President-elect Barack Obama was elected last month largely on the promise of bringing change after eight years of the Bush administration. But, some of Mr. Obama's liberal supporters are disappointed that his emerging cabinet has a decidedly centri

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Counting and data input workers at the Independent High Electoral Commission in Baghdad, Iraq, 11 Mar 2010, as data is calculated before an election result can be declared The first partial results from Iraq's national elections Sunday indicate the S

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French Presidential candidate Francois Fillion is facing intense backlash over a scandal involving his wife. She's accused of accepting hundreds of thousand of euros in state money for work she may have never done. The incident has helped independent

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Exit polls show that the right- wing union led by incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has gained a narrow lead in the country's early parliamentary elections. The polls showed the Likud-Beitenu joint list is set to receive 31 seats in the 120

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Netanyahu suffered a heavy blow as his rightwing electoral alliance, Likud-Beiteinu, received only 31 of 120 seats in the next parliament. Being the leader of the biggest party, Netanyahu remains on course to continue as prime minister. However, form

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本期内容: Afteradecisivevictory,EmmanuelMacron,acentristwhopromisestoreformtheeconomy,willassumethepresidencywithinaweek.The39-year-oldhasastrongmandate,afterattracting65.8%supportintherun-offyesterday,morethanmostpollshadprojected,against34.2%

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今天我们要学的词是 runoff. Runoff 作为名词,有决选的意思。French centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and nationalist candidate Marine Le Pen are heading into a runoff in two weeks. 法国中间派候选人马克龙和民族主义者

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