LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Here's a depressing statistic. In Massachusetts, over half of all young adult men released from jails and prisons go back within three years. The state's largest county wants to disrupt that cycle. A few months ago, it adop

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In the six and a half years since Syria's civil war began, more than 5 million Syrians have abandoned their homes and fled the country to escape the violence unleashed by Bashar al-Assad's regime against its own people. Today, more than 5 million peo

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Fifty-two people are now known to have died during an operation to free worshippers held by gunmen inside a Baghdad church. One hundred and twenty people were held in the Catholic church for at least four hours. When Iraqi security forces stormed the

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FAO: South Sudan Food Insecurity Deepens 粮农组织称南苏丹粮食危机加深 The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says it has less than half the funding it needs to help ensure food security in parts of South Sudan. The agency wants to s

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President Obama says a proposal to place Syrian chemical weapons under international control to avoid US military strikes could be a potential breakthrough. While the president appearing on a half dozen network news programs including CNN, had this p

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Detroit listener Terry Ahwal believes we should be fighting against fear and not against people Welcome to This I Believe, an NPR series presenting the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women from all walks of life. From NPR News, this is

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Acid Attacks Continue in Cambodia Despite Harsher Punishments For Som Bunnarith, memories of the day acid violence changed his life forever are as vivid in his mind as the scars on his skin. When it splashed on me, it felt hot. It even burned through

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Inmates at Tangerang prison in Jakarta leave their cells to participate in conflict resolution training After learning that a new terrorist group had sprung up in the Indonesian prison system earlier this year, officials put in place a new program ai

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Poison lead singer Bret Michaels poses for a portrait as he promotes his new solo album Custom Built During the past four months, Bret Michaels, lead singer of rock band Poison, underwent an emergency appendectomy and suffered a near-fatal brain hemo

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Vietnam'sDrugRehabCentersUnderFire Rights advocates in Vietnam are criticizing a form of treatment used by the government to rehabilitate illegal drug users and sex workers. In a newly released report, the international human rights group Human Right

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Cluster Munitions Have Prolonged Impact Mohamed is 13 years old. Two years ago, he played with a shiny metal object he found outside his home in Benghazi, Libya. He didn't know it was a cluster munition until it exploded. Cluster munitions release sm

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is easier for parents to raise their children than 50 years ago. Taking a panoramic picture of human evolution, family education has been playing a very important role, especially in modern da

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By Cathy Majtenyi Zeila, Somaliland 22 February 2008 Somaliland is a relatively new east African republic that broke away from Somalia in 1991 and is still not recognized internationally as independent. But it is a land ripe with historical treasure,

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Therere flames from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Island, joining together to create warm at this spiritual home of the Paralympics Stoke Mandeville. Our Paralympians and world Paralympians are now household names in the lives of many young p

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Wednesday is the last day for the Beijing Paralympics - an international sporting event showcasing the abilities of handicapped people. As the athletes prepare to pack up and return to their home countries, will there be a lasting legacy for China,

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The United States has defended its policy of detaining juveniles in prisons in Iraq, and Afghanistan. The issue is expected to be high on the agenda Thursday when the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child examines U.S. compliance with U.N. rules

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The U.N. refugee agency says it finally has succeeded in entering the so-called buffer zone north of the town of Gori in Georgia. The zone is controlled by Russian military forces and has been out of reach during the past weeks due to the unstable se

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The families of asylum seekers killed and injured when their boat crashed on rocks of Christmas Island four years ago are now suing the Federal Government. Fifty people died in that tragedy. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has praised the bravery

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A team of U.S. Navy audiologists conducted a hearing test on a rare beaked whale convalescing at a marine mammal rehabilitation center in the Florida Keys. The mature female whale has been tentatively identified as a Gervais' beaked whale or a Sowerb

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Representatives from a total of 61 Thai hotels, travel companies, airline companies, theme parks and other recreational venues have gathered in Beijing for a consultation titled amazing Thailand. They aim to promote four tourism products to Chinese t

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