The UN's cultural agency is supporting the Palestinians' bid for full membership despite strong Israeli and US objections. As a result, Washington's cutting off funding to UNESCO. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. We were to have made a $

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Pakistani officials say a US drone attack killed one of the five most wanted men in Pakistan last night. Ilyas Kashmiri was suspected of orchestrating deadly attacks in Pakistan and India, including the siege in Mumbai in 2008, in which more than 160

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Backed by NATO air strikes, rebels in Libya say they've regained control of a strategic city just 100 miles from the rebel capital. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from Benghazi that rebels welcome the increased NATO effort. From a vantage point, a few mi

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AS IT IS 2016-07-13 US Defense Secretary Makes Surprise Visit to Afghanistan 美国国防部长突访阿富汗 U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter made a surprise stop in Afghanistan Tuesday. Carter was in the country to meet with President Ashraf G

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1. What college are you attending? 2. What are you majoring in? /What's your major? 3. What grade /class〖年级和班级〗are you in? 4. What school did you go to? /Where do you go to school? 5. How many courses are you taking this semester? 6. I'

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By Jim Fry Washington 09 March 2007 watch Afghanistan Strategy report U.S.-led coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan say they have captured a bomb-making expert with links to al-Qaida. The capture of Mullah Mahmood in Jalalabad follows an increase

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中国有句古话叫作知己知彼,百战不殆,考试亦是如此。要想在考试中取得好成绩,就要清楚自己已经掌握了什么知识,还需要补充什么知识。鉴于这样的情况,我们在分析现行的高中英语新

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NATO's secretary-general says foreign forces in Afghanistan will remain on combat duty during the scheduled transition to Afghan security control in 2014. That statement by Anders Fogh Rasmussen came after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Ame

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When the British public votes on staying within or leaving the EU in a referendum on June 23, they will decide on the destiny of Britain for decades, perhaps a lifetime, said Cameron, adding: This is a decision that is bigger than any individual poli

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Ukraine's President has promised greater autonomy to Eastern Ukraine while rejecting the possibility of federalization. Petro Poroshenko says he will introduce a bill as early as next week that will offer greater autonomy to the largely Russian-speak

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一个词变成一个句 著名翻译家奈达说,翻译就是翻译意思。言外之意,翻译一句话不能逐一翻译一串个别的单词,也不是翻译某种句子结构。初学翻译的人之所以译得不好,就是因为摆脱不了

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U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday there is neither a desire for a return to a Cold War nor for a new conflict with Russia, and that economic sanctions are having an effect in countering Russian aggression in Ukraine. He spoke at a forum i

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BRUSSELS, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- NATO defense Ministers on Wednesday agreed to enhance military presence in eastern Europe at a ministerial meeting, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference following the first day's meeting. St

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今天我们要学的词是let somebody down。 To let somebody down, 有未履行承诺,让某人失望的意思。 The newly elected Mayor promised he will not let the voters down, 新当选的市长保证说,自己绝对不会让选民失望。

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Heavy rain's putting parts of the Gulf Coast under water, the flash flooding in Mobile, Alabama brought on by a slow moving spring storm system. It left property damage and downed trees from Texas all the way to Alabama. A charter bus rolled over on

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a modernization drive for the country's armed forces - with a goal of at least 70 percent modern armament by 2020. Under the plan, over 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles, four missile regiments for

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LONDON Pro-Russian protests in several eastern Ukraine cities over the weekend, including the takeover of a government building in one city, have heightened concerns Russia might try to take control of the region just as it annexed Crimea last month.

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Rebel fighters have seized Moammar Gadhafi's compound in the capital, Tripoli, and are celebrating what they consider a major victory over the Libyan leader and his loyalist troops. The rebel fighters fought their way into Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya co

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HARI SREENIVASAN: Often, the people a president surrounds himself with says something about his goals as any policy statement. President-elect Trump is in the process of deciding who will fill critical national security and diplomatic posts. These de

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HARI SREENIVASAN: Defense chiefs and other leaders from more than 30 countries are here in Washington for two days of meetings on the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. The summit comes as ISIS loses territory in both countries, but the group and it

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