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Fredrick Brower, center, helps cut up a bowhead whale caught by Inupiat subsistence hunters on a field near Barrow, Alaska, Oc. 7, 2014. After tidal surges and high winds from the remnants of a rare typhoon caused extensive flood damage to homes along Alaska's western coast in September, the U.S. government stepped in to help residents largely Alaska Natives repair property damage. Residents who opened Federal Emergency Management Agency brochures expecting to find instructions on how to file for aid in Alaska Native languages like Yup'ik or Inupiaq instead were reading nonsensical phrases. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull,File)

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FEMA fires group for nonsensical Alaska Native translations
By MARK THIESSEN - Associated Press
Fri,01/13/23-12:14AM , 248 Reads
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After tidal surges and high winds from the remnants of a rare typhoon caused extensive damage to homes along Alaska’s western coast in September, the U.S. government stepped in to help residents — largely Alaska Natives — repair property damage.
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Maria Pavlovych weeps as she remembers her 25-year-old soldier son, Roman Pavlovych, who was killed near the besieged city of Mariupol, in his bedroom, in Hordynia village, western Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. The Pavlovych family knows a second front line in Russia's war runs through the farmland here in western Ukraine, far from the daily resistance against the invasion. It is an uphill battle for farmers to feed not only their country but the world. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

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Ukraine's other fight: Growing food for itself and the world
By CARA ANNA AND AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press
Tue,03/29/22-1:26AM , 247 Reads
HORDYNIA, Ukraine (AP) — Planting season has arrived in Ukraine. Boot marks stamped in the frozen earth have thawed. But the Pavlovych family's fields remain untouched in a lonely landscape of checkpoints and churches.
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Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano has been erupting recently and local residents are worried about what can happen if the lava reaches an essential road. (Dec. 2)

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Molten lava on Hawaii's Big Island could block main highway
By AUDREY MCAVOY AND HAVEN DALEY - Associated Press
Sat,12/03/22-1:34AM , 247 Reads
HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Many people on the Big Island of Hawaii are bracing for major upheaval if lava from Mauna Loa volcano slides across a key highway and blocks the quickest route connecting two sides of the island.
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Workers set the stage prior to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday, May 22, 2022. The World Economic Forum reported on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, that the cost-of-living crisis, sparked in part by higher fuel and food prices, is expected to hit women the hardest. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP, File)

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Cost-of-living crisis to hit women hardest, report says
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Wed,07/13/22-4:23AM , 247 Reads
GENEVA (AP) — A cost-of-living crisis sparked in part by higher fuel and food prices is expected to hit women the hardest, the World Economic Forum reported Wednesday, pointing to a widening gender gap in the global labor force.
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