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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.
韩国政府称，印度洋海域被海盗劫持的一艘超级油轮在索马里海域7公里处抛锚。
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.
美国企业研究所谋士马柯认为奥巴马畏首畏尾的，未能让埃及人民意识到美国站在他们一边。
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.
与此同时，反对派正准备开始出口原油，这是大规模的抗议爆发以来的第一次。一艘超级油轮停靠在离埃及边境不远的托布鲁克港。
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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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