2009-06-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Long before the current economic downturn in the United States, the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, was already down on its luck. As early as the mid-1970s, this little ri

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Foxglove, castor beans, peacock flower trees and opium poppies are among 200 toxic flora Amy Stewart investigates in her book, Wicked Plants. Stewart says she didn't writ

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North Korea says it has handed a harsh sentence to two U.S. women journalists, more than two months after it captured them for allegedly crossing its border illegally. Whe

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In the mid-19th century, people the world over were singing about that daring young man on the flying trapeze who could fly through the air with the greatest of ease. The

2009-06-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Gabonese President Omar Bongo is dead. Gabon's prime minister said Africa's longest-serving leader died in a Spanish clinic.

Albert Bernard Bongo was born in December

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Cameroon is an economic hub for Central Africa. Its lone port in Douala handles practically all import and export traffic for the country as well as for landlocked neighbo

2009-06-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Europeans voted in the last day of European Union parliamentary elections Sunday, with conservative and far-right parties expected to score over the left. Officials estim

2009-06-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Israel could be responding to American pressure to advance the Middle East peace process. But Palestinians are skeptical.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told

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The Obama administration says it will consider putting North Korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism, and is pressing for a U.N. resolution authorizing the b

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The Committee to Protect Journalists says it is alarmed by the suspension of two independent newspapers in Gabon and the increasingly hostile environment for private media

2009-06-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Voters across Europe are casting their ballots in European elections, expected to see a record low voter turnout and gains for far-right and far-left parties. In Italy, sc

2009-06-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The U.N. High Commission for Refugees reports refugees continue to flee into Chad from the Central African Republic. It says the refugees are arriving in small groups in t

2009-06-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Tejaswi Khadka was looking for a school where she could obtain a joint degree program and Adelphi University is where she found what she was looking for.“I was looking fo

2009-06-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Security forces in Guinea-Bissau say they killed three former government ministers as part of an operation to stop a coup attempt. One of those killed was a candidate in t

2009-06-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The United States has arrested a former government official and his wife on charges of spying for Cuba. The Justice Department says both suspects pleaded not guilty to the

2009-06-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says Iraq is still too fragile to absorb the more than 1.5 million Iraqis living outside the country. The UNHCR says secu

2009-06-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Polls will open in less than 24 hours for Lebanon's parliamentary elections, and civil servants are preparing polling stations and ballot boxes for Sunday's crucial vote

2009-06-06 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 calling for a redoubling of efforts to get the Mideast peace process back on track. He spoke in Dresden, Germany after talks with German Cha

2009-06-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Israel says it won't change its settlement policy despite new demands by the President of the United States. The settlers have announced their own response to U.S. pressu

2009-06-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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As voters in Lebanon go to the polls on Sunday (June 7) , one issue seems to be dominating the elections more than any other: security. In the tumultuous landscape of Leba

2009-06-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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A suicide bomber killed at least 32 people at a mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Friday just hours before top U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke declared the Pakistani mood ha

2009-06-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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President Dmitri Medvedev is again proposing major international economic reforms even as he acknowledges that over-reliance on extractive industries, corruption, and infl

2009-06-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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When cricket teams from India and Pakistan met on the pitch this week, it raised hopes of a thaw in relations that were strained in last years terror attacks on the Indian

2009-06-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Unidentified gunmen have killed a presidential candidate in Guinea Bissau. Campaigning is due to start Saturday for an election to replace long-time president Joao Bernard

2009-06-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The United Nations' special representative on human rights in Sudan has completed an 11-day visit to the country. Among other issues, she raised particular concern with t