1. The White House is urging Congress to act. That is the deficit reduction super committee gets closer and closer to facing failure. The panel has until Wednesday to approve a plan with 1.2 trillion in deficit reduction. 2. Egypt's State Television

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AS IT IS 2014-01-27 Nigerias Ruling Party Faces Challenges in 2014 2014年尼日利亚执政党面临着挑战 Hello, and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English. Im Christopher Cruise in Washington. Today on the program, we report on a new ope

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JERUSALEM, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed President Shimon Peres Saturday night that he has completed the task of forming the new ruling coalition, which is expected to be sworn in Monday. As you know, I forme

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AS IT IS 2016-05-06 Turkeys Prime Minister Says He Will Resign 土耳其总理表示自己将辞职 Turkeys prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has announced he will not seek re-election as the head of the ruling party. Davutoglu spoke Thursday after a

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PRETORIA, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- The second day of paralympian Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing ended on Wednesday without a court ruling on his application. Magistrate Desmond Nair ruled that Pistorius would remain in custody again at the Brooklyn police

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AS IT IS 2015-07-25 New Laws in Cambodia Seen to Help Ruling Party in 2018 柬埔寨欲修法保护执政党的利益 Two years ago, the ruling party in Cambodia suffered a loss in support during the countrys last election. Critics say Cambodian lawm

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模仿句子: But first, the ruling by the International Olympic Committee that there should be no blanket ban on Russian competitors taking part in the Rio Games has been described as a sad day for clean sport by anti-doping officials. 翻译: 但

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HELSINKI, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Finnish President Tarja Halonen on Tuesday appointed(约定的,指定的) Mari Kiviniemi, new leader of the ruling Center Party, as the country's prime minister. Kiviniemi, 41, replaced her predecessor(前任) Matti

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The Ladies' Paradise by ?mile Zola 左拉《女士乐园》 ?mile Zola was among the authors admired by Joseph Stalin. The mixture of the innocent country girl thrust into city life and struggle are reminiscent of Fantine in Les Misrables, while the

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Hundreds gathered in front of the Supreme Court in downtown Washington D.C. to celebrate the court's landmark legalization of same-sex marriage in all 50 US states. The justices split along the usual ideological lines in a 5-4 ruling which holds that

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The ruling to exclude Sunni politician Salah al-Mutlak from the election, issued by parliament's Accountability and Justice Committee, could derail weeks of patient effort to insure the partication of all parties in the polling. Edward Yeranian | Cai

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TOKYO, July 4 (Xinhua) -- Japan on Thursday officially kicked off the election campaign for the House of Councillors, the upper house in the Diet, with ruling coalition's vow to retake the chamber. Half of the 242 seats in the upper house are up for

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1. BP says it has reached the desired outcome from a procedure in which it pumped mud down the throat of the blown-out well that is leaking in the Gulf of Mexico. The company says the mud is holding the oil down. BP has said that this procedure may b

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AS IT IS 2016-06-28 Supreme Court Rejects Texas Abortion Law 最高法院驳回德克萨斯州堕胎法 The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Texas went too far in regulating a womans ability to end a pregnancy. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the opinion

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模仿句子 It's a big weekend in North Korea. The first Congress of the ruling Workers' Party in nearly 40 years is under way.

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Migrants in the Dominican Republic 多米尼加共和国的移民 No place like home 何处为家乡 The travails of the children of Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic 在多米尼加,海地移民的孩子承受着艰难困苦 NIGHTMARE is

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TUNIS, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Tunisian interim president Foued Mebazaa and Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi quit Tunisia's ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally party (RCD) Tuesday, official TAP news agency reported. The move is in implementation(实

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WHITE HOUSE - President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed the ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States striking down key provisions of an immigration law in the state of Arizona. But Obama says he is concerned about a remaining provision upheld

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A federal judge in Utah has issued a final ruling that strikes down parts of the state's anti-polygamy law in a lawsuit filed by the family that appears on the TV show Sister Wives. 美国犹他州一名联邦法官8月27日(周三)做出最终判决

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Divorce 离婚 Work to rule 依法力争 England becomes a slightly worse place for idle ex-wives 英格兰不再是那些懒散前妻们的理想之地 ENGLAND has long been the jurisdiction of choice for wives who have the luxury of being able to c

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