VOA标准英语2017--全线围攻ISIS

Iraqi security forces continue to make progress in their fight to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS terrorists. Iraqi forces have succeeded in taking back Mosul International Airport said the commander of Combined Joint Task Force Operation

VOA常速英语2017--津巴布韦的人权问题

As has been the case in previous years, human rights conditions in Zimbabwe remain deeply troubling, according to the recently-issued State Department Country Reports On Human Rights Practices. In 2016, the government of President Robert Mugabe conti

Robot Is the Star in New Play

WASHINGTON Robots are becoming commonplace in many areas of society -- from manufacturing to medicine to our homes. But now, a robot has taken to the stage, in a British play called Spillikin, where a humanoid robot plays the male companion of a woma

VOA常速英语2017--援助纳米比亚的干旱

Drought-related water and food shortages are posing a risk to many in Namibia, and the U.S. government is providing help. 接下来，是一篇反映美国政府观点的社论。 Drought-related water and food shortages are posing a risk to many in

VOA标准英语--欧洲最大的建设项目,挖掘8000年的伦敦历史

LONDON The biggest construction project in Europe is taking place beneath the British capital, London. The largely subterranean Crossrail route linking Heathrow airport to the eastern financial district and beyond is designed to ease congestion as Lo

VOA标准英语207--英国和美国某些航班禁止携带笔记本进入客舱

WASHINGTON Britain joined the United States Tuesday in banning laptops, tablets, cameras and some other electronic devices from cabin luggage on flights from Turkey and several countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Devices larger than a s

Top 5 Songs for Week Ending March 25

Were unlocking the five most popular songs in the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart, for the week ending March 25, 2017. The hit list continues to be in a generous mood, bestowing upon us another new song. It happens in fifth place where Ri-Ri is a

VOA常速英语207--美国副总统彭斯表示：美国与欧盟价值观一致

The United States and European Union continue to share similar goals: to promote peace and prosperity through freedom, democracy and the rule of law. And to those objectives, said Vice President Mike Pence on a trip to Brussels, we will remain commit

VOA标准英语--特蕾莎在墨西哥

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of Homeland Security John Kelly recently traveled to Mexico to discuss U.S.-Mexico relations. Although our two nations share a long history, our visit was forward-looking, focusing on common interest

Film Looks at Plastics in the Oceans

Eight million metric tons of plastic wind up each year in the oceans, harming marine life and entering the food chain. A film crew traveled the globe to document the rubbish, producing a new documentary film called A Plastic Ocean that looks at the p

VOA常速英语2017--美国财政部指定委内瑞拉副总统为毒枭

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, has designated Venezuelan national Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. 美国

VOA常速英语2016--特朗普风格突变，友好论调广受欢迎

LONDON World leaders have been digesting U.S. President Donald Trump's first speech to Congress Tuesday night, which touched on the United States' commitment to NATO and his plan to forge a new global trade system. 唐纳德.特朗普的演讲可能是

VOA常速英语2017--必须反击伊朗的恶意行动

The United States designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism in 1984. It also designated several Foreign Terrorist Organizations, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad, which receive substantial support from the Iranian regime. 接下来，

VOA标准英语--朝鲜使用VX神经毒气杀人意味着什么?

WASHINGTON Kim Jong Nam was killed February 13 when two women smeared a liquid on his face at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong have been charged with murder, a crime that carries with it the

VOA标准英语2017--暴力在乌克兰东部蔓延

The United States is monitoring the growing violence in eastern Ukraine, and is concerned by the failure of combined-Russian separatist forces to honor the ceasefire, which Russia committed to do when it signed the Minsk agreements.#8206; #8206; The

伊拉克政府军推进至摩苏尔大清真寺附近

WASHINGTON The Iraqi army, backed by helicopters, advanced on western Mosul and pushed into the area around the al-Nuri mosque on Sunday. Taking the mosque where Islamic State leader gave a much publicized sermon in July of 2014 is a symbolic victory

VOA常速英语2017--美国谴责刚果违背人权现象严重

The United States is deeply concerned about the events depicted in a shocking video that appears to show the summary execution of unarmed civilians by elements of the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. 美国深刻关切一则骇人听闻

VOA标准英语--帮助肯尼亚保护野生动物

This month, the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, and the U.S. Department of the Interior, the DOI, announced a grant to the Kenya Ministry of Environment and the Africa Conservation Centre to support Kenya's National Wildlife Cons

VOA标准英语2017--Unified Effort Needed Against Synthetic Drugs

Illicitly used Synthetic drugs are chemically produced psychoactive substances that mimic the effects of illegal narcotics, which have been altered just enough to avoid classification as illegal. And this is one reason why these chemicals are dangero

VOA标准英语--As Brexit Triggered, European and Asian Rivals Circle for London’s Financial Crown

LONDON The Eurostar rail link beneath the English Channel, now 23 years old, once symbolized the bonds between Europe and Britain that many thought unbreakable. It was an appropriate way then for London Mayor Sadiq Khan, an ardent supporter of Britai