Carl Asuz. We are starting today on the Korean peninsula. Even though an armistice ended fighting in the Korean war in 1953, North and South Korea are still divided and they are still rival. The North is a Communist dictatorship, the South is a repub

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Activists Urge Lifting of HIV Travel Bans Marma Palma is an Aboriginal HIV/AIDS advocate from New Zealand who has been living with the virus for 19 years. She defiantly traveled to the U.S. six times while the entry ban for HIV-positive persons was i

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Early results from a count of tigers in eastern India are providing hope for efforts to save that animal. A team of Indian environmental workers recently counted the tigers in the Sunderbans forest. The workers searched the ground and collected hundr

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今天我们要学的词是payoff。 Payoff, 意思是回报、报偿。The lottery winner got a big payoff from a small investment, 乐透彩中奖者小小的投资得到了巨额回报。球队新老板花了好几千万美元,重新建设这次队

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在美国流浪街头越来越难了.据赫芬顿邮报报道,美国多个城市出台新规,规定流浪街头为犯罪行为.一项报告调查了187座美国城市之后得出结论称,自2009年以来,全美限制流浪,乞讨,在公共场合坐下

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Libya has banned Switzerland's national carrier, Swiss International Air Lines, from flying to Tripoli. This is the latest twist in ongoing diplomatic row between countries over the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son, Hannibal. 'Technical reasons' prom

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(82) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十二月)

A Pakistani court has upheld the detention of nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan and barred him from ever speaking about nuclear proliferation. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that government lawyers say the ruling silencing the confess

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Push to Ban Cell Phone Use While Driving Builds In an unprecedented move, the National Transportation Safety Board in the U.S. is recommending that motorists turn off all cell phones while driving. The board, charged with determining the cause of tra

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump signed several executive orders yesterday. One of them was related to abortion. His order restored something called the Mexico City policy, which bars U.S. funding for any international aid group that provides abo

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: India's largest city has banned plastic bags and packaging. In India, people actually produce only a tenth of the plastic waste that Americans do. The problem is where it ends up, as NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from Mumbai. (SOUN

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Beyond Plastic Bans: Creating Products To Replace It LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Plastic pollution is a big problem. And there are a growing number of campaigns to ban plastic waste. That's putting pressure on companies not just over straws but all ki

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By Delana Gbenekama London 09 July 2007 It is the beginning of a new era for smokers in England. No more lighting up in closed public places, including in pubs and private clubs. Other parts of Britain already have such bans. Delana Gbenekama reports

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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 measure was included in a bill to authorize inte

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Topic1 China bans teachers from accepting gift moneyChina's Ministry of Education has taken measures to address the problems in professional ethics of teachers. A six-point regulation now bans the country's teaching staff from accepting gifts or mone

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BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday announced embargoes on some imports from and exports to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). In terms of imports, China banned purchases of coal, iron ore, gold, rare earths and several other

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Hamburg has become the first city in Germany to impose a partial ban on some older diesel vehicles. The move comes as a blow to the federal government as well as the country's automotive industry. TRT World's Ira Spitzer reports. Diesel engines were

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Topic1-Alibaba bans sales of shoddy home appliances amid complaints China's e-commerce giant Alibaba has banned the sale of fourteen types of small home appliances from its two popular online shopping platforms following numerous complaints over qual

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北京巨复杂落户政策出台,众北漂加油 Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- Today keeps you informed and inspired. I'm Wuyou Coming up: --Beijing launched point-based hukou system --Kuwait city bans hanging the la

发表于:2019-02-22 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 The Beijing Hour 新闻纵贯线

嘉年华电影鼓励女性勇敢发声;维多利亚摔跤考验专业素养 Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Zhaoying Coming up; --Australian Victoria state legalizes assisted dying in

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