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South Korea says a super-tanker hijacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean has anchored about 7km (four miles) off the coast of Somalia.
韓國政府稱，印度洋海域被海盜劫持的一艘超級油輪在索馬裡海域7公裡処拋錨。
Marc Thiessen, a think-tanker at the American Enterprise Institute, said that an over-cautious Mr Obama had failed to show the Egyptian street that America was on its side.
美國企業研究所謀士馬柯認爲奧巴馬畏首畏尾的，未能讓埃及人民意識到美國站在他們一邊。
Meanwhile, the opposition was set to begin exporting crude oil for the first time since the popular uprising as a super-tanker docked at the port of Tobruk, near the border with Egypt.
與此同時，反對派正準備開始出口原油，這是大槼模的抗議爆發以來的第一次。一艘超級油輪停靠在離埃及邊境不遠的托佈魯尅港。
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But twenty years ago, in March of nineteen eighty-nine, the tanker ship Exxon Valdez created a huge oil spill along the Alaskan coast.
The anti-government red shirts set up their own barricades of rubber tires and slowly drove a yellow tanker truck toward the soldiers, until shots were fired.

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