By Scott Stearns White House 29 September 2006 President Bush and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev say they are united in fighting terrorism and spreading democracy in Central Asia. Some human rights groups are criticizing President Nazarbayev'

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Scripts: Accompanied by his wife and attorney, Texas oil man Oscar Wyatt arrived at Federal Court, unsure what his sentence would be. Wyatt had already pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a scheme to defraud the massive oil-for-food assistance program.

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The Chinese offshore oil corporation known as CNOOC has abandoned its bid for UNOCAL. This would have been the largest-ever purchase of an American company by a Chinese firm. CNOOC had put forth a bid that was higher than the competing bid from US o

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The annual gathering of political, economic and government leaders comprising the World Economic Forum has opened in Davos, Switzerland. That participants are buzzing about the fear of recession and the dramatic falls in world equity markets. 世界经

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By Mil Arcega Washington 25 May 2007 Technology and high gasoline prices are helping to coax hard-to-extract oil from California's oil fields. Production at some of the state's older oil fields is expected to dry up in about 25 years, but Chevron say

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 26 August 2007 Nicaragua with Port Harcourt eng 210 The Nigerian army has launched raids on several suspected criminal hideouts in Port Harcourt and elsewhere in the Niger Delta in a bid to flush out gangs blamed for violenc

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By Barry Wood Davos 23 January 2008 The annual gathering of political, economic and government leaders comprising the World Economic Forum has opened in Davos, Switzerland. VOA's Barry Wood reports from the Swiss ski resort that participants are buzz

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U.S. lawmakers have been commenting on the situation in Burma as the U.S. Congress advanced legislation to strengthen and renew unilateral U.S. economic sanctions against the Burmese military government. More from VOA's Dan Robinson on Capitol Hill.

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Global Fund and Big Business Partner against AIDS As donor countries tighten budgets to reduce debt, organizations like the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria are feeling the effects. The fund announced last November it would not make any new

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: At most Supreme Court confirmation hearings, you hear a lot about divisive social issues - abortion, affirmative action, same-sex marriage. And the hearings next week on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will be no exception. Bu

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今天我们要学的词是to ban somebody from doing something。 To ban somebody from doing something, 意思是禁止某人做某事。美国石油巨头雪佛龙公司最近在巴西惹了麻烦。 Following a recent oil spill inside the country,

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A human rights group has accused Western oil firms of whitewashing abuses connected with a gas pipeline in Burma. The group also says Burma's military government has siphoned billions of dollars from the project, helping to keep them in power. Worke

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