The Soviet Union refused to sign the Treaty of San Francisco and publicly stated that the Kuril Islands issue was one of the reasons for its opposition to the Treaty.

苏联拒绝签署旧金山合约，并公开宣称千岛群岛问题是拒绝该条约的原因之一。

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While David Beckham and his ever-slender wife Victoria also show no sign of losing the shine from their union 11 years after the event.

而大卫•贝克汉姆与他始终苗条的妻子维多利亚结婚11年依然恩爱如初。

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Historians believe that cacao seeds were also used in marriage ceremonies as a sign of the union between a husband and wife.

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Other than Mr.Museveni and Zambia's President Banda, the only other African Union member state presidents to sign the IDP convention were Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Mohammed Abdelaziz of the territory of Western Sahara,and Somalia's Sheikh Sharif Ahmed.

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Both provinces have deep social-democratic traditions, and labour laws that allow a workplace to be certified as unionised without a vote, as long as a majority of employees sign union cards.

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Italian and Spanish bond yields rose Monday, which is a further sign of increasing stress in the European Union.

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But former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, who now sits as an MEP, said Britain was trying to have a "Europe a la carte" where it could "pick and choose" which parts of the union to sign up to.

BBC: Nick Clegg on the Today programme