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This is our last program of 2016 and it starts by taking back to the war-torn city of Aleppo. It's become a major flashpoint in Syria's brutal five-year-old civil war. Hundreds of thousands have died since it started. Rebels fighting the Syrian gover
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 30 December 2007 Some 40,000 young Christians are gathering in Geneva to participate in a five-day pilgrimage organized by the Taize religious community and Swiss churches. The Taize community, based in Burgundy, France, has in
Thousands of Monitors Prepare for Turkish Election ISTANBUL More than 55,000 election monitors are preparing for Sundays parliamentary elections in Turkey. Tensions are high, with Turkish Kurds bracing for possible violence as the party of President
As the world marks UN Refugee Day on June 20, the number of people escaping violence across the Arab world is on the rise. Pro-democracy uprisings are being brutally suppressed in places like Libya and Syria, forcing tens of thousands of people to fl
Sometimes, the truth really is stranger than fiction. How else would you explain the day thousands of blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe. Forth was mess up when he called me. He got me up at four o?clock in the morning, told me have birds fallen o
There was an earthquake in Haiti. It was a 7.0 earthquake. Thousands of people died. Thousands of people were homeless. Thousands of people had no food or water. Many nations sent food and water. Some nations sent search and rescue teams. Some of the
By Paige Kollock New York 12 September 2007 New York City's metropolitan population of roughly 22 million people is the largest in the United States. But only about eight million people actually live in the city. Millions of others commute from outly
By Ernest Leong Washington, D.C. 03 January 2006 See report on Sudan According to the World Health Organization, there are 500,000 new cases of kala azar per year. Kala azar is a deadly epidemic sprea
Thousands of Journalists in London Cover Olympics 24/7 While the athletes are out competing for medals, journalists are busy reporting the news. Thousands of journalists have been accredited to cover the Olympics. And with the Games progressing at a
By Michael Lipin Washington 15 September 2007 Thousands of anti-war activists rallied in Washington Saturday to demand an end to the Iraq war, the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and the impeachment of President Bush. At least 5,000 people marche
By Ana Ward Washington 05 September 2007 Thousands of American Indians converged on Washington, D.C. recently to celebrate the song and dance of their native culture. The National Museum of the American Indian organized the annual event called a poww
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 25 November 2006 U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres is warning that humanitarian aid for hundreds-of-thousands of Sudanese refugees from Darfur and displaced Chadians could be jeopardized by a fresh outbreak
By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 11 July 2007 In Sudan, unusually heavy rainfall in recent days has left tens of thousands homeless in several regions. As Arjun Kohli reports from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, the rains have created another humanitarian c
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's time now for StoryCorps. Zoe Courville and Lora Koenig first met in the middle of an ice sheet in Greenland. They are scientists, and their work takes them to the most remote parts of the world. They spe
By Cathy Majtenyi IDP Camps in Kenya 17 April 2008 Kenya's post-election violence has left some 150,000 children homeless. The signing of a power-sharing agreement has helped to stabilize the country, but many children still languish in displaced per
Workers From Gaza's Destroyed Tunnels Struggle to Survive 工人从加沙被破坏的隧道挣扎生存 RAFAH, GAZA STRIP The economy of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip is reeling since Egypt destroyed hundreds of smuggling tunnels that it says were being
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 11 February 2007 Indonesian soldiers, volunteers load piles of muddy garbage into a tractor in central Jakarta's Petamburan district. This street was buried under two meters of murky water last week, 11 Feb 2007 As floodwate
今天我们要学的词是precaution。 Precaution, 是预防措施的意思。 三月初,致命的龙卷风袭击了美国中西部和南部的几个州, Thousands of school children in these states were sent home as a precaution, 为安全起见
The International Organization for Migration is running an 18-month project to help reintegrate thousands of returnees, internally displaced and other vulnerable groups in western Afghanistan. IOM says it is particularly critical to provide shelter