Efforts to avert the fiscal cliff are underway in the United States. President Barack Obama has met top US lawmakers, seeking a deal to head off a looming across the board tax hikes and spending cuts that could push the economy back into recession. I

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Britain to Deploy Peacekeepers to South Sudan, Somalia 英国将部署维和部队到南苏丹和索马里 LONDON British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced the deployment of several hundred troops to South Sudan and Somalia to shore up stabi

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President Obama has invited congressional leaders to the White House next week to discuss possible solutions to the so-called fiscal cliff. As NPR's Brian Naylor tells us, the President made his first public appearance since winning reelection on Tue

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严冬将至,专家呼吁欧洲为难民提供更多帮助 Europes largest humanitarian crisis since World War II is far from over. Refugees in huge numbers are traveling through the Balkans to reach their destinations in the rich countries of the

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Hi, I'm Carl Azuz, we welcome you to ourSeptember 11th 2013 edition of CNN student news. This is the anniversary of thetragic day of American history when members of al-Qaeda terrorists grouphijacked 4 passage planes of United States, they flow two o

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Talking About Attractive Men and Women Pamela: You know that your tongue is hanging out of your mouth, right? David: Thats because Ive never seen so many beautiful women in one place before. Why have I never been to this beach before? Look at her! Sh

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The sun was only a quarter of the way up the sky when she saw her first man die. 目睹当天第一个人丧命时,太阳才刚在天顶移动了四分之一。 Drums were beating as some of the women danced for the khal. Drogo watched without expr

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2005年全球760万人死于癌症,世界卫生组织周五的会议上呼吁,如果不采取有效措施,这个人类的头号杀手在未来10年内,还要至少夺取8400万人的生命……

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Today is Thursday, Nov. 8th, a day to find a way around the fiscal cliff. They basically are still not on the same page, but maybe a little bit closer, because revenue is now on the table. A day to smooth the edges in the US Senate. We are gonna make

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美联社,新闻一分钟,hurricane,Katrina,power,1.Hurricane Katrina tread s across South Florida, leaving 5 dead, 5 missing and millions of homes and businesses without power. 2.Shiites wait for a response from Sunni Arabs to what they call a final

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1. The man accused of kidnapping two young boys has pleaded not guilty in one of the cases. Michael Devlin went before a judge this morning in the case of Ben Ownby. Meantime, the parents of Shawn Hornbeck, the other teen he's accused of kidnapping,

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This is AP news minute. 1. President Donald Trump welcomed house republicans to the White House, praising them for pushing their prize health-care bill to the house. The mostly party line vote advances the bill that addresses the republican's pledge

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Dr. Katabira has worked extensively in the field of care and to support people with HIV. He said improved healthcare access for HIV patients will be his top priority during his two-year tenure as IAS president. I am going to continue, where IAS has b

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A new study of stroke in the United States has found that the rate of brain-damaging blood clots has increased dramatically among people infected with HIV. The increase in strokes coincides with the use of newer, more effective AIDS medicines. Bruce

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英国即将派遣维和部队前往南苏丹及索马里 South Sudan descended into civil war in 2013, just two years after gaining independence.The united nations'peacekeeping mission involves 12 thousand troops from dozens of countries.British Pri

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Iran Keeps Low Profile in Syria Diplomacy 伊朗在叙利亚的外交保持低调 LONDON Syrias main ally, Russia, has taken on a central role in the effort to get President Bashar al-Assad to give up his chemical weapons. But his key regional ally,

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WHITE HOUSE President Barack Obama is urging Congress to reach an agreement to avoid the tax increases and deep government cuts that are set to take effect Tuesday. The next move in the fiscal drama is up to the Senate. In his weekly radio and Intern

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The World Bank is warning that post-election unrest in Kenya is threatening east Africa's largest economy and could wipe out impressive gains the country has achieved in recent years. Widespread violence, triggered by allegations of vote-rigging in l

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A senior Vatican official is giving evidence from Rome via video link to an Australian inquiry into child sex abuse. Cardinal George Pell, a former archbishop of Sydney, is being asked whether he knew if pedophiles were active in churches under his w

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The US is pledging the strengthening ties with Japan on various matters including global economic growth. Following a meeting today, the prime minister Shinzo Abe, the president said that whether seques

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