VOA双语新闻：美议员要伊拉克用利润资助重建

U.S. lawmakers want Iraq to use bigger oil profits to pay for more of its own reconstruction. Iraq's parliament has approved a supplementary budget that raises this year's spending to more than $70 billion. 美国国会议员要求伊拉克用更大量

VOA双语新闻：奥运即将开幕 奥运迷们情绪高涨

The 2008 Olympics are about to begin in Beijing and excitement is running high among the hundreds of thousands of fans from inside China and around the world. Many visitors are taking advantage of free time between Olympic events to tour some of Beij

VOA双语新闻：美国游泳队力争北京奥运更显辉煌

U.S. swimmers had great success at the Athens Olympics four years ago. But they did even better at last year's World Championships in Melbourne, so there are high hopes for a big medal haul in Beijing. 美国游泳选手4年前在雅典奥运会上取得

VOA双语新闻：美国男排以沉重心情迎战委内瑞拉

With heavy hearts, the U.S. Men's Olympic Volleyball team decided to take the court Sunday, one day after the stabbing death in Beijing of a close relative of the head coach. 美国奥林匹克男子排球队在其主教练的亲属在北京遇刺身亡

VOA双语新闻：格鲁吉亚请求美国调停格俄冲突

Georgia says it has ordered its troops in the breakaway region of South Ossetia to cease fire, after withdrawing its troops from South Ossetia's capital. There was no direct response from Russia to Georgia's offer to negotiate an end to three days of

VOA双语新闻：布什呼吁结束南奥塞梯流血冲突

The White House is making a renewed appeal for an end to the bloody conflict between Georgia and Russia over the Georgian breakaway province of South Ossetia, and accusing Russia of 'disproportionate' action. U.S. President George Bush is pushing for

VOA双语新闻：欧洲领导人吁俄罗斯格鲁吉亚停火

European leaders have expressed concern as fighting escalated between Russia and Georgia over Southern Ossetia, and dispatched high-level diplomats to help broker a cease-fire. Pope Benedict XVI also called for an immediate end to the hostilities. 欧洲

VOA双语新闻：布什强调继续加强美中关系重要性

U.S. President George Bush is stressing the importance of continued American ties with China, saying while there are disagreements, there are also important areas where the two countries can work together. He spoke on the final day of his stay at the

VOA双语新闻：印度发生踩踏事件140人丧生

Up to 150 Hindu pilgrims attending an annual festival have been killed in a stampede in Northern India. 在印度北部，140多名印度教朝圣者被踩踏丧生。 Officials say the tragedy occurred when a metal railing along a narrow mountain pa

VOA双语新闻：罗马峰会达成协议解决粮食危机

World leaders at a UN summit in Rome have pledged to reduce trade barriers and boost agricultural production to combat a global food crisis. At the end of a 3-day world food security summit in Rome, delegates approved a declaration resolving to ease

VOA双语新闻：美韩牛肉争执升温韩国自由派反美

The leader of South Korea's main political opposition party is accusing the United States ambassador in Seoul of insulting Koreans. The comments in question relate to an emotionally electrified controversy over resuming American beef imports. 韩国主

VOA双语新闻：美国参议院辩论减排温室气体法案

The U.S. Senate has begun debate on legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. In a 74 to 14 procedural vote, senators agreed to move ahead with debate late Monday. But chances of the bill's passage appe

VOA双语新闻：世界粮食峰会呼吁紧急行动解危机

World leaders are gathered in Rome at the headquarters of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization. They are discussing ways to deal with soaring food prices and how to improve ways to provide food to the world's hungry. The U.N. secretary-genera

VOA双语新闻：联合国：缅甸仅一半灾民得到援助

The United Nations reports only about half of the 2.4 million survivors of Burma's devastating Cyclone Nargis have received assistance. But, it says that aid is generally spotty and not enough. 联合国说，在缅甸发生的灾难性纳尔吉斯强热

VOA双语新闻：韩国对进口美国牛肉施行新限制

South Korea is seeking to ease some domestic irritation, with a move that could complicate American-Korean trade relations. Seoul is amending its promise to resume U.S. beef imports by imposing new trade conditions aimed at placating political critic

VOA双语新闻：奥巴马宣布获提名初选历史性胜利

Barack Obama claimed the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, Tuesday, after winning a majority of delegates to the party's nominating convention, which will be held in August. Obama claimed victory as the primary election season came to an en

VOA双语新闻：联合国敦促各国打击全球人口走私

The United Nations aimed the spotlight on human trafficking Tuesday. The General Assembly devoted the entire day to discussing the issue of forced labor and exploitation. 联合国这个星期二把焦点集中在人口走私问题上。联合国大会

VOA双语新闻：韩国愿向北韩运送数万吨粮食援助

South Korea says it is willing to send tens of thousands of tons of immediate food aid to impoverished North Korea. The aid would fulfill a deal made during the previous South Korean administration, but may not ease a stalemate between Pyongyang and

VOA双语新闻：奥巴马乘胜前进 克林顿尚未认输

U.S. Senator Barack Obama is spending his first full day as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee giving a major foreign policy speech, addressing a powerful American labor union, attending a high-powered fundraising event, and doing interv

VOA双语新闻：美国军方开始审判五名九一一恐嫌

Six-and-a-half years after the September 11 terror attacks, the accused mastermind and four other co-conspirators are facing a war-crimes tribunal at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The arraignment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the