1. Flights are being delayed around the country after a communication failure at a Georgia facility that processes flight plans for the eastern half of the US. The Federal Aviation Administration says there are no safety issues and officials are sti

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Pakistan's former president Pervez Musharraf has been formally indicted on murder charges in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Bhotto was killed in a suicide attack in December 2007 following an election rally

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以下段落是摘自新闻里的一些重要信息,并不是一个段落的听写。空内信息可在本新闻中全部找到,大家可以根据这些信息复述新闻。 一、泛听建议: 1、完整听一遍,掌握大意。 2、继续听,特

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Wk 14 (4 April 1968) Martin Luther King Is AssassinatedThis Week in HistoryUS civil rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1968, black civil rights leader Martin Luther King was shot and killed by an assassin in Me

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纳吉布马哈富兹(1911年12月11日2006年8月29日),埃及作家和阿拉伯世界最重要的知识分子之一。纳吉布四岁时就被送到私塾学习《古兰经》,接受宗教启蒙教育。1988年他被授予诺贝尔文学奖,

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马尔克姆X(英语:Malcolm X,原名马尔克姆利托(Malcolm Little)[1],又名艾尔-哈吉马立克艾尔-夏巴兹(阿拉伯语:الحاجّ مالك الشباز)[2],1925年5月19日-1965年2月21日),生于美国内布拉

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索尼娅甘地(英文:Sonia Gandhi,1946年12月9日-),印度女政治家。印度国大党主席、团结进步联盟主席。印度前总理拉吉夫甘地之妻。 1946年出生在意大利的都灵市郊一个罗马天主教家庭,父

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安德鲁约翰逊(Andrew Johnson)是美国第17任总统。幼时家境贫寒,当过徒工,后来做过裁缝。1857年,他脱离民主党而加入共和党,并当选为国会参议员,是南北战争时期参议院里受到北方欢迎和林

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西奥多罗斯福(英语:Theodore Roosevelt,1858.10.271919.1.6),又译狄奥多罗斯福,人称老罗斯福,昵称泰迪(Teddy),美国军事家、政治家、外交家,第26任美国总统。曾任美国海军部副部长,参与

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切斯特艾伦阿瑟(Chester Alan Arthur,1829年10月5日1886年11月18日),是美国第21任总统,是威廉阿瑟和马尔维娜斯通阿瑟八个孩子中的第五个且阿瑟与埃伦刘易斯赫恩登于1857年结婚,生有二子一女

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Modern Olympic Games Review ——1968 Olympics, Mexico City The Games of the Nineteenth Olympiad were the highest and most controversial ever held. Staged at 7,349 feet above sea level where the thin

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Jan.15 Martin Luther King,Jr.'s Birthday Born on this day in 1929,the African-American clergyman Dr.Martin Luther King,Jr.worked hard for civil rights in his native South and elsewhere.Preaching1) peace and sensibility,he was in the vanguard2) of m

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Over a decade after her death, Diana still makes headlines Was Princess Diana murdered ? The verdict is no, according to an inquest held into the cause of her death over the last six months. The big question was whether the deaths of Diana and her b

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A former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency recently spoke to VOA about the killing of Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia. He said the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was murdered to stop any effort to remove the current leaders

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1. In Argentina, thousands protest President Bush amid the summit of the Americas there including Venezuela's leader Hugo Chavez. 2. The CIA leak case follows Bush in his trip, but he sidesteps questi

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1. Iraq's Shiite vice president escaped an apparent assassination attempt after a bomb exploded in a building where he was making a speech. The force of the blast knocked him to the ground and left at least 10 people dead. 2. A Florida appeals court

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Painting Captures Moments after Lincoln's Assassination 画家用绘画捕捉林肯遇刺时刻 A rare painting showing the moments after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been cleaned, repaired and restored. The oil painting is nam

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The Palestinian militant group Hamas claim Israeli intelligence agents have targeted a top Palestinian militant in the United Arab Emirates. Hamas has accused Israel of assassinating one of its senior commanders. Speaking in Damascus, Hamas official

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Two years after the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the political situation there can best be described as unstable and fragile. Ravi Khanna | Washington 25 December 2009 Pakistani lawyers celebrate Supreme Court deci

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The death bed can lead people to speak with great honesty and,in many cases, humor。 人之将死,其言也真,有时候还会带点幽默。 1. Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose。 原谅我,先生。我不是故意这样做的

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