RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Police will remember 2016 as a grim chapter in what some of them started calling the war on cops. As NPR's Martin Kaste reports, the ambush killings this year led police to feel like they were under siege. MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: T

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台12月

They're the big, hairy spiders of our nightmares. And it's no wonder we are afraid. Tarantulas are the biggest of all the arachnids. These spiders are killing machines perfectly adapted to their habitats. And the biggest and battiest of them all is t

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This is AP News Minute. A public viewing was held Friday evening in Cooper City, Florida for US Army Sergeant La David Johnson, one of four Americans killed Oct. 4th in an ambush in southwest Niger. On Thursday, the Pentagon announced it will conduct

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Peter Heinlein U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is urging Israel to stop bulldozing Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip. As Israeli troops backed by tanks and bulldozers converged on the Palestinian

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Bill Gasperini Workers for a Russian energy contractor in Iraq are being pulled out of the country following the killing of two employees in an ambush near Baghdad Wednesday. The Russian government sa

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1. Police in Ferguson Missouri continued their investigation into the ambushed two police officers earlier Tuesday. The officers wearing police lines outside the Ferguson police apartment were demonstrated together. Both officers were being treated f

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Europe's highest court made a landmark ruling in regard to privacy against Google Tuesday. The ruling states that Goole must listen and sometimes comply when people ask them to remove links to websites with information about them. A mine accident in

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1. Catholic bishops have scrapped their landmark welcomes to gays, showing deep visions at end of the two-week meeting sought by Pope Francis to chart a more merciful approach to ministering to Catholic families. 2. Health officials in Ohio are monit

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The Zimbabwe government says there has been an attempt on the life of its air force chief, Perence Shiri, who survived the ambush by gunmen who shot him in the hand. The news follows accusations by the government that the Movement for Democratic Cha

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The incident occurred amid intensifying efforts for a prisoner exchange. Robert Berger | Jerusalem 27 December 2009 Photo: AP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, 27 Dec 2009 Israel is prai

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Keggie Carew's father, Tom Carew, was known as Lawrence of Burma and The Mad Irishman. In her new book Dadland, we find out why. It's a memoir that combines espionage and war stories with reflections on parent-child relationships.

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Probably the only way a T-Rex could successfully and safely bring down Triceratops is by having at least one other individual Tyrannosaur that would ambush it from the back while the one in front is keeping the attention of the Triceratops. Working a

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But, if every one of you changed the lives of just ten people但是 如果你们每个人能够改变十个人的命运 and each one of those people changed the lives of another ten people然后这十个人中的每一个再改变另外十个人的命运

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Red Cross Representatives Visit Detained Iraqi Leader, Saddam Hussein Kirk Troy A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said Saturday that one of its teams has visited ousted Iraq

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By Sonja Pace London 23 October 2007 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayipp Erdogan says his government cannot wait forever for neighboring Iraq to deal with rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party who are using northern Iraq as a safe haven from which t

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 12 January 2007 watch US Digital Army report A few American soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have had an unusual mission lately -- they are starring in a video game for the U.S. Army. The electronic game teaches

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The Syrian army has killed over 70 rebels crossing the border from Lebanon. The ambush in the Qalamoun area near Syrias capital, Damascus was carried out in close coordination with Hezbollah. But despite the attack, as CCTVs Alaa Ebrahim in Syria rep

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Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change says the publication of ministerial posts in an official government newspaper threatens the country's power sharing agreement. Tendai Maphosa has more from Harare. President Robert Mugabe, left, s

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At least eight soldiers are dead after what authorities in Thailand say was an attack by Islamic militants in the country's south. 泰国当局说,穆斯林激进分子在泰国南部发动的袭击造成至少8名士兵死亡。 Thai army official

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Ukraine's ministry of defense says seven soldiershave been killed in an ambush by separatists nearthe eastern city of Kramatorsk seven others wereinjured.Our reporter Richard Galpin is in the regionalcapital Donetsk. The ministry said a rocket prepar

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