For the flood of migrants and refugees escaping the violence and poverty of several African countries and heading toward Europe for the opportunity of a better life, the most common route out of North Africa is through Libya. They present targets for

发表于:2018-11-29 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2017年(12月)

Since 1987, the Lord's Resistance Army terrorist group, under the leadership of self-styled prophet Joseph Kony, has waged a guerilla war against the Ugandan government. The group's purported goal is to establish a multi-party democracy that would ru

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Combating wildlife trafficking is a priority for the United States, said Deputy Chief of the U.S. Mission to the African Union, Jessica Davis, at a workshop on illegal wildlife trafficking held recently in Addis Ababa. 打击野生动物贩卖是美国

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The ever-evolving illicit drug trade is shifting to a new paradigm. Increasingly, international criminal organizations are dealing in highly dangerous synthetic drugs. 不断发展的非法毒品贸易正在转向一种新的范式。越来越多的国

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The U.S. continues to prosecute endangered species traffickers. Michael Hegarty, an Irish national, was sentenced in federal court in Miami, Florida, on November 14th to 18 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for frau

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Carol Lin: The Spainish-speaking network Univision sent a crew to the viewer's home to videotape his online chat with a woman. What they saw was shocking. According to the station, with their cameras

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No. 28 Where is the nearest Laundromat? 第二十八课 最近的自助洗衣店是在哪里? Practice Listen and Repeat A 1. The Laundromat is opened from 6 am to 12 pm. 自助洗衣店的开放时间是早晨6点到中午12点。 2. I bring a sma

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An estimated 20 million people around the world are victims of the heinous crime of human trafficking. This year, the State Department's Trafficking in Persons report places particular focus on the responsibility of governments to hold offenders acco

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AS IT IS 2015-03-16 Indias Maharashtra State Bans Beef 印度马哈拉施特拉邦禁止贩卖牛肉 Last week, the western Indian state of Maharashtra banned beef consumption. The state government has barred possession or sales of the meat. 上周,印

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Pangolins Are Most Trafficked Mammal 穿山甲因被贩卖已成世界上最濒危的哺乳动物 Have you ever heard of a pangolin? A lot of people havent. Its also known as a scaly anteater. Conservation groups say its the worlds most illegally tra

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Child trafficking is rampant in Southeast Asia, with hundreds of thousands of children caught up in this lucrative and shadowy business. The reporter looks at the situation in the Philippines, where poverty is high and jobs are scarce, and unscrupulo

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They were here at the beginning and they turned up for the end of a trial that was often shocking and never short of controversy. The police had said that race wasn't relevant. It certainly became an issue. Sentencing the eight British Pakistanis and

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Topic1 Should Child Traffickers Be Sentenced to Death? A campaign advocating death penalty for child traffickers has gone wild on Chinese social media recently. Over 800 thousand people expressed their support for the death penalty sentence, while ma

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