VOA标准英语2009年-Gabonese President Is In Spanish Clinic

Gabonese President Omar Bongo is in a Spanish clinic. Spain says he is very ill. The government in Libreville says the 73-year-old is just resting. Gabon President Omar Bongo (2006 file photo) Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos says Pre

VOA标准英语2009年-Malawi's Bingu wa Mutharika Inaugurated Pr

Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has been inaugurated for a second term following his landslide victory in the country's presidential poll. He also led his party to victory in the parliamentary election. Malawis Bingu wa Mutharika takes oath of

VOA标准英语2009年-Biden Meets with Lebanese Leaders in Beiru

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met Friday with Lebanese leaders in Beirut, two weeks before parliamentary elections. Lebanon's Western-backed government is locked in a close electoral contest with the pro-Syrian Hezbollah and its allies. Vice Preside

VOA标准英语2009年-UN Issues Urgent Appeal for Pakistan Refug

The United Nations is appealing for an additional $454 million to assist nearly two million Pakistanis displaced by fighting between army troops and Taliban militants in Swat Valley. The U.N. has already committed $88 million, bringing the total coa

VOA标准英语2009年-Zimbabwe Government Takes Steps to Stop Im

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Zimbabwe's unity government has agreed on key appointments in an attempt to resolve the political impasse that has paralyzed the new administration. Zimbabwean PM Morgan Tsvangirai (L) addresses a press conferen

VOA标准英语2009年-Former Military Ruler Delays Start of Maur

Presidential campaigning is under way in Mauritania. But the country's former military ruler has delayed the start of his campaign to give international mediators more time to resolve the country's political crisis. Campaigning began without the man

VOA标准英语2009年-Pakistan Aid Bill Clears House Committee

A U.S. congressional committee has approved legislation that would provide Pakistan with billions of dollars in economic aid over the next five years. VOA's Dan Robinson reports from Capitol Hill, lawmakers on the House of Representatives Foreign Af

VOA标准英语2009年-Investing in Child And Maternal Health Mak

A consortium of United Nations and private aid and financial organizations are calling for urgent investment in the health of mothers and children in Asia and the Pacific. The consortium, called the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child-Health

VOA标准英语2009年-Veteran Nepalese Gurkha Soldiers Win Right

Bowing to public and political pressure, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government has announced a major policy u-turn that will allow nearly 40,000 veteran Gurkha soldiers the right to settle in Britain. The tough Nepalese fighters have been a part

VOA标准英语2009年-Fewer Children Dying in Poor Countries

The World Health Organization says there has been a sharp drop in the number of deaths among children under age five. The just released report, World Health Statistics 2009, shows 27 percent fewer children died in 2007, the last year for which stati

VOA标准英语2009-Aid Group Deplores Conditions at Kenya Camp for

The international medical organization Doctors Without Borders is warning that conditions at the main camp for Somali refugees in Kenya have gotten so bad that many refugees are contemplating returning to Somalia, even as renewed fighting there caus

VOA标准英语2009-British Incentive Program Hopes to Spur New Car

Facing record auto industry losses and with thousands of jobs on the line, Britain has launched a new car incentive program aimed at spurring sales. Under the deal, qualified motorists will get a $3,000 discount on the purchase of a new vehicle. Toy

VOA标准英语2009-World Health Assembly Discusses New Health Chall

The annual World Health Assembly has opened with delegates from 193 member countries discussing how to protect people from diseases such as the swine flu virus that is spreading around the world. World Health Organization Director General Margaret C

VOA标准英语2009-Chad Says Military Offensive Against Rebels Insi

Chad says it has completed a ground and air assault against rebels based in neighboring Sudan, but the Khartoum government calls the bombing raids an act of war. Chad's ground assault into Sudan captured 100 rebel prisoners and its aerial bombardmen

VOA标准英语2009-Sri Lanka Claims Total Control of Island Nation

The quarter-century civil war in Sri Lanka has come to a dramatic end. The army has apparently wiped out the entire leadership of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, including the leader who founded the rebel group. Ror the first time in 26 years,

VOA标准英语2009-Israel Moves Ahead With West Bank Settlements

Israel is pressing ahead with plans to build more settlement housing in the West Bank. An Israeli official announced the scheme as a meeting was getting under way in Washington between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

VOA标准英语2009-Netanyahu Says He Wants to Resume Peace Talks wi

U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed on the need to resume Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and to deal with the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program. The two leaders had their first meeting Monday

VOA标准英语2009-Maya Descendants at Risk of Disappearing

The Lacandon are direct descendants of the Maya peoples who live in the jungles of the Mexican state of Chiapas. Until the mid-20th century, they had little contact with the outside world. As a result, the indigenous group was almost extinct. Today

VOA标准英语2009-US Lawmakers Consider Guantanamo to be Both Pris

U.S. President Barack Obama's decisions to continue using military commissions to try terrorism detainees and to set a deadline for the closure of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has earned praise and criticism on the Sunday television

VOA标准英语2009-India's Congress Party Starts Work on Forming a

In India, the ruling Congress Party got down to the job of choosing partners and forming a new government, a day after it beat forecasts to win a better-than-expected victory in general elections. The Congress Party-led alliance has won 261 seats in