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Callum: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Callum Robertson and with me todayis Kate, hello Kate. Kate: Hello Callum. Callum: Today we're going 'down under' - Kate, where's that, where's 'down under'? Kate: 'Down under' means Australia. Callu
EXPLORATIONS - Laura Hillenbrands 'Unbroken' Is a Story of Survival and Heroism STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today we discuss the best-selling book Unbroken, by wr
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Turkey detained more suspected followers of clergyman Fethullah Gulen on Friday, police and media reported. Turkish officials accuse Gulen of directing a plot aimed at overthrowing the government in July 2016. The overthrow attempt failed. Gulen has
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Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be here tonight, and how very delighted I am to see you expressing your concern about the issues that will be discussed tonight by turning out in such large number
Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is sentence fragments. I often imagine that listeners are writing articles and essays and books, but I was recently reminded that some people make their living writing shorter things like headlines and ad copy, and th
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Pentagon says Iranian fighter jet attacks U.S. drone WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Iranian fighter jet has attacked a U.S. drone but missed, so the unmanned American aircraft suffered no damage and returned safely to base, the U.S. Defense Departmen
Hi! Happy new year! We hope you had a wonderful break. My name is Carl Azuz, and CNN Student News is kicking off 2010 right here, right now. First up, U.S. government closes its embassy in the Middle Eastern country of Yemen, and that is because of s
Japanese officials have decided to legally enforce an exclusion zone within 20 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant starting at midnight Thursday. Japan's Kyodo news agency reports that Prime Minister Naoto Kan will announce the new res
Joel: So, Michele, you said you are from Canada. Michele: Yeah. Joel: What part of Canada? Michele: I lived in Ontario in a small town called Beaverton. Joel: Beaverton. And so how big is the town? Michele: It was pretty small, about seven or eight t
During the past two weeks, Parliament has been in urgency. That means they sit every day until late in the evenings and they even had a session last Saturday. Usually Parliament sits Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, although MPs meet for committee
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My most embarrassing moment was probably when I lived in Germany. One day I decided to go shopping and I drove into town. I had a car. And I was very, very pleased because I found a parking space immedately which was rather unusual. I did my shopping
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As the World Bank warns Wednesday that Europe probably is already in recession, France's government has announced a series of measures to grow the country's economy and make it more competitive. Five days after Standard Poor's downgraded France and e
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