Chinese Creole Croatian Czech Dari English to Afr. The Bush administration this week approved the largest military arms sale for Taiwan in a decade.
China has strong objections because it considers Taiwan a renegade province.
After a decade-long occupation of Afghanistan, Soviet forces left behind millions of buried landmines. Then, internal fighting between the now-ruling Taliban and other political factions set a deadly landscape of yet more landmines. A special school in Afghanistan trains dogs to sniff out the mines and help save lives. Preparations are already underway in Rio de Janeiro for next year's Carnival parade. The competition among the samba dancers is especially tough.