Signs of Renewal Seen in New Orleans 新奥尔良显示出复兴的迹象 Less than half of New Orleans is still under water, but 80 percent of the city is damaged. The water goes down each day, drain

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Celebrities Raise Funds for Tsunami Victims 名人为海啸受难者捐款 Madonna, Elton John, and Stevie Wonder were among dozens of entertainers who helped raise funds for tsunami relief in a U.S.

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June marks the 70th anniversary of the European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan. It was one of the most successful U.S. foreign policy initiatives of the 20th century, praised by Winston Churchill as the most unselfish act by any

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US in shock as worst storms for 40 years kill almost 300 Shocked Americans are struggling to grasp the magnitude of the worst US tornadoes in almost 40 years, which carved a trail of destruction across the south, claiming at least 295 lives. The stor

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The first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba can begin. A federal judge says the courts should let the military process play out as Congress intended. The trial involves Osama bin Laden's former driver. Pilots at US Airways say the carrier i

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We know that a natural gas line ruptured yesterday around 6:24 p.m., but we don't know what caused it or what happened.Here's what we do know right now. The fire has burned 15 acres in the city of San Bruno. It is 75 percent contained, 38 structures

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1. After getting a firsthand look at the devastation, Alabama's governor defended administrators at Enterprise High School. Questions have been raised about why school officials didn't evacuate the school before a tornado ripped through the building

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在加勒比岛国海地本月12日发生强烈地震后,国际社会纷纷伸出援手,表示将向海地提供人道主义援助。美国总统奥巴马13日就海地遭遇强震发表讲话,承诺美国将迅速积极反应,全力帮助海地

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By Scott Bobb Huambo, Angola 17 September 2007 International civic groups are in Norway to mark the 10th anniversary of the treaty banning anti-personnel landmines. The Treaty has been signed by 155 countries and activists say it has brought thousand

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War correspondent Anna Badkhen has covered some of the world's most brutal conflicts, from Iraq and Afghanistan, to Chechnya and Somalia. However, her memories are not only of the devastation she witnessed. In a new book, Peace Meals, she shares her

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尼泊尔偏远地区灾民的艰难处境 SINDHUPOLCHAK, NEPAL Nepal is still coming to grips with the full extent of the devastation and misery caused by last Saturdays magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Some of the hardest-hit communities have been cut off

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On the Indian subcontinent, just as most of the rest of the world is moving away from nuclear danger, India and Pakistan risk sparking a new arms race. We are now pursuing a common strategy to move India and Pakistan away from further testing and tow

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菲律宾台风与气候变化 As another tropical storm bears down on the Philippines just days after Typhoon Haiyan devastated parts of the region, the countrys climate change commissioner has issued a passionate plea for a global deal to cut green

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Call them twisters or tornadoes. They are nature's most violent storms with swirling winds that can top 300 miles per hour. About 800 twisters sweep through the US every year, more than anywhere else in the world. The hardest-hit area is a swath of t

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Sir David Attenborough has been making natural history films for the BBC for over 50 years. In this time, he, perhaps more than anyone alive, has seen evidence for evolution in the stunning diversity of nature. To find and film animals. This is the b

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Japan is crazy for fish. Each morning thousands of merchants crowd Tsukiji food market in Tokyo. At Tsukiji, no product has a higher price than the one that's most taboo, the puffer. It's the seafood version of Russian roulette, and it's extremely po

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JEFFREY BROWN:Disaster struck the Oklahoma City area this afternoon for the second time in two days. An enormous tornado blasted whole neighborhoods in the suburb of Moore and left little but shredded wreckage in its wake. There was no immediate word

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A typhoon(台风) has made landfall in Japan for the first time in two years, causing widespread disruption. Two people have been killed and more than 40 injured in strong winds and heavy rains. Typhoon Melor struck south-west of Tokyo on the main isl

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And now to Hurricane Maria. The confirmed death toll across the Caribbean rose to 19 today, nearly all of them on the island of Dominica. Reports also began coming in of widespread damage on Puerto Rico, after it took an all-day pounding on Wednesday

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Anyone in a tall building in Omaha or Des Moines, say, 要是有人比如说在奥马哈或得梅因的高楼上, who chanced to look in the right direction would see a bewildering veil of turmoil followed by instantaneous oblivion. 恰好看着那个

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