中英双语新闻 澳大利亚总理“嘲笑”特朗普

BBC News. The charred London tower block engulfed in one of Britain's worst fires in modern times is being inspected to see if it's safe for firefighters to finish looking for bodies. Seventeen deaths have now been confirmed, but many people are unac

NPR 2008-06-26

The Supreme Court today has struck down a law allowing the execution of individuals convicted of child rape. The high court, in a 5-4 vote, said a Louisiana law permitting the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates a constitution ban on

NPR 2011-02-14

The new military rulers of Egypt announced today they've dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution, the main demands from the opposition that successfully drove President Hosni Mubarak from power. The Higher Military Council also promised i

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经济学人:一周政治要闻17

The world this week Politics 本周政治 The Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria(ISIS), an extreme offshoot of al-Qaeda that operates in both those countries, captured Mosul, 一个基地极端主义分支，伊拉克和大叙利亚伊斯兰国，

欧盟草拟激进版权改革方案向谷歌等施压

European news publishers will be given the right to levy fees on internet platforms such as Google if search engines show snippets of their stories, under radical copyright reforms being finalised by the European Commission. 根据欧盟委员会(Eur

CNN 2009-06-04

Hi there, thanks for joining us, I'm Virginia Cha at the CNN center in Atlanta with a look at what's happening Now In The News. Al Jazeera is playing a purported new message from Osama Bin Laden. In it the speaker criticizes President Obama for supp

TED演讲：去怀疑的勇气(6)

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万物简史 第50期:埃文斯牧师的宇宙(14)

Supernovae are significant to us in one other decidedly central way. Without them we wouldn't be here. You will recall the cosmological conundrum with which we ended the first chapterthat the Big Bang created lots of light gases but no heavy elements

【荆棘鸟】第五章 12

It's true, of course. I knew he wasn't yours the moment I first saw him. There's not much misses you, is there? I suppose not. However, it doesn't take much more than very ordinary powers of observation to see when the various members of my parish ar

纸牌屋第一季 第102期:非法移民是重罪

Good evening, sir. 晚上好，先生 Uh, Stephanie tells me there was a hair on your plate. 斯蒂芬妮说您的餐盘里有根头发 No. 没有 There wasn't any hair. 没有头发 Leon, right? That's your name? 你叫里昂对吧 Yes. 是的 Steph

中国宣布首艘国产航母正在大连建造

Defence Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun told a news briefing yesterday that the 50,000-ton vessel is being built in the north-eastern port city of Dalian. He stressed that China remains committed to peaceful development and to a defence policy that is

日本鲜见的向美最高法院阐述有关慰安妇的观点

TOKYO In a rare step Japan has presented an opinion to the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to rule in favor of a suit seeking the removal of a comfort women statue in California Foreign Ministry officials said Tuesday. 东京日本外务省官员周二称

美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2011-01-05

1. A top House Republican says GOP lawmakers will go after President Barack Obama's healthcare law piece by piece to see if they can make it crumble. Michigan Congressman Fred Upton says he thinks Republicans can garner enough Democratic support to o

低情商-不能明白他人的感受(1)

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French police have launched an anti-terror operation in the northwest of Paris following the arrest of a man accused of planning an attack in France. Police have been searching a block of flats in the suburb of Argenteuil. Hugh Schofield repots from

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The Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has accused her deputy of plotting her down for and has branded him a traitor. Ms. Rousseff, who faces impeachment vote onSunday, said vice president Michel Temer was conspiring with the speaker of the Lower Hou

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