2010-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The international community is increasing pressure on incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo to cede power after the U.N. Security Council voted Monday to extend the mandate of its 10,000-memb

2010-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations says it is preparing to assist up to 30,000 refugees fleeing Ivory Coast as a result of the political turmoil and violence in that country.The U.N. reports more than 6,000 refugees

2010-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Belarus's presidential candidate Grigory Kostusyev says he was held by secret police and pressured to renounce his colleagues before being released. He said candidate Dmitry Uss also had been release

2010-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

India and Russia have signed defense and civil nuclear deals worth billions of dollars during a visit by the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to New Delhi. The two countries reaffirmed their long-sta

2010-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Kenyan police are investigating possible links to terrorist groups after a bus station blast killed one and injured more than 40 people in Nairobi.A small bomb exploded about 8 p.m. local time Monday

2010-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Many Muslims are concerned that terrorist attacks carried out in the name of Islam are creating a false impression that the faith is violent by its very nature. A group of American Muslims has launche

2010-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On January 9, the people of Southern Sudan will cast their vote for, or against, independence from the north. The referendum is part of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace agreement between the South and th

2010-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

With the referendum on southern independence just 19 days away, humanitarian organizations in Sudan are preparing for the possible results by moving three months of emergency supplies into areas where

2010-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

British police say they have arrested 12 men suspected of plotting a terrorist attack in Britain. The men were taken from different areas around the country as a result of counter-terrorism intelligen

2010-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Palestinian leaders are searching for alternative ways forward in their bid to establish a Palestinian state, following the collapse of the latest round of peace talks, this year. One way they are tr

2010-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Water is a scarce resource in the desert regions of the Middle East. Though disputes over water have come close to triggering wars between nations of the region in the past, diplomats intervened to ke

2010-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

James Balog's extraordinary photographs are a window on the world's endangered wildlife, melting glaciers and disappearing landscapes. The self-taught artist began his craft with a passion for natur

2010-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Late 18th century European opera may seem an odd choice of entertainment for modern, Arab audiences. But art is art... or at least that is the message of a group of Egyptian singers staging Amadeus Mo

2010-12-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United States declared the end of its combat mission in Iraq in August and is to withdraw its remaining troops by the end of 2011. But the security problems plaguing the nation nearly eight years

2010-12-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama's review of his strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, which he made public on Thursday, says the approach he announced a year ago is working. Still, the president acknowledged

2010-12-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Mount Vernon Estate in the southern U.S. state of Virginia is one of the most beloved historical landmarks in the United States. Every year, about one million people visit the home of America's

2010-12-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

2010 will be remembered as the year tensions on the Korean peninsula soared to their highest level since the war there in the early 1950s. As the year ends, the two Koreas find themselves engaged in a

2010-12-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The tide from the global recession has ebbed, but economists say the world is still feeling turbulence in its wake: continuing high unemployment, the European debt crisis and a lopsided, uneven recov

2010-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In a political bombshell for the Balkans, Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has been named in a European report as the head of a 'mafia-like' crime organization - accused of drug dealing, assass

2010-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The American Heart Association reports that the death rate from diseases affecting the heart and blood vessels has dropped by almost 30 percent since the 1990's. Still, heart disease remains a major

2010-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Water is a scarce resource in the desert regions of the Middle East. Though disputes over water have come close to triggering wars between nations of the region in the past, diplomats intervened to ke

2010-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

New research on the parasite that causes sleeping sickness suggests possible new ways to attack the disease.African sleeping sickness affects mostly rural people in 36 sub-Saharan countries. The World

2010-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Researchers in Iceland say they've developed a more effective test to screen for prostate cancer. In many countries, prostate cancer is among the leading causes of cancer deaths in men. Doctors rely

2010-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Premature and low birth weight babies are surviving as never before, thanks to treatments available in neonatal intensive care units. That's mainly true in rich countries. But a new study suggests th

2010-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Washington's ambassador to Pakistan says the United States is confidents Pakistan will launch an anti-insurgency offensive in its border region of North Waziristan identified as the epicenter of glob