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Muslim-American Children Make Mock Pilgrimage to Mecca More than 1.5 million Muslims from around the world have gathered in Mecca for the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage, which begins later this week. At a Washington area mosque, American Muslim children

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By Alan Silverman Hollywood 24 June 2006 Squeezed in among all the multi-million dollar Hollywood blockbusters this season there is also a handful of documentary films drawing audiences to neighborhood theaters. Alan Silverman has a look at three of

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By Tendai Maphosa London 29 March 2008 Zimbabwean law does not allow citizens outside the country to vote. But to show their solidarity with Zimbabweans who are voting in Saturday's elections, some of those in the diaspora have organized mock balloti

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 27 June 2006 Palestinian representatives of the main political factions attend a press conference in Gaza City, Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Rival Palestinian factions have agreed on a document implicitly recognizing Israel. Isr

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By Carolyn Weaver New York City 21 May 2007 We Are Together (Thina Simunye) is an award-winning documentary about the children of Agape Orphanage, in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. It is the first film by a 25-year-old director from Bri

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By Suzanne Chislett London 11 October 2006 watch Chislett report The forgotten role that black South Africans played in World War I is finally being told. Almost 90 years after the sinking of a ship carrying black South African troops, the story has

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2007年VOA标准英语-Documentaries, Feature Films Highlight Tribeca

By Carolyn Weaver New York City 04 May 2007 The sixth annual Tribeca Film Festival, which runs through May 6, features more than 150 films from around the world, including dozens of documentaries and narrative features from the Middle East, Africa an

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Saturday marks the 69th anniversary of the issuing of the Potsdam Proclamation. The Potsdam Proclamation was issued on July 26, 1945 by the United States, Britain and China. It called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces after Nazi Germany

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