Mothers hope U.S.-Vietnam Agent Orange efforts help
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The lives of two neighbors lying  disfigured and brain-damaged in small Hanoi houses will not be  changed by a U.S. court hearing on Monday about victims of  war-time dioxin, or &quot;agent orange.&quot;
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The mother of one of four recruits who died at the Deepcut army base hopes new claims could lead to a "breakthrough".
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The public is being asked to help monitor Northern Ireland seal colonies following an outbreak of a deadly virus.
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NEW YORK  - Continuous skin-to-skin contact  between a mother and her premature infant appears to help them  to thrive just as well as traditional care in incubators,  according to a new report.
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MOSCOW  - A group of Russian mothers, desperate for peace in Chechnya, told rebels in the breakaway region Wednesday they were ready to mediate peace between the government and militants fighting a decade-long battle for independence.
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A botanist by training, Phung Tuu Boi is fighting the effects of Agent Orange, an invisible poison that has affected Vietnam for decades.
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The mother of one of two Israeli soldiers captured July 12 &#151; triggering the escalating conflict between Israel and Lebanon &#151; appealed Wednesday for indications that her son is alive.
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The United States should capitalize on President Bush's upcoming visit to Vietnam to increase pressure on the communist nation to improve its human rights record, rights activists said Thursday.
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CAMP EITUTA, Burma -- In a burgeoning encampment here on Burma's eastern frontier, Hay Nay Tha, a 30-year-old mother of three, awakens in the darkness most nights to the sound of her children's screams.
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BAGHDAD -- Hanna is 10. She lives on a U.S. Army base here, playing computer games while her mother cleans. She has no playmates. Her mother is frightened to send her to school. If other students learned of her contact with Americans, "she would be kidnapped or killed."
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It has been a tough couple of weeks for the U.S. anti-war movement, but Ohio military mom Rosemary Palmer believes she already can see the beginning of the end of the Iraq war.
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Families whose babies suffer from fatal conditions are turning to specialized hospice programs for help.
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NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y., Feb. 26 -- In a light-filled lobby of a hospital for sick children, an American mother talked on Monday with an Iraqi father about how their lives had been altered and entwined by a war thousands of miles away.
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Rose Gentle, the mother of a British soldier killed in Iraq who last week stormed out of a meeting with John Prescott, is to launch a campaign with other bereaved families to demand the withdrawal of British ...
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WASHINGTON/JAKARTA  - U.S. presidents past and  present appealed to all Americans Monday to aid victims of the  Asian tsunami, as rescuers struggled to get food and water to  those clinging to life on shattered coastlines.
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PINELLAS PARK, Fla.  - With their legal options  almost gone, the parents of a brain-damaged Florida woman began  a campaign of public protests and political pressure on  Wednesday to keep their daughter alive.
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The lives of two neighbors lying disfigured and brain-damaged in small Hanoi houses will not be changed by a U.S. court hearing on Monday about victims of war-time dioxin, or "agent orange".