VOA双语新闻：埃塞俄比亚乡间驴背移动图书馆

Literacy is coming to some rural Ethiopian children on a donkey's back. VOA's Peter Heinlein visited the Ethiopian town of Awassa, to meet an Ethiopian-American man who returned to the land of his birth to Make a Difference with youngsters hungry for

VOA双语新闻：俄罗斯中止与北约一切军事合作

Russia has stopped all military cooperation with NATO after alliance foreign ministers said future ties depend on Russia pulling back troops in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The Bush administration says Russia is violating an agreement to wi

VOA双语新闻：布什致电吉拉尼声援巴基斯坦人民

U.S. President George Bush has expressed solidarity with the people of Pakistan in a phone call with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. Mr. Bush talked earlier to former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. 美国总统布什在跟巴基斯坦总理吉

VOA双语新闻：格鲁吉亚怀疑俄罗斯没从该国撤军

Georgia is expressing skepticism about Russia's troop withdrawal announcement, even as Russian tanks and soldiers pull back from position deep inside Georgian territory. The pullback leaves several key Russian checkpoints in place. 尽管俄罗斯坦克

VOA双语新闻：被奥巴马选为竞选搭档的议员拜登

Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, newly announced running mate of Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama, is a respected foreign policy expert. Senator Biden, who himself had waged an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic Party's nomination for pr

VOA双语新闻：亲巴勒斯坦人士越过封锁抵达加沙

Pro-Palestinian activists have sailed into the Gaza Strip defying an Israeli blockade. 亲巴勒斯坦的活动分子驾船越过以色列的封锁线，进入加沙地带。 After originally saying it would block them, Israel allowed a group of 46 i

VOA双语新闻：美军与阿总统对空袭结果说法不一

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned a U.S. airstrike in western Afghanistan that some Afghan officials say killed more than 70 civilians on Thursday. The U.S. military disputes the number of civilian casualties and insists the operation was a

VOA双语新闻：布什吁国会允许开采更多近海油田

U.S. President George Bush is again calling on opposition Democrats in Congress to expand offshore oil drilling. High energy prices are a big part of this year's presidential campaign. 美国总统布什再次呼吁在野党民主党的国会议员允许

VOA双语新闻：非洲运动员在北京奥运获傲人成绩

African runners swept the Men's Marathon race Sunday on the last day of the 29th Olympic Games in China. In all, athletes from more than a dozen African countries won medals in events ranging from running and football to swimming and kayaking. 非洲运

VOA双语新闻：奥巴马和竞选搭档首次在伊州露面

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama introduced Senator Joe Biden as his running mate Saturday. They spoke at a rally in Springfield, Illinois, two days before the Democratic National Convention. 美国民主党总统候选人奥巴马在星期

VOA双语新闻：联合国纪念其驻伊总部遇袭五周年

The U.N. secretary-general marked the fifth anniversary of the bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad Tuesday. He was joined by survivors of the attack at a ceremony honoring those who died and were injured while working for peace. 联合国秘书长潘

VOA双语新闻：尼泊尔前毛派领袖当选共和国总理

Legislators in the Himalayan nation of Nepal on Friday selected, by a wide margin, a former guerilla leader to be the country's new prime minister. The ascent of the Maoist, known as Prachanda, who spent a quarter century in hiding and then led a ten

VOA双语新闻：巴称击毙近五百部落地区激进分子

Pakistani officials say security forces have killed at least 460 al-Qaida-linked militants in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan. The week-long clashes also have left 22 troops dead and forced more than 200,000 people to flee to safer areas. 巴基斯

VOA双语新闻：俄声称格鲁吉亚不会收回分离地区

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday it is unlikely that the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will rejoin Georgia after a week of violent clashes. He offered the prediction just before Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili an

VOA双语新闻：奥运中距离赛跑 美选手夺金有望

Experts at the Olympic Games in Beijing say for the first time in more than a century, the United States has a chance to win gold medals in the middle-distance running events of 1,500 and 5,000 meters. These hopes rest in large part on Bernard Lagat

VOA双语新闻：印度：恐怖主义损害印巴和平进程

The Indian Prime Minister has warned that terrorism could undermine a peace process between India and Pakistan. He also called for peace in Indian Kashmir, which has been wracked by massive anti-India protests in recent days. The remarks came during

VOA双语新闻：分析：俄格冲突影响俄与西方关系

Two days after Russia and Georgia agreed to a cease-fire, the truce has yet to be fully implemented and Russian forces have yet to leave Georgian territory. Added to that has been a raging war of words and thinly veiled threats. The potential long-te

VOA双语新闻：津反对党领导人短暂被禁止出国

Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai and two senior members of his party were temporarily prevented from traveling to South Africa Thursday when Zimbabwe officials confiscated their passports and then returned them. Tsvangirai is e

VOA双语新闻：美游泳运动员菲尔普斯五战五胜

American swimmer Michael Phelps surged to a pair of victories in the Olympic pool, Wednesday, to become the most decorated gold medal winner. 美国游泳运动员菲尔普斯今天在北京奥运会上又赢得了两枚金牌，成为奥运史上获得

VOA双语新闻：布什呼吁俄罗斯从格鲁吉亚撤军

U.S. President George Bush says Russia may be violating the terms of a cease-fire in Georgia less than a day after agreeing to stop the fighting in the former Soviet republic. The president spoke amid reports that a Russian military convoy had presse