Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States, serving one term in office. He was born on December 5, 1782 in Kinderhook, New York and died of heart failure in 1862. His father was a tavern keeper and farmer. Van Buren was the first

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William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States. He was born in 1773 into a wealthy plantation-owning family. He studied classics and history at college and then began studying medicine in 1791. In that same year, Harrison switche

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AS IT IS 2014-12-01 US Officials Claim Afghan Operations Unchanged 美国称在阿富汗军事行动将一如既往 United States officials say the force level and duties of U.S. and NATO troops remaining in Afghanistan after December have not change

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This is AP News Minute. An Afghan official says that 14 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack near Kabul's airport. The attack happened shortly after the country's controversial First Vice President landed on his return from abroad. Author

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华盛顿密切关注印巴紧张关系 The United States is closely watching escalating tensions between Pakistan and India. While U.S. focus in the region is on the American troop drawdown in neighboring Afghanistan, analysts say Washington is keep

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U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States will give Pakistan the tools it needs to help defeat al-Qaida, but expects accountability in return. 美国总统奥巴马说,美国将向巴基斯坦提供其所需的工具,帮助他们击败基地

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S: What were his exact words, please? C: An American prisoner of war has been turned. S: He said this in English? C: Yes. He whispered it into my ear right before the guards pulled me away. S: And when he used the expression turned C: He meant turned

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We now bring you a love story. A boy and a girl from different backgrounds meet. They fall in love. Their parents don't approve. And that's the part that fells familiar, even universal. But this true story takes place in Afghanistan, where falling in

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We need partners to fight terrorists alongside us 我们需要合作伙伴 同我们并肩对抗恐怖主义者 And empowering partners is a large part of what we have done and what we are currently doing in Afghanistan 提高伙伴的反恐能力 也正

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First Afghan Female Coders Create Opium-Fighting Video Game Young Afghan women in the western province of Herat are breaking traditional barriers as their countrys first female coders. The women not only learned to code, but also created a video game

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当荣格学派心理分析师英琪密斯莫尔访问阿富汗时,她看到了战争对阿富汗人内心造成的创伤普遍的绝望、创伤综合症以及抑郁。然而在这个有三千万人口的国家,只有几十个心理分析师。英

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50 总统轶事--罗斯福和达夫特(2) DATE=8-9-2001 TITLE=THE MAKING OF A NATION #153 - THEODORE ROOSEVELT nbsp; VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- A PROGRAM IN SPECIAL ENGLISH. (THEME) June

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AS-IT-IS 2014-07-21 Afghan's Karzai Accepts Help in Disputed Election 阿富汗卡尔扎伊接受帮助处理选举争议事件 International officials are examining all 8 million ballots from Afghanistans disputed presidential election. The work is

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AS IT IS 2015-04-08 Amnesty Raises Warnings on Afghan Womens Rights 大赦国际警告阿富汗妇女权利问题 A human rights group is urging the Afghan government to protect defenders of womens rights in the country. Amnesty International says th

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AS IT IS 2016-06-14 Orlando Gunmans Father: I Do Not Know What Caused This 奥兰多枪手之父:我不知道引发此事的原因 The father of the man identified as the gunman in the Florida mass killings says he is extremely upset over the incid

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一体化对中亚繁荣的重要性 In an increasingly connected global economy, regional integration and cooperation is crucial to long-term prosperity. That is why twelve years ago, in an effort to realize their enormous but largely untapped poten

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菲德尔卡斯特罗在哈瓦那会见阿根廷总统 HAVANA, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro met Sunday with visiting Argentine President Cristina Fernandez. Local media reported that Castro lunched with Fernandez, who is in Ha

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Europe 欧洲 Slovakia Political Misery: Family Drama 斯洛伐克政坛疑云:家庭大戏 Who kidnapped the president's son? 是谁绑架了斯洛伐克总统的儿子? In August 1995 Michal Kovac Jr, whose father was president of newly indepen

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Presidential libraries 总统图书馆 Style and guile 风格与骗局 The search for a home for Mr Obama's library and museum has begun为奥巴马图书馆和博物馆找家的工作已经展开 AT THEIR best, they are lively classrooms of democrac

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The outgoing President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzaihas praised Afghan voters for turning out theirmillions in election to replace him. He said they'vemade the country proud demonstratingAfghanistan's democracy to the world. President Obama congratulat

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