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1. Israeli strikes killed at least 30 people and injured 110 in Jabalia, a city in northern Gaza, according to Gazan authorities. Médicins sans Frontières, a charity, warned that thousands of people were trapped in a refugee camp there amid an Israeli ground offensive. Earlier the Israel Defence Forces said they would conduct “a thorough review” after strikes on southern Lebanon injured two United...

這天逛逛查理大橋 天氣非常冷，很佩服出來擺攤的老闆們 雖然不給殺價，但還(算)是情願給他們賺點錢 接下來的行程就是搬到第二位沙發主Barka的家 雖然在Phil家也住得很開心，但沒有熱水可以洗澡的居住狀況實在不太理想 所以Barka家的暖氣、熱水和氣墊床真的就是天堂了 而且又有很酷的寵物! 雖然我們有點被嚇到花容失色 (?) 是什麼呢? 現在就收聽~ -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

1. Israel reportedly said it was preparing “a response” to Iran’s missile attack. Meanwhile, the Israel Defence Forces continued to launch air strikes on Lebanon on Saturday. The IDF said it had killed two Hamas militants. Earlier, President Joe Biden said that Israel should consider “other alternatives” to striking  Iranian  oil fields. Mr Biden also said that “no administration has helped Israel...

1. Iran’s supremeleader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned Israel that its killing of  Hassan Nasrallah , Hizbullah’s leader, would “not go unavenged” and announced five days of official mourning. The militant group’s leader was killed in an air strike targeting its headquarters in Beirut on Friday. Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said Nasrallah’s death would change “the balance of power...

依依不捨送走了GPS…啊是Jasper 這天克洛伊和阿尼就在舊城廣場走走 各式風格的建築群落在此，令人目不暇給，根本看不完 布拉格是不是建築界的羅浮宮啊? 這一集還聊到兩個重要的撇步：怎麼判斷客套話、怎麼有效保暖 要去歐美國家或高緯度高海拔地區旅遊的朋友趕快來收聽! -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

1. Israel launched more air strikes on Lebanon, killing at least 31 people, including two  Hizbullah commanders in southern Beirut. One of those killed was Ibrahim Aqil, a member of the Shia militia’s leadership who was wanted by America for carrying out an attack on the American embassy in Beirut in 1983. In recent days Israel has been ramping up its  attacks  on Hizbullah, which has been launchi...

1. Russia released more than 100 Ukrainian soldiers and officers who it had** captured** during Ukraine’s  incursion into the Kursk region ; Ukraine released the same number of Russians. It is the second large prisoner-of-war swap in two days. The deal was mediated by the United Arab Emirates—the eighth one brokered by the Gulf state since the start of 2024. 俄羅斯釋放了逾百名在烏克蘭突入庫爾斯克...

在布拉格醒來的第一天，先去參觀幅員廣大的皇宮 皇宮本體已經吸引不了看過眾多宮殿的我們 對卡夫卡住過的黃金巷和牢獄展示的刑具印象更深刻 中午品嘗捷克當地料理 - 饅頭 原來饅頭搭配肉汁也很美味 不知道饅頭夾起司蛋在這裡能否受到歡迎 晚上回到煙霧瀰漫的沙發主家中 映入眼簾的是一群斜臥在地的年輕人抽著大麻 還有比這更波西米亞的嗎 In or out? 一起還是快溜? Find out now! 聽了就知道! -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

1. A judge in New York postponed Donald Trump’s  sentencing  for paying hush money until after  America’s presidential election . Mr Trump was convicted of  34 felony counts  of falsifying business records in May and was meant to be sentenced in July. That date was then rescheduled to September 18th following a ruling by the Supreme Court that presidents enjoy  considerable immunity from prosecuti...

1. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, begged America to let it strike deep inside Russia after his delegates met officials in Washington on Saturday.  Ukraine’s army  is limited to using American weapons on its soil and in defensive cross-border attacks. Mr Zelensky said six people were killed and 97 injured by Russian guided aerial bombs in Kharkiv on Friday, and that such attacks could onl...

在柏林做了最後一次的巡禮 從亞歷山大廣場漫步到布蘭登堡門 貪婪地欣賞這座城市交織和諧的歷史與科技 雖然依依不捨，但再美好的筵席終究會結束 更多的美好在前方等著我們 一到布拉格就忙著認識同住的沙發客們 沒想到還遇到型男同鄉 順便還把下一站的住宿問題解決了~ 會不會太美好~~~ 趕快來聽聽這美好的一集吧! -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

1. Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, suggested that the central bank will soon cut interest rates. In a keenly awaited speech at the meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, he said that “time has come for policy to adjust”. The inflation rate is close to the Fed’s 2% target. Meanwhile, data suggest that  America’s economy  is slowing; unemployment jumped to 4.3% in July....

1. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said his country’s troops had gained complete control of the Russian town of Sudzha, in the Kursk border region. With a pre-evacuation population of around 5,000, it is the largest town to fall during Ukraine’s surprise,  ten-day incursion . Earlier, Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s president, called on Russia and Ukraine to end their “scuffle” in an inte...

