Shortly after 8 PM on Halloween Eve, 1938, the voice of a panicked radio announcer broke in with a news bulletin reporting strange explosions taking place on the planet Mars, followed minutes later by a report that Martians had landed in the tiny town of Grovers Mill, New Jersey. Although most listeners understood that the program was a radio drama, the next day's headlines reported that thousands of others plunged into panic, convinced that America was under a deadly Martian attack. It turned o

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On VOA 60: Gabon’s junta installed Prime Minister Raymond Ndong Sima Wednesday said the Central African nation has outlined plans for a “national dialogue” scheduled for next year with the mandate of paving way to a new constitution. Plus, Burkina Faso’s junta said its intelligence and security services thwarted a coup attempt on Tuesday. This and other African news updates on today’s VOA 60! | VOA Africa | Facebook

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