President Barack Obama on Sunday comforted the families of the 12 people killed and 58 wounded in Thursday's mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. In the city traumatized by a tragedy that has also shaken the nation, Mr. Obama visited

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MOSCOW, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Russia is ready to replace the Austrian peacekeepers who are about to leave the Golan Heights, President Vladimir Putin said Friday. Given the complicated situation in the Golan Heights, we'd be able to replace the Austrian

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瑞士国民议会批准美国反避税协议 GENEVA, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Swiss National Council Monday approved the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), requiring Swiss banks to report the holdings of their U.S. clients to U

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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft's cloud-based software Microsoft Office 365 on Wednesday experienced its first major outage since its introduction in late June. At approximately 11:30 a.m. PDT, Microsoft became aware of a networking issu

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PANAMA CITY, April 10 (Xinhua) -- The seventh Summit of the Americas, with the attendance of more than 30 heads of state, will be opened here amid tightened security Friday night. Official data show that over 5,000 armed forces have been deployed to

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BEIRUT, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- A hand grenade(手榴弹) was tossed late Saturday night at the residence of the son of former Lebanese(黎巴嫩) Prime Minister Omar Karami, an ally of Shiite armed group Hezbollah. Unidentified assailants tossed a ha

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UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- On the heels of (紧随其后) the new year, India, Colombia, Germany, Portugal and South Africa began their two-year tenure on Saturday as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council(联合国安理会)

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BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature on Friday adopted a bill to amend the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly in order to improve care for people ages 60 and up. The bill to amend the 16-year-old law was

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Fed Chair Ben Bernanke has given his 2nd commencement speech of the season. 美联储主席本?伯南克给了他本季的第二次毕业典礼演讲。 The first was to the graduates of Simon's Rock, an offbeat school in Western Mass. 第一场是对西

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- The United States has begun delivering weapons to Syrian rebels over the past two weeks, which marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in the Syria conflict, a report said. The move by the U.S. spy agency the Centra

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LONDON, Aug. 27, (Xinhua) -- Britain's armed forces are working on contingency plans for military action as a response to the chemical weapons attack in Syria, media quoted Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman as saying Tuesday. Claiming unaccept

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朝鲜敦促美国放弃对平壤的敌对政策 PYONGYANG, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday urged the United States to abandon its hostile policy toward the country, the official KCNA news agency repor

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陈豪在北京的ABC美国公司工作。他下班后跟美国同事Amy一起去参加应酬。 (Office ambience) C:谢谢你陪我来,Amy, 每次公司有这种应酬,我都特别不自在。 A:Why not? They are usually upscale events held

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The rollout of the gleaming craft marks Virgin Galactic's return to the race to become the world's first major private space tourism company. The new passenger spacecraft is expected to take thrill-seekers, researchers and commercial customers on sho

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Turkeys president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian president Vladimir Putin will hold talks on Tuesday to hammer out details of restoring the two countries relationship after seven months of stand-off over Turkeys shooting down of a Russian military

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WASHINGTON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama and the U.S. Congress are both seeing a decline in support as rising frustration over the political gridlock in Washington has damaged public faith in them, according to a Wall Street Journa

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I think environment has everything to do with everyone. But I also think it's OK if I don't focus much attention on water pollution. I can afford purified water. But emissions pumped out in China do pollute the food we eat. From PM 2.5 to the so-call

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A day of commemorations has begun in Poland to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. The first ceremony took place at dawn on Westerplatte peninsula near Gdansk, where a German ba

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President Barack Obama staunchly defended the historic deal that aims to restrain Tehran's nuclear development program Wednesday, saying it represents the world's best means of ensuring Iran does not get a nuclear weapon. Seeking to sell the Iran nuc

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Amazing photographs have emerged capturing one of the skys rarer sights a cloud formation known as a fallstreak hole. 这些精彩照片拍下了一种罕见的天象雨幡洞云。 Also known as a hole punch cloud the unusual occurrence, which appea

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