VOA标准英语2010年-Agriculture Seeks Bigger Role in Clima

When the world's biggest polluters gathered this past December at the U.N. Climate Summit in Copenhagen, they managed to forge a non-binding agreement that could help put the brakes on global warming. The 12-paragraph document outlines a way to move

VOA标准英语2010年-Obama Pledges Full US Aid to Haiti Aft

U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States will do all it can to help the victims of the Haitian earthquake. American rescue teams have been dispatched to the disaster area. The president adds that the United States has launched a swift, aggr

VOA标准英语2010年-US Marines Join Relief Effort in Haiti

A 2,000-strong unit of U.S. Marines began moving ashore west of Port-au-Prince at dawn on Tuesday to help deliver relief to victims of last week's earthquake. Some U.S. troops landed by helicopter at the presidential palace, where crowds of Haitians

VOA标准英语2010年-White House Takes on Critics of Terror

President Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan says congressional critics, others speaking before getting facts Paula Wolfson | White House 07 February 2010 White House Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan briefs reporters in the White

VOA标准英语2010年-Clinton Says Development Aid 'Central

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a Washington policy address Wednesday said the Obama administration intends to put development and foreign aid on the same level as diplomacy and military power in U.S. foreign policy. She also said empowering w

VOA标准英语2010年-Floating US Navy Hospital Heads to Hai

The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort is heading to Haiti to help treat survivors of last week's devastating earthquake. The Comfort is, essentially, a floating hospital. All right, bed capacity: In casualty receiving, I have 50 beds, said Lieutenant C

VOA标准英语2010年-Yushchenko Apparently Loses Ukrainian

Exit polls announced within minutes after elections ended in Ukraine indicate the country's current and former prime ministers will emerge from a field of 18 candidates to face one another in a run-off in three weeks. Incumbent President Viktor Yushc

VOA标准英语2010年-US Marines: Taliban Insurgents Mostly

Three weeks after U.S. Marines and Afghan Army soldiers launched the largest military offensive in Afghanistan since 2001, a top American commander said Thursday that most of the insurgents have been cleared from the Taliban enclave of Marja. On Febr

VOA标准英语2010年-US Defense Chief Downplays Possibility

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says if Iran is serious about accepting the international offer that could end the dispute over its nuclear program, it should do so soon, and through official channels. Gates was speaking to reporters in Ankara, i

VOA标准英语2010年-Cultures Welcome The New Year in Uniqu

An Andean priest in Lima, Peru The media often portray fireworks as how much of the world marks the start of a new year but many cultures also turn to their religious and cultural roots. Shinto shrines in Japan become the center of a ritual to leave

VOA标准英语2010年-Somali Capital Braces for All-Out War

Somalia government policemen guard a street in southern Mogadishu during a raid in which 60 people suspected of creating violence in the capital were arrested (File) French Foreign Legion Training Ugandan Troops for Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia Re

VOA标准英语2010年-Pioneering Pediatrician Leads Charge t

Arthur Ammann discovered that mothers could transmit HIV or AIDS to their babies through the placenta or breast-feeding Jan Sluizer | San Francisco 04 February 2010 California immunologist Arthur Ammann pioneered research that drastically cut the HIV

VOA标准英语2010年-Adult Illiteracy Threatens Nashville E

One in four American adults cannot read or write well enough to function on the job and in everyday life Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 04 May 2010 Volunteer tutors at the Nashville Adult Literacy Council work individually with adult learners. One in

VOA标准英语2010年-Yemeni Humanitarian Crisis Deepens

During a visit to an isolated desert settlement outside Yemen's capital Sanaa, VOA's Heather Murdock reports on the despair of some of the thousands of people who have fled their homes since the war in northern Yemen began in 2004 Heather Murdock | S

VOA标准英语2010年-Rising Girl Rapper Reaches for the Sta

Filmmaker Gabriel Noble first saw Priscilla Star Diaz perform at age nine in a New York City nightclub. When Priscilla Star Diaz told her father she wanted to be a performer, he did all he could to help achieve not only his child's dream, but also hi

VOA标准英语2010年-How America Looks Through Muslim Eyes

Documentary 'Journey into America' explores freedom, justice and tolerance in US Mohamed Elshinnawi | Washington, DC 03 August 2010 Photo: Courtesy Akbar Ahmed The documentary, 'Journey into America,' explores life for Muslims in the United States in

VOA标准英语2010年-Guinea Unions Threaten Year-Long Strik

Labor leaders in Guinea are threatening to stage a year-long strike if the military government does not resolve the country's political crisis. There is still no official word on the health of Guinea's military leader, more than one month after he wa

VOA标准英语2010年-US Hiring Up, But Most Of It In Govern

The U.S. economy showed a big gain in jobs last month, but most of them were temporary census workers. President Barack Obama says it nonetheless shows the economy is getting stronger. The nation's unemployment rate dropped two-tenths of one percent

VOA标准英语2010年-Living Off the Land, Naturally

Experimental prairie farm designed to prove farmers can make a living off native grasses Johanna Sailor | Brookings, South Dakota 12 February 2010 Photo: Courtesy EcoSun Prairie Farm EcoSun Prairie Farm is intended to be a working model of agricultur

VOA标准英语2010年-US Chamber Outlines Plan to Create 20

The largest business federation in the United States is calling on leaders in government, business and labor to unite around an ambitious goal of creating 20 million jobs over the next decade. In his annual state of American business address Tuesday