By Mandy Clark London 26 March 2008 An eco-friendly home in Britain is considered not just globally responsible but now it is becoming personally profitable. Nearly 40 percent of Britain's energy is consumed in lighting, heating and cooling the coun

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 26 April 2006 Soldiers stand guard at the entrance of the Sri Lankan army headquarters Sri Lanka's military has launched fresh strikes on Tamil Tiger rebel areas in the co

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By Michael Bowman Washington 26 February 2006 Iraqi father carries his injured son to a hospital in Baqouba, Iraq, February 26, 2006 A mortar attack in southern Baghdad has killed at least 15 people a

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil 24 March 2007 Iraq's deputy prime minister, injured in an assassination attempt Friday, was in stable condition and moved out of a Baghdad intensive care unit Saturday. Meanwhile, insurgents killed and injured several people

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 24 March 2006 Fighting continued Friday for the third day running in Somali's capital, Mogadishu, which has left at least 70 people dead and hundreds wounded and displaced. M

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 18 June 2008 A ceasefire in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip is due to begin at 6:00 a.m. local time Thursday. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. Israeli soldier gestures to direct a tank moving on top of mi

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With tension running high on the Israel-Gaza border, the sides could be stepping back from the brink of a major confrontation. Palestinians line up to buy bread outside a bakery in Gaza City, 23 Dec 2008 The Islamic militant group Hamas that rules t

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There has been a strong show of support for the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip, where tens-of-thousands of supporters rallied Sunday. The demonstration comes amid growing tension with Israel. Palestinian supporters of Hamas attend a rally in Gaz

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The United Nations food agency has suspended aid work in the southern Philippines after a spate of deadly bombings in the region. The U.N. World Food Program feeds more than 300,000 families displaced by conflict in the southern Philippines. On Wedn

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Iraq Unrest Stirs Emotions in US Veterans 美国退伍军人因伊拉克动荡局势激起情感 PARIS, ILLINOIS Paris, Illinois is a patriotic town awash in red, white and blue. American Legion Post Commander Tom Noel said its been that way since th

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Christian Iraqis Find Refuge in Jordanian Church 伊拉克基督教徒在约旦教堂寻找庇护 NAOUR, JORDAN More than 3,000 Iraqi Christians have sought refuge from the fighting in their country in churches in Jordan. And Caritas, an aid group af

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By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 02 August 2006 A civilian wounded in shelling by Tamil Tiger rebels receives treatment in a hospital in Trincomalee, about 230 kilometers (144 miles) northeast of Colombo In Eastern Sri Lanka, government forces are exchan

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RAY SUAREZ, HOST: There's been an important unanswered question about the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul even five months after it ended. How many civilians were killed as U.S. and Iraqi forces launched their intensive air and ground assault agai

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By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 06 July 2007 Cattle-herding nomads from western Kenya confirm United Nations and aid agency reports that forces of the Ugandan army are using helicopter gunships and mortar against communities living on the Kenya-Uganda border.

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By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 04 August 2006 Aid workers say thousands of people are fleeing a town in eastern Sri Lanka where fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels has raged for more than a week. The fighting goes on as a senior peac

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 12 June 2008 Prospects appear to have improved for a Middle East ceasefire. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, truce efforts come amid political turmoil in Israel. An Israeli delegation is in Cairo to tr

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 21 May 2007 Violence continued in Iraq Monday, after a particularly deadly weekend for U.S. troops, and the killing of a key insurgent leader. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon. A wounded Iraqi woman is wheeled into a ho

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By Scott Stearns White House 17 June 2006 President Bush is promising more help for Iraq's new government, following his surprise trip to Baghdad this past week. Opposition Democrats say the president is not moving fast enough to get U.S. troops hom

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 05 June 2008 Palestinian medics say a young Palestinian girl has been killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip, after an Israeli died in a cross-border mortar attack. Robert Berger in Jerusalem says Israel is cons

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By Tom Rivers London 19 August 2007 London's Independent on Sunday newspaper says two senior British generals have told Prime Minister Gordon Brown that Britain has accomplished what it can in southern Iraq and that moves toward a full withdrawal sho

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