2009-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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U.S. President Barack Obama and Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama have reaffirmed the importance of the U.S.-Japanese alliance. The two leaders met for the first

2009-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Pakistan army says that its ongoing operations have severely dented the Taliban-led insurgency in the country's northwest. Military officials say the campaign is being gr

2009-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor denies testimony by a prosecution witness that he met with rebel-leader Foday Sankoh on the eve of the Revolutionary United Front

2009-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The global economic recession has hit many African countries hard. A new report says some of the continent’s fragile states are especially vulnerable to the shocks of the

2009-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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South Africa's top crime fighter says police are in control of the situation after the United States closed all its facilities in the country on security concerns.

Pol

2009-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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African leaders are launching an ambitious program to eliminate nearly all malaria deaths on the continent in the next six years. Malaria is one of the biggest killers of

2009-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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India has launched seven satellites from a single rocket, demonstrating its growing skills in multi-satellite launches. The success comes nearly a month after India had to

2009-09-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The human rights group Amnesty International says the maternal health situation in Sierra Leone amounts to a human rights abuse. The small West African nation has one of t

2009-09-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Nearly 100 world leaders met at a summit at the United Nations Tuesday to put their political weight behind achieving a global climate treaty later this year when they mee

2009-09-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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U.S. President Barack Obama is urging Israeli and Palestinian leaders to do more to re-start peace talks. Mr. Obama spoke Tuesday before his first three-way meeting with

2009-09-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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After vowing for months to shut down an illegal immigrant camp near Calais, the French government began dismantling it, early Tuesday.

The operation to dismantle the

2009-09-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to land on the moon 40 years ago. Aldrin says the hardest part for him was returning to earth. He has written

2009-09-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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In poor nations, collecting taxes can be tough in the best of times.
Economists say in Africa and other developing countries, up to $800 billion is lost each year to tax

2009-09-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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In southern Thailand, insurgents target state schools and teachers, seen as tools of a dominant Thai Buddhist state that is diluting their Muslim Malay culture. In the pas

2009-09-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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A report from the new U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan says there is an urgent need for more foreign troops and civilians, more Afghan forces and a new strategic app

2009-09-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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A powerful earthquake has struck the Himalayan region, causing at least five deaths and destruction in the small mountainous nation of Bhutan. The tremor - measuring 6.3 o

2009-09-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Former French prime minister Dominique de Villepin is among five defendants in one of France's most sensational trials in years. The case involves an alleged smear campai

2009-09-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The head of the World Health Organization urged Asian health chiefs to continue health-care reforms despite the global economic downturn. Margaret Chan says the WHO is wor

2009-09-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Mad Men, a drama series about the advertising business, and the comedy 30 Rock earned top honors at the Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. The Emmys are considered the

2009-09-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Three weeks after Burkina Faso was hit by devastating floods, people in the worst-affected areas are struggling to get back to normal. Eight people died when heavy rains

2009-09-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The saying goes, "nice guys finish last." But some behavioral researchers say that might not be true.

David Rand, a researcher at Harvard University says rewarding pe

2009-09-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Health care is largely a for-profit business in the United States. Most Americans pay for medical care, either directly to the provider, or indirectly through commercial h

2009-09-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Thailand's king, the world's longest serving monarch, has been hospitalized on advice from his doctors. The hospitalization of the revered monarch is causing concern amo

2009-09-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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South Africa's top athletics official is in danger of losing his job. The government's sports ministry and major political parties have called for him to be removed for

2009-09-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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This year is the 40th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing, and a time to look ahead to future space exploration, says Buzz Aldrin, one of the first two men to st