2009-02-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Five months after Hurricane Ike devastated Galveston, Texas, the island city on the Gulf of Mexico below Houston is struggling to recover. The economic slump in the nation

2009-02-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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A United Nations agency is offering what it calls a "conceptual breakthrough" to uplift the world's poorest people. The U.N. Industrial Development Organization contends

2009-02-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner at the film industry's Academy Awards, Sunday evening, as the rags-to-riches tale set in India earned eight industry honors, known

2009-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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European leaders agreed to a common platform to combat the global financial crisis that includes oversight of all financial markets and products around the world. The prop

2009-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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President Barack Obama's plan to aid millions of Americans who are at risk of losing their homes is getting a mixed review from state governors who gathered in Washington

2009-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Writing in Britain's Observer newspaper, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling for a return to old-fashioned, conservative banking practices. It is a change for Mr. Brow

2009-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Egypt is partially opening its border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The border crossings are a key issue in Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire talks.

Egyptian authoriti

2009-02-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has finished a whirlwind trip to China that included a flurry of meetings with official Chinese and private civil society leaders.

2009-02-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States and China are working to strengthen their bilateral relationship by focusing on areas of cooperation, not content

2009-02-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Iraqi officials have reopened Abu Ghraib, one of Iraq's most notorious prisons, after renovating the facility just west of Baghdad and promising more humane treatment of

2009-02-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Lebanese security sources say Israel has fired artillery shells into southern Lebanon, after three rockets were fired toward Israel from Lebanon. Israeli sources say one o

2009-02-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry Saturday. This is the latest in a series of contacts between the two count

2009-02-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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An Australian man, sentenced in Thailand to three years in jail for insulting the Thai monarchy, has received a royal pardon and been sent back to Australia. The man's re

2009-02-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Iraqi officials have reopened Abu Ghraib, one of Iraq's most notorious prisons, after renovating the facility just west of Baghdad and promising more humane treatment of

2009-02-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Two student journalists from Rice University in Texas are now in Hollywood, where they will get an opportunity to report from the Oscars Sunday. Faheem Ahmed and Anish Pat

2009-02-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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At least three people are dead and 48 injured in an air raid on the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo Friday night carried out by Tamil Tiger rebels who appear to be on the br

2009-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Sri Lankan military officials say Tamil rebels carried out an aerial bombing raid in the capital of Colombo late Friday. A military spokesman said that shortly after the

2009-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Pakistani police say that a powerful suicide bomb blast hit the funeral of a slain Shi'ite Muslim leader in a northwestern town on Friday, killing at least 28 people and

2009-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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A new, child-friendly version of an anti-malarial drug has been launched across fourteen countries in Africa. Health officials hope the launch will help cut the number of

2009-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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World markets were all off sharply at the end of the week after a drop on Wall Street Thursday that saw the Dow index hit a six-year low. Grim corporate news in Asia and E

2009-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The United Nation's World Food Program says food insecurity and malnutrition faced by Burma's Muslim Rohingya people, remains a key reason for thousands of Rohingya flee

2009-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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West Africa's second-largest rainforest is under threat from illicit mining and hunting according to one of Liberia's top environmental officials. More than 20,000 peopl

2009-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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World Jewish leaders on Friday praised Argentina's decision to order the departure of an ultra-traditionalist British Catholic bishop who caused an international uproar b

2009-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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United Nations member states met informally on Thursday to begin talks on key issues of reforming the body's powerful Security Council. Many countries want to see the 15-

2009-02-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sparked a debate over race relations this week with a speech in which he said the United States was a nation of cowards because most Amer