VOA标准英语2010年-Earthquake Adds More Tragedy to Haiti'

The devastation caused by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake only adds to Haiti's decades of trouble and turmoil. In January 1991, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide took office after winning Haiti's first democratic election in a landslide, only to be ouste

VOA标准英语2010年-Angola Arrests 2 Suspects in Connectio

Angolan authorities say security forces have arrested two individuals allegedly involved in the deadly attack on Togo's national football team on the eve of the Africa Cup of Nations. Despite the Togolese team's subsequent withdrawal, the tournament

VOA标准英语2010年-UN Says At Least 16 Personnel Killed i

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said late Wednesday that at least 16 U.N. personnel with the peacekeeping mission in Haiti perished in the powerful earthquake that shook the Caribbean nation on Tuesday. Mr. Ban called on the international communit

VOA标准英语2010年-African Cup Kicks Off in Angola Despit

Angolan officials say African Cup of Nations tournament goes ahead as planned, but Togo's PM pulls out his country's team after Friday's attack. Scott Bobb | Johannesburg 10 January 2010 Angolan soccer fans parade near the airport in Cabinda, Angola,

VOA标准英语2010年-South African Officials Dismiss World

Organizers of football's World Cup in South Africa are dismissing media reports that Friday's attack on the Togolese football team in Angola could affect the sport's biggest tournament when it kicks off in South Africa in June. The head of South Afri

VOA标准英语2010年-Our World – 2 January 2010

VOA's Weekly Science and Technology Magazine Art Chimes 05 January 2010 MUSIC: Our World theme This week on a special edition of Our World, some of our favorite stories of the past year ... including a high-tech wrinkle to that humblest of building m

VOA标准英语2010年-Obama Pledges Sustained Commitment To

President Barack Obama is promising full U.S. support for Haiti's immediate recovery from Tuesday's earthquake, and for its long-term rebuilding. Mr. Obama discussed the catastrophe Friday with Haiti's president. President Obama says the United State

VOA标准英语2010年-Ukrainian Voters Apparently Unhappy wi

Activists of the Women's Movement FEMEN, dressed as prostitutes, take part in a rally outside the Central Election Commission office in Kiev, Ukraine, 14 Jan 2010. The event was meant to highlight what the group called political prostitution and crud

VOA标准英语2010年-Speaking Creole on the 'Comfort'

The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort, currently en route to Haiti, has treated patients in the region before. Medical personnel who have personal connections to Haiti are preparing fellow shipmates for what is ahead. There are more than 550 medical pr

VOA标准英语2010年-Sectarian Fighting Erupts in Central S

Nearly a dozen people have been killed in fighting in central Somalia between a Sufi Muslim group and al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants Alisha Ryu | Nairobi 02 January 2010 Radical Islamists in Somalia Ahlu-Sunna spokesman Sheik Abdullahi Sheik Abu

VOA标准英语2010年-Haitian Community in Florida Sending A

This is a time that we need all the help from the friends of Haiti to come together... Laurent Prosper, Haiti Chief of Mission, Orlando, Florida Members of Haitian communities across the globe are trying to reach their loved ones in the wake of Tuesd

VOA标准英语2010年-South Korea's Mobile Harbor Aims to Ma

Government-funded researchers hope to commercialize an idea called a mobile harbor. The developers aim to expand global shipping options while reining in carbon emissions. Kurt Achin | Seoul 04 January 2010 A computer simulation demonstrates how smal

VOA标准英语2010年-US Announces $100 Million Aid Package

U.S. President Barack Obama has announced $100 million in new aid to Haiti, two days after a powerful earthquake left much of the capital city of Port-au-Prince in rubble. Our correspondent has details on the American relief and rescue effort. Speaki

VOA标准英语2010年-Iranian Web Site Reports Attack on Opp

It was not the first time that Iranian opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi has come under attack by government supporters, but the use of gunfire to blow out the windows of his armored limousine constitutes by far the boldest. Armed pro-government demon

VOA标准英语2010年-UN Security Council Authorizes 3,500 N

The U.N. Security Council has authorized a request from the U.N. chief for as many as 3,500 new peacekeepers and police to be sent to Haiti. This will boost the U.N. force in Haiti to more than 12,000. Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yesui said the council'

VOA标准英语2010年-Freetown Hospital Works to Repair Chil

Freetown, Sierra Leone 02 November 2009 Each year, half a million pregnant women in the developing world die of complications during labor, and about six million children are stillborn or die within a week of birth. For the next three weeks, well be

VOA标准英语2010年-Haiti Earthquake Displaces 300,000

In its first estimate, the United Nations reports about 10 percent of the housing in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince has been destroyed, leaving some 300,000 people homeless. The UN says a full assessment of the damages inflicted by the powerful e

VOA标准英语2010年-Iran Opposition Leader Mousavi Not Afr

Photo: AP Photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows a female Iranian protestor holding a poster of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, during anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran

VOA标准英语2010年-Ukrainian Presidential Election Marked

Ukrainians vote Sunday in a presidential election fraught with uncertainty about the candidates, the process, and the result. Voters have a choice of 18 hopefuls, none of whom is expected to gain 50 percent of the votes needed to avoid a runoff betwe

VOA标准英语2010年-Economy, Haiti to Take Center Stage at

More than 2,500 business, government and civil society leaders from more than 90 countries are expected to attend this year's World Economic Forum in the small Swiss alpine resort of Davos. Organizers of the meeting, which opens January 27, say the g