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Venezuela food prices
June, 2008
Venezuelans have not felt the pinch of rising food prices as badly as other consumers around the world. The reason is that President Chávez is using his country's oil revenues to subsidize food at the local markets. Lorne Matalon reports from Caracas.
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Ukraine's Viktor Yushchenko
June, 2008
When Ukraine's president ran for office four years ago, he suffered a mysterious ailment: His face was disfigured by what doctors say was dioxin poisoning. Jason Margolis has an update on the Ukrainian leader's physical and political health.
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Washington and Mexico's drug war
June, 2008
There's a war taking place across northern Mexico, where rival cartels are fighting for control of the $ 40 billion dollar-a-year market for illegal drugs in the U.S. The Bush Administration is urging Congress to approve $ 1.4 billion in military and other assistance to help Mexico defeat the cartels, but the money is stuck in Congress.
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Mustache etiquette
June, 2008
An British fighter pilot has won his battle with the United States Air Force over the size of his handlebar mustache. Flight Lieutenant Chris Ball, who is on an exchange posting with the USAF in Afghanistan was told to trim his distinctive mustache.
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Katy Clark's Guantánamo stories
June 2008
Katy Clark has been reporting on the Guantánamo Bay detention facility for The World since 2002. In the fall of 2007 she visited again to assess how the detention center has evolved over the years.
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China earthquake
May-June, 2008
Chinese troops have managed to reduce the water level in an unstable lake formed by last month's earthquake, by channelling water to an abandoned town. Soldiers used explosives to divert water from Lake Tangjiashan into the quake-damaged town of Beichuan.
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9/11 museum in France
June, 2008
A history museum in the French city of Caen has opened a major exhibit on the September 11th, 2001 attacks. It's the first exhibit of this kind outside the United States.
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Tampered photos
June, 2008
These days opponents of Russian leader Vladimir Putin are digitally disappearing from TV shows the way Russian politicos used to disappear from photographs of the Soviet era. Dartmouth College Professor Hany Farid has researched the history of digitally tampered images.
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Burma cyclone
June, 2008
A month after Burma (also known as Myanmar) was devastated by a cyclone, foreign aid agencies say a quarter of a million people have still not received any help.
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Yves Saint Laurent dies
June, 2008
Yves Saint Laurent, considered by many as the greatest fashion designer of the 20th Century died in Paris at the age of 71. Saint Laurent changed the face of the fashion industry, designing clothes that reflected women's changing role in society: more confident personally, sexually and in the work-place.
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Marine boot camp
May, 2008
Katy Clark accompanied a group of high-school teachers and guidance counsellors to Parris Island where they were trying to find out what it takes to be a U.S. Marine.
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Patroling the border
May, 2008
Last year the United States deported a record number of undocumented Mexicans, but authorities along the U.S. -Mexico border say Mexicans seeking jobs continue to cross into the United States every day. From south Texas, The World's Lorne Matalon reports.
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Into the Amazon
May, 2008
The World's Alex Gallafent spent ten days in the middle of the Amazon rainforest - a truly remarkable place. Check out his videos and radio reports!
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Estonian drinking contest
May, 2008
For a few years now there's been a rumor about a vodka drinking contest between Hillary Clinton and John McCain. It allegedly took place back in 2004 in the Estonian capital, Tallinn. The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse went on a quest to find the truth!
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Mexico's maquillas
May, 2008
Factories on the Mexican side of the US border employ tens of thousands of workers. But as The World's Lorne Matalon reports. efforts to control illegal trafficking of migrants and drugs are making it harder for Mexican made factory goods to reach the United States.
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Trucks from Mexico
May, 2008
Some Mexican-made goods are being delivered throughout the United States on Mexican-owned trucks. That's saving consumers money. But US truckers say it's a bad idea. The World's Lorne Matalon reports from Juárez, Mexico.
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Juárez drug war
May, 2008
The World's Lorne Matalon reports on the spike in drug-related violence in towns along the US Mexico border.
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Georges Méliès collection
May, 2008
Ever wonder who got the movie special effects industry going? It was Georges Méliès more than a century ago. In 1896 he started his film studio in Paris. A new 5-DVD set encompassing all of Méliès's movies is out.
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Iraq veteran in college
May, 2008
The World's Katy Clark checked in again with U.S. Army veteran Damean Vlasak whom she first met in the fall of 2007.
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Fiji water
April, 2008
The World's Julia Kumari Drapkin tested whether people can taste the difference between carbon negative water from Fiji and water fresh from the faucet.
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Germany's bear craze
April, 2008
It all started in 2007 with 'cute' Knut in Berlin. Then there was Flocke (Snowflake) in Nuremberg and now Stuttgart has its own polar bear sensation: Wilbär!
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Pope Benedict XVI in the U.S.
April, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI finished his six-day visit of the United States with a prayer at Ground Zero in New York after telling the United Nations that member states should solve the world's crises together.
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South African satire
April, 2008
South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys uses laughter to confront racism. He's used humor to teach students about AIDS prevention, now he's making fun of America's presidential slugfest.
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