2008-12-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Israeli warplanes continue to hit suspected Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. At the same time, Palestinian militants are keeping up their rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli bord

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The United States has joined other powers in the international Middle East Quartet in urging an immediate Gaza Strip cease-fire. The Quartet - the United States, Russia, the Europ

2008-12-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Israeli aerial attacks and bombardments of the Gaza Strip continued Tuesday for the fourth day in a row. At least 350 Palestinians have been killed in the military offensive thus fa

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The European Union, or EU, is calling on Israel to observe a humanitarian truce after a four-day Israeli air offensive on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner o

2008-12-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The Awami League, led by former prime minister Sheik Hasina, has gained a clear majority of the parliamentary seats in Bangladesh's election. International observers are preliminar

2008-12-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Ghana's Electoral Commission has delayed the release of final results from Sunday's presidential run-off because of problems with voting materials in one of the country's 230 dis

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The US space agency NASA issued a report on the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster Tuesday, concluding that nothing could have been done to save the shuttle's seven crewmembers

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Guinea's new military leaders named international banker Kabine Komara as the country's new prime minister. Komara is a senior director at the African Export-Import Bank in Cairo

2008-12-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Russia's Gazprom energy monopoly is preparing to cut gas supplies to Ukraine if Kyiv does not repay a $2 billion debt by December 31. But Ukrainians dispute the Russian figure, and

2008-12-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The International Organization for Migration said 2008 has been a disastrous year for Africans seeking to migrate to other countries in search of a better life. IOM said many Afri

2008-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The Bush administration on Monday mounted a campaign of telephone diplomacy aimed at achieving a durable and sustainable Gaza cease-fire. Meanwhile, analysts say the Gaza crisis has

2008-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries, has moved a step closer to a return to democracy with a relatively peaceful parliamentary election. Officials say about 70 perce

2008-12-30 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 on Monday said it supports the decision of Somalia's politically-embattled President Abdullahi Yusuf to resign as head of the country's transitional gove

2008-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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United Nations officials said suffering stemming from Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip is being compounded by shortages of food, medical supplies, and other basic needs.

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2008-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The African Union has suspended Guinea following last week's military coup while Guinea's new military leaders have demoted many of the country's generals.

African Union lea

2008-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The opposition candidate in Ghana's presidential election has a narrow lead over the ruling party candidate with more than 85 percent of districts reporting. But final results ar

2008-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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One of the major foreign policy challenges facing the Obama administration will be how to revive the Middle East peace process. Senior Correspondent André de Nesnera spoke with t

2008-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, responsible for the murder of millions of innocent people, has been voted Russia's third greatest historic figure. The greatest Russian of all outpo

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Millions of African penguins once roamed the beaches along the continent's southern coast. But their population is collapsing and conservationists have begun drastic measures to

2008-12-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Israel's deadly air offensive in the Gaza Strip has sparked clashes between Palestinian gunmen and Egyptian security forces. Nearly 300 Palestinians, most of them armed militants,

2008-12-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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A senior advisor to Barack Obama says the president-elect will pursue an ambitious, far-reaching economic agenda to pull the United States out of recession and lay the foundation fo

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A suicide car bombing in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least 30 people and wounded many others. The attack took place in a region where Pakistani security forces are battling

2008-12-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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For most of its history since gaining independence 37 years ago, Bangladesh has been under authoritarian rule. The country is hoping nationwide parliamentary elections Monday will b

2008-12-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Voters across Ghana went to the polls Sunday in a run-off election to see who will succeed out-going President John Kufuor.

Thousands of voters lined up before polling station

2008-12-29 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 World Food Program is appealing to governments to come up with the $5.2 billion it needs to feed 100 million hungry people next year. The WFP says that amount i