2009-12-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A terrorist group affiliated with al-Qaida is claiming responsibility for last month's kidnapping of three Spanish aid workers in Mauritania and a Frenchman in Mali. The Algerian-based group al-Qai

2009-12-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Australia has refused to issue visas to artists from North Korea for a special exhibition in Brisbane. For the first time, art specifically commissioned from North Korea has gone on display in Austra

2009-12-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Global advocacy group Amnesty International says more than 200 people were arrested during a public demonstration Monday in Khartoum. Protests broke out across southern Sudan following reports senior

2009-12-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

New data show the World Health Organization's simple and cost-effective approach in fighting tuberculosis works. DOTS, the Stop TB Strategy was launched in 1994. Since then, the World Health Organiz

2009-12-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.N. Secretary-General says he is "optimistic" a climate-change agreement can be reached in Copenhagen that will include specific recommendations on key elements that will take effect immediately.

2009-12-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.N. Climate Change conference opened in Copenhagen, Denmark Monday with some 15,000 delegates and observers from nearly 200 countries attending what is being billed the last best chance for an ag

2009-12-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Top Pentagon officials say the U.S. commitment to Afghanistan will not end when the military campaign is over. They are also predicting U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 addition

2009-12-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As officials from more than 100 nations begin talks in Copenhagen on a new global climate deal, Sahelian countries already affected by climate change want the conference to help them adapt to shifting

2009-12-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A reported 'revolt' among members of its climate change talks' negotiating team has put the Indian government on the political defensive at home. The turmoil comes with some members of India's del

2009-12-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Washington's special representative to North Korea has arrived in the South Korean capital ahead of talks in Pyongyang. The envoy will try to bring the Kim Jong Il government back to six-nation talks

2009-12-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Guinea's military leader is in a military hospital in Morocco where he is recovering from gunshot wounds sustained Thursday in an apparent assassination attempt. Guinea is offering a reward for the

2009-12-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says Russia will help his country build four new nuclear power plants. Mr. Singh made the announcement after meetings in Moscow with Russian President Dmitri Medv

2009-12-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Days after President Barack Obama unveiled a new U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan, U.S. officials are stressing an eventual drawdown of American troops will be done gradually and in a manner that allo

2009-12-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blasted the United States and other Western countries for stirring up trouble inside Iran, a day before students are expected to hold peaceful demonstrati

2009-12-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israel is blaming the Palestinians for the failure to revive U.S.-sponsored peace talks. An Israeli concession on West Bank settlements is not enough for the Palestinians and too much for Jewish sett

2009-12-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. and Russian negotiators are continuing talks in an effort to agree on a new follow-on treaty to the 1991 START-One pact that expired Saturday, December 5. Both sides say an agreement is more like

2009-12-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Guinea's military government is offering a reward for the capture of the former head of the presidential guard whose men are accused of shooting and wounding the country's military ruler. Regional

2009-12-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Soldiers in Guinea are searching for the former head of the presidential guard whose men are accused of shooting and wounding the country's military leader. VOA West Africa Correspondent Scott Stearn

2009-12-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama is pledging to do whatever he can to put more Americans back to work. The president says November's lower jobless rate is encouraging, but not good enough.President Obama

2009-12-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Hungarian health authorities have launched a national campaign warning Hungary's Santa Claus to avoid kissing children and shaking their hands to prevent spreading the swine flu virus. They also wan

2009-12-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Twenty-five NATO countries and other contributors to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan have pledged about 7,000 additional troops to supplement the new U.S. force commitment t

2009-12-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Police in Pakistan say gunmen attacked a mosque Friday near the country's army headquarters, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 40 others. Pakistani state television say authorities s

2009-12-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Guinea's military ruler is in Morocco after being shot by troops loyal to his aide-de-camp. VOA West Africa Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, aid groups are drafting contingency plans for as many

2009-12-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

UN officials, climate experts, environmental activists, and more than 60 world leaders gather in Copenhagen for a two-week conference on climate change to begin December 7. Their aim is to achieve a l

2009-12-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Militant Islamist group al-Shabab has denied responsibility for a deadly suicide blast Thursday that killed at least 22 people, including 3 government ministers and a number of Somalia's educated eli