Hundreds of California Households Struggle With No Water 成千上万的加州家庭与缺水斗争 EAST PORTERVILLE, CALIFORNIA California is undergoing its third year of severe drought, and the water shortage is affecting farms, cities, and small c

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南苏丹内战不断 安理会提供人道主义援助 After recent meetings in Nairobi with the foreign ministers of a number of regional partners, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that a regional protection force, authorized by the United N

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 29 June 2006 In the wake of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, U.S. officials are working to find a new way to determine the future of the approximately 450 men held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The Court ruled that

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By Stephanie Ho Washington 01 January 2006 The mayor of New Orleans, a city that was devastated four months ago by Hurricane Katrina, says his wishes for the new year include rebuilding the city's pro

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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 10 August 2007 Clashes in Sudan's Darfur region have reportedly killed dozens of people including rebels and government forces. The rebels say that subsequent air raids by the Sudanese government has forced 25,000 people to fl

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By Paula Wolfson White House 18 February 2007 Leading Democrats in the U.S. Senate say they will continue to look for ways to pressure the Bush administration to change course in Iraq. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports from the White House, Bush administr

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By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 26 July 2006 The Bush administration has endorsed legislation to change U.S. law to accommodate a controversial anti-terrorism surveillance program that some critics have called illegal. A Senate hearing focused on the i

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The chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee says top Bush administration officials in 2002 and 2003 discussed the legality of harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects. At a hearing Thursday, Senator Carl Levin said Secr

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By Meredith Buel Washington 25 September 2007 The Pentagon is refusing to comment directly on news reports in the United States about a classified program encouraging some military snipers in Iraq to use fake weapons and bomb-making materials as bait

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By Meredith Buel Washington 17 November 2009 The United States says it is dismayed that Israel has authorized the construction of new housing units in occupied east Jerusalem. A Palestinian boy in the yard of his house in front of a new housing deve

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Privacy Rights Advocates Praise NSA Contractor Who Exposed US Surveillance Program To many who support increased security even at the cost of some personal privacy, Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency contractor who exposed vast government s

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Obama Fights Ebolas Political Fallout 奥巴马努力对付埃博拉的政治影响 WHITE HOUSE The fear of Ebola has become a political factor in the United States, where President Barack Obamas Democratic Party is fighting to retain control of the

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US President Barack Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder to Ferguson, Missouri, to investigate the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman. The decision follows days of violent protests in the St. Louis suburb

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By Brian Wagner Miami 26 December 2007 Colombia's government has accepted a Venezuelan operation to receive three hostages to be freed by Colombian rebels. VOA's Brian Wagner reports from Miami Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he has planes and

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By June Soh Washington, D.C. 07 June 2007 The U.S. Justice Department says homicides in the United States are most often committed with guns, especially handguns. And the number of shooting deaths has increased steadily over years. But a new technol

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By Douglas Bakshian Cebu, Philippines 13 January 2007 Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have authorized the drawing up of a charter that would give their organization a legal basis for the first time since it was founded four deca

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By Greg Flakus New Orleans 25 April 2008 The Mississippi river, which drains more than 40 percent of North America's river flow into the Gulf of Mexico, is at its highest point in years, leading to concern that levees protecting the city of New Orlea

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By Kari Barber Freetown, Sierra Leone 19 September 2007 Sierra Leone is being watched as a test case for other post-conflict countries as national police take on many of the security roles once filled by United Nations peacekeepers. Kari Barber recen

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By Amy Katz Washington, DC 10 April 2006 watch Intelligence Leak report Vice President Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff, Lewis

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By Deborah Tate Washington 13 February 2008 The U.S. Senate has defied a veto threat from President Bush and approved legislation that would prohibit intelligence agencies from using extreme interrogation techniques, including waterboarding. The meas

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