8. Mystery as Big Ben falls Silent for an Hour The chimes of Big Ben were silenced for over an hour on Friday night but the cause remains a mystery, an engineer said today. The Palace of Westminster's 147-year-old clock, considered to be one of the m

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Lesson 1 ; alert alert Sirens sounded the alert for an air raid. ;空袭报警的警笛响起来. Nuclear-armed bombers were put on the alert during the crisis. ;核武装轰炸机在危机期间 进入高度警备 状态. arbitrary The diet imposes

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This is CNN.Radio. Today is Wednesday April, 24th 2013, a day one city says goodbye, and another still struggles for closure. Its the verge of psycho-religious to, you know, leave a 6 hundred yards of landfill with potential human remains and just le

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WASHINGTON The Iraqi army, backed by helicopters, advanced on western Mosul and pushed into the area around the al-Nuri mosque on Sunday. Taking the mosque where Islamic State leader gave a much publicized sermon in July of 2014 is a symbolic victory

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Hello, Jessica Askin updating ABC News. Indonesia has agreed to temporarily accept the asylum seekers who were picked up on the weekend by an Australian customs ship. The arrangement was made during meetings between the Indonesian President and Austr

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Mining giant Rio Tinto says the jailing of four employees, including Australian Stern Hu won't affect its relationship with China. Hu and three colleagues were found guilty of commercial spying and bribery yesterday. Stern Hu's received a 10-year sen

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President Obama is continuing to say plans to wind down US operations in Iraq are on track. Meeting this morning in the Oval Office with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the president reaffirmed the expected pullout of combat forces by next summ

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. Rebel forces in Chad say they've entered the outskirts of the capital after heavy fighting with government troops. A French news agency says the sound of intense gunfire can be heard from the city cent

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North California saw a sputtering over rain this week, though its apparently not enough to make a major difference. As NPRs Richard Gonzales explains, more than a dozen communities and water districts could run out the water within a hundred days. Th

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《奇爱博士》(Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)是美国导演斯坦利库布里克根据彼得乔治小说《红色警戒》改编的一部黑色幽默喜剧片,于1964年在美国上映。本片是一部

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IN THE NEWS - Hurricane Katrina Voted Top Story of 2005 By Brianna Blake Broadcast: Saturday, December 31, 2005 (MUSIC) I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The editors and news di

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IN THE NEWS - Egyptian Man Questioned About London Bombings By Nancy Steinbach, Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Saturday, July 16, 2005 I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. In Cairo Frid

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Fans took to the streets of Manhattan last night as the New York Giants managed to pull off one of professional football's biggest upsets. The Giants shocked the previously unbeaten New England Patriots in the Super Bowl by beating the Pats 17 to 14

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Damaged chairs and tables amongst the debris strewn outside the restaurant Ethiopian village in Kampala, Uganda, 12 July 2010 after an explosion at the restaurant late Sunday Officials in Uganda say Somalia's al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab rebel group is

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Officials say attacks in Iraq have killed at least four people as government troops continue to fight their way into two cities overrun by al-Qaida in western Anbar province. In the northern city of Kirkuk, a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-lade

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The accused Boston bombers were also planning to target New York. The surviving suspect has told investigators he and his brother intended to set off their remaining explosives in Times Square, but the plan fell apart when their car ran out of petrol

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I'm John Macintosh with the BBC News. Hello. Researchers in the United States have warned that it could take a decade for a vaccine against the Zika virus to be made available. Scientists at the University of Texas say most of the time will be taken

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Presiden Obama has announced an extension to the US military presence in Afghanistan, reversing an election pledge to end America's longest war. Close to 10,000 troops are to remain in the country for much of next year, with that number halving by th

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French warplanes have carried out strikes on the Syrian city of Raqqa, a stronghold of Islamic State militants. The mission comes two days after the deadly attacks in Paris which Islamic State says it was behind. Hugh Scofield sent this reports from

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今天我们要学的词是 internal. Internal 形容词,内部的。Britain's MI5 has begun an internal review of how it handled intelligence on the Manchester suicide bomber. 英国军情五处开始展开内部审查,看军情五处对所掌握的

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