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Putin closes Russian news agency Vocabulary coverage news reporting abolished officially ended sealed the agency's fate decided that something bad would definitely happen to the agency decree official statement that something must happen gets rid of
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Putin closes Russian news agency Summary 9 December 2013 Russia's President Vladimir Putin has closed down the country's state-owned news agency RIA Novosti. He announced it will be replaced by a news agency called Russia Today, led by one of the Kre
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Weather 'behind ozone hole' Vocabulary phased out used less and less streaming through continuously flowing from one side to the other (here, from outside the earth's atmosphere to inside it) plays a key role has a strong influence fluctuating contin
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Weather 'behind ozone hole' Summary 13 December 2013 Scientists have been puzzled by the hole in the ozone layer, which forms each year over Antarctica, but has been changing in size from year to year. Now Nasa researchers say the changes are mostly
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Ireland exits bailout programme Vocabulary affordable reasonably priced stabilisation normalisation; reaching a state where there are no more changes or problems erratically irregularly getting back on their feet recovering feeble weak revenue income
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Ireland exits bailout programme Summary 16 December 2013 Ireland was one of the countries most hit by the Eurozone's financial crisis. Europe and the International Monetary Fund stepped in with loans to the Irish government worth totalling 67.5bn eur
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Fed scales back stimulus effort Vocabulary pumping (here) putting large amounts of signalled indicated unwinding (here) reversing the policy kicked away removed totally props structures to provide support tapering off gradually reducing until there i
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Fed scales back stimulus effort Summary 20 December 2013 The US central bank, the Federal Reserve, says it will next month begin scaling back a key strategy to stimulate the economy because of a stronger jobs market. The Fed said that from January it
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Egypt jails three leading activists Vocabulary SHOW ALL | HIDE ALL at the forefront of leading founding members the people who were part of a group or organisation when it first started crackdown control of illegal behaviour in a very severe way diss
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Egypt jails three leading activists Summary 23 December 2013 Three of Egypt's most prominent activists from the 2011 uprising have been sentenced to three years in prison. They are the first to be convicted under a controversial new law that restrict
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Cheques to be paid in via phone Vocabulary credited (here) money added to an account queuing being in a line of people waiting to be served become a reality become the way of doing things substitute replacement clearing process system by which transa
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Cheques to be paid in via phone Summary 30 December 2013 Plans to allow people to pay cheques into their bank accounts using their smartphones have been announced in Britain by the government's finance department, known as the Treasury. Reporter: Hug
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Huge increase in obesity Vocabulary steepest (here) biggest disposable incomes money left after spending on essential things like food and accommodation quadrupled became four times larger taxing (here) legally making something more expensive so it i
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Huge increase in obesity Summary 3 January 2014 There are new calls for governments around the world to create laws which prevent people eating too much unhealthy food. Researchers at Britain's Overseas Development Institute, say the number of overwe
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Anti-whaling activists Vocabulary footage piece of film showing a particular event bloodied covered in blood butchered killed and cut into pieces designated officially chosen for a special purpose sanctuary protected and safe place to cease to stop e
