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

VOA双语新闻：美大使否认与伊拉克谈判秘密议程

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker said Thursday the Bush administration has no secret agenda in negotiations with Iraq on the future status of U.S. forces there. He said the United States does not seek permanent bases or long-term control of Iraqi

VOA双语新闻：布什等政治领袖为和平研究所奠基

American political leaders gathered in Washington Thursday for the ceremonial groundbreaking of a building for a nonpartisan group helping to resolve international conflict and promote peace. 美国政治领袖星期四聚集在华盛顿，参加美国

VOA双语新闻：援缅被拒 美舰队撤离缅甸外海

United States naval ships with relief supplies for cyclone victims in Burma are leaving the area, because the Burmese government refused their help. International agencies trying to help more than two million storm survivors regret the loss of the na

VOA双语新闻：UN人权专员谴责缅阻碍国际救援

The U.N.'s top human rights official, Louise Arbour, has lashed out at Burmese authorities for obstructing aid to victims of Cyclone Nargis. Arbour called into question Burma's rights record in her final address to the U.N. Human Rights Council. Arbo

VOA双语新闻：劳拉.布什突访阿富汗

U.S. First Lady Laura Bush has made a surprise trip to Afghanistan to raise awareness of the country's need for development aid before an international donors conference this week in Paris. 美国第一夫人劳拉.布什突然访问阿富汗，以在本

VOA双语新闻：克林顿参议员为何输给了奥巴马？

Late last year, many U.S. political analysts believed that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York would easily win the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2008. Now, while Senator Barack Obama is the presumptive Democratic nominee, Sena

VOA双语新闻：印度倡议签署消除核武器国际公约

India's prime minister wants his country to be at the forefront of the effort to achieve global nuclear disarmament. The push comes at a time Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government is trying to seal a civil nuclear fuel agreement with the United

VOA双语新闻：伊拉克部分逃离家庭返回巴格达

The International Organization for Migration reports more families displaced by sectarian violence and military operations in Iraq are returning to certain areas of the capital, Baghdad where security has improved over the past few months. But, IOM s

VOA双语新闻：澳总理访日促施压欧佩克增加产量

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has urged the international community to put pressure on major oil producing countries to curb high fuel prices. Mr. Rudd said OPEC, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, has to increase supply. The A