An executive board member of the German technology company Siemens has been arrested as part of a bribery investigation. Johannes Feldmayer is accused of paying 34 million to Wilhelm Schelsky, the former head of the AUB trade union who is now in jai

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Stocks in Europe have dropped for 4th consecutive day, marking the longest losing streak in four months. The Euro stock dipped almost 1%, the share markets slumped after the European Central Bank announced it would withdraw some emergency cash. The P

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Good morning. The New South Wales State Opposition is pushing for a parliamentary inquiry into allegations for the tape made by murdered businessman Michael McGurk implicates Labor MPs in a bribery scandal. However, former ALP powerbroker Graham Rich

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Australian consular officials will be barred from a Chinese court when industrial espionage charges are heard against Australian Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu. Hu's trial starts in China today. He and three Chinese co-accused will face the Shanghai In

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Mining giant Rio Tinto says the jailing of four employees, including Australian Stern Hu won't affect its relationship with China. Hu and three colleagues were found guilty of commercial spying and bribery yesterday. Stern Hu's received a 10-year sen

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Britain's expelled an Israeli diplomat over the use of forged UK passports in the murder of a top Hamas commander. Despite Israeli denials, the British foreign minister says theres compelling evidence to suggest the Mossad spy agency was involved in

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A car crash on the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne has killed two young men and critically injured three others. The car hit a power pole just before midnight and the Defence Department has confirmed the men are Navy personnel. Now former Pri

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1. Residents of central Texas are cleaning up after severe storms and flash flooding killed more than a dozen people. Crews continue to search for those still missing. 2. In Switzerland, six soccer officials have been arrested in a police raid in a b

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(102) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2015(五)月

1. Severe weekend weather has led to at least three deaths as storms stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Great Lakes. More than 1,000 homes have been damaged throughout Oklahoma and Texas. 2. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been senten

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Britain's largest drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline may be prosecuted in the United Kingdom under the country's anti-commercial bribery law. The company is already facing bribery charges in China, after four of its senior executives in its Chinese sector det

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BBC News with Johnathan Izard. Brazilian police are searching a prison outside the Amazonian city of Manaus after at least 60 inmates died in fighting between rival gangs. Families have been gathering outside the local mortuary to identify the bodies

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New Words ▲bribe n. 贿赂(尤指钱) vt. 向行贿,买通 bribery n. 行贿, 受贿 ◆ethics n. 道德准则,伦理标准 Phrases and Expressions on the increase 在增长中 a way of life 生活方式 pay up 付款,还钱 stand by 遵守,履

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The Shanghai Daily newspaper reported that 22 company directors and senior employees of multinational corporations such as McDonald's, McKinsey Consulting, and Whirlpool have been detained as part of a bribery investigation. Four Chinese computer ne

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1. Moments before being captured, a suspected New Jersey bank robber begged police to shoot him. The man is one of the three suspects in a string of robberies. One led to the shooting of an FBI agent accidentally shot by a colleague. 2. Video from f

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今天要讲的习惯用语里都有一个关键的单词,那就是fair 。 Fair这个单词有好几种意思,但是在我们今天要讲的习惯用语里,fair是指合理,正确,公正。 我们来给大家介绍第一个习惯用语:f

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Leading the news this morning.Victoria's new premier Denis Napthine has a very big job ahead of him to revive the coalition government's flagging fortunes. He was sworn in late last night after Ted Baillieu's shock resignation. Now earlier in the day

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模仿文本: The British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has admitted that some of its top Chinese executives broke the law in what the Chinese authorities claim is a half-a-billion-dollar bribery scandal. The company is alleged to have paid

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今天我们要学的词是 overturn. Overturn 动词,推翻。The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the bribery conviction of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell. 美国联邦最高法院推翻了前维吉尼亚州长麦克唐纳贪污受贿的判决

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The Syrian governments assault on the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta has come to a halt for five hours. The five-hour pause was ordered by Russia, the governments main backer. Their aim is to allow civilians to leave. Its not clear that food and med

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Francis Bacon 弗朗西斯培根 Francis Bacons words knowledge is power are well-known to us. This talented boy is so clever that he entered the Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of twelve and lived for three years there with his older brother.

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