Word: ethiopia
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...decades of Israeli occupation, views access to the river as a matter of simple rights as well as a symbol of sovereignty. Other current disputes involve Turkey, Syria and Iraq (the Euphrates); Israel and Syria (the Sea of Galilee); Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (the Jordan); Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and others (the Nile); Senegal and Mauritania (the Senegal); and Iran and Afghanistan (the Helmand). ? In some places, water that is shared by nations has been poisoned - sometimes accidentally, as in last year's Romanian cyanide spill in the Tisza and Danube Rivers, and sometimes naturally, as in arsenic poisoning...
...ETHIOPIA Student Riots Political protests by students at Addis Ababa University spiraled out of control into full-scale riots, claiming dozens of lives and turning the capital into a city under siege. Hospital officials said up to 40 people died and more than 250 were injured in the clashes between police and crowds protesting police brutality. The government closed the university indefinitely...
...rival species, most of which were evolutionary dead ends. But what about before that? Paleontologists have generally agreed that there was just one hominid line, beginning with a small, upright-walking species known as Australopithecus afarensis, most famously represented by "Lucy," a remarkably complete (about 40%) skeleton found in Ethiopia...
...ecstatic with his job as an inspirational speaker, but he has just published his autobiography. Of Beetles and Angels: A True Story of the American Dream is touching and uplifting; it is an amazing testament to his strength of character. It tells the story of his flight from Ethiopia's bloody war, his years spent in a Sudanese refugee camp and growing up in Chicago's suburbs. He finally ends up with a full scholarship and degree from Harvard...
...resources from donor countries and "making sure food gets to the right people at the right time and is accounted for." She is the first American and the first woman to head the WFP, now responsible for feeding nearly 90 million people each year, mostly in disaster zones like Ethiopia, Somalia and India...