By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 08 May 2007 Man walks along oil pipelines belonging to Italian oil company Agip in Obrikom, Nigeria (File) The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, the most prominent armed group in Nigeria's oil-rich N

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The price of oil has dropped around 20 percent in recent weeks, but remains more than double what it was just a couple of years ago. The high price has given oil companies the incentive to revisit old fields long ago abandoned as unprofitable. As VO

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Feed the Soil, Feed the Crops If African farmers are going to feed the continent, they may first want to feed the soil. Studies show farmland is often depleted of vital nutrients. But researchers say a combination of organic farming methods may help.

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Police in Sweden say they believe they have identified the man who blew himself up in the country's capital on Saturday. The man is Taimour Abdulwahab, a Swedish citizen who has been living in Britain for the past decade. Sweden's Chief Prosecutor To

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. Over the years, hundreds of people left the U.S. to go fight with ISIS in Syria and Iraq. Only 14 of them came back. Two of them are women with extraordinary and similar stories. Both say their husbands forced them to

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I'd like to sit around and dream you up a perfect miracle 我愿静坐一旁,与你一同设想一个完美的奇迹 I'd part the clouds and have the sun proudly shining on you 我愿驱散层云,让旭日之光芒骄傲地照耀着你 I'd take t

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