The United Nations has established a new multi-donor trust fund to aid victims of human trafficking around the world. Indonesian women remain among the most vulnerable to trafficking, despite the country's progress in passing laws to combat the probl

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The U.N.'s Special Advisor on Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, says he is extremely disappointed with the outcome of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's trial and called on Burmese authorities to release her immediately. After the verdict was announced on T

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Immigration authorities have detained more than 500 pregnant women since December. That's when the Trump administration ended a practice of releasing most pregnant women while their immigration cases are pending. The move, made p

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it needed more detention space this summer, at the height of the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy. So the agency turned to federal prisons. And hundreds of immigrants, includin

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The Australian share market has closed at a six-month low after duties on Wall Street sparked a sharp sell-down. By the close, the All Ordinaries Index was down 1.2% or 66 points. The ASX 200 Index fell 1.3%. Stocks were low across the boards. Iron o

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Asylum seekers sent to Papua New Guinea who are refused refugee status could remain locked up indefinitely. PNG is refusing to resettle them. The Immigration Minister Tony Burke says they'll stay in detention if they can't be sent home or resettled i

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The music world and fans all over the globe are mourning the sudden death of pop icon Prince. He was 57. Described as one of most influential but elusive figures in music, he was found unresponsive in his Minnesota home. Prince's death will be invest

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The prime minister Malcholm Turnbull heads to Indonesia today to meet president Chakol O. It's to be the first meeting between the leaders from both countries since the execution of Bali 9 drug traffickers Andrew Chen and Maruyan Sukumaran. Mr. Turnb

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 05 February 2008 The director of the Central Intelligence Agency has confirmed that his agency used the extreme interrogation technique known as waterboarding on three terrorism suspects nearly five years ago. In testimon

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也门总统访问华盛顿 Yemeni President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi recently met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss the democratic transition underway in Yemen. Yemen, said Secretary Kerry, has been going through an extraordinary tra

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Americans are at the top of Iran's list of enemies and the British are the most dreadful of those enemies Edward Yeranian | Cairo 06 December 2009 Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Today, the propaganda of arro

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Drunk Driving 1. 现象 2. 原因 3. 你的看法 【精彩范文】 Drunk Driving Most countries in the world have harsh laws aimed at penalizing drunk driving. But until recent years, drunk driving was rampant in China, due to weak legal provisions

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By Al Pessin Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 05 June 2008 Five men who were allegedly involved in planning and financing the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001 went on trial before a military commission Thursday near the detention center where t

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is expressing concern over Burma's decision to exclude pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from future elections. The statement from ASEAN follows the completion of Burma's draft constitution. But the regi

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When President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy jointly commemorate the 65th anniversary of the allied landing in Normandy, France on June 6 they will turning the page on another war that bitterly divided the two countries - in

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Documents from the Panamanian Legal Firm at the heart of a huge data leak Mossack Fonseca sheltered clients from Syria and North Korea who are blacklisted by US treasury sanctions. They include companied linked to North Korea's nuclear weapons progra

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The Syrian governments assault on the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta has come to a halt for five hours. The five-hour pause was ordered by Russia, the governments main backer. Their aim is to allow civilians to leave. Its not clear that food and med

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have news this morning of almost 15,000 children held in shelters by the United States. Federal contractors run the shelters, and they are filling up with young people, young migrants, mostly from Central America. The U.S. can

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After a decade of negotiations,Russia has clinched a huge deal to supply China with naturalgas.The agreement is thought to be worth 400 billion dollars over 30 years.Russia's energygiant Gazprom would only say it was signed on mutually beneficial ter

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President Obama has announced further sanctions against Russia over its annexation ofCrimea. The sanctions target several individuals closely associated with President Putin, alongwith a Rossiya bank which is controlled by the Russian president's all

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