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    CNN It's back to work for Indian government oil workers after a three-day strike that crippled Indian commerce. Some 45,000 oil workers walked off the job after the government refused their demands for higher pay. The labor standoff ended after days of intense government pressure, including threats

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    CNN Greenpeace is trying to stop suspected whalers. It's been tracking in the Antarctic Ocean. The environmental group located the whaling fleet after searching for more than a week. Greenpeace is warning it will take non-violent action to stop any whales from being killed. The most commercial

  • CNN 新闻100篇 News Item 75

    CNN A painting purchased for 20,000 dollars at an art auction a couple of years ago, maybe an undiscovered work by Leonardo Da Vinci. A forensic expert says fingerprint on the painting may prove that it's the first major work from Da Vinci discovered in about a century. If it is, that 20,000 dollar purchase could be worth 150 million dollars. 这篇材料你能听出多少?点击这里做听写,提高外语水平>>

  • CNN 新闻100篇 News Item 61

    CNN Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are both meeting with Chicago's mayor later this morning. Mayor Richard J. Daley is expected to ask for more federal money to hire extra police officers. Some of these officers could be dedicated to covering Chicago's schools. Forty children have been killed in violent crimes across the city of Chicago so far this year. 这篇材料你能听出多少?点击这里做听写,提高外语水平>>

  • CNN新闻100篇 News Item 26

    CNN In the United States, President Obama is scheduled to sit down today with the heads of some of the country's biggest banks to talk about small businesses, ones that have 500 or fewer employees. Many of them are having a hard time getting loans from banks. But banks argue that the policies put in place because of this financial crisis have affected how they can offer the loans. 这篇材料你能听出多少?点击这里做听写,提高外语水平>>

  • CNN新闻100篇 News Item 6

    CNN Iranian media reports former President Mohammad Khatami has announced he will run in the June presidential elections. Today's announcement ends weeks of speculation. Khatami is considered a reformist and overwhelmingly won the presidency in 1997 but he couldn't bring about religious

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    CNN A holy day in Iran marked by violence as protesters clashed with police forces about a week ago. Demonstrators have spoken out against the country's government for months now, but the clashes on the Muslim holy day of Ashura were the worst so far. At least seven people killed in the violence

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    CNN In the Midwest, flood watches and warnings could extend from Missouri to Michigan. Water levels are rising rapidly in northern Indiana, which has soaked up five inches of rain. Officials report roads washed out and water spilling over the tops of dams. In Mansonselo, emergency management

  • 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 [w]criminal[/w] 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

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    CNN The head of Iraq's government says that a series of suicide bombing is designed to [w]create[/w] chaos in that country and prevent [w]progress[/w] toward elections that is scheduled for next year. Prime Ministry Nuri Al-Maliki called yesterday's terrorist attacks cowardly. The five explosions