World Action Needed to Prevent Widespread Antibiotic Resistance Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, we have used antibiotics against a host of infections. But now, doctors are finding that more and more bacteria are resistant to even the stron

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(十二月)

And a cloud band stretching from the tropics to the southeast in a trough is causing widespread rainfall and a few thunderstorms. Patchy low cloud over the Queensland coast in onshore winds is causing scattered showers. In Queensland, showers and thu

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A front sweeping across the eastern state at the momnet is triggering severe whether warnings for damaging winds with some isolated severe thunderstorms triggering damaging winds as well. We've also got a pool of very cold air set to sweeping behind

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Plenty clouds still across the south east as a series of cold fronts will still moves through the south east in state over the weekend. But it looks at this stage as though Saturday will be the coldest of the days across the region, but it won't be a

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A: You got a letter in the mail. B: Give it to me. A: What is it? B: Its my acceptance letter from UCLA. A: What does it say? B: Ive been accepted! A: Are you serious? B: Im serious. A: Good for you! B: NYU was my first choice, but UCLA is just fine.

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 16 October 2007 A new report finds growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) last year was the largest since 2000 and occurred in all regions of the world. In its annual World Investment Report , the U.N. Conference on Trade an

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By Cathy Majtenyi Somaliland 20 February 2008 Mental illness is a widespread problem in the self-declared, east African republic of Somaliland. But resources to treat the problem are scarce, and society often stigmatizes the mentally ill and their fa

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General Martin Dempsey said a key role of the American troops in Iraq is to assess whether the country's security forces can hold together and whether its leaders are confident they can do their jobs. Dempsey told reporters that the 750 troops will h

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 24 July 2006 Just three and a half years ago, the east African country of Kenya brimmed with hope that the new government of President Mwai Kibaki would honor its campaign pledge to stamp out widespread corruption. But a new ba

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 24 August 2006 The U.S. military is planning to increase its operations on the U.S. Pacific Territory of Guam, and senior civilian and military officials plan to meet on the island next month to discuss the details. In this sec

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The independent U.N. expert on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, says torture is practiced frequently in many countries, and that prison conditions are often so poor they can be considered cruel and inhuman treatment. From Uni

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Report: Widespread Trafficking of Great Apes Its estimated at least 3,000 great apes are illegally seized and sold every year. For every ape that is captured alive, many others are slaughtered. A new report Tuesday says law enforcement is undermanned

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A U.S Army investigation into abuses of Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison is expected to place blame on low-level soldiers, while generally clearing senior commanders of involvement. Seven U.S. soldiers are already facing charges of abuse in connect

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Top fronts are going to move through the southeast overnight and through the early part of Saturday, reaching Sydney as we are heading to above some states. The main feature with this system is very cold air in and behind and there is going to see so

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2014年

Lets take a look at the satellite image. A low pressure system and a trough over Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia are producing widespread areas of rain and thunderstorms. Another trough approaching Victoria and Tasmania is producing i

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The super severe thunderstorm is possible in association with surface in upper-level sitting trough the eastern state on Saturday. Planet mostly fading into that is likely to lead to flash flood through parts of New South Wales into Queensland and po

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We are now joined by Jia Xiudong, a senior research fellow at the China Institute of International Studies. Welcome. Q1: The visit to the controversial shrine is in sharp contrast to what Abe said he would do when he was elected prime minister last y

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今天我们要学的词是whereabouts。 Whereabouts, 行踪,下落。美国南卡罗来纳州州长前一段时间忽然消失。Even his staff and family seemed to be in the dark about his whereabouts, 就连他的助手和家人好象都不知道

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The high pressure system is the dominant feature across the continent. Underneath, we got some very cold and frosty mornings, but we are expecting to see mostly sunny conditions. The only rainfall, a few light showers along the Queensland coast, down

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本期内容: Tunisia has banned Emirates airline from landing in the capital Tunis after a number of Tunisian women were prevented from boarding its flights. The move comes amid widespread anger in Tunisia, with rights groups condemning racist and

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