From NPR News in Washington, Im Lakshmi Singh. President Obama was trying to restart negotiations on the federal budget deficit next week. NPRs Scott Horsley reports Mr. Obama plans to meet separately on Monday with Republican and Democratic Senate l

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Middle East and Africa Palestinian prisoners Why they count 中东和非洲 巴勒斯坦俘虏 为什么他们意义重大 The release of prisoners touches Palestinians to their core 俘虏的释放触及了巴勒斯坦人的核心 AS A measure of th

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Ken Beck characterizes his life as a farmer in the U.S. right now as a gamble. Risky at best, he told VOA. There is no money in this game anymore. Beck says he is entering a fifth year of losing money, due in part to lower corn and soy prices, along

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President Obama is telling Wall Street that sweeping change is on the way. He's pushing to overhaul the financial regulatory system and outlined that plan in New York's Cooper Union college today. Meanwhile, bipartisan negotiations on an overhaul bil

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西方国家努力稳定乌克兰 WASHINGTON Western countries are joining forces to put together a financial aid package to help pull Ukraine out of its political and economic crisis. The efforts come as Russia suspends its $15 billion loan to the c

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The latest China-U.S. Strategic and Economic Dialogue will begin in Washington D.C. on Tuesday. The two-day annual talks feature comprehensive and in-depth exchanges between high-level delegations from both sides. Zhu Guangyao, China's Vice Finance M

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意大利记者在叙利亚遭绑架五个月后获释回国 ROME, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Italian journalist Domenico Quirico has returned home after he went missing in Syria five months ago, local media reported late on Sunday. According to Italian new

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AS IT IS 2015-07-23 Yonhap: North Korea Prepares to Test Long-Range Missiles 韩国联合通讯社:朝鲜准备试射远程导弹 The Yonhap news agency says North Korea has set up a launch pad equipped to fire long-range ballistic missiles larger th

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38 世界贸易组织简介 DATE=6-23-01 TITLE=IN THE NEWS #486 - World Trade Organization BYLINE=Caty Weaver (start at 1'05

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由中国日报社与日本言论NPO共同主办的第九届北京东京论坛10月26日至27日在北京举行。此次北京东京论坛召开之前发布的舆论调查显示,中日两国国民对于对方国家的好感度降到历史冰点,9

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Chapter 6 - Balashvs interview with Napoleon Though Balashev was used to imperial pomp, he was amazed at the luxury and magnificence of Napoleons court. The Comte de Turenne showed him into a big reception room where many generals, gentlemen-in-waiti

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【句型总结】: ● 礼貌性招呼 1. Its a pleasure to finally meet you. 2. Its great to finally get a chance to know you. 3. At last, Ive been looking forward to meeting you. 一开口要立刻感谢对方前来与你会面。说时因为你

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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now we turn to an issue that had been expected to move through Congress this year, immigration reform, but which has instead become stalled.Ray Suarez has our report. RAY SUAREZ: Thousands of fans cheered on Los Tigres del Norte, in En

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MARGARET WARNER:Five days and counting with plenty of tit-for-tat charges, but no agreement in sight, that, in short, summed up the state of affairs in Washington today as the fiscal cliff deadline loomed, Jan. 1. It would mean more than $600 billion

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Arafat Seeks Support From China Jim Randle Beijing 24 Aug 2001 14:35 UTC Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat says he is ready to begin peace talks with Israel but he says the other side does not seem rea

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US Delegation Visits Colombia Rhoda Metcalfe Bogota 31 Aug 2001 23:33 UTC It ' s been almost a year since the U.S. government agreed to invest more than $1.3 billion in a wide-ranging anti-narcotics p

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伊朗与六大国启动新一轮核谈判 TEHRAN, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Iran and the world powers are likely to meet next month to continue the talks on the remaining issues pertaining to Tehran's nuclear program, Iran's nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqc

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Similarly, the European Union banned the import of chlorinated American chicken in 1997, owing to concern that a chlorine wash allows lower hygiene standards in farms. 同样,欧盟在1997年禁止进口氯化美国鸡肉,因为担心用氯清洗会

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Greece's finance minister 希腊财政部长 Absent professor 心不在焉的教授 The immovable Yanis Varoufakis 毫不动摇的雅尼斯瓦鲁法克斯 ALMOST every recent Greek finance minister has been an Athens university economics professor mo

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The United States, Japan and trade 亚太贸易协定:美国与日本 Don't treat trade as a weapon 别将贸易协定作为武器 An Asian-Pacific trade deal looks within reach, but politicians should stop seeing it as a way to contain China 亚太贸

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