The Army staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan villagers during a nighttime raid last year says what he did was an act of cowardice behind a mask of fear and bravado. NPR's Martin Kaste describes Robert Bales' demeanor today. When Sgt. Bales took th

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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are going to meet next week in Jerusalem in their latest round of peace talks. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports US diplomats will be on hand. On August 14th, just two weeks after Secretary of State John Kerry relaunch

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A man holds a child at gunpoint after shooting and killing a school bus driver which was our lead story tonight. And another man, walks into a Phoenix office building and opens fire, hitting three killing one. Those are just two headlines from today,

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CHAPTER 13 第13章 REVOLUTION IMPENDING 革命的的到来 119. The Soldiers at New York and Boston. 119.在纽约和波士顿的士兵 Soldiers had been stationed at New York ever since the end of the French war because that was the most central

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Amnesty International says the Syrian government has executed thousands of prisoners in what it considers war crimes and crimes against humanity. The rights group is accusing the government of carrying out systematic torture at a jail 30 kilometers f

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The House of Representatives has approved a bill to allow foreign terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay to be sent to the U.S. for trial. The measure passed 224 to 193, only one Republican voted for it. Opponents said transferring suspects to the ma

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1. Coretta Scott King, the widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has died. An activist in her own right, she created the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change,

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US Congress Approves Plan to Arm Syrian Rebels 美国国会批准武装叙利亚反对派以对抗ISIS The U.S. Congress has approved a plan to arm and train Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar a

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AS IT IS 2016-06-16 Investigators: Wife of Orlando Killer Knew of Attack Plans 奥兰多枪击案凶手妻子或知晓袭击计划 Investigators in the Orlando mass shooting say the killers wife knew about his plans for the attack. Federal Bureau of

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Syrian Army Defectors Tell of Atrocities In an amateur video posted online, demonstrators march through the Syrian city of Deraa, protesting against President Bashar al-Assad. It was at a similar protest last year that Hassan, a 21-year-old Syrian so

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Kenneth R. Feinberg, who was recently appointed by President Barack Obama as the Independent Administrator of the Gulf Claims Facility for the $20 billion BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill compensation fund, speaks at the Economics Club in Washington, 1

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斯雷布雷尼察大屠杀的教训 WASHINGTON On July 11, Bosnia will mark the 20th anniversary of the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II: the massacre at Srebrenica. During an 11-day period in July 1995, an estimated 8,000 Muslim men

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SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: President Trump also is setting up a commission on school safety. He's asked Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to lead it. It will look at everything from arming teachers to age restrictions on gun purchases to video game violence

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: People who are serious in their faith often want to send their children to a religious school - Muslim parents, no different. There are now nearly 300 Islamic schools across the United States, and the number is growing. NPR's Tom

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Chinese President Xi Jinping has met with his Republic of Congo counterpart Denis Sassou Nguesso here in Beijing. The two have also overseen the signing of a number of agreements connected to trade, infrastructure construction, finance and culture. T

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This week, we had two powerful reminders of how we've renewed American leadership in the world. I was proud to announce thatas promisedthe rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of this year. And in Libya, the death of Moammar Qadhafi s

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南苏丹难民营直击:战乱不休 返乡无日 A month after a political power struggle erupted into ethnic violence, South Sudanese continue to flee the fighting that has divided the country. 上个月,南苏丹的权力斗争演变为部族暴力

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More voters prefer Tony Abbott as Prime Minister. That's according to latest FairfaxNielsen Poll. It's the first time in seven months the Opposition leader has led Julia Gillard as preferred Prime Minister. The same poll shows Kevin Rudd is almost tw

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