VOA双语新闻：金正日参观火箭发射区

North Korean media says leader Kim Jong Il has toured the northeast province where Pyongyang says it plans to launch a satellite soon. South Korean leaders are deeply concerned about the looming launch. 北韩媒体说，北韩领导人金正日参观了

VOA双语新闻：有议员呼吁调查布什政府反恐政策

Influential Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy has proposed that an independent truth commission be established to investigate alleged abuses of power under the Bush administration. President Barack Obama has reacted cautiously to the suggestion, sayin

VOA双语新闻：猛虎组织周五晚间空袭科伦坡

Sri Lankan military officials say Tamil rebels carried out an aerial bombing raid in the capital of Colombo late Friday. 斯里兰卡军方说，泰米尔猛虎反政府组织星期五晚些时候在首都科伦坡展开了空中轰炸。 A military

VOA双语新闻：埃及暂时部分开放加沙过境点

Egypt is partially opening its border with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The border crossings are a key issue in Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire talks. 埃及部分开放跟哈马斯控制的加沙地带相邻的边界过境点。开放过境点是以色列

VOA双语新闻：美国州长辩论奥巴马救助房主计划

President Barack Obama's plan to aid millions of Americans who are at risk of losing their homes is getting a mixed review from state governors who gathered in Washington for a three-day meeting. A rash of home foreclosures helped plunge the United S

VOA双语新闻：英首相吁恢复保守的银行管理方式

Writing in Britain's Observer newspaper, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling for a return to old-fashioned, conservative banking practices. It is a change for Mr. Brown who as Treasury Secretary for a decade was a proponent of the light regulatory

VOA双语新闻：欧盟八大国决定加强监管金融市场

European leaders agreed to a common platform to combat the global financial crisis that includes oversight of all financial markets and products around the world. The proposed measures were drafted in Berlin in preparation for a key meeting of the wo

VOA双语新闻：日本首相周二访白宫会晤奥巴马

Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso will meet Tuesday with President Barrack Obama. He will be the first foreign leader to visit the White House since the new administration took office last month. 日本首相麻生太郎星期二将会见美国总统奥巴

VOA双语新闻：奥巴马会见各州州长谈经济问题

U.S. President Barack Obama says the nation's governors will be held accountable for money flowing into their states as part of his economic stimulus plan. The money should start arriving this week. 美国总统奥巴马星期一向全国州长协会

VOA双语新闻：UN机构：工业化要选择正确产品

A United Nations agency is offering what it calls a conceptual breakthrough to uplift the world's poorest people. The U.N. Industrial Development Organization contends selective industrialization offers the best chance for smaller, developing countri

VOA双语新闻：索激进派威胁再次袭击维和部队

Somalia's militant al-Shabab group has promised to launch more attacks against African Union peacekeeping troops a day after 11 soldiers from Burundi were killed in blasts claimed by the group. 索马里激进组织青年党发誓要对非洲联盟维和

VOA双语新闻：巴居民抗议以拆除东耶路撒冷民宅

Palestinians in East Jerusalem are protesting what they say are preparations by Israel to demolish scores of Arab homes. The Arab residents accuse the Israelis of trying to push them out of Jerusalem, which both Israel and the Palestinians claim as t

VOA双语新闻：巴塔利班延长斯瓦特山谷停火

Pakistani Taliban militants in the country's troubled Swat valley say they are indefinitely extending a cease-fire with the government. Swat Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah is expected to soon announce the terms of the cease-fire. 在巴基斯坦事端

VOA双语新闻：伯南克：美国经济严重收缩

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke Tuesday told a congressional panel that the economy is in the midst of a severe contraction, but that there is a chance of turnaround later this year. 美国联邦储备委员会主席伯南克星期二告诉

VOA双语新闻：奥巴马会晤日首相谈经济安全问题

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has become the first foreign leader to visit U.S. President Barack Obama. The leaders of the world's two biggest economies discussed the global financial crisis, among other issues. 日本首相麻生太郎成为访问美

VOA双语新闻：美巴阿外长聚会华府审查南亚政策

The foreign ministers of Pakistan and Afghanistan are scheduled to take part in the Obama administration's strategic review of South Asia policy here in Washington this week. The three-party talks come on the heels of a peace agreement between Islama

VOA双语新闻：奥巴马倡议：750亿救助房市

The U.S. housing industry, where experts believe the economic crisis began, is the target of President Barack Obama's latest initiative to strengthen the economy. Mr. Obama has unveiled a $75 billion plan to prevent as many as nine million Americans

VOA双语新闻：奥巴马今在丹佛签署经济刺激法案

U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to sign the $787 billion economic stimulus plan into law at a ceremony in the western city of Denver, Colorado on Tuesday. Mr. Obama calls it a major milestone on the road to recovery for the U.S. economy, whi

VOA双语新闻：联合国：阿富汗平民死亡人数激增

The United Nations says the number of civilians killed during 2008 in Afghanistan rose 40 percent from the year before. The 2,118 civilians reported killed last year is the highest number since the U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban government in

VOA双语新闻：克林顿会晤日本官员讨论北韩问题

The subject of North Korea was prominent in talks in Tokyo between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and top Japanese government officials. Clinton is on her first overseas trip in her new job and her first stop in Asia is America's long-time k