall in Somalia has pushed nearly 500,000 people to the brink of starvation. International aid-group Oxfam is warning that more will be affected unless immediate action is taken. Somalia is in desperate need of aid, says British-bas

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At the Summer Olympics in London, it's a big day for Michael Phelps. He is swimming in what he says, is the final race of his career this hour. NPR's Howard Berkes says it's Phelps' last chance to add to his record number of Olympic medals. It's a pr

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Experimental prairie farm designed to prove farmers can make a living off native grasses Johanna Sailor | Brookings, South Dakota 12 February 2010 Photo: Courtesy EcoSun Prairie Farm EcoSun Prairie Farm is intended to be a working model of agricultur

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Many of the protesters who occupied parts of Bangkok for two months came from Thailand's rural northeast. They want new elections because their benefactor, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawtra, and politicians loyal to him, were removed by the mil

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BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese central government Wednesday allocated 120 million yuan (19 million U.S. dollars) to drought-stricken areas in southwestern Yunnan province. The relief funds, jointly arranged by the Ministry of Finance and th

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Shirley: Hi, David. How are you? David: I'm fine, thank you, Shirley. Shirley: So, environmental issues ... we were talking about them earlier throughout the world, and you're from Kenya. David: Yes, I'm from Kenya. Shirley: So, what's happening over

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Youve probably heard of people collecting stamps or arts or even antique cars, but what about parasites? In 1892, the American government established a National Parasite Collection to learn more about diseases affecting livestock. Twenty million spec