NPR 2010-11-27

Early signs point to bigger-than-usual crowds for a Black Friday, when retailers hope post-Thanksgiving Day sales catapult them into the black through the holiday shopping season. The chance to snap up huge bargains typically draws Canadian shoppers

News & Reports 2010-07-25

Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This Edition North Korea vows to respond with powerful nuclear deterrence to joint US and South Korean military exercises poised to begin on Sunday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahma

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By Margaret Besheer United Nations 29 September 2009 Afghanistan's foreign minister told the United Nations General Assembly that his government welcomes the assessment from the U.S. and NATO commander in his country that more troops are needed to f

NPR 2009-05-19

The nation's top military officer says his goal is to turn things around in Afghanistan within the next 12 to 24 months, though Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says he expects violence will increase in the short term. NPR

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The Legacy of Hiroshima 广岛遗迹 August 6, 1945 . . . a B-29 bomber carrying a single weapon changed, perhaps forever, the way we think about war and peace. Sixty years ago, the United States beca

SSS 2008-05-02

Podcast is sponsored from the People of American Chemistry who provide the plastics, medicines and innovations that make life modern. Learn more at americanchemistry.com. This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll ju

NPR 2008-11-13

Democratic leaders want Congress to focus on a bailout for the U.S. auto industry during next week's lame-duck session of Congress. But Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says it should not be tied to the 700-billion-dollar rescue package for troubled

NPR 2010-12-14

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. In a legal blow to the Obama administration, a federal court judge in Virginia has struck down a central piece of the president's health care law. US District Judge Henry Hudson ruled today that requiri

NPR 2010-08-09

The official in charge of the Gulf oil spill-up says that the blown-out well will be further sealed this week. But as NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports, he is promising that won't be the end of relief efforts. The well has already been sealed from the to

NPR 2010-04-07

The Obama administration has released its Nuclear Posture Review, the guideline for how nuclear weapons fit into the nations defense plans. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says its designed to make clear states like Iran and North Korea all options ar

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WASHINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday reaffirmed U.S. defense commitment to the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan, vowing no recognition of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as a nuclear state. The bo

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WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Six years ago, a terrible family tragedy occurred here in rural British Columbia. But over time, it became much more than that. This tragedy set in motion dramatic changes to the laws governing drinking and driving -- changes that s

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I agree that language learning is cool, but I challenge the assumption that its difficult. 我认同语言学习很酷，但我不认同语言学习不容易这一说法。 Languages cannot be taught, they can only be learned. Having someone or somet

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SEOULNorth and South Korean officials met into the early hours of Sunday in an urgent bid to avert war on the peninsula before adjourning their marathon talks until Sunday afternoon. The high-level meeting began Saturday at the Panmunjom truce villag

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