From NPR news in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. Missouri governor Jay Nixon says he's calling up the state's national guard to help deal with unprecedented floods. It's very clear that Missouri is in the midst of a very historic and dangerous floodin

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The Adelaide police are investigating a double shooting involving two members of the Comanchero bikie overnight.Giovanni Focarelli died and his father who is the gang's lead is recovering in the hospital.Both of them have survived previous attempts o

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What's left of the Hurricane Isaac is moving into the middle west. The storm is expected to bring heavy rain and possibly tornados. Farmers will welcome the rain, the middle west has been suffering from the worst drought in fifty years. Meanwhile, re

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will either spend the rest of his life in jail or be executed after a jury today convicted among all 30 counts he faced for his role in the 2013 bombing at the Boston Marathon. Craig LeMoult of member station WGBH went to the site o

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By Stephanie Ho Washington 02 July 2006 Violence continues to escalate in the latest confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians, as both sides blame each other for the crisis. Israeli and Palestinian representatives repeated their accusations

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1. An umbrella group for Islamic militias in Libya says it has taken control of the US Embassy Compound in Tripoli. A month ago, American personnel evacuated from the country due to ongoing fighting. And an Associated Press journalist who walked thro

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 24 May 2006 Mwai Kibaki (file photo) The United States has banned a former aide to Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and three prominent Kenyan businessmen from entering the United States under U.S. anti-corruption legislation.

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Children sit in an overcrowded classroom at Dixin Centre 2 primary school in Conakry, Guinea, 6 May 2010 Guinea's Political Parties Debate Deposit to Run in Next Month's Presidential Poll In Guinea, the number of children attending school has dropped

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A top official of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says the regional bloc is concerned about the security situation in Guinea-Bissau after mutinous soldiers briefly arrested the prime minister Thursday. Peter Clottey 01 April 20

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Forces loyal to Somalia's embattled government say they have pushed out Islamist insurgents from the strategic capital of Beledweyne in the central Hiran region. But the insurgents claim they made a tactical retreat and have not been defeated. Contr

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埃博拉与孕产妇死亡率的关系 The World Bank warns the Ebola deaths of hundreds of healthcare workers could cause maternal mortality rates to soar in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The disease has killed health workers at a higher rate t

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Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible loss of vision worldwide and now doctors believe the devastating disease begins in the brain and not in the eye as has long been thought. Dr. David Calkins, director of research at the Vanderbilt Eye Inst

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文本: When it comes to reaching new islands, flying must surely have been the easiest way to get there. But the 60 miles between New Guinea and the Solomons still proved a formidable challenge for many winged creatures. With their four-foot wings

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By Brian Wagner Caracas 02 December 2007 Venezuelans are casting ballots on a controversial reform plan that would allow President Hugo Chavez to seek re-election indefinitely and extend his socialist policies.Pro-Chavez government officials say that

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U.S. commanders in Iraq are concerned that Shiite insurgents are using a new type of high-powered homemade weapon that uses rockets made in Iran and elsewhere. In the most recent attack, on Tuesday in northeastern Baghdad, an Iraqi soldier and a U.S

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By Jim Malone Washington 19 May 2006 Immigration is the hot topic of debate in Washington these days. But the situation in Iraq is never far from the minds of politicians and policy makers in both maj

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By Jordan Davis Dakar 03 December 2006 Islamist Moderate Party supporters attend a late meeting, 17 Nov 2006 in Nouakchott Second round legislative elections are under way in Mauritania. The vote is seen as a key step in the country's return to civi

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今天我们要学的词是insider。 Insider, 意思是圈内人士。 The couple has filed for divorce, according to Hollywood insiders, 据好莱坞圈内人士说,这对夫妇已经提出离婚。 The book gives readers an insider's look at the

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Anti-gay demonstration in Uganda U.S. President Barack Obama has sharply criticized an anti-gay bill in Uganda that would impose the death penalty in some cases. Other western governments and gay rights activists also have criticized the legislation.

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By Michael Bowman Washington 09 July 2007 For years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has spoken almost daily about his vision of so-called 21st Century socialism. Yet many Venezuelans of varying political persuasions are unsure what the slogan means

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