2018-07-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Russian government continues to stifle press freedom and media independence.The U.S., said State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert, “condemn(s) the selective targeti

2018-07-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

At the recent World Gas Conference in Washington, the U.S. reinforced the fundamental importance of countries and regions employing a diverse combination of fuels, source countries

2018-07-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United States has imposed sanctions on three Nicaraguan individuals with connections to the government who are involved in serious human rights abuses and corruption. The actio

2018-07-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently concluded another trip to North Korea to meet with government officials to discuss denuclearization. During a press conference in Tokyo

2018-07-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

One year ago July 10, the city of Mosul, ISIS's self-declared capital in Iraq, was liberated from ISIS by Iraqi Security Forces.The loss of its capital in Iraq cannot be overstate

2018-07-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United States is set to apply maximum economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran to induce Iran's leaders to change their destabilizing policies, including their support for ter

2018-07-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Once again, Iran is ranked with some of the worst places in the world in terms of the fight against human trafficking – the buying and selling of men, women and children in t

2018-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the 2018 Trafficking in Persons, or TIP, Report, Burma was downgraded to Tier 3 for the second time in three years. It had been on a Tier 2 Watch List in 2017.Tier 1 is for coun

2018-07-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani announced the end of the Afghan government's unilateral cease-fire. Despite President Ghani's historic offer to extend the ceasefire anothe

2018-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United States is facing a crisis of illegal immigration on its southern border, said Vice President Mike Pence during a recent speech in Guatemala. The majority of migrants are

2018-07-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Every year, the United States Department of State issues the Trafficking in Persons Report, or TIP Report, which evaluates the anti-trafficking efforts of 187 countries and territo

2018-07-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Trafficking in persons, or modern slavery, is a crime that involves the exploitation of a human being for the purposes of compelled labor or a commercial sex act through the use of

2018-07-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The terrorist group ISIS is no longer the threat it used to be.Though it may be diminished, ISIS is far from defeated. As it loses ground in the Middle East, its fighters disperse

2018-07-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Today, the United States of America celebrates its birthday. It is a commemoration of the day in 1776 when representatives of the 13 British colonies signed the Declaration of Inde

2018-07-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In an effort to open markets and increase business opportunities for entrepreneurs in both the United States and Africa, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Gi

2018-07-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Venezuelan economy is in free fall, with soaring inflation and severe shortages of food, water, and medicine. Political opponents of the regime of Nicolas Maduro reportedly hav

2018-07-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In a recent interview, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned that there would be dire consequences for Iran if the regime's leaders, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Qase

2018-07-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Barhabise Primary Health Care Center in Nepal, which was severely damaged in the 2015 earthquake, is the first health facility that was rebuilt with US Agency for International

2018-07-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United States and Cuba held the seventh Bilateral Commission meeting in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, June 14. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affair

2018-07-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Today, the West faces a number of threats, and nowhere is this more evident than in Central Europe. Indeed, Central Europe is one of the battlegrounds where several nations are att

2018-06-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noted in a recent interview that China and Russia represent challenges as well as opportunities for the United States. China “has wealth a

2018-06-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Over the past five years, the Feed the Future Nigeria livelihoods project has helped pull some of the most vulnerable families in Nigeria out of poverty. This U.S. government forei

2018-06-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the bilateral talks between the United States and North Korea in a recent interview. “We are working to strike a deal,” he

2018-06-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S.-India State and Urban Initiative, led by the Center for Strategic and International Studies [CSIS] Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies and the CSIS Energy and Nati

2018-06-26 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Despite the significant progress Ukraine has made on reforms since the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, corruption remains a fact of everyday life in Ukraine. As Deputy Secretary of Sta