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Each week, The World & I Online gathers news stories highlighting the lives, situations and cultures of people worldwide. |
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| Week ending Friday, August 27, 2010
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Children Crossing Borders in Search of HIV Treatment
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| Plumtree, Zimbabwe, August 24, 2010. -- A new type of migration is taking place in Zimbabwe. While in the past people crossed the borders into South Africa and Botswana seeking work and fleeing from t...
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Colombia's Drug War Spills across Ecuador Border
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| San Miguel River, northern Ecuador, August 24, 2010. -- For Servio Tuliogemeni, it was a son. His neighbor, Maria Salazar, lost her brother, as did her neighbor, Elsio Molano. But unlike the other two...
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This Math Class May Figure Out Israel
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| Al Zahara, Central Gaza Strip, August 24, 2010. -- In a bright and spacious classroom, with plants overflowing in the courtyard outside, six students lean forward at their desks looking at the 10-digi...
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India Witnesses Growing Conflict Over Land
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| New Delhi, August 23, 2010 -- In India, protests by farmers about land acquisition in the country's most populated state have focused attention on the growing conflict about land, as the economy moder...
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'Ancient' Ships of Unity Dock in Brunei
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| Brunei, Maura, August 26, 2010. -- A flotilla of traditionally crafted and navigated fourth century Balangay sailing vessels reached Brunei's shores, as one of the stops on a 14,000km journey around t...
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India: Cotton Farmers Reap Hope from New Techniques
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| Warangal, India, August 24, 2010 -- Meruga Padma, 33, and her husband Veeramallu, 40, can still remember when cotton farmers here in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh were in such dire strai...
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France: Autumn Crisis Looms
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| Paris, August 23, 2010 -- The autumn crisis will start in the eurozone. As the summer ends and the tourists return home from the beaches of Greece and Spain, Portugal and Italy, the summertime flood o...
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Saudi Court Rules: Paralyze Man who Crippled Another
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| August 23, 2010. -- A Saudi Arabian court has ruled that a convicted man's spinal cord should be severed so he is paralyzed as part of the kingdom's Islamic-law-oriented retribution for similar injuri...
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Mutilated Afghan Woman Begins Emotional, Physical Healing
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| Washington, DC, August 24, 2010. -- The story of the young Afghan woman whose nose and ears were hacked off by the Taliban has faded from the headlines, but Bibi Aisha’s road to recovery has only just...
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Threat To Polar Bears Worries Russian Experts
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| Moscow, August 26, 2010. -- Environmental experts in Russia have warned that unless urgent steps are taken internationally, climatic changes combined with man-made factors could reduce the world's pop...
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