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Tuesday, 08 October 2019

VIDEO: There are a lot of reasons small towns in America are fading away: factories closing down, family farms closing up and the eternal draw of big city living. But some towns are fighting back with innovative ideas. Meet a family of artists in Lewellen, Nebraska, population 200, trying to keep their main street alive and pulsating. 

On This Day in American History
On October 8, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire ignites. The two-day fire engulfed four square miles of the city and killed between 200 and 300 people. The cause of the fire is not known, but popular myth lays the blame on a cow kicking over a lantern. The more likely cause was extreme dry weather, leaving the city’s many wooden buildings vulnerable to fire. Much of the city’s critical infrastructure such as sewage and water systems were left intact, and the rebuilding led to a major economic boom in the Windy City.

U.S. President Donald Trump sent out a stern but conflicting warning Monday saying U.S. troops would step aside for an expected Turkish attack on the Kurds, but he threatened to destroy the Turkish economy if they went too far.

Published reports say a Chinese state energy company which appears to have pulled out of a natural gas project in Iran had been under pressure to do so because of U.S. sanctions against Tehran.

VIDEO: Twentyone-year-old Marilyn Zakarya is one of the players in the new Sudanese women’s soccer league that launched last week. Zakarya came from South Sudan to follow her dream in Khartoum. But she is worried about whether Sudan’s conservative society will accept women’s football after decades of restrictions. VOA reports from Khartoum.

It was, by Vladimir Putin’s swashbuckling standards, all rather low-key. There was no riding horses bare-chested or allegedly saving a television crew by shooting a tranquilizer dart at a wild tiger which obligingly appeared from out of nowhere in the woods.

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