2009-03-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Troubled insurance giant American International Group, or AIG, which has received more than $170 billion in U.S. taxpayer money, will pay $165 million in employee bonuses

2009-03-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Israel's outgoing government is pushing for what many describe as a lopsided prisoner swap with Palestinian militants.

Israel has sent an intelligence chief and a top

2009-03-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Russia says it will send a permanent observer to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, amid mounting concerns among producers about falling oil prices. Me

2009-03-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Benefit concerts have been held in Melbourne and Sydney to raise money for victims of the devastating February 7 bushfires that killed more than 200 people in the southern

2009-03-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Pakistan's army says it has placed soldiers on standby before Monday's expected protest rally in the capital. The move allows government officials to call in troops if t

2009-03-14 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 his top economic adviser are expressing cautious optimism about the prospects for an economic turnaround. They admit that an "excess of fea

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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President Obama is expected to announce his strategy for Afghanistan before the end of the month, after a fairly secretive, two-month review by senior civilian and militar

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Officials in President Asif Zardari's office said he is seeking talks with opposition groups to end two days of anti-government demonstrations. The offer follows a wideni

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay accused the Sri Lankan military and Tamil Tiger rebels of actions that may constitute war crimes and violations of i

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Japan and South Korea say they will seek high-level action at the United Nations to punish North Korea if it proceeds with its announced long-range rocket launch.

Sout

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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In his first broadcast interview after being held for nearly seven years, British resident Binyam Mohamed has spoken to the BBC. In the interview, the 30-year-old alleges

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Hundreds of Israelis demonstrated at a protest tent outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem demanding the release of captive soldier Gilad Shalit. He was kidn

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Officials in South Africa are trying to address a looming crisis caused by an influx of refugees, mostly from Zimbabwe, living in and around a church in downtown Johannesb

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Burmese rights groups have launched a campaign to collect over 800,000 signatures for a petition to the United Nations. The petition calls on the U.N. Secretary-General, B

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, speaking at the inauguration of a major gas project in the South Pars gasfield, said that his country is self-reliant and is therefo

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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A charity in Malawi known as the Culture Awakening Society is running a project that uses the profits from the sale of a monthly magazine to create employment. The magazin

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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An oil spill in eastern Australia has forced officials to declare a 60 kilometer stretch of the Queensland coast a disaster zone amid warnings that legal action could be t

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Strands of hair may predict just how effective drug therapy is for those living with HIV, the AIDS virus. Hair samples offer a simple but accurate test as to whether anti-

2009-03-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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In early March, the world community observes International Women's Day. It's part of a whole month of activities recognizing the work of women in all spheres of life. Am

2009-03-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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New York financier Bernard Madoff was jailed Thursday after pleading guilty to bilking investors out of an estimated $64.8 billion - the largest financial scam in U.S. his

2009-03-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The U.S. State Department said Thursday that the United States is working to dissuade North Korea from going ahead with its plan to launch a satellite next month. U.S. off

2009-03-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Demonstrators in Pakistan have defied a government ban on rallies to embark on a protest convoy to the capital. Hundreds of protesters set out from two southern cities, bu

2009-03-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he is deeply concerned over the abductions of three aid workers in Sudan and is calling for their immediate release without harm.

2009-03-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former U.S. President George W. Bush during a farewell visit to Baghdad has been sentenced by an Iraqi court to three years in

2009-03-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The International Maritime Bureau said the international anti-piracy campaign off the coast of Somalia has reduced the number of successful ship hijackings this year.