British Oil Firm Accused of Corruption in Somalia Exploration Deal 英国石油公司被指控在索马里勘探协议中存在腐败行为 LONDON A British oil exploration firm has been accused of corrupt payments to government officials in Somalia

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The White House says the leaking of confidential military documents poses a threat to national security. Those documents published on whistleblower site Wikileaks suggest Pakistani authorities helped the Taliban plan attacks on NATO. Pakistan's rejec

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Ecuador Mulls Giving Julian Assange Asylum Julian Assange walked into the Ecuadorian Embassy on Tuesday and has been staying there ever since. He spoke to a radio station in his native Australia from the embassy. Ecuador back in 2010 suggested that p

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South African President Zuma waves as he arrives to declare his HIV-negative status during launch of the HIV Counselling and Testing Campaign held at Natalspruit Hospital in Katlehong, 25 April 2010 Related Links Text of President Zuma's address on H

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A handout picture made available by the official website of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shows the later (L) touring Jamran, Iran's first domestically built warship, during its unveiling ceremony at an undisclosed location in southe

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Manning Testifies in Wikileaks Pre-Trial Hearing To Bradley Mannings supporters, gathered on a cold rainy day outside the base where the hearings were under way, he is a hero. To U.S. military prosecutors, Manning is a traitor who leaked hundreds of

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An agreement to settle a long-standing tax evasion suit between Swiss banking giant UBS and the U.S. Justice Department has received mixed reviews in Switzerland. Swiss media disagree on the potential consequences of the deal. But all agree that Swi

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Mocking Kim Jong Un, a Serious Matter 嘲讽金正恩,后果很严重 SEOUL After major American theater chains decided not to run a new Hollywood comedy about a U.S. plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, its financial backer, Sony Pic

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By Phillip Wellman Dakar 05 October 2007 Opposition leaders in divided Ivory Coast have recently been holding public rallies denouncing the government and telling their supporters to change the country through voting. Most analysts agree that the dem

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This is a historic day in South Korea. Just hours ago, lawmakers there voted to impeach their president, Park Geun-hye. She's been mired in a corruption scandal that has sent millions of people into the streets to protest. Now, t

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: When sexual assault is reported to law enforcement, a majority of cases never make it to trial. But student victims have another option. They can report it to their universities under Title IX, the federal law that prohibits gend

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Some other news now, jury selection in the criminal trial of Bill Cosby begins in Pennsylvania today. It's a year and a half since Cosby was charged with felony counts of sexual assault over a 2004 encounter, which Cosby contends

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A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Sometimes in life you find a special friend, someone who changes your life just by being part of it, someone who makes you laugh until you can't stop, someone who makes you believe that there r

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Just as the Internet's social networks have changed the way people communicate - a case in point is how Facebook helped Egyptian protesters to organize their historic demonstrations - social media also are changing the way doctors' offices operate an

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The Federal Government is slugging smokers to help pay for its policies. Its putting up the tobacco excise by 12.5% a year over the next four years. The move will raise more than five billion dollars. Labor is moving quickly to try to minimize the da

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Major political change is going on right now in South Korea. The Asian country`s former president left the executive mansion yesterday, three months after lawmakers voted to impeach her and a few days after the nation`s constitutional court voted to

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By Catherine Maddux Washington 11 May 2006 An unreleased report by a panel of Nigerian experts says that the U.S. drug manufacturer, Pfizer, violated international and Nigerian law when it conducted a

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 19 January 2006 The wife of Ugandan opposition presidential candidate Kizza Besigye and a senior party official are scheduled to appear in court next week. The court appearan

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The new military authorities in Thailand havedetained the former prime minister YingluckShinawatra and her family a day after seizing powerin a coup. Mrs. Shinawatra was among dozens ofpoliticians ordered to report to the army. In Bangkok, here is Jo

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