NPR 2010-05-31

New plans to try to contain BP's massive oil spill are in place. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports the company's managing director visited the Sunday news talk shows today to explain its latest containment strategy. It's clear that no long-term solution is ye

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AP 2011-02-25

1. Four Americans have been fatally shot in an attack by Somali pirates. The two couples were sailing around the world after their retirement. The four are the first Americans killed in a wave of pirate attacks operating off East Africa. 2. The viole

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They might be thousands of kilometers from home, but Iranians living in the United Kingdom are still taking part in their country's presidential election. A queue of people wait to vote outside the Iranian Consulate in London as protesters wave bann

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By Scott Stearns Dakar 27 September 2009 Gabon's constitutional court has ordered that all presidential ballots be recounted, following complaints from opposition candidates that the results are fraudulent. The son of Gabon's long-time ruler Omar Bo

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英语博客：ESL Podcast 733 – Voting in an Election

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By Eve Troeh Los Angeles 22 February 2008 Barack Obama garnered his 11th consecutive primary win this week, when Democrats Abroad announced from Geneva, Switzerland, that the Illinois senator had won the party's Global Primary. Obama got about 65 per

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Wandered by for everyone Old pair of shoes the last place they were left Out by the door where they always were kept Brown laces We stand in line to hear the news We've not been together since Christmas last year Room full of children all sad in the

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We travel next to the center of an alleged case of election fraud. It is Bladen County, N.C., part of North Carolina's 9th Congressional District. It's rural, about 150 miles east of Charlotte. It is home to a facility that is pa