1. The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill. Its a crime that carries a possible death sentence. The charges represent a decision by the White House to try Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the

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Islamic State Sets No Limits to Destruction 伊斯兰国破坏文物引发众怒 WASHINGTON There seems to be no limit to the atrocities committed by radical Islamists in their intent to create a world designed according to their own interpretation o

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It's a big country, but still, how can anything be left of Iraq? When you look at the news on TV, all you see is one explosion after another. Helicopters falling from the sky, and vehicles flying into the sky. Suicide bombers committing homicide, and

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Hurricane Dean looked like a monster. It developed into a category 5, the highest and most dangerous level. Category 1 is called minimal, with wind speeds up to 95 mph. Category 5 is called catastrophic, with wind speeds of at least 156 mph. It blows

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IN THE NEWS - Wilma Adds to the Damage of a Record Hurricane Season By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Saturday, October 29, 2005 I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. People in the Amer

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Todd: So, Alexandra you were talking about a hurricane. What hurricane were you talking about? Alex: I was talking about Hurricane Andrew, and as I said before, it was a category 5 hurricane. I was not in the city when it came through, however I did

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 29 January 2006 Next to the empty chair of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Jan. 29, 2006 Israel is adopting a tough

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Ever since the Civil War, the South has struggled to find ways to deal with its troubled past. The history of the South is one of suffering: the suffering of the Native Americans who were killed or driven off their land by European settlers; the pain

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: War on Terror Turns to Iraq STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. GEORGE W. BUSH: Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is

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AS IT IS 2015-02-05 Fearful Ukrainian Refugees Try to Survive Conflict 担惊受怕的乌克兰难民试图在冲突中生存 Hundreds of thousands of people in eastern Ukraine have fled their homes to escape fighting between government forces and Ru

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This week marks the 150th anniversary of the destruction of Beijing's Old Summer Palace, by French and British soldiers in the Second Opium War. Although it remains a minor event in history books in Britain and France, the destruction of the Yuanming

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UN Calls for Syria to Complete Surrender of Chemical Weapons 联合国要求叙利亚完全上缴化武 WASHINGTON The United Nations has called on Syria to complete the surrender of its chemical weapons by the approaching deadline. The well-armed fo

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While Rishcash is a particular magnet for visitors from the west, where we're heading next is a major draw for Indian tourists. -Beautiful Ganges, *** is here. Meeting a friend who's guided me around India before. He suggested we meet at the statue o

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Scientists In Houston Tell A Story Of Concrete, Rain And Destruction RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Hurricane Harvey caused the worst flooding in Houston's history. Scientists are looking into why it was so bad. As NPR's Christopher Joyce reports, a lot of it

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: The Island of Vieques is part of Puerto Rico, but it is set apart, too, a short distance off the big island's eastern coast. Vieques is an isolated place known for its remote beaches and for the decades during which the U.S. N

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Feb 7th, 1964 I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand. The Beatles arrives in New York for their first tour of the US among the stops of the Fab Four and appears on TVs Ed Sullivan Show. 1995Ramzi Yousef,mastermind of t

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Here is good news bad news story. Scientists are able to dramatically increase yields of oil palm trees axxx the global market. Oil palm trees grow in tropic so that means more profit for less land helping to protect tropical farms. Good news, right?

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 07 July 2006 watch Asteroid report A major asteroid passed by the Earth this week, and another is heading this way. An asteroid visible in the night sky Asteroids are similar to comets and meteors. But they are larger, m

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 08 December 2007 The U.S. Justice Department and the Central Inteligence Agency (CIA) announced Saturday that they would open an investigation into the spy agency's destruction of videotapes that showed the interrogatio

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 22 February 2008 The UN refugee agency reports that UN aid workers who visited western Darfur recently have expressed shock at the level of destruction in one village. As Lisa Schlein reports from UNHCR headquarters in Geneva,

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