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Bangladesh villages destroyed by Cyclone Sidr - 19 Nov 07
Destroyed homes and makeshift graves hastily dug for bodies found washed up in the rice fields.
The government has declared the destruction a national calamity.
Al Jazeera's Step Vaessen speaks to families on the banks of the Baleshwar river, and Al Jazeera's Owen Fay speaks from a village in the Pirojpur district of the country.
Length: 129
Rating: 5.00 (10 ratings)
Tags: step vaessen owen fay aljazeera jazeera bangladesh sidr
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Palestinian villages lost in 1948 war - 13 May 08
Al Jazeera's correspondent, David Chater, takes an indepth look at the formation of Israel and the ensuing Palestinian catastrophe, or the Nakba, from the eyes of a West Bank village of Beit Tul.
Sixty years of war, division and unresolved conflict preclude Israel's 60th anniversary since it had declared independence in 1948, but their creation as a state is scarred by the deadly battle for control of land.
Length: 153
Rating: 4.80 (20 ratings)
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Arbëresh Villages in Sicily
The two Arbëresh villages of Hora e Arbëreshëvet and Shëndahstina Xhela (piana degli albanesi and santa cristina gela), located thirty miles from Palermo, Sicily. These villages have spoken the same Tosk Albanian dialect "Arbërishte" since the 16th Century when they began to arrive from Himarë in southern Albania.
Hora keeps the Byzantine Orthodox Rite in the Albanian language, and Shëndahstina changed to the Latin Catholic Rite in 1900.
Length: 374
Rating: 4.80 (90 ratings)
Tags: Albania Albanian Arbëreshë Arbereshe Italo-Albanian Sicily Tosk
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Fox News: Obama in 2007 Air raid Villages In Afghanistan
Fox News: Obama in 2007 Air raid Villages In Afghanistan. This is the clip Palin is referring to. This is what happens when Democrats campaign to the left to win a nomination. Bonus coverage: Obama statements on defense.
Length: 57
Rating: 5.00 (3 ratings)
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Villages abandoned after earthquake hit - 17 May 2008
Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports on a devastated town on Qingcheng Mountain, that has been nearly abandoned following the earthquake.
Five days have passed since the 7.9 magnitude earthquake rocked western China, and the scale of the disaster is still unfolding.
Length: 108
Rating: 5.00 (15 ratings)
Tags: melissa chan al jazeera english china quake aftermath sichuan qingcheng mountain abandoned town
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Solar power lights up villages
Chattisgarh, Mar 9(ANI): More than a thousand remote villages of India's central Chhattisgarh state have been lit up with electricity generated by tapping solar energy. This has been made possible by Chattisgarh Renewable Development Agency or CREDA, an organization under the state government's Department of Energy meant to promote alternative energy resources.
Length: 100
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
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Greece dam threatens mountain villages - 16 Nov 08
The Mediterranean region has always been "water poor". But now it is facing rising demand amid predictions of less rainfall.
The Mediterranean has seven per cent of the worlds population, but only three per cent of its fresh water.
In Greece's western Thessaly region, the problem is particularly acute.
Al Jazeera's Nicole Itano reports.
Length: 141
Rating: 4.90 (7 ratings)
Tags: Nicole Itano al jazeera aljazeera english water crisis mediterranean greece greek poor thessaly
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