We're starting with news about the Paris climate accord. Yesterday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that America would be withdrawing from the international agreement. But, first, what is it? The Paris accord was named for the French capital wh

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN美国有线新闻2017年7月

The United States has announced it will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of 2018. UNESCO is the Paris-based UN body whose mission is to coordinate international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication. A well-known part of its job

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U.S. Withdraws from Human Rights Council For the last year, the United States has been working to reform the United Nations Human Rights Council into a serious advocate for human rights. Regrettably, said U.S. Permanent Representative to the United N

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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as it was also known, came to an end in 1991. And with the collapse of the Soviet Union came the end of the Cold War. A period of intense rivalry but no direct military conflict between the United States with

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This is AP News Minute. Andrew Puzder, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Department of Labor, has withdrawn his name from consideration. Democrats strongly opposed the pick. Some Republicans raised concerns about Puzder's failure to pay taxes

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The United States is withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and has begun reinstating U.S. nuclear sanctions on the Iranian regime. In announcing his decision, President Donald Trump said, At the heart of the Iran deal was a giant fiction, that a mur

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U.S. President Barack Obama's choice for a key cabinet spot has withdrawn - leaving a major vacancy at the massive Department of Health and Human Services. Tom Daschle bowed out after problems surfaced involving taxes and possible conflicts of intere

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Host: welcome back, now hold the Grande Cappuccino, the coffee chain Starbucks has been forced to close its branch in Beijing's Forbidden City. The company said the decision to close had been congenial, but since the caf opened 7 years ago, it's bec

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US NGOs Disappointed at Official Delegation Withdrawal at Racism Conference Vikram Singh Durban 5 Sep 2001 05:29 UTC Activists in Durban on Tuesday continued their protests over the United States ' 1)

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AS IT IS 2016-05-14 US, Others Walk Out of Ugandan Inauguration 多名西方官员中途退出乌干达总统就职典礼 Yoweri Museveni has begun his fifth term as Ugandas president. United States, Canadian and European delegates walked out of the

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Taliban militants have pulled out of a peace deal in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region, dealing a blow to the government's efforts to eliminate attacks by Islamic extremists. 在巴基斯坦北瓦济里斯坦部落地区的塔利班武装分子

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Just as the Iran nuclear deal was controversial, so was yesterdays announcement. Senator Dick Durbin, the second most powerful Democrat in the Senate said Americas withdrawal from the Iran deal was a historic mistake that destabilizes the Middle East

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Yesterday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that America was pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal. The controversial agreement was made in 2015 between the Middle Eastern country of Iran and six other nations led by the U.S. under the Obama admi

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Finally Virginia seceded, but the western Virginians, in their turn, seceded from Virginia and two years later were admitted to the Union as the state of West Virginia. 最终弗吉尼亚人脱离了联邦,而西部的弗吉尼亚人紧接着脱离了

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今天我们要学的词是 withdraw. Withdraw 动词,退出。Defending champion Serena Williams has withdrawn from the Australian Open, saying she is not ready to return to tournament tennis. 澳大利亚网球公开赛卫冕冠军小威廉姆斯退

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Donald Trump signed an executive order allowing the children of illegal immigrants to stay with their parents in detention centres if caught crossing the Mexican border. 唐纳德特朗普(Donald Trump)签署了一项行政命令,允许非法移民的

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Hospitals at Risk in States that Opt Out of Key Obamacare Provision 关键州退出奥巴马医改条款 ANDERSON, SOUTH CAROLINA Nearly half of all U.S. states are rejecting a key component of the new U.S. health care reform law popularly known as O

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The second largest party in Pakistan's ruling political coalition is vowing to quit its federal cabinet posts, threatening the stability of the six-week-old coalition government. 巴基斯坦执政的政治联盟中的第二大党誓言要退出该党在

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Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who won the most votes in the March 29 presidential poll, has pulled out of the second round of voting due Friday. Mr. Tsvangirai said he cannot take part in the runoff because he does not want to legitim

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Whenever you hear about oil, the word OPEC isn't far behind. OPEC stands for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. It's a group of 12 nations that have a lot of clout in the energy market because they produce about 1

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