Aral Sea's Return Revives Withered Villages
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TASTUPEK, Kazakhstan -- In the cool of one recent evening, after tending to his herd of 19 camels, Puzblay Seytpembetov and four companions pushed his small single-engine boat out onto the placid waters of the Aral Sea to lay fishnets. In the morning, he predicted, he would haul in flapping carp ...
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KULSHICHI, Belarus -- No one lives here anymore. Only radiation-danger signs stick up from the ground in this village contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl accident, and abandoned buildings gape silently, their windows broken.
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The rare chiru, once extensively poached for its prized wool, appears to be increasing its population thanks to conservation efforts by Chinese officials and Tibetan locals.
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Sea erosion brings an urgency to archaeologists' work, as bodies emerge on the shoreline of northern Alaska.
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BARA KALA, Afghanistan -- The rickety diesel drill digging a new well at the edge of a parched field represents the sum total of reconstruction so far in this village in eastern Afghanistan.
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Abdul Razaq stands among the menfolk of this dusty village of Afghan nomads and rejoices that democracy has at last come to his country after more than two decades of warfare.
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By Ma Lie  XI'AN: Tianchi Lake, an alpine lake and hot tourism spot located in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is to undergo a four-year restoration project.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- They arrived in December 2002 to do what had never been done : bring remote, unruly Paktia province under the control of a central Afghan government.
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TASTUPEK, Kazakhstan -- In the cool of one recent evening, after tending to his herd of 19 camels, Puzblay Seytpembetov and four companions pushed his small single-engine boat out onto the placid waters of the Aral Sea to lay fishnets. In the morning, he predicted, he would haul in flapping carp and...
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Jahorina, the 1984 Olympic ski mountain, was scarred by war and reputation. It's starting to make a comeback.
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VISEGRAD, Bosnia  - The decaying Ottoman bridge on Bosnia's River Drina at Visegrad is soon to be restored, but the community whose life around it was chronicled in an epic novel is unlikely to be the same again.
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This morning, Latvian resident Vladimirs Kulesovs who suffered injuries in the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, returned to Riga from Moscow by train.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Markets reopened,  fishermen got new boats and the sea even got a cleanup on  Saturday as people toiled to undo the Asian tsunami's damage.
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Thousands of settlers on India's Andaman Islands are returning to the mainland after the tsunami.
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A GLIMMER of hope emerged in the Andaman and Nicobar islands yesterday as people previously counted as dead emerged from the sanctuary of what little high ground there is in the remote Indian island chain.
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A collection of pre-Islamic wooden idols chopped up by the Taliban in 2001 in their drive for a pure Muslim state is back on display in Afghanistan after painstaking repair in a project financed by the Austrian government.
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Before December 2005, the Chadian village of Bir Kedouas , left, was a tidy collection of huts in walled compounds and cultivated fields. A later satellite image shows what is left: The former homesites (marked with red circles) and fields are now a charred scar in the earth. The entire population...