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CNN新闻100篇 News Item 14
CNN Another day of international pressure levied against Zimbabwe's embattled President Robert Mugabe. British officials have announced they are stripping Robert Mugabe's honorary knighthood title. Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu is also speaking out about the election mess there. He's urging
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CNN新闻100篇 News Item 15
CNN The Tea Party movement is getting ready for the mid-term elections coming up in November. The group has released a list of heroes and targets. The heroes on the list are candidates that the Tea Party plans to support in the elections. The targets are anyone that the group would like to see
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CNN新闻100篇 News Item 9
CNN Heading overseas to Thailand where grenade attacks in the capital city of Bangkok have killed at least three people. A Thai official said the grenades came from an area where people who were protesting the government were gathered together. The protesters say they are not responsible. They have
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CNN新闻100篇 News Item 8
CNN Strike is off, the judge says plans for a walkout by a British Airway's Cabin Crew cannot happen. As we reported yesterday, this strike which would have last through the holidays could have effected a million passengers' holiday travel plans. But the judge has blocked it from happening. Now
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CNN新闻100篇 News Item 5
CNN Iraqis put democracy into action today in elections held across the country. The polls have closed and a vote-counting has begun. Voters went to 6,000 polling stations to pick from among 14,000 candidates including 4,000 women. Security is very tight though, voters were searched before
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CNN 新闻100篇 News Item 78
CNN Seems the Bible is getting a makeover. Editors for the top-selling [w]version[/w] in North America are updating its language. They say they wanna make it more accessible and easy to understand. They are also taking another look at gender terms. For example, "sons of god" would be "children of god". They hope to have it published in two years. 这篇材料你能听出多少?点击这里做听写,提高外语水平>>
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CNN 新闻100篇 News Item 89
CNN Authorities around the Gulf of Mexico are in a race against time. They are trying to control an oil spill that's heading toward the Louisiana Shore. Yesterday, it was about 23 miles off the coast of Louisiana, could reach land by Friday. If that happens, officials say it could create
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CNN 新闻100篇 News Item 66
CNN The military is asking service members to throw away any treats that contain peanut butter. It comes as the FDA has launched a criminal investigation into the company at the center of that salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter. The company has issued a statement, it says in apart, we
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CNN新闻100篇 News Item 17
CNN Senators are considering alternatives to part of their healthcare legislation, specifically, the so-called public option, government-run health insurance program. Senate republicans and some democrats and independents are against that plan. A group of Democratic Senators was working to come up
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CNN新闻100篇 News Item 7
CNN Meanwhile U.S. President Barack Obama is taking crisis talks to an international level. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is traveling to the United States on Monday to [w]push[/w] for global solutions to the economic crisis. He will be the first E.U. leader to meet the new president
