VOA双语新闻：黎巴嫩做好准备举行议会选举

Polls will open in less than 24 hours for Lebanon's parliamentary elections, and civil servants are preparing polling stations and ballot boxes for Sunday's crucial vote. International election monitors, including former president Jimmy Carter, will

VOA双语新闻：俄罗斯寻求建立新的全球经济架构

President Dmitri Medvedev is again proposing major international economic reforms even as he acknowledges that over-reliance on extractive industries, corruption, and inflation are hampering modernization of the Russian economy. 俄罗斯总统梅德韦

VOA双语新闻：南北韩下周讨论联合工业园区问题

North and South Korea have arranged a meeting next week to discuss operations at a troubled joint industrial zone. South Korea is expected to use the meeting to press for the release of a South Korean manager of the zone who has been detained by the

VOA双语新闻：美法展望两国关系新篇章

When President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy jointly commemorate the 65th anniversary of the allied landing in Normandy, France on June 6 they will turning the page on another war that bitterly divided the two countries - in

VOA双语新闻：奥巴马访问德国推动中东和平进程

One day after delivering a speech to the Muslim world, U.S. President Barack Obama pushed for progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and in negotiations on Iran's nuclear ambitions. The president spoke after talks with German Chancellor Ang

VOA双语新闻：美国促北韩仁慈释放两被判刑记者

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged North Korea to grant clemency for two American journalists sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday for illegally entering that country and another unspecified offense. Clinton said the United States

VOA双语新闻：法航换空客仪器搜索队又找到尸体

As search crews continued to look for more bodies and wreckage from last week's Air France plane crash, the French carrier has decided to immediately replace suspect speed sensors with new ones on all its long-haul Airbus carriers. 法国航空公司决

VOA双语新闻：缅甸卡伦族村民逃避战乱进入泰国

Thailand has confirmed reports that thousands of ethnic Karen villagers have fled into the country to escape fighting in neighboring Burma. 泰国证实了报告所说的数以千计卡伦族村民为逃避邻国缅甸战乱而进入泰国的消息。

VOA双语新闻：美特使访以力争重启以巴和谈

U.S. Envoy George Mitchell is in Israel, meeting with officials in an effort to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. His aim is to turn the message of President Obama to the Muslim world last week - a message that included the U.S. call for

VOA双语新闻：非洲讨论全球经济危机对非洲影响

Hundreds of political leaders, businessmen and economists have gathered in South Africa for the World Economic Forum on Africa. The three days of discussions in Cape Town this year are focused primarily on the world economic downturn and how to lesse

VOA双语新闻：数据显示美劳工市场恶化速度变缓

U.S. markets posted early gains after modestly encouraging signs concerning employment and retail sales. 星期四公布的一些经济数据还算不错，美国金融市场受到鼓舞而止跌反弹。 The U.S. Labor Department says 24,000 fewer A

VOA双语新闻：泛亚铁路将改善交通 促进一体化

Asian nations have agreed to form a network of railroads that aims to connect 28 countries in the region to each other and Europe. The Trans-Asian Railway holds out the promise of improved trade, transport, and integration. But, forming the massive n

VOA双语新闻：巴基斯坦军方否认开辟新战线

Pakistan's military said clashes in areas bordering North and South Waziristan do not yet represent the opening of a new war front against Taliban militants. But the military says such an offensive may come soon, and that in the meantime it is workin

VOA双语新闻：南北韩工业园区谈判平壤要求加薪

North Korea has presented South Korea with sharply elevated rent and wage demands for running a joint industrial facility just inside the North Korean border. At the same time, Pyongyang is refusing to release a detained executive it has held with no

VOA双语新闻：美特使访印促印巴重启和平对话

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other key members of his new Cabinet have concluded meetings with a high-ranking American envoy. The topic of Pakistan was discussed repeatedly during the two days of talks. 印度总理辛格和其他新内阁的

VOA双语新闻：北约防长批准削减驻科索沃部队

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization says it plans to withdraw about a third of its force in Kosovo by next year because the security situation has improved. The announcement came during a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. 北大西洋公

VOA双语新闻：农产品大国同意重启多哈回合谈判

Major agriculture exporting nations have agreed to revive negotiations for the Doha Development Round at a meeting in Indonesia. The commitment to finalize a framework for the eventual elimination of export subsidies and import tariffs has been prais

VOA双语新闻：拜登：美国决心执行对北韩的制裁

Vice President Joe Biden says the United States is committed to enforcing enhanced U.N. sanctions against North Korea, despite defiant statements from Pyongyang. 美国副总统拜登说，美国决心执行联合国对北韩的更为严厉的制裁，

VOA双语新闻：埃塞俄比亚科学家荣获世界粮食奖

Ethiopian scientist was named on Thursday as the winner of the 2009 World Food Prize in an event at the U.S. State Department. Ejeta, a faculty member at Purdue University in the Midwestern U.S. state of Indiana, was honored for his work on drought a

VOA双语新闻：厄尔尼诺现象即将在整个亚太形成

Climatologists are warning that an El Nino weather pattern, which can spark severe floods, forest fires and droughts, could develop in the coming weeks across the Asia-Pacific region. 气候学家警告说，足以引发严重洪灾、森林大火和干