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The US attorney-general Eric Holder has said the Department of Justice will conduct a swift investigation into the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died during an arrest in New York. Mr. Holder said federal charges would be brought if a
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President Obama is calling for a big increase in the use of body cameras for police officers in the United States, following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson. Mr. Obama says he wants
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President Obama has condemned what he called for barbaric murder of an American jounalist Luke Somers and a South African teacher Pierre Korkie. They were being held hostage by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen. The US military says the men were murdered b
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If you work at one of your countrys embassies or consulates, be prepared to receive strange requests for assistance. Like the one from an Australian man in Thailand who wanted to borrow money from the embassy in Bangkok to pay a local prostitute. And
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Officials in Yemen say that 70 people were drowned when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the countrys western coast. Most of those on board were from Ethiopia, rough seas are being blamed for the sinking. Alan Johnston reports. 也门官方称一艘
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The UN humanitarian chief has said the situation in Syria is a stain on the international community as the UN lauched its biggest ever humanitarian appeal. Valerie Amos said more than 16 billion dollars was needed to fund UN humanitarian operations a
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The Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has expressed regret for the death of the Palestinian government minister Ziad Abu Ein following a confrontation with Israeli forces. Mr. Yaalon said the incident in the West Bank was being investigated. Pict
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Senators in the US have condemned the CIA's use of extreme interrogation methods, following the Semptember 11th attacks, saying in some cases, they amount to torture. A long-awaited senate's report said the techniques used provided no useful informat
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Two years ago this Sunday on December 14, 2012, 20 children along with 6 adults were murdered in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. One of the children whose life was taken was a six-year old girl called Anna. Beaut
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In Japan, the governing coalition led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has retained a two-thirds majority in the lower house of parliament after a snap election. But the turnout of about 52% was the lowest since the WWII, partly because of heavy snowfall
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After more than 3000 years, a statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III has been re-erected by archeologists in the city of Luxor after being knocked down by an earthquake. 3000多年前，埃及法老阿蒙霍特普三世的雕像被地震摧毁，
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The White House has described the cyber-attack on Sony Pictures as a serious national security matter. It says it was a malicious attack by what it called a sophisticated hacker. Although it did not name North Korea. Earlier, Sony announced that a co
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Life is known to exist in some of the most inhospitable places from the polar ice to hydrothermal vents. Well, now scientists have uncovered life more than 2,000 meters beneath the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Thefindings have been presented at the Am
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President Obama says Sony made a mistake by cancling the release of a film marking the North Korea leader Kim Jong-un under a cyber attack on its computer systems. At the end of the news conference, Mr. Obama said he was sympathetic to Sony's dilemma
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President Obama says his administration is going to review whether to restore North Korea to its list of state sponsors of terrorism after blaming Pyongyang for a cyber-attack on the U.S. firm, Sony Pictures Entertainment. In an interview with CNN, M
