Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua dismissed 20 cabinet ministers in a government shake-up following growing criticism of the government's performance in the past 18 months. The administration has made little progress in the sectors the president set

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(45) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

It was a cold night. The moon was bright and round. The wind blew cold through the window. Jim got up from his couch and closed it. Jim was shivering because it was cold. He rubbed his hands together. Jim went to the kitchen. He wanted to make coffee

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 28 March 2008 Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has dissolved his Cabinet prior to national elections on Saturday. Nearly six million registered voters are due to go to the polls but the opposition says there already are s

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Eleven key cabinet ministers and three deputies have resigned and will leave their posts along with President Thabo Mbeki Thursday. However, as VOA's Delia Robertson reports from our Johannesburg bureau, the Finance Minister says he will be availabl

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 25 September 2007 Veteran lawmaker, Yasuo Fukuda, has been elected Japan's new prime minister. VOA's Heda Bayron reports from our Asia News Center in Hong Kong. Japan's powerful lower house of Parliament, dominated by the Lib

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 19 February 2006 Newly elected Palestinian Parliament speaker Abdul Aziz Duaik briefs the media after meeting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Israel is imposin

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 29 March 2006 The Islamic militant group Hamas is officially in control of the Palestinian Authority after the group's 24-member cabinet was sworn in. The ceremony could mark t

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A U.S. demand to curb settlement activity topped the agenda at Israel's weekly Cabinet meeting. The government is divided over the issue, as we hear from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, 24 May 2009 Pri

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President Robert Mugabe left Zimbabwe last Friday for medical treatment in Asia. Mugabe's recent absences from Harare means that the executive branch has met for just two hours in the last two months. Mugabe told colleagues he was traveling to Singap

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Israel's leader is coming under growing pressure from hardliners in his coalition to reject American demands for a halt to settlement expansion. Jewish settlers and Ultra Orthodox Jewish men pray to support Israeli settlements in the West Bank (File

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Somali Parliament Forces PM to Dissolve Cabinet 索马里议会迫使总理解散内阁 MOGADISHU Somalia's prime minister has dissolved his 60-member cabinet on the day it was to face a confidence vote in the federal parliament. The prime minister h

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(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: It is Friday, which means it is time for StoryCorps. And today - a difficult conversation between a mother and daughter. In the spring of 2012, Emily Kwong was a college senior studying in New York, and just b

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 17 July 2007 Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki Political pressure on Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is growing in Washington as well as Baghdad. VOA's Margaret Besheer reports from Iraq that the coming weeks

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By Claudia Blume Hong Kong 19 September 2007 On Sunday, Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party will choose a successor to Shinzo Abe, who last week tendered his resignation as prime minister. The election will be a head-to-head battle between the

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今天我们要学的词是 reshuffle. Reshuffle 动词,意思是洗牌,重组。Syria's state media reported that President Bashar al-Assad reshuffled his government, replacing the ministers of defense, information and industry. 叙利亚官方媒

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By Anita Elash Paris 18 May 2007 Newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy has named his new government. It's a much smaller cabinet than before, and half the jobs went to women. Anita Elash reports for VOA from Paris. Ever since his election as

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 02 December 2007 There were high hopes for peace in the Middle East after last week's summit in Annapolis, Maryland. But now, the mood is not as optimistic. Ehud Olmert tells his Cabinet that Israel is not obligated to conc

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After five days of often bitter debate, the Iranian parliament has approved 18 out of 21 of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's Cabinet picks. The candidate for defense minister won overwhelming approval, despite accusations of involvement in a 1994 bom

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President-elect Barack Obama has chosen yet another former political rival to join his incoming cabinet. Mr. Obama has announced that New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson will be his Secretary of Commerce and that Richardson will be a key member of hi

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Pansy Wong has resigned as from her job as Cabinet Minister. She was Minister of Womens Affairs, and Minister of Ethnic Affairs. She resigned because her husband has been getting cheap international travel through her office for his business trips. M

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