BBC News with Marion Marshall. The United States says its special forces have mounted a raid against leaders of the Islamic State group in Syria. The Pentagon said a unit of commandos,tasked with tracking down jihadist leaders, carried out the operat

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今天我们要学的词组是run its course。 Run its course的意思是走完该走的历程,按常规进行。 布什总统在切尼付总统的前办公室主任Lewis Libby被判犯有四项重罪之后表示不会马上赦免Libby。 Presiden

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Other notable alumni include the former CEO of IBM company,John Akers; the founder of FedEx, Fred Smith; Chinese graduates from Yale such as Jeme Tien Yow, an expert on railways and bridges and Ma Yin-chu who is the expert on population study. Up t

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Moi Files Libel Suit Against Former US Envoy Katy Salmon Nairobi 31 Jul 2001 15:54 UTC Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi and a key 1)aide are 2)suing a former U.S. 3)ambassador for suggesting they were

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Obama became a master of compartmentalizing his time and focus over the course of his presidency. 在总统任职期间,奥巴马成为了一位合理划分个人时间与精力的大师. Based on the photos of Obama kiteboarding off the coast of bil

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Hillary Clinton plans to deliver a scorching assessment of Donald J. Trumps foreign policy prescriptions on Thursday, casting her likely Republican rival as a threat to decades of bipartisan tenets of American diplomacy and declaring him unfit for th

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A Malaysian airliner with 295 people on board has crashed in Ukraine on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. 一架从阿姆斯特丹飞往吉隆坡的马航客机在乌克兰坠毁,机上共有295人。 Malaysia Airlines said it lost contact w

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Thursday, January 18, 2001 (2001年1月18日) President Bill Clinton: My fellow citizens, tonight is my last opportunity to speak to you from the Oval Office as your president. I am profoundly grateful to you for twice giving me the honor to serv

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CARACAS, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan president-elect Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday that his government has defeated an alleged coup staged by the right wing by creating violence, while opposition leader Henrique Capriles accused the government of p

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John Adams: The Nation's Second President 第2任总统 约翰亚当斯 Do you recognize that song? It is the opening to the show The Addams Family. But today we are talking about a different Adams family one from the history books, not the televisio

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Before the days of Netflix and chill, people had to hand-write their desires for one another -- even presidents. 过去,在出去约炮之前,人们只能通过书信来传情达意,这一点,就连美国总统也不例外。 A four-page love

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Sometimes history jumps. 历史有时会发生跳跃。 Think of the first world war, the Bolshevik revolution, the Great Depression, the election of Adolf Hitler, the second world war, the beginning of the cold war, the collapse of the European empi

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Iran's new president now says his country is ready for serious talks with world powers over the nation's controversial nuclear program. Two days into his job, Hasan Rouhani said his government hoped that talks with the West could begin without wastin

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Politics has quite literally gone to the dogs in one Minnesota village, where a seven-year-old pup has been named mayor. 在美国民尼苏达州的一个小村庄里,狗狗也开始涉足政坛了。一只7岁的小狗被任命为了村子的村长。

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WASHINGTON, June 20 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday spoke with Haitian President Michel Martelly on efforts to further bilateral ties between the two countries, White House said in a statement on Thursday. In the conversation,

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SAN SALVADOR, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Salvador Sanchez Ceren was sworn in Sunday as El Salvador's new president with a pledge to establish a new security system to tackle crimes in his country, where an average of 10 people are killed each day. Beginning

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最早的First Lady的称谓是由first lady of honor, first lady of the Admiralty演化而来,用来这些称呼指那些有影响力的杰出 推荐信息女性。1834年更出现了first lady in (of) the land的称呼。爱德华-布尔沃-里

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President Niyazov of Turkmenistan has ordered the construction of a palace made of ice in the heart of his desert country, one of the hottest on earth. It is the latest in a series of colossal building projects instigated by the all-powerful presiden

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he personal fortunes of those who would become president of the United States have ranged from extremely wealth to distinctly middle-class incomes, but is does pay to be president, especially in these days of personal speaking engagements. A 24/7 Wal

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