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Dam Collapse in Laos Leaves Hundreds Missing A dam built to create electricity has collapsed in Laos. Reports say several people are dead and hundreds are missing. State media reported the collapse Monday night caused a wall of water to flow through

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As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

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VATICAN CITY, Feb.28 (Xinhua) -- The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI came into effect at 8 pm local time (1900 GMT) on Thursday, who had left the Vatican by helicopter for the papal vacation retreat in south Rome earlier in the afternoon. The pope h

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