The Kremlin and Netanyahu's office initially denied that he had visited Russia – only to confirm later that he had surreptitiously dropped in by private jet.

起先克里姆林宫和内塔尼亚胡的办公室都否认他访问过俄罗斯——后来才证实他曾经秘密地乘私人飞机去串过门。

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While France and Germany were initially hit hard by the global financial crisis, both have officially exited their recessions, while Britain has yet to confirm this has happened.

尽管法国和德国最初受到全球金融危机的重创，但目前两国已正式摆脱经济衰退，而英国则尚未作出类似表态。

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This was initially denied, but leaked e-mails to a South African newspaper appeared to confirm the story and Chuene was forced to backtrack.

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Most of the stories erroneously cited a WWD story as the source of this revelation (representatives from the publication confirm that no such piece exists), probably because of a New York Post item that initially linked to WWD before shifting its attribution to another site.

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