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After a quarter century of intermittent war in Sri Lanka, the country's security forces say they are within weeks of defeating the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil E

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Al-Qaida's North Africa branch says it is holding captive two Canadian diplomats and four Western tourists kidnapped in Niger.

The group calling itself "al-Qaida in t

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The crisis in Zimbabwe has driven millions of its citizens to seek refuge in neighboring countries. Many are fleeing political repression, while others are escaping the ef

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The African Union special envoy to Somalia said Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has assured him the national unity government now being formed will be secular.

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Authorities in Western Australia say they can show the world how to conquer a water crisis that had threatened to decimate the state capital, Perth, amid a long-standing d

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For the past 2.5 years, two agriculture experts from the U.S. state of Texas have been working in remote areas of Afghanistan to help nomadic herders better manage their s

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Descendants of the Apache chief, Geronimo, have announced a lawsuit to reclaim the remains of the famous Indian leader from a U.S. military burial site as well from the re

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Saturday, a musical piece by 19th century German composer Felix Mendelssohn will be played for the first time in more than 175 years at a concert in central Texas. This 21

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Once, the American school day often began with a reading from the Bible, but public schools now are prohibited from sponsoring any form of religious observance. The U.S. S

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Washington State University professor George Mount is on the trail of a mystery. Our cars and factories and each one of us produce lots of carbon dioxide, a key culprit in

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Sufi clerics in Somalia have declared their support for the new unity government led by a moderate Islamist. The declaration is raising the possibility of a wider sectaria

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A new initiative has been launched to use mobile and computer technology to improvehealthcare in the developing world. The announcement was made at the Mobile World Congre

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Alex Rodriguez has become the latest face of U.S. Major League Baseball's growing problem with the use of banned performance enhancing drugs. The highest paid player in b

2009-02-18 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 signed into law Tuesday the biggest economic stimulus plan in the nation's history. The almost $800 billion in government spending and tax cut

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A major independent research institute has issued a report calling for urgent and significant changes in U.S. military strategy toward Afghanistan. The call comes just as

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The State Department said Tuesday the complete dismantling of North Korea's nuclear program remains the goal of the Chinese-led six-party negotiations with Pyongyang. The

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The subject of North Korea was prominent in talks in Tokyo between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and top Japanese government officials. Clinton is on her first o

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The United Nations says the number of civilians killed during 2008 in Afghanistan rose 40 percent from the year before. The 2,118 civilians reported killed last year is th

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Sudan and Darfur's most active rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, has signed a declaration of good intentions in Doha. Qatar has been mediating talks between

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Zimbabwe's unity government's designated deputy agriculture minister Roy Bennett has been charged with possessing weaponry, banditry, and attempting to commit terrorism,

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The United Nations is giving food vouchers to poor families in Burkina Faso who have access to private sector markets, but can not afford higher food prices there. The inn

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The long-awaited trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief has opened in Cambodia. The trial has been welcomed by Cambodians as a step towards justice.

After 30 years

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In Sri Lanka, Tamil Tiger rebels have denied accusations by the United Nations that they are shooting at civilians to prevent them from leaving the conflict zone in the no

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Algeria is preparing to host the second Pan-African Culture Festival, and the first in 40 years. The event hopes to draw hundreds of thousands of people to Algiers this Ju

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The 81st annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, will be presented in Hollywood Sunday, and organizers say a new format should create to a livelier show this year. Despite enter