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VOA标准英语2013--Russia’s Winter Olympics to Break Spending Records

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 17 January 2007 watch Aircraft Protection report The U.S. government is attempting to address concerns that civilian aircraft are vulnerable to shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles. So it is testing a new anti-missile

2007年VOA标准英语-US Promises Transparent Probe of Iraq Contracto

By David Gollust Washington 18 September 2007 The U.S. State Department is promising an open and transparent investigation of a Baghdad shooting incident Sunday involving an American security contractor that left 11 people dead. The Iraq interior min

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By Efam Dovi Accra 07 February 2007 In Ghana, Monday's sentencing of an opposition member of parliament to 10 years in prison for fraud has raised political tension between the government and the biggest opposition party. The National Democratic Con

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By Jessica Desvarieux Cairo 16 October 2009 Cairo residents try to protect themselves against the smell Cairo's streets are always dirty, but in recent months the usual piles of trash have gotten larger. The government's slaughter of Egypt's pigs, w

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