Posties with parcels often knock on doors, which gives the dogs an opportunity. 携带包裹的邮递员常常要上门送货,这给他们带来了被狗袭击的危险。 Following a rise in canine attacks in 2015, the post office launched an app

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Europe 欧洲 Energy in Ireland: Bog down, wind up 爱尔兰能源:停顿,关闭 Ireland is ditching peat for energy from wind. 爱尔兰正从泥炭能源转向风能。 Peat has a lot to recommend it. 这个岛国的目标是成为电力净出口

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The renewable resource now provides a quarter of the electricity Ireland consumes every year. 现在每年提供爱尔兰电力消耗的四分之一是可再生资源。 Eirgrid, a state-owned company which manages the grid in both Northern Ireland a

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The Americas 美洲 Venezuela: Rotten tomatoes 委内瑞拉:烂番茄 Propaganda isn't what it used to be. 政治宣传已经与以往不同。 In weeks of almost daily protests, opponents of Venezuela's authoritarian regime have found different wa

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Last July investigators at America's Justice Department said they thought that this ruse had allowed conspirators to liberate more than $1.3bn from 1MDB's coffers 去年七月,美国司法部的调查人员表示,他们认为这个诡计让阴谋家

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Asia 亚洲 1MDB: Cleaning up 1MDB:清算 A mammoth financial scandal is being brushed under the carpet. 一桩巨大的金融丑闻正悄然发生。 For the past year 1MDBa Malaysian state investment firm at the heart of one of the world's bigges

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Their analysis relies on data from Yelp, a restaurant-review app favoured by millennials. 他们分析数据源于受千禧一代喜爱的餐厅点评APP Yelp。 The Lucas found that a restaurant has, on average, a one-in-250 chance of closing in any

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United States 美国 Minimum Wages: Leaving a bad taste 最低工资:留下了坏印象 Higher minimum wages may force bad restaurants out of business. 愈高的最低工资可能使糟糕的餐馆倒闭。 With Republicans in charge in Washington,

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A Tory official in Ealing Central and Acton, another Remain-backing London constituency that is second on the hit list, wants a Tory with a heart. 一位来自伊灵中部和阿克顿(支持留欧选区,也是托利党黑名单上的地区)托利

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Britain 英国 The Class of 2017: One of us? 2017级:我们中的一个吗? The new generation of Tory MPs will not cause The Prime Minister much grief. 新一届保守党议员并不会让首相松口气 With the Conservatives far ahead in the p

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Its main weapon was, and remains, state control of television, which repeats endlessly the risible claim that Venezuela is a victim of an economic war. 在查韦斯时代,他们主要的宣传武器是电视,现在仍是电视,即由国家控制电

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Pakistan's government, however, is keen on food inspections. 然而巴基斯坦政府热心于食品监察工作。 In the past two months it has approved an expansion of the PFA's operations from cities to rural areas, 在过去的两个月里,政府

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Asia 亚洲 Food in Pakistan: Stepping up to the plate 巴基斯坦的食物:开始行动 One province is beginning to take food safety seriously - will it last? 巴基斯坦的一个省开始重视食品安全问题会持续下去吗? Something

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United States 美国 Transport in New York: On the Wrong Track 纽约的交通:歧途 Local railways are in bad shape - threatening the regions economy. 纽约铁路线不规范地方经济将受影响。 On March 24th an Amtrak train derailed in N

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Like the rest of the network, they suffer from over-use and chronic under-investment. 与其他交通网络情况类似的是,这些隧道在投资不足的情况下被过度压榨。 Damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012 has not yet been repair

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Britain 英国 Welsh Politics: Independents' day 威尔士政治:独立日 Why party man and women are losing out to free agents? 为什么党派人士会输给无党派人士? A beaming Tanya Skinner still can't quite believe it. 面露喜色的

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Britain 英国 Tax: Let me tell you how it would be 税收:去往何处 Whoever wins the next election, taxes are likely to go up. 不管谁当选下任首相,税收都可能提高。 To finance the many costly promises in its manifesto the Labou

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Departments can make efficiency improvements up to a point, but eventually ever-smaller budgets make it difficult to provide core services. 部门可以将效率提高到一个点,但最终规模较小的预算难以提供核心服务。 From priso

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Independents have been given a recent boost by Labour's unpopularity. 近期,不受关注的工党,使无党派吸引了很多人的目光。 Such is the loyalty to Labour in large swathes of Wales that even if people want to give it a bloody nos

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Churchill's Secret, a made-for-TV film released in February 2016, and The Crown, a series which made its debut on Netflix in November 2016, 电视电影《丘吉尔的秘密》发行于2016年2月,2016年11月在网飞公司首次登台亮相的电视

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