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Negotiations continued for the release of 19 hostages, including 11 European tourists, who were abducted in southern Egypt on Friday. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the hostages are currently being held in Sudan, d

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Four months before the Bush administration leaves office in January, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laid out his vision for U.S. military strategy on Monday, saying the Pentagon needs to strike a balance between conventional capabilities and the abi

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The U.S. Navy says more American warships have been sent to the east coast of Somalia, where a vessel carrying more than 30 tanks and other military equipment is being held by pirates. As VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bur

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Gems come in all sizes, colors and shapes, but they have one thing in common, they shine and sparkle as they catch the light, dazzling the beholder. But, this is not how they start out. Gem stones are forged deep in the earth and, in the rough, appe

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The annual monsoon rains have unleashed flooding in several parts of India, killing nearly 1,500 people and leaving millions of others homeless. The worst affected region is the eastern state, Bihar, where a river burst its embankment, last month, a

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Precious stones and metals have long held an attraction, sometimes a fatal one. The gem trade is a multi-billion dollar business, and precious stones are a highly prized commodity. This has helped some countries develop into success stories and has

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They are hacked out of the earth, cut, polished and bought and sold along the way -- to finally be shown in all their glory. Gems, these tiny bits of mineral formations from the mines of South Africa, Burma, Brazil, Colombia, Russia or Canada eventu

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Opposition candidates failed to win any of the seats up for grabs in Belarus' parliament elections, in a closely watched race. Preliminary results, announced early Monday, show the opposition candidates did not succeed in garnering any of the 110 pa

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 July 2007 An American lawyer has tapped medical experts in India to help with legal cases in the United States. Mike O'Sullivan reports, it is part of a growing trend in the outsourcing of professional services. Doro

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 12 July 2007 U.S. congressional investigators working undercover say they have obtained a license to buy enough radioactive material for a radiological bomb, without much scrutiny from federal regulators. The investigator

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 12 July 2007 U.S. lawmakers have told a senior State Department official that Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf must act to eliminate Taleban, al-Qaida forces and extremists in his country. VOA's Dan Robinson reports

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 13 July 2007 The Sri Lankan government says it is planning victory celebrations and is drawing up an economic plan for the east of the country, where troops have captured a Tamil Tiger stronghold. But as Anjana Pasricha r

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By Gary Thomas Washington 12 July 2007 The secretary-general of Interpol, the international police organization, says countries need to share data on lost or stolen passports. In a VOA interview, the Interpol chief says the failure of countries to po

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 26 July 2007 Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua unveiled his new cabinet Thursday, nearly two months after he became leader of Africa's most populous country. The cabinet includes some opposition elements in what is labeled a

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By Ivana Kuhar Washington 26 July 2007 American factory worker A recent study (March 2007) entitled Economic Anxiety and the American Dream, finds middle class Americans look at their economic future with a combination of optimism and anxiety. The r

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By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 26 July 2007 The National Basketball Association is on the defensive as the probe into a betting scandal involving one of its referees widens. The FBI investigation into veteran referee Tim Donaghy's alleged gambling ac

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By Paul Sisco Washington, D.C. 26 July 2007 Representatives from American auto manufacturer General Motors recently were in Washington, D.C. to showcase the electric Chevy Volt. GM says the vehicle will change the way people commute, reducing emissi

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By Greg Flakus Mexico CIty 26 July 2007 The July 5 and July 10 bomb attacks on natural gas pipelines in central Mexico led to the temporary shutdown of factories in several industrial cities and raised fears about the country becoming a target for te

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 12 July 2007 President Bush's report to Congress Thursday evaluating progress toward 18 benchmarks of success in Iraq generated immediate controversy, with supporters and opponents of the president's policy seizing on various pa

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 26 July 2007 A total of 19 African countries are holding multi-party elections this year, a far cry from a few years ago when many countries in Africa were dominated by single-party governments or military dictators. But qu

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学英语单词
a priori probability
ABSLDR
agented
albanel l.
anaphroditous
anhydrous sugar
anopheles (anopheles) barbumbrosus
asthenobiosis
atomic-bomb
automatic pilot
baby transplanter
basic frame-handling function
be allowed
broadening correction factor
chicony
chromosome breakpoint
circuit court of appeals
claw-type yaw probe
coasting torque
condyloid vein
coronal bright point
cost of goods sold
crease up
darwinian evolution
delustrants
depressive psychopathia
duce
earth-oriented satellite
electronic-based school administration
electrophoretic coating material
expectoratives
farncombes
film yeast
Fouchet's' tests
freehub
frightened rabbit
genus gardenias
Gilded Age
graded materials
grammeme
grass-roots supervision
huon gulf
khong wong
Komsannyǒng
Leptaspis formosana
low power range trip
MABE
machining accuracy
Magila
mean freezing index
Medieval Warm Period
Memecylon nigrescens
MEWSG
migratory instinct
Milagro, Cerro
monogam
MS (memory system)
muriatic
nasendoscope
Neuried
nomadize
non-sinusoidal complete orthogonal function
nonborderline
nucleo-analytic
octadecyl bromide
operatories
ourolog
peace-and-love
pesquisidor
phenylpiperazine
piperyl
Plasin
power of signature
pre-curving rail
pulaskite pegmatite
quasi-political
Raphe perinealis
reactor light water
Real exchange rates
replaceable attachment
rescous
riffaterres
Rogatist
Salix taiwanalpina
San Juan de Colón
sillimanite refractory
slide actions
stability analysis for earth dam
state it
step(ped) pulley
string stabilizer
theory of free trade
thin-wall aluminium pipe
took the veil
torque-converter level tell-tale
track racer
transient temperature rise
uromyces holwayi lagerheim
victims of crime
vinblastinum
Watling shales
wrap-round configuration