Leading the news this morning.Prime minister Julia Gillard has warned her colleagues against leaking to the media ahead of today's resumption of federal parliament. The government begins the election year well behind in the polls, Opposition leader T

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2013年

This is the first step forward for America where we can actually say that the amount of oil leaking at the Gulf of Mexico could be slowing down. What BP tells us is that last night they successfully inserted that tube that they were going to use to s

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Julian Assange is calling on the United States to end its witch hunt against Wikileaks. The Wikileaks founder has made his first public statement since taking refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London two months ago. He's also called for the release of B

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Five years ago this August, Hurricane Katrina struck. Now, American states along the Gulf of Mexico are fearing a different kind of environmental disaster. Oil is flowing from a damaged well one thousand fi

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Thousands of people showed up at a Missouri church to rally in support of Michael Browns family. Hes the teen shot to dead by a police officer eight days ago, spurring nightly protests in the small city of 21,000. NORs Eliza H reports from St. Louis.

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Two weeks after the so-called Superstorm Sandy hit the northeastern U.S. They are some signs of recovering in the region. Power has been restored for millions of people. Some bridges and tunnels have reopened. But signs of devastation and struggle ar

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AS IT IS 2014-04-23 Agent Orange Removal Continues in Vietnam Hello, my friends, and welcome back to the program that helps you learn and improve your American English. Im Jim Tedder in Washington. Today we return to Southeast Asia to hear about effo

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AS IT IS 2014-07-14 NGOs Work to Stop the Spread of Ebola 非政府组织努力制止埃博拉病毒的传播 The aid group Plan International says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa could become a health crisis in other areas. The group is calling on

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Pentagon Sends More Warships to Pacific By 2020 the Pentagon plans to shift 60 percent of its naval assets to the Pacific, in contrast to the current 50-50 split with the Atlantic. The move is part of the Obama administrations strategic pivot to Asia

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U.S. officials say a cap on a damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have a small leak, but they say there are no plans to remove the cap from the well. Engineers are carefully studying the well for any evidence of problems. Engineers spot

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President Obama has described as a positive sign BP's statement that oil has, at least temporarily, stopped leaking into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon well site. President commented briefly on the issue after returning from a visit to

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Scientists race against time to train people to de-oil birds Nathan King | Dauphin Island, Alabama 19 May 2010 As oil from that major spill in the Gulf of Mexico reaches land, scientists are in a race against time. Just off the Alabama coast, on Daup

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Iranian Poll Looms Amid Conflict, Isolation Syria's brutal civil war forms the regional backdrop for Iran's presidential election. Analysts say the recent fall of the town of Qusair to Syrian government forces - aided by their Hezbollah allies from L

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The top stories from ABC news. The owner of the racing yacht Wild Oats XI Bob Oatley has died. The 87 year old had been badly in illness in the leadup to the recent Sydney-to-Houbart Race. The yachtsman and winemakers bought Wild Oats XI won the Sdyn

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Since the April 20 explosion and fire that sank the BP Deepwater Horizon off-shore oil rig, about 800,000 liters of crude oil a day have been spewing from the broken well into the Gulf of Mexico. The massive spill is threatening marine life, commerci

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President Barack Obama makes a statement after being briefed on the BP oil spill relief efforts in the Gulf Coast region, Friday, June 4, 2010, at Louis Armstrong International New Orleans Airport in Kenner, La. Looking on is Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jin

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1. An attack on a remote base in Afghanistan has left nine American soldiers dead, another 15 were wounded. Officials say the attack began early in the morning in a remote area near the Pakistan border with militants firing machine guns, grenades an

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Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and a retired four-star general in the United States Army, says he agrees with the view that China and the U.S. can create a new pattern of power politics to avoid rivalry. He made this comment in Washingt

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After proposing a permanent fix for its Dreamliner 787 to the Federal Aviation Association last Friday, Boeing has met with its Japanese battery maker GS Yuasa on how to get the Dreamliners back in the air. Boeing's said to be proposing a stronger co

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The Federal Opposition is continuing to pressure the Government over the Craig Thompson affair. Mr Thompson was arrested and charged yesterday over allegations he misused Health Services Union funds when he was National Secretary. A civil case brough

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