Two peas in a podby Chris RoseThey even dressed us the same. My mother said that it was easier for her just to buy two of everything. Sometimes it was the same clothes but in different colours a red top for me, and a yellow one for my sister, for exa

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Foreigners have begun fleeing the Ivory Coast as fighting there intensifies. French troops have taken over the main airport and more than 160 foreigners have fled on specially organised flights. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging the elec

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Ken早上在饮水器旁见到同事Dan和April. K: Good morning, Dan. Good morning, April. DA: Hi, Ken. Good morning. K: So...have you heard the big news? A: No! Tell us! K: Well, you know Jason Smith? D: You mean our company's Chief Financial Offic

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今天我们要学的词是telemarketing. Telemarketing电话推销。The owner of a Canadian telemarketing operation was found guilty of mail and wire fraud. 加拿大一家电话推销公司的老板被认定犯有邮政电信欺诈罪。The Arizon

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By Carolyn Presutti Washington 12 March 2008 On March 11 U.S. legislators heard stories of fraud and waste in America's efforts to rebuild Iraq. A former Iraqi official testified before a Senate committee that allocates money for Iraq. VOA's Carolyn

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U.S. President Barack Obama is continuing to call for an end to post-election violence in Iran. He said he does not want to intervene in the election dispute. The president said he senses a desire for change among the Iranian public. President Barac

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By Gary Thomas Dearborn, Michigan 18 September 2009 Official preliminary final totals in Afghanistan's recent presidential election have incumbent president Hamid Karzai the winner, but the election was marred by allegations of massive vote fraud. A

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By Sean Maroney Islamabad 24 October 2009 Workers sit near piles of ballot boxes before loading them on to trucks at Independent Election Commission compound in Kabul, 24 Oct 2009 Taliban insurgents are threatening to target Afghans who vote in the

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By Margaret Besheer United Nations 20 October 2009 Ban Ki-moon (Oct 2009 file photo) The U.N. secretary-general says having learned valuable and painful lessons from the widespread fraud that plagued the first round of Afghanistan's presidential ele

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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is leading by just two percent, according to official, partial election results five days after millions of voters braved Taliban threats to cast ballots. Mr. Karzai has 40.6 percent of votes tabulated, while his c

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Afghan Vote Deemed Success, Results Uncertain KABUL kabul Afghanistan's presidential vote is being hailed as a success, with seven million voters braving Taliban threats to go to the polls. But Afghans say the true success of the election lies with t

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Tax season is here. The filing deadline is next Monday. This year, tax day is the 18th, not the 15th. And when tax season heats up, so does scam season. NPR recently received a recording - a real-life phone call between a woman in

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3 Steps To Faking Your Own Death From The Author Of 'Playing Dead' AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A few years ago, a writer named Elizabeth Greenwood went on a trip to the Philippines where, on the afternoon of July the 7, she died. ELIZABETH GREENWOOD: My dea

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Burger King in Brazil sells burgers. It also takes pictures. It takes pictures of customers. It puts their pictures on the wrappers. It puts the wrappers on the burgers. The customer gets a burger with his picture on the wrapper. There's no extra cha

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By Franz Wild Abidjan 15 May 2006 Opposition groups in Chad are rejecting election results that show President Idriss Deby won a third elected five-year term. They say the vote was characterized by fr

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By Kurt Achin Seoul 26 December 2007 The office of South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun says he will not prevent an independent counsel investigation of the man elected to replace him next year. Experts say the probe into possible fraud by president-e

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By Phuong Tran Dakar 07 October 2007 The political opposition In Togo is threatening demonstrations in the last week of campaigning before the October 14 legislative election. Opposition leaders say they are worried about election fraud from the ruli

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By Sean Maroney Islamabad 07 October 2009 Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) worker takes photograph after looking for patterns of irregularities in Kabul, 13 Sep 2009 U.N. officials have confirmed that data on Afghanistan's disputed election was

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By Elizabeth Arrott Cairo 12 October 2009 The Iranian government is rejecting Western pressure to move quickly on disclosing information about its nuclear program. At the same time, it is facing renewed opposition from candidates in the June preside

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We travel next to the center of an alleged case of election fraud. It is Bladen County, N.C., part of North Carolina's 9th Congressional District. It's rural, about 150 miles east of Charlotte. It is home to a facility that is pa

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