舊的不去新的不來 揮別了非常有原則的沙發主Chris 我們在柏林的第三晚住在暖男大叔 - Frank 的家中 雖然覺得這樣搬來搬去有點麻煩 但認識Frank讓旅程增添了更多人情味 還好有先補充心靈上的溫暖 因為我們今天要去參觀世界上最慘絕人寰的地方之一 布亨瓦德集中營 看到陳列的照片和遺跡 我們心情越來越沉重 身為德國人的Frank安慰我們 歷史都過去了 是啊，無法改變過去，我們就認真度過當下 我們一起享用了美味的晚餐 度過了美好的時...

1. Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel-peace-prize winner, landed in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, to lead an interim government . He met the army chief and is expected to be sworn in on Thursday. Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister, resigned and fled on Monday following days of violent unrest. In a  guest essay  for *The Economist *published before his appointment Mr Yunus laid out the next steps for Ban...

1. The Pentagon said it would deploy more fighter jets and warships to the Middle East, as concerns grew about Iran’s response to the assassination of  Ismail Haniyeh , Hamas’s political leader, on its territory on Wednesday. Israel is widely assumed to have carried out the airstrike that killed Mr Haniyeh in Tehran. Iran’s promise to “take vengeance” has stoked fears of a  regional war . 五角大廈...

早上在博物館島，又是世界遺產 幾乎到每個國家都會參觀世界遺產的我們，似乎已經感到遺產飽和了 轉黃的樹葉好像更有看頭 下午到柏林圍牆的遺址，現在已經轉化成藝術家揮灑的畫布 數公里長的牆上，充滿意境的畫作一幅緊接著一幅 幽默的、諷刺的、悲憤的、勸世的 似乎要將那些年被束縛的情感狂瀉而出 在沙發主Chris家的最後一晚 料理的搭配可與豬血糕配上巧克力來媲美 到底我們吃了什麼 趕快來收聽 -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

1. An IT outage caused businesses around the world to grind to a halt after thousands of workers were unable to log on to their computers. The outage was blamed on an update to software provided by CrowdStrike, an American  cybersecurity  firm, which is thought to have caused problems with  Microsoft’s  Windows operating system. Airports, retailers, and the London Stock Exchange are among some of...

在查理檢查哨博物館待了一個早上 感受歷史的震懾，以及當初在東德渴望自由、 迫切逃到西德的那種渴望 無法想像躲在汽車引擎"下面"，一路從東德開車到西德的感覺 可能因為早上感受太強烈的，加上我們都不是逛街咖 下午的西方百貨公司對我們的吸引力就不是很強烈 而且我們也不太可能在這裡買什麼東西 隨意走走就離開了 沒想到這家百貨公司可是大有來頭 讓阿尼和克洛伊介紹給你聽 -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

1. Joe Biden reportedly arranged virtual meetings with congressional groups one day after delivering a  closely watched press conference . Twenty Democrats in the House of Representatives and one senator have publicly called on him to step aside. In Thursday’s news conference Mr Biden combined verbal gaffes with a firm grasp of foreign policy. He promised to stay in the  presidential race  and “co...

1. Sir Keir Starmer promised an “age of national renewal” after his Labour Party won a landslide victory in Britain’s general election. With counting nearly completed, Labour  had secured more than  400 seats. Rishi Sunak, the Conservative prime minister, called it a “sobering verdict”. The Tories lost seat after seat to Labour—and were beaten into third place in several places by the populist  Re...

體驗過了醉醺醺的慕尼黑、童話小鎮+書香風的海德堡 我們到了德國的最後一站 -- 首都柏林 在布蘭登堡門感受歷史和寂靜的力量 在國會大廈玻璃穹頂俯瞰德國首都 在猶太人紀念館接受令人不適的洗禮 晚上接受了沙發主Chris的款待，品嘗道地德國家常菜 享受了很美好、很德國的一天 -- Hosting provided by SoundOn

1. Two days after a  disastrous presidential debate  in Atlanta, Joe Biden travelled to New York to attend a Democratic Party fundraising event. Mr Biden hopes to reassure donors after his poor performance against Donald Trump, his Republican opponent, panicked Democratic elites. So far, Mr Biden has resisted calls  to give way to another candidate . Speaking on Friday, he acknowledged that he doe...

1. America will suspend deliveries of  air-defence interceptors  to other allies in order to rush more of the munitions to Ukraine. The country is under heavy bombardment by Russia, which is targeting its power stations. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, has said that Ukraine needs at least seven more** Patriot** systems in order to defend itself against the Russian attacks. Romania announc...

一早吃完美味的麵包，就去拜訪另一座大學城--曼海姆 悠遊在校地中，再去教堂欣賞管風琴演奏 享受身心靈的洗禮 讓我們可以全心全意地準備迎接晚上的 火~鍋~~ 真是奇怪，歐洲冬天這麼冷，這裡的人除了起司和酒之外， 竟然沒發明出跟火鍋類似的料理 我們身處入秋時分，開始有涼意的德國 基因中的臺灣魂就開始在呼叫火鍋了啊~~ 那我們的德國朋友們會喜歡嗎? 趕快來收聽 -- Hosting provided by SoundOn