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According to the 2010 World Population Data Sheet, there will be fewer workers to support an aging population in the coming decades. The booming population growth of the past century has slowed, but improving health conditions and stubbornly high bir

Europe's Leaders Hope for Change in Direction at NATO Summit

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President Donald Trump recently welcomed Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to the White House, where he noted that Kazakhstan has made great strides since gaining independence in 1991. In the years since Kazakhstan's independence, the United Stat

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Australia is poised to become the first country to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes. From 2012, the Federal Government will ban all brand names on cigarette packets. But it will still be compulsory to carry graphic warnings. The Australian ar

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Firefighters in Western Australia are hoping better weather conditions today will help them get a huge bushfire under control. Towns in the Margaret River region have been under threat and 30 properties have been destroyed or damaged. Further south,

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China's banking regulator has announced new plans to bolster lending to small companies. A new guideline from the banking regulatory commission is requiring banks to increase the supply of loans smaller than 10 million yuan as fast as any other loans

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In northern Benin, humans revere dogs for their loyalty and bravery. But here dogs also figure in an unusual ritual. Every 4 years, the Bessarabia people initiate boys into manhood. The process, a series of ceremonies including circumcision, hinges o

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This is AP News Minute. President Donald Trump says that thanks to him, US infrastructure will once again be the envy of the world. Trump has been promoting plans to bolster the country's roads, bridges and waterways in what his aides have dubbed inf

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G8 Leaders Called on to Address Hunger, Poverty Humanitarian groups say they want G8 leaders to make food security and poverty top priorities at their upcoming summit. The leaders gather later this month at Camp David in Maryland. In 2009, at the LAq

VOA标准英语2010年-Health Advocates Say Pneumonia Prevent

The global health organization that works to combat pneumonia in children says the lung disease is the single leading killer of young children in the world, more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. The Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia sa

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More U.S. troops are on their way to Iraq ahead of elections set for the end of January. The additional forces are intended to bolster security at a time when the country's insurgency is threatening to prevent voting in areas of the country dominated

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Growth of 6.7-percent in both the 1st, 2nd and 3rd quarters has most observers now suggesting the Chinese government stands poised to meet its full-year growth target of between 6.5 to 7-percent. The analysis released along-side the new figures from

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While most of the focus this weekend will be on the APEC leaders, small- and medium-sized companies in Peru are representing themselves in Lima, hoping to drum-up new opportunities through the sessions. Rafael Gamarra, partner of Bquate, a digital mu

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The American presidential campaign is not just about winning over voters -its also about raising millions of dollars in campaign funds. President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney are crossing the country to raise as much money as possible to

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Now: new questions surrounding the deaths of four Green Berets in the Western African nation of Niger and the role of the president as consoler in chief. John Yang has the story. Sending young Americans into harm's way can be the most serious decisio

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Cabinet-level officials from Washington and Beijing Wednesday concluded two days of talks in Annapolis, Maryland with a commitment to cooperate on energy and environmental issues and begin work on a bi-lateral investment treaty. There was also discus

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13. The pleasant feeling can strengthen your confidence in whitening your skin. 愉悦的以情可以增强你美白的信念。 还能这样说： Having a good mood can bolster my belief to get a whitening skin. The pleasant feeling can make you be