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Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are approaching a showdown this afternoon over a bill to overhaul the nation's financial regulations. NPR's David Welna reports that although talks are underway to hammer out a bipartisan compromise, the upcomi
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The Gulf Coast is bracing for the shoreline impact of the worst oil spill the region's ever faced. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports the growing oil slick threatens wildlife, fisheries and beaches from Louisiana to Florida. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal
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New plans to try to contain BP's massive oil spill are in place. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports the company's managing director visited the Sunday news talk shows today to explain its latest containment strategy. It's clear that no long-term solution is ye
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Many questions remain about the cause of a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as federal investigators completed day six of hearings today outside of New Orleans. NPR's Pam Fessler reports the joint inquiry by the Coast Guard and the Minerals Manag
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BP has begun pumping heavy mud and concrete into its runaway oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The so-called top kill procedure has never been attempted for a well in such deep water. President Obama, speaking earlier today, said there are backup plans
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Workers are grieving the deaths of eight colleagues killed in a mass shooting at a beer distribution company in Manchester, Connecticut this morning. Police say the gunman, also an employee of Hartford Distributors, opened fire before he killed himse
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Engineers using undersea robots have removed the containment cap on BP's gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The next step is to replace the cap with one that fits better. That will allow all of the oil to be funneled to tankers on the surface. B
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President Obamas back on the frontlines of the oil spill; this time it's Alabama. He's in Theodore, one of the Gulf Coast's largest staging areas to stockpile and ship out supplies. We are minimizing the short-term impacts, and we're making sure that
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飓风芭芭拉到达墨西哥南部 MEXICO CITY, May 29 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Hurricane Center reported Wednesday that Hurricane Barbara has reached the Pacific coast of Mexico's southern state of Chiapas. The category-one hurricane had maximum susta
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Business 商业报道 Very large planes 大型飞机 Airbus's big bet 空中客车公司的大赌注 Commercially, the A380 super-jumbo will struggle to reach cruising altitude 在商业化的过程中，超级巨无霸客机A380将努力达到巡航高
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This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In recent years, a shining city grew in the desert of Dubai on -- and even off -- the Gulf coast. An island shaped like a palm tree was built for hotels, homes and entertainment. In October of last ye
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AS IT IS 2015-11-22 Who Is Islamic State and How Did They Get This Big? 伊斯兰国怎么发展起来的? Who and what is the terrorist group that carried out deadly attacks last week in Paris? They call themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and the
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Fed up with her son's failure to pick up the phone when she calls and his ability to never answer her texts, the discerning Houston mom decided, with the ways of modern technology, surely she could do something about it. 受够了儿子永远不接电话
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FIFA has confirmed the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar will take place on Sunday, December 18. 国际足联已经确认，2022年卡塔尔世界杯的总决赛将在12月18号举行，这一天是星期天。 It comes after a FIFA taskforce recommended
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For 2000 years, Guangzhou has functioned as a shipment hub due to its geographic merits. It's widely recognized as a bond between Chinese commodities and its culture, and East Asian and Persian Gulf countries. In accordance with the construction of t
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1. Oil giant BP says its cost for containing the big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico climbed nearly half a billion dollars in just one week. Its tab, now just over three billion dollars. 2. Much of the East Coast is scorching with temperatures way ab
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HOUSTON, July 24 (Xinhua) -- An out-of-control natural gas well ignited a fire on a rig off the coast of the U.S. state of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, and the raging blaze has caused its production platform to collapse, authorities said on Wedne
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About the twelfth year of my age, my father being abroad, my mother reproved me for some misconduct, to which I made an undutiful reply. And The next first-day, as I was with my father returning from meeting, he told me that he understood I had behav
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Syrias war 叙利亚战争 Their own men 自己人 Islamist rebels sever ties with the political opposition 伊斯兰反对派与政治反对派断绝关系 Sep 28th 2013 | CAIRO AND ISTANBUL |From the print edition SYRIAS exiled opposition has long
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