AS IT IS 2014-12-27 Asian Tsunami 10th Anniversary 纪念印尼海啸十周年 December 26 marks the 10th anniversary of a powerful and deadly earthquake in the eastern Indian Ocean. It was the most powerful quake to hit the area in 40 years. The qua

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Narrator: Radio Item 4: This is 'Postcards from the Edge of the World'. I'm Catherine Small with a disturbing story from the Great Barrier4 Reef in Northern Queensland, Australia. Residents of the sleepy beachside town of Carrsville near the luxuriou

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1. A powerful storm moving across the southeastern part of the nation has packed a punch in west-central Mississippi. Officials say a tornado touched down Saturday in at least three counties, damaging buildings, uprooting trees and causing injuries.

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From NPR News in Washington, Im Barbara Klein. President Obama is due to address the Congressional Black Caucus annual awards dinner this hour. NPRs Allison Keyes reports the president is working to energize African-American voters for the upcoming m

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Tunisia is under the rule of a temporary government established by the interim prime minister today in a bid to end a month of unrest that led to the president's downfall last Friday. Eleanor Beardsley reports that Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi

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Penguins have their own waterproof down survival suits. They replace their feathers each year in one short burst. Indeed, Kings completely replace every single feather. New feathers grow through underneath to push out the old and there is lots of the

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Many famous people and a top United States official are among those on a list of people shown to have money in foreign banks to avoid taxes. The financial documents have been called the Paradise Papers. They are mainly from the legal company Appleby

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US Fishermen Fear the Growth of Wind Power Industry Fishermen on the northeastern coast of the United States are voicing concerns about the development of offshore wind power. Some of the fishermen are based in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The town wa

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China has scrapped a restriction on cross-border capital movement imposed in January, in what is believed to be the first concrete move to loosen capital controls since authorities began imposing curbs designed to shield the renminbi from downward pr

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Tornado warnings were issued in downtown Chicago yesterday because of the severe storm that forced baseball fans out of the stands at Wrigley Field. Cubs' fan Jerry Goldman was among those who found themselves looking for a safe place to wait out th

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Authorities are refusing to comment on the suspected asylum seeker boat that's been spotted off the Western Australian coast. The boat was found by an oil tanker about seventy kilometers offshore from Dampier. It's believed to be carrying Vietnamese

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2 of 13 bodies found on Mekong River not sailors Thai investigators say two of the 13 bodies they recovered on the Mekong River in Chiang Rai Province did not belong to Chinese sailors, correcting the death toll of Chinese nationals to 11 killed and

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Discoveries of new oil reserves have dropped to their lowest level for more than 60 years, pointing to potential supply shortages in the next decade. 新探明石油储量已降至逾60年来最低水平,这预示着未来10年可能出现供给短缺

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欧洲国家建立跨国系统以遏制逃税 PARIS, April 10 (Xinhua) -- France, along with four other European countries, have envisaged creating a multinational system of information to fight tax evasion, the French Economy and Finance Ministry sa

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Donald Trump has stepped up his warnings that US companies will be punished for shifting production overseas. 唐纳德.特朗普(Donald Trump)加大调门警告称,美国企业若把生产迁到海外,将受到惩罚。 The US president-elect on

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1. President Barack Obama plans to announce today that the government will allow oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia's shoreline. However, it will reject some proposed drilling sites in Alaska. Up to now, only offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico w

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今天我们要学的词是 stockpile. Stockpile 做为动词,有储备的意思。Pope Francis is urging countries not to stockpile nuclear weapons, even for the purpose of deterrence. 罗马天主教宗方济各敦促各国不要储备核武器,即

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As a controversy about the Made in China uniforms for members of the US Olympic team continued to erupt, one US track and field Olympian expressed his thanks to China. 随着美国奥运代表团队服中国制造的风波持续发酵,近日美国一

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The some 9-thousand word paper has rolled out a roadmap for the Chinese army's active defense strategy. Researcher with the Academy of Military Science of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Wen Bing, who took part in drafting the paper, explains fu

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本期内容: The United Arab Emirates agreed to take in 15 inmates from Guantnamo Bay, reducing the number held at Americas c**troversial offshore prison to 61. Barack Obama wants to close the facility, which has housed almost 800 suspected terror

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