The stories of Rome 2 [00:01.23]古罗马的故事 2 [00:02.46]These skyscrapers are built of mud there in the Yemen. [00:04.70]在也门,用泥建起的高楼 [00:06.95]They're over 400 years old.The reason they're so tightly packed together is no

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On the eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula, the desert turns green as clouds cover it like a blanket. This is the country of Oman's monsoon season. The natural event, which lasts for three months, draws hundreds of thousands of tourists with cool w

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Daniel: So how about the weather in Argentina? Valeria: Well the weather in Argentina depends on the part of Argentina that we are talking about. Daniel: Uh-uh. Valeria: For instance, the north is very dry and extreme. Daniel: OK. Valeria: Like in su

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Hello, I'm Naamua Delaney at the CNN Center in Atlanta. And here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. With the Democrats wrapping up their convention tonight, attention is already beginning to turn to the Republicans. Specifically, who Sena

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India's Central bank has raised interest rates in a bid to battle high inflation. The economy is growing at a brisk pace, but rising prices remain a key concern. The latest interest rate hikes announced by the Central Bank are higher than expected. T

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China's air pollution and smog could be caused by melting ice caps in the Arctic a new study claims. 一项新的研究称,中国的空气污染和雾霾可能是由北极冰盖融化引起的。 The study published by Science Advances says that me

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In the heartland of Pakistan, they fought to save their livelihood. In the village of Chachran Sharif, people depend on livestock for a living. So when rising floodwaters buried part of their village, they packed their animals on boats and headed acr

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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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Xishuangbanna is the southernmost prefecture of Yunnan Province. The prefecture is nicknamed Aerial Garden for its luxuriant and multi-layered primitive woods and tropical rain forests, which are teeming with animals and plants. Renowned as a huge na

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1. President Barack Obama is breaking up his jobs bill into bite-sized pieces for Senate Republicans. Beginning a three-day bus tour in North Carolina, Obama pushed for Congressional approval of parts of his $447 billion jobs plan. 2. Federal investi

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The story of the Rohingya Muslims is complicated and gets more so every day. Evidence keeps emerging that Myanmar has used a campaign of terror to drive hundreds of thousands of Rohingya across the border into refugee camps in Bang

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Yael: Don, are you eating my tulips? Don: Just having myself a little snack. Y: Of MY tulips? I brought those in here to brighten the place up, not for you to eat!And who eats flowers anyway? D: Have

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HARI SREENIVASAN:The death toll soared today in the monsoon flooding that's ravaged Northern India. The chief minister of Uttarakhand state reportedlyreported nearly 600 people have been killed in the mountainous region. More than 30,000 others have

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GWEN IFILL: Now back to the search for the missing AirAsia flight. Wall Street Journal correspondent Gaurav Raghuvanshi has been covering this story from Singapore. I spoke to him a short time ago via Skype. Gaurav Raghuvanshi, thank you so much for

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生活大爆炸第一季第八集_1:The Grasshopper Experiment -Sheldon:Damn you, walletnook.com! 去死吧,隐蔽钱包网。 -Leonard:Problem? 有麻烦了? -Sheldon:The online description was completely misleading. 网站上的介绍完全是

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Todd: Jeff, you mentioned to me that you went across the Amazon in Brazil. Jeff: Yes. Yes. I was going to South America and when I do a trip I don't like to be a regular tourist and just go and sightsee, so I got an idea from a National Geographic ma

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The World Health Organization warns about two-million internally displaced people in Pakistan's Swat Valley are at increased risk of getting ill during the upcoming monsoon season. The World Health Organization said it may not be able to help all th

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India is facing its first drought in three years, with this year's monsoon rains down by nearly 20 percent. In a report issued late Thursday, the Indian Meteorological Department said more than half of India has received deficient rainfall between Ju

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Business. 商业。 Consumer goods in India. 印度的日用消费品。 Seducing shoppers in Sticksville. 吸引小城市消费者。 India's small towns are the next frontier. 下一个前沿阵地:印度的小城市。 GROWTH in India is slowing

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It's often hot in India. But the past 10 days have been exceptional, even for one of the hottest places on the planet. The highest temperature recorded on Wednesday reached 116.6 degrees Fahrenheit in the eastern states of Jharkhand and Odisha. 印度一

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