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NASA maps 130 years of climate change

August 2, 2013August 2, 2013 VOANews final frontier

America’s space agency, NASA, has produced a video showing how Earth’s surface temperatures have been changing over the years. NASA

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Cyprus agrees to 47.5 per cent levy on biggest depositors

July 29, 2013 VOANews Cyprus

Cyprus has reached a final agreement with its international lenders to confiscate 47.5 percent of the accounts of its biggest

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Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, gives birth to baby boy

July 22, 2013 VOANews

British officials say Prince William’s wife, Kate, has given birth to a baby boy, the couple’s first child and the

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Euro zone debt rising in spite of austerity measures

July 22, 2013July 31, 2013 VOANews euro zone

The combined debt in the eurozone continues to grow, even as many of the 17 nations in Europe’s currency bloc

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Russian opposition leader sentenced to five years

July 18, 2013 VOANews Russia

A Russian court on Thursday found opposition leader Alexei Navalny guilty of embezzlement and sentenced him to five years in

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Greek finance minister facing possible charges for tax cheat list

July 16, 2013 VOANews Greece

Greek lawmakers have voted in favor of pressing criminal charges against a former finance minister for his handling of a

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Faraway planet found to be same colour as Earth

July 15, 2013 VOANews final frontier

The Hubble Space Telescope has helped scientists determine the color of a planet outside of our Solar System for the first time.

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Europe 

Greece facing new austerity protests

July 15, 2013 VOANews Greece

Greece is facing a new wave of austerity protests, this time by police and municipal workers. With sirens blaring, striking

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Dead Russian lawyer convicted of tax evasion

July 11, 2013July 11, 2013 VOANews Russia

A Moscow court has convicted dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky of tax evasion, concluding a posthumous trial in a case that

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