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2020-11-24来源:和谐英语

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Taliban and Afghan goverment representatives on the sidelines of talks in Qatar on Saturday. Pompeo was expected to press for a reduction in violence in his meetings with both sides during a daylong stop in Doha.
Protesters in Lebanon took to the streets in their cars on Saturday to mark the country's Independence Day, despite the ongoing coronavirus lockdown. Dozens of demonstrators drove around Beirut in a show of rejection to the political leadership they blame for the country's economics and finance crisis.

In Bangkok, secondary school students held a rally Saturday to support educational and political reforms, defying the Thai government's threats to crackdown. The rally was called by the group that calls itself 'Bad Students, mocking their status as rebels against traditional school rules and authorities.
A U.S.-European satellite designed to extend a decades-long measurement of global sea surface heights launched into Earth orbit from California on Saturday. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite was expected to deploy its solar panels and later make first contact with controllers.