Jury selection is underway in New York in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. He is the first suspect held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to be tried in an American civilian court. The Tanzanian national is accused of terrorism

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New Somali Refugee Camp Set to Open in Kenya 肯尼亚将为索马里难民开放新的营地 With more than 400,000 Somalis now in Dadaab, Kenya, the opening of a new refugee camp there is welcome news. Somalis begin moving to the Kambioos site Satu

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Malnutrition Devastates Horn of Africa Drought Areas Malnutrition rates are skyrocketing in certain areas of the Horn of Africa, which is experiencing the worst drought in decades. To treat malnutrition, aid workers choose from an array of powders, p

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Ice Hockey a Hit in Beijing When one thinks of the sports in which China excels, swimming, gymnastics or track and field usually come to mind. But ice hockey? While the sport may not have as big a following as soccer or basketball, there are an incre

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In Pakistan, Look to Mom for Love Match On Valentine's Day in Islamabad, flower stalls are overflowing. Mohammad and Shamoona Tanvir are a rare example of a love marriage. I was dancing at a friend's wedding and she was standing with her friends. It

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Immigrant's Success in US Creates Great Opportunities for Many What youre looking at is the 'American Dream.' Ali Saifi left Iran nearly 40 years ago to start a life in the United States. Its a most interesting country because it allows you to do wha

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Enthusiasm Lingers After Iran Election Scenes of celebration following Rowhani's victory were captured by Iranian citizens on cell phone cameras. Videos were sent to VOA's Persian service, finding their way out of Iran despite what had been an ongoin

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South Sudan War Crimes Alleged 南苏丹的战争罪行 A rights group says it has documented acts of violence and cruelty in South Sudan that amount to war crimes. Human Rights Watch has released a new report called South Sudans New War. The 92 page

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Device Keeps Internet On When Power Goes Off Erik Hersman and his team in Nairobi have created what they say is the first router made especially for Africa. It's battery powered and rugged. And it's gaining attention in Europe and the United States.

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Cyber Threat Top Concern for NATO Cyber attacks on corporations and governments are no longer unusual. Suspects and their computers are hauled away on a regular basis. That's why Admiral James Stavridis sees cyber security as the top challenge for hi

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Exercise 1-56; Reading Reduced Sounds CD 2 Track 29 Repeat the paragraph after me. Although you're get ting rid of the vowel sounds, you want tomaintain a strong intonation and let the sounds flow together. For the first reading of thisparagraph, it

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Exercise 11-7: Compound Nouns and Complex Verbs CD 4 Track 44 No matter how complex the verb gets, remember to follow the basic Dogs eat bones intonation,where you stress the nouns. For the noun intonation, stick with the basic set phrase or descript

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This week on Our World: Geneticists find new clues to a puzzling disease ... the fungus that's killing off bats ... and the coming increase in hazardous electronic waste... WILLIAMS: By around 2030, we're looking at potentially a billion e-waste comp

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很多已经参加工作的网友在学习英语时,发现自己听不懂一盘标准的英语磁带,更别提English speaker 说话,这种情况往往对他们学习英语的自信心是一种打击。针对这个问题,本期实用话题特为

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Senegal has said it wants all $38 million of the trial's proposed three-year budget up front, a demand the international community is reluctant to agree to, especially because Senegal has not offered a clear plan on how it will conduct the trial. Ann

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Is War Inevitable? 战争是不可避免的吗? Throughout human history, war has taken countless lives, cost untold sums of money and brought great cities to ruin. But despite the long list of conflicts from ancient times to modern day, psychologist

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短文写作的成绩评定首先看内容是否切题, 是否符合题意的要求, 然后看语言表达是否清楚、连贯、正确。具体标准如下: 15~13分: 内容切题, 包括提纲的全

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For more than two decades a Belgian man named Rom Houben was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state, following a car accident. Then doctors discovered through a brain scan that he was conscious and possessed normal brain function. At first it se

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People hold placards bearing images of Iranian Neda Agha Soltan during a demonstration against Iran's clampdown on opposition activists, at the Trocadero near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, 25 Jul 2009 Iran last weekend blocked VOA's airing of a

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US kids raise money, collect goods for their East African pen pals Jan Sluizer | Gulu, Uganda 02 August 2010 Photo: Courtesy Diane Kroska A Ugandan student reads a letter from her American pen pal. She says the stories she heard about the widespread

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