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By Phuong Tran Dakar 07 January 2007 Portuguese rider Ruben Faria steers his KTM during the 1st stage of the Lisbon-Dakar Rally, 6 Jan 2007 Almost 250 competitors set off Saturday from Lisbon, Portugal in the annual car, motorcycle and truck race th
By Phuong Tran Dakar 23 August 2007 Recent rebel violence from a nomadic tribe in northern Niger may escalate into civil war according to analysts, who are concerned the revolt may affect neighboring countries in the West African Saharan region. Phuo
By Benjamin Sand Balakot, Pakistan 05 October 2006 A year after last October's massive South Asian earthquake, aid agencies are warning that nearly two-million people are facing a second Himalayan winter without proper shelter. VOA's Benjamin Sand r
By Paul Sisco Washington, D.C. 24 November 2006 watch Polar Melting report 2007 is International Polar Year. It's an international effort to spur scientific research at the most forbidding places on Earth, primarily because many in science consider
By Kari Barber Dakar 28 September 2007 Security experts and officials from nations across West and Central Africa say they will try to improve communication between their countries and with the United Nations in order to better assess and fight terro
By Zulima Palacio Austin, Texas 20 January 2006 watch Suspension report Electric suspensions offers more stabilility One day, exhausting car rides over bumpy terrain, with all the dangers and damaging
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta, Indonesia 02 January 2007 Emergency workers in Indonesia continue searching for the wreckage of an airliner that disappeared during a flight to Sulawesi Monday. Officials say earlier reports that the crash site had been fou
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 15 June 2006 Boy with open wound on his forehead waits to be attended to by doctors in Balakot The United Nations is launching a global campaign to protect children from dying and being injured in natural disasters. The U.N. D
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy visited French troops in Kabul Wednesday to pay respects to ten French soldiers who were killed in a fierce battle just 50 kilometers outside Kabul. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from neighboring Pakistan on the dea
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is calling on Pakistan to intensify efforts to combat Taliban militants who use its border areas to launch attacks against Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters in the western Australian city of Perth Friday, Ri
Forty ambulances raced into the desert in southern Israel, after a bus carrying Russian tourists plunged 80 meters into a desert ravine, killing 23 people. White body bags were lined up in a row and baggage and wreckage were scattered over the steep
By Ayaz Gul Islamabad 23 September 2009 Pakistan army says that its ongoing operations have severely dented the Taliban-led insurgency in the country's northwest. Military officials say the campaign is being gradually extended to what they consider
South Africa Divided as Election Looms 南非国内在选举问题上的分歧 JOHANNESBURG, LIMPOPO PROVINCE South Africa's urbanites are increasingly vocal about their opposition to the ruling African National Congress, which they blame for a numbe
Search for the Missing Continues in Tacloban, Philippines 菲律宾仍在塔克洛班市搜寻失踪者 TACLOBAN Four months after Typhoon Haiyan devastated parts of the Philippines, the search for the missing continues. Thousands of bodies have yet
play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:30repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. AZUZ: The U.S. which has the planet's most extreme weath
By Gary Thomas Washington 05 May 2006 Major General Thomas Turner The senior American military commander in northern Iraq says all the Iraqi army units in his area will take the operational lead in th
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By Steve Herman Kathmandu 10 April 2008 Millions of voters in Nepal braved threats of violence and harsh terrain to cast ballots in a historic election to choose a 601-member national assembly that is to write a constitution. The twice-delayed electi
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 07 November 2007 Nearly 50 migrants from West Africa died off the coast of Mauritania this week, when their boat became stranded as they tried to make the dangerous and illegal crossing to Europe. The incident is one of the wo
Anaconda 水蟒 Before Jennifer Lopez became J. Lo, she was an up and coming actress. Perhaps her worst movie was Anaconda , about a giant snake that terrorizes a documentary film crew in the Amazon rain forest. Hollywoods version of the snake was pu