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英国新闻听力 美国驻阿富汗士兵被绑架
The family of an American soldier kidnapped in Afghanistan has asked people across the United States to pray for him. The man is Private Bowe Bergdahl from Idaho. He is 23 and believed to be the first American soldier to be seized by the Taliban. Hes
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英国新闻听力 第一次登月40周年纪念
President Barack Obama has marked the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing by praising the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission for inspiring a generation of scientists and engineers. The president was speaking after meeting the first men to wa
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英国新闻听力 伊朗德黑兰发生多起冲突
There have been renewed clashes between police and opposition demonstrators in the Iranian capital Tehran. Eyewitnesses reported that dozens of protesters were arrested in one of the citys main squares after chanting slogans against President Ahmadin
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英国新闻听力 南非暴力抗议活动扩散
Violent protests against poor living conditions are spreading in South Africa where more than 100 people have been arrested in a week of clashes. Police fired rubber bullets at demonstrators in Johannesburg, the Western Cape and the north-eastern reg
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英国新闻听力 德国大众收购保时捷
The German car giant Volkswagen has unveiled plans to take control of the German sports car firm Porsche. The move follows an abortive bid by Porsche to take over its lager rival who left it crippled with debts. The specialist high-performance Porsch
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英国新闻听力 被罢免洪都拉斯总统短暂穿越边境
The deposed President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya has made a brief crossing back into the country from neighboring Nicaragua for the first time since his removal from office in June. Mr. Zelaya crossed a few meters into Honduran territory. Steven Gibbs
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英国新闻听力 伊拉克北部库尔德总统选举
Preliminary counting has begun following presidential and parliamentary elections in the autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. Opposition parties have alleged voting irregularities, but the Iraqi Electoral Commission said the poll has been tr
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英国新闻听力 美国中东特使访问以色列
The American Middle-East envoy George Mitchell has reassured Israel of what he called Washington's unshakable commitment to its security during talks in Tel Aviv with the Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Relations have been tense since President Obama de
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英国新闻听力 尼日利亚北部发生暴力冲突
More than 100 people have been killed in two days of continuing violence in northern Nigeria. There have been gun battles between Islamist militants and police in four mainly Muslim states. The clashes began when militants demanding the wider adoptio
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英国新闻听力 伊朗释放被关押抗议者
Troops in Nigeria have been shelling the headquarters of a radical Islamist group, which is accused of being behind three days of violence across five northern states, which has left at least 100 people dead. The army is concentrating its attacks on
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英国新闻听力 雅虎股价下跌
Reports from northern Nigeria say that the fighting between the security forces and militant Islamists who were blamed for fomenting violence across several northern states has worsened. Latest reports from the town of Maiduguri where the militants a
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英国新闻听力 奥巴马称美国经济向正确方向前进
The American President Barack Obama says the latest economic statistics are an important sign the United States is heading in the right direction. President Obama said the economy had done measurably better than expected, but with an unemployment rep
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英国新闻听力 哥伦比亚法庭判处士兵30年监禁
A judge in Colombia has sentenced ten soldiers to 30 years in prison for murdering civilians and passing them off as rebels killed in combat. The soldiers were convicted for killing two restaurant workers in 2006 and presenting their bodies as rebel
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英国新闻听力 伊朗反对派领袖谴责审判活动
Two prominent opposition figures in Iran have denounced the trials of leading reformists and activists detained during the unrest that followed the disputed presidential election in June. The main opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has said the
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英国新闻听力 美国银行同意支付罚款了结控诉
The Bank of America has agreed to pay 33 million dollars to settle accusations by the US government over billions of dollars of bonuses paid out last year by its investment on Merrill Lynch. Bank of America took over Merrill Lynch to save it from col
