2008-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The speaker of Iraq's parliament has resigned, paving the way for lawmakers to authorize British and other non-U.S. foreign troops to remain in the country into 2009.

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2008-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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A military-led group in Guinea says it has taken power, following the death of long-time President Lansana Conte. But the civilian government in Conakry says it is still in charge.

2008-12-24 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 mixed Tuesday amid confirmation that the U.S. economy shrank in the third quarter of the year. The Bush administration says it believes fourth quarter numbers wil

2008-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden says the incoming White House economic team is making progress toward agreeing on details of an economic stimulus plan. President-elect Barack Ob

2008-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is increasing its response to the cholera crisis in Zimbabwe. The group is appealing for more than $9 million

2008-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who will stay in office in the new administration, has ordered his staff to take a fresh look at issues related to closing the Guantanamo Bay

2008-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The Nigerian army says militant groups are preparing to launch fresh hostilities in the oil-rich Niger Delta by training 1,000 new recruits at a camp in South-west Ondo state.

2008-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warns that the era of cheap natural gas is ending because of multi-billion dollar investments needed to develop the industry.

Speaking in

2008-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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An official inquiry has found that Australian police had no evidence to charge an Indian doctor over suspected links to a terrorist plot in Britain. Dr. Mohamed Haneef was arrest

2008-12-24 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Forty years ago, North Korea freed the crew of the USS Pueblo, a U.S. Navy ship it had captured 11 months earlier. The ship itself is still in North Korea.

Ralph McClintock, a

2008-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Pakistani security officials say at least eight people have been killed in a suspected U.S. missile strike in northwest Pakistan. Observers believe the United States has carried o

2008-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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After days of fighting with Israel, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have called a brief truce.

Armed Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip are observing a 24-hour ceasefire. The

2008-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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On Sunday, the remote pirate stronghold of Hobyo in the Galmudug region of central Somalia fell to Islamist militants. The growing strength of Islamist groups in the coastal area

2008-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The Pentagon has confirmed reports that it will send a helicopter unit to Afghanistan early next year to support thousands of additional ground troops it plans to deploy to join N

2008-12-23 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 said Monday it will make a new diplomatic push in the first days of the new year to step up sanctions aimed at forcing Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe f

2008-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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School administrators in Sierra Leone say they are worried by high dropout rates and poor exam results. They say having few graduates is not good for the future of a country still

2008-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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In Washington, the Institute of International Finance, an association of world financial institutions, has issued a grim economic forecast, saying that all of the major economies

2008-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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India has demanded that Pakistan act against Islamic extremists responsible for last month's terror attack in its financial hub Mumbai. The attack has rekindled tensions between th

2008-12-23 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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More than two-thirds of the world's refugees, some six million people, are living in limbo. Many have been in exile for decades with no hope of going home. They are trapped in squa

2008-12-22 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 George Bush and President-elect Barack Obama have vowed to make their White House transition as smooth and cordial as possible. But there appear to be tensions on the

2008-12-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Now that his Cabinet is in place, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his top four advisers on science and technology. The choices show that Mr. Obama plans to be more ag

2008-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Violence has erupted in and around the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip after the end of an Israeli-Palestinian truce.

Israel launched an airstrike on Palestinians firing rockets across

2008-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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The World Health Organization says it hopes to have a surveillance system in place soon that can accurately track cholera cases as they occur in Zimbabwe. WHO says it is difficult t

2008-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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West African leaders say the global financial crisis could undermine their capacity to reduce poverty and sustain economic recovery in the world's most impoverished region.

In a

2008-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

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Three main Internet cables from Italy to North Africa were inexplicably severed in the second such incident in a year, plunging Egypt and several other Arab countries into a communi