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Indonesia aims to be the world’s top nickel supplier. But its efforts to produce nickel have seriously harmed the country’s forests, nonprofit groups…
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Paris is a popular place for visitors because of its food, art, and history. The city itself is likely to be central to the experience of the Olympic…
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The European climate change service Copernicus said Monday broke the world’s hottest day record that was just set a day earlier. The European Union’s…
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A major computer system outage affected a wide range of businesses around the world beginning late last week. But the cause of the outage was quickly…
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06:47 July 23, 2024
More American states are pushing for cell phone restrictions in high schools. The move comes as teachers say it is a major problem in the classroom. …
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05:02 July 23, 2024
An advocacy group for Indigenous peoples has released images of a reclusive Peruvian Amazon tribe’s members searching for food outside of their usual…
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05:17 July 23, 2024
Scientists in Brazil say heavy rains helped them discover a fossil they believe came from one of the world’s oldest dinosaurs. Researchers found the …
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06:24 July 22, 2024
Many new Ukrainian businesses are reportedly developing unmanned military vehicles for the country’s war against Russia. The operations often happen …
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07:43 July 22, 2024
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04:39 July 22, 2024
Democratic Party lawmakers, some governors, and financial donors are supporting U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris to be the party’s presidential nomi…
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06:09 July 21, 2024
Turkey has become a leading exporter of television shows in recent years. Millions of people are watching Turkish TV dramas known as Dizi. Many of th…
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03:29 July 21, 2024
Japanese scientists have found a way to attach living skin tissue to robotic faces and make them "smile." This breakthrough could be helpful not only…
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06:42 July 21, 2024
Scientists say they have found evidence that the smelly molecule hydrogen sulfide exists in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-like planet. Hydrogen sulfide…
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05:29 July 20, 2024
The United Nations is predicting the world’s population will reach 10.3 billion in the 2080s. The prediction appears in a new U.N. report. The report…
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05:38 July 19, 2024
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08:31 July 18, 2024
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04:21 July 18, 2024
Health workers in Ivory Coast have launched the country’s first child vaccination program against malaria. The effort aims to reduce cases of the mos…
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03:41 July 17, 2024
Scientists have confirmed a cave on the moon, not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago. They suspect there are hundreds …
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03:14 July 17, 2024
No one has ever seen a live spade-toothed whale. It is the world's rarest kind of whale. No one knows how many exist, what they eat, or even where th…
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06:34 July 17, 2024
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07:35 July 16, 2024
A new study says that Americans have increasing questions about the value and cost of a college education. Most of the people taking part in the stud…
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04:03 July 16, 2024
South Korean beauty products company AmorePacific has a new artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory that has become popular with customers. At the la…
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06:44 July 16, 2024
Different versions of bird flu have been spreading around the world in recent years. The virus, officially known as H5N1, is believed to have killed …
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03:33 July 15, 2024
An art gallery in the Australian state of Tasmania presented three paintings as if they were works by the famed painter, Pablo Picasso. At first, the…
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08:53 July 15, 2024
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report. Some experts suggest that lifting weights is the best way to keep our bodies strong…
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Officials are investigating how a gunman was able to fire several shots at former President Donald Trump during a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylva…
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04:48 July 14, 2024
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06:23 July 14, 2024
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07:03 July 14, 2024
A man in the Northeastern state of Massachusetts has regained his voice after a rare operation. Marty Kedian received a total transplant of his laryn…
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06:22 July 13, 2024
Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland will no longer pay for classes thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Ph…
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06:01 July 12, 2024
In the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected as the first United States president, a printer quietly published what would bec…
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05:48 July 11, 2024
American farmers are using an ancient tree from India to produce beans for making protein-rich foods and biofuels. The tree is called pongamia. It is…
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07:05 July 11, 2024
Pieces of bones in a cave in the Tibetan highlands have given researchers new evidence of the mysterious human ancestors known as Denisovans. Interna…
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03:27 July 10, 2024
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On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting. The researchers used a laser to date the pai…
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06:27 July 10, 2024
The American professional racing organization, NASCAR, recently rolled out its first electric vehicle model to the public. Officials with the motorsp…
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05:52 July 9, 2024
The number of Americans studying in China has decreased by large amounts in recent years, from around 11,000 in 2019 to 800 this year. Some people wi…
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04:07 July 9, 2024
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03:12 July 9, 2024
Scientists have identified a kind of desert moss that could help support possible colonies on Mars, a study by the Chinese Academy of Sciences showed…
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07:33 July 9, 2024
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is seeking closer ties with non-member partners from Asia at its 2024 leaders meeting. It opened Tuesday in th…
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06:44 July 8, 2024
Scientists studying the spread of bird flu in the United States say they worry about a lack of data in tracking the virus, called Type A H5N1. In rec…
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05:19 July 8, 2024
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06:18 July 8, 2024
American company Boeing will admit to criminal charges of wrongdoing linked to two deadly passenger jet crashes. The aerospace manufacturer will also…
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03:22 July 7, 2024
Recent United Nations data shows that China is ahead of other countries in filing patents for generative artificial intelligence (or GenAI) invention…
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07:03 July 7, 2024
About half of Nigeria’s 200 million people cannot get enough electricity from the country’s electrical grid. Many poor, rural communities have no ele…
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06:54 July 7, 2024
The U.S. space agency NASA has chosen SpaceX to produce a vehicle to take the International Space Station (ISS) out of orbit at the end of its servic…
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05:43 July 5, 2024
German automaker Volkswagen (VW) ended production of its Beetle model in 2019. But some communities around the world are still demonstrating a lastin…
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05:29 July 4, 2024
A recent report by environmental researchers says that protecting 1.2 percent of the Earth’s land surface could prevent most extinctions. Extinction …