Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has lost his High Court battle against extradition to Sweden. Two judges at London's High Court have ruled he should now be sent to Sweden to face questions over rape and sexual assault allegations. His lawyers say he

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年

It's expected to be a firing meeting of Federal Cabinet later today after damaging leaks were made to the media over the weekend. Those leaks reveal deep divisions within Cabinet about how to deal with the political deadlock over offshore processing.

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The Senate is expected to pass the Government's carbon tax legislation today. The Government and the Greens will use their numbers to bring on a final vote to the 18 bills. The Opposition is vowing to scrap the tax if it wins Government. The tax will

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Emotional ceremonies have been held in America to mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. President Barack Obama was joined by his predecessor George W Bush at Ground Zero in New York. Relatives read out the names of the victims and th

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In business, a multi-billion-dollar offshore LNG facility has been given the green light off the WA coast. The Prelude, floating LNG plant has been developed by Royal Dutch Shell. It will be the first time that onshore processing techniques are used

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To finance news. And the former finance minister, Lindsay Tanner, says trying to raise debt is a growing challenge for Australia's mid-sized companies. Mr. Tanner says the weakness of the corporate bond market is a major constraint for companies with

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IN THE NEWS - Remembering the Gulf Oil Spill, One Year Later This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 Last year on April twentieth the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig exploded in flames in the Gu

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Hi, everybody.This Monday, I'm heading to Alaska for a three-day tour of the state. 大家好!下周一,我将前往阿拉斯加州进行为期三天的访问。 I've been looking forward to this for a long time.Not only because Alaska is one of

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A short boat trip from the Kent coast and you will find them, the Holy Green Grail to some and inefficient blight to others. The Fanity wind farm with a hundred giant turbine is one of the worlds biggest offshore fields, dwarfing our 11-meter boat. T

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O English Terms 中文翻译 详情解释/例子 OECD 经济合作及发展组织 由三十个成员国组成,就经济发展及社会政策进行讨论的国际组织 OPEC 石油输出国组织、欧

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1. A cruise ship carrying more than 1,000 Americans left Beirut this morning enroute to Cyprus. It's the first mass U.S. evacuation from Lebanon since Israeli airstrikes began last week. Roughly 8,000

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WHO: Millions Die Every Year from Air Pollution From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. Im Anna Matteo. And Im Christopher Cruise. Today on the program, we look at our natural world. We report on the price of air pollution on human li

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BP is planning a new line of attack to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after efforts to plug the leak using mud and cement failed. The so called top kill procedure was declared a failure Saturday, prompting company officials to talk about

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For 92-year old Glafcos Clerides, a British-educated lawyer and the first speaker of the Cypriot parliament, memories remain vivid of the young inexperienced first government of Archbishop Makarios. I can't describe that there were young politicians

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Burma's Divided Rakhine Tests Old Friendships Before it burned down, Myo Thu Gyi village was home to 70 households of both Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims. Village chief Oo Kyaw Aung says he lived and worked side-by-side with Rohingya. But, li

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Studies: How Whales, Fish Might Adapt To Warming Ocean Two new science studies provide a glimpse of how some important Pacific Ocean sea creatures could adapt to a changing climate. One study describes how gray whales successfully adapted to previous

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Several oil and gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico have resumed operations following Hurricane Katrina. However, an industry analyst says the full extent of damage to generating facilities is still unknown. 美国墨西哥湾地区的几个炼油厂在

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Weekly Address: President Obama Establishes Bipartisan National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling 每周电视讲话:奥巴马总统成立两党联合的关于BP深海地平线(Deepwater Horizon)石油泄漏和

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Hi, everybody. As Im sure youve noticed over the past few weeks, the price at your local pump has been going up and up. And because its an election year, so has the temperature of our political rhetoric. What matters most to me right now is the impac

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Weekly Address: President Obama Announces New Plans to Increase Responsible Domestic Oil Production 每周电视讲话:奥巴马总统宣布负责任地增加美国国内石油产量的新计划 WASHINGTON In this weeks address, President Obama laid

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