NPR 2011-02-28

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is on her way to Geneva to consult with US allies on the crisis in Libya. Last night, the United Nations Security Council voted to impose sanctions against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi because of the violent crackd

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Taliban insurgents （叛乱分子） are threatening to target Afghans who vote in the country's November 7 presidential runoff. Afghan election officials are working to improve security while minimizing fraud. The lead up to Afghanistan's second round of

NPR 2009-06-17

President Obama is weighing in today on the disputed presidential race in Iran, though he also appears to be treading cautiously, not wanting to, as he put it, meddle in Iranian politics. President said he welcomed the decision by Iran's supreme lea

NPR 2010-11-18

The man billed as the first Guantanamo Bay terror suspect to face a civilian trial, Ahmed Ghailani, has been found not guilty of terrorism charges today in a federal trial in New York. Thirty-six-year-old Ghailani, a native of Tanzania, was accused o

CNN 2009-11-24

Here you to the Philippines now where the government is ramping up security in the south after a gruesome, frankly shocking election-related massacre, gunmen attacked a convoy earlier this morning in Maguindanao, abducting scores of people. A horrify

CNN 2012-05-18

Today, we are gonna take stock of social network going public,and here some advice for college graduates, but we start with a new political area in France, Francis Hollade is the new leader of that country, he is the 1st French president since 1995 w

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The Russell Group is a university union that produces the most Nobel Prize winners around the word. 罗素集团是全世界产生诺贝尔奖得主最多的大学联盟。 So far, there are some 300 Nobel Prize winners from the Group, among which 18

SSS 2010-07-07

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. When it comes to elections, sometimes we vote with our heads and sometimes with our hearts. But scientists at Stanford say we might also be voting with our

NPR 2010-04-12

President Obama is holding meetings with world leaders on the eve of a nuclear security summit in Washington, D.C. One notable absence from this weeks conference is the prime minister of Israel. Benjamin Netanyahus recent decision to keep expanding s

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Barack Obama and the Republicans 奥巴马与共和党 A beatable president 能被击败的总统 But only if a Republican candidate starts laying out a sensible plan for the American economy 条件是共和党候选人开始为美国经济开出良方

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Runoff election starts in French overseas territories

PARIS, May 5 (Xinhua) -- The second round election that will decide the next French president between Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande has started in overseas departments and territories on Saturday. Around 1 million overseas voters are expected

U.S. Senate approves John Kerry as next secretary of state

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved Democratic Senator John Kerry as the next secretary of state, who is set to replace Hillary Clinton. The Senate confirmed Kerry's nomination in a 94-3 vote, hours after the chamber's For

Obama, Congress Face 'Fiscal Cliff'

Obama, Congress Face 'Fiscal Cliff' Newly re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama and his political opponents in Congress are facing an end-of-the-year deadline to reach a deal on taxes and spending cuts that has proved both contentious and elusive fo

Americans Give Obama More Time

Americans Give Obama More Time LOS ANGELES President Barack Obama has won election to a second term in the White House after a hard-fought campaign against Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Obama, a Democrat, won support in the key battleground stat

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: from an interview on C-SPAN television, political pollster and strategist Frank Luntz talks about his book Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear.RS: At one

CNN 2008-04-02

Good afternoon from the CNN Center in Atlanta. I'm Naamua Delaney. Thanks for checking in with us. Here's a look at what's happening Now In the News. A journalist in Zimbabwe tells CNN a deal has been reached between incumbent Robert Mugabe to resig

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The people of Iran go to the polls tomorrow to vote in a controlled, but still heated presidential election. From Tehran, special correspondent Reza Sayah reports. It's the closing stretch in Iran's presidential race. And the capital, Tehran, is at f

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Three astronaunts landed on earth safely The three astronauts aboard the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft have now set foot back on Earth after a 15-day mission in space and are in good physical condition and in good spirits. It is my second manned space missi