Afghanistan will play soccer at the Asian Games. Mongolia's withdrawal has given the war-torn nation a confidence boost.

阿富汗将参加亚运会足球比赛，蒙古的退出给这个饱受战争摧残的国家带来了信心。

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Thailand's Surin Elephant Festival features soccer-playing elephants and a tug-of-war with local men.

泰国素林大象节：大象踢足球，当地人跟大象拔河。

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Previous studies have shown that earthquakes, war or even the loss of a World Cup Soccer match can increase rates of death from sudden cardiac arrest, in which the heart stops circulating blood.

此前的研究表明，地震、战争甚至输掉一场世界杯足球赛都会增加心源性猝死的几率。心源性猝死是一种由心脏突然停止供血而引发的死亡。

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Optimists in both camps still talked about how they would reach out to the other side when it was all over, like the World War I infantrymen who played soccer on Christmas Day before going back to their trenches to try to kill each other again.

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The videos were shot over a few months last summer and show them eating meals with friends, watching soccer games on TV, cooking with their mothers, and even dating in a war zone.

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