Nepal Declares Three Days of Mourning 尼泊尔宣布全国哀悼三天 Nepal has declared three days of mourning for the victims of Saturday's 7.8 magnitude earthquake that left nearly 5,000 dead and thousands more in desperate need of aid. In a tel

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We need to shrink them to the point, within the next five years, that they no longer pose a systemic risk. 在接下来的五年里,我们要给它们大幅瘦身,让它们不再具有系统性风险。 Right now, they are ticking time bombs that

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AIDS 2012 to Say Thanks to US About 20,000 people from more than 200 countries are expected in Washington for the 19th International AIDS Conference. Its the first time the worlds largest AIDS-related gathering will be held in the U.S. in more than 2

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The Syrian government is under diplomatic fire for reportedly mass killing in a small Hama province village. At the United Nations today, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon issued what may have been his most scaving comments yet about the Syrias apparent

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Foreign donors have promised 16 billion dollars in aid to Afghanistan over the next four years. It's intended to help that country stabilize after foreign troops leave in 2014. As NPR's Jim Hawk reports. Secretary of State Hillary Radom Clinton is jo

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Why the international community, government and individual donors are not stepping up to help Pakistan like they stepped up with other disasters, we spoke with some analysts and aid workers, they cited several possible reasons, one thing they cited i

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Item Nine. Vocabulary. towering, perish, Sumatra, Aceh. More than 160,000 people died or disappeared in northern Sumatra on December 26th 2004, when towering waves battered the coast. Tens of thousands more perished in a dozen countries surrounding t

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Ms Kon has broken many taboos herself. Kon女士自己也打破了很多禁忌。 She made sculptures of torn vaginas to illustrate the harm of genital cutting, 她制作撕裂的阴道雕塑,以说明切割生殖器的危害, statues depicting d

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THIS IS AMERICA - Charities in the United States Came to the Rescue After Two Hurricanes By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Monday, October 10, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Spec

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Lebanon has the highest proportion of cultivable land in the Arab world. Indeed, the region has a long history of agricultural activity. There is evidence that as far back as 8,000 years ago, people living in today's Lebanon cultivated fruit trees, a

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疟疾死亡人数大幅下降 The global effort to curb malaria is succeeding phenomenally, according to the latest report from the World Health Organization. More than three million lives have been saved so far this century with better prevention a

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1. A House subcommittee holds a hearing Wednesday on how to regulate big banks. The hearing is expected to get a lot of attention following JP Morgan's recent loss of two billion dollars. 2. Authorities in Mississippi say someone posing as a law enfo

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AS IT IS 2015-12-14 Museum of American Diplomacy to Open in 2017 美国外交博物馆将于2017年开放 Consider this: There are more than 400 museums in the U.S. that celebrate the history of the military. But not a single one devoted to American

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Concerns Raised About Future Progress in Mine-ClearingBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, September 18, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. The International Camp

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WASHINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- World Bank President Jim Yong Kim Tuesday called for global actions toward ending extreme poverty by 2030 and improving the lives of most vulnerable people in the developing countries. Now is the time to commit to endi

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is demanding that an independent special prosecutor immediately investigate Hillary and Bill Clinton's Clinton Foundation, saying the FBI cannot be trusted to do the job. 共和党总统候选人川普要求

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For Safeena Husain, who runs Educate Girls, the process was as satisfying as the results. 对于女孩教育行动的创始人Safeena Husain而言,该项目的进程和结果一样令人满意。 Instead of having to send tedious reports to a donor

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A four-year-old boy is keeping the memory of his dead dad alive by drawing a picture of him every day. 为了纪念去世的父亲,一名四岁的小男孩每天都会画一幅关于父亲的画。 Little Dylan Mummery draws daily pictures and coll

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The Metropolitan Museum - a fixture for any tourist to New York and the largest museum in the world - hosts a whopping 7 million visitors each year. It costs 300 million dollars annually to operate the Met, but this art and cultural institution was u

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托福频道为大家介绍托福口语中非常好用的七个小词。这七个小词非常适用,同学们要灵活运用,做到能够举一反三。小编把这七个小词都配备了几个句子,帮助同学们更好地学习。一起来看

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