Another row is brewing between around the federal government and the states, this time over school funding. Julia Gillard wants to give schools an extra 6.5 billion dollars a year. The premiers are concerned they'll be asked foot a large portion of t

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Political Turmoil Threatens Turkey's Government, Economy 政治动荡威胁土耳其政府和经济 LONDON Turkey's government has been hit with a corruption scandal that appears to be part of a political rivalry. The scandal has brought protesters t

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必背句型: A:What does the prosecution do in a criminal case? 在刑事案件中控方要做什么? B:The prosecution in a criminal case has to establish beyond reasonable doubt that the accused committed the crime. 在刑事案件中,控方必须

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1. The man convicted of holding 3 women captive in his Cleveland house for more than a decade and raping them repeatedly has been sentenced to life without parole plus 1,000 years. Ariel Castrol was sentenced Thursday. He had pleaded guilty to 937 co

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This is AP News Minute. Congressional investigators are rebuffing former national security advisor Michael Flynn's offer of cooperation in exchange for immunity from prosecution. They say it's too early in their probe of Russian connections to discus

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By Selah Hennessy Dakar 18 July 2007 A new team has been appointed to defend former Liberian president Charles Taylor. Mr. Taylor fired his original lawyer in the opening days of his trial last month. Selah Hennessy reports from VOA's West Africa bur

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By Jim Malone Washington 16 March 2006 Government prosecutors are trying to overcome a major legal setback in the death penalty case against Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person tried and convicted in

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West of Memphis Movie Sparks Murder Debate Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Charles Jason Baldwin were accused of the crime. Their conviction, it turned out, was based on questionable evidence and false testimonies. The widely publicized trials a

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ELISE HU, HOST: A federal corruption trial against a sitting U.S. senator has ended in a mistrial. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ROBERT MENENDEZ: To those who were digging my political graves so that they could jump into my seat, I know who you a

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 07 August 2007 Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua asked his attorney general and minister of justice to take charge of all prosecutions related to corruption charges. For VOA, Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports that the direct

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By Tom Rivers London 26 February 2008 A man described as one of Britain's top terrorist recruiters has been found guilty of training young followers in rural camps in England. For VOA, Tom Rivers reports from London. Tanzanian-born Mohammed Hamid, wh

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By Scott Stearns Dakar 10 November 2009 Prosecutors at the U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone have begun their cross-examination of former Liberian President Charles Taylor who is facing charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Former Lib

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The U.S. Navy has captured nine more suspected pirates off the coast of Somalia, after they allegedly tried to board an Indian commercial ship. The same American ship took seven other men into custody Wednesday. 美国海军在索马里海域抓获了九

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I was horsewhipped. I was hit with a bat. I was hit with a china and that was his weapons. He had 15, 25 lines kid up, waiting to be beaten?, all with their trousers and pants down. Over 5 years while headmaster of St. George School in Great Finborou

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The International Organization for Migration says the Iraqi government is allocating more than $200 million to persuade internally displaced people and refugees to return home. the IOM says the government is enacting a variety of legal and practical

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By Cindy Saine Washington 17 November 2007 Busloads of African Americans from across the United States converged on Washington Friday, to march around the Justice Department building, demanding more enforcement of hate crime laws. One reason for the

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The chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed establishing an independent commission to investigate Bush administration policies dealing with such controversial issues as detainees and wiretapping, as well as decisions that led to

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By Scott Bobb Harare 01 October 2009 Zimbabwe human rights activist Jestina Mukoko at a news conference in Harare, Thursday 1 Oct. 2009 Human-rights defenders in Zimbabwe are praising a Supreme Court decision ordering all charges to be dropped again

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Kosovo's former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has been acquitted of all charges by judges at the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. He and two former Commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army had been charged with murdering, raping, torturin

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The International Organization for Migration says the Iraqi government is allocating more than $200 million to persuade internally displaced people and refugees to return home. the IOM says the government is enacting a variety of legal and practical

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