IN THE NEWS - 150 Years Later, US Still Debate Issues That Fueled Civil War This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This Tuesday is the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the opening shots of the American Civil War. On April twelfth, eighteen si

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AS IT IS 2015-05-21 Indonesia, Malaysia Agree to Temporarily Shelter Migrants 印尼,马来西亚同意暂时向移民提供庇护 Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to provide temporary shelter to thousands of migrants and human trafficking victims

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AS IT IS 2016-05-10 Myanmar Wants US to Stop Calling Minority Group Rohingya A Myanmar government official says the country wants the U.S. Embassy to stop using the term Rohingya to refer to the nations mainly Muslim minority. The official, Myanmars

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The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa has issued a heightened security alert a day after Ethiopia's government warned of an imminent terrorist attack. VOA's Peter Heinlein in the Ethiopian capital reports the alert coincides with a government roundup of e

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Immigrant Students Lobby for a US Dream Undocumented students from Lehman College in New York City don academic robes for a protest in the office of State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. They are almost immediately ushered out, their protest being d

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Nearly 45,000 Boy Scouts from across the United States and from around the world are camping outdoors for 10 days of fun and adventure as the youth organization celebrates 100 years of scouting. Every four years the Boy Scouts of America holds its na

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African Migrants in Libya Live in Fear Human rights organizations say tens of thousands of African migrants in Libya have been displaced from their homes and jobs by months of fighting between forces loyal to former leader Moammar Gadhafi and the tra

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US Presidential Election Actually 50+ Separate Votes Election Day is held on the first Tuesday in November in the United States. In each of the 50 states, and in the District of Columbia, there are political offices to fill, ballot questions to resol

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In Close Race, Obama Battles for Second Term Four years ago, Obama was elected 44th president of the United States. The Democratic Party nominated him at a highly charged convention that focused on public disenchantment with the nations struggling ec

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America's 30th president has been largely ignored by historians. Calvin Coolidge was sworn into office in August 1923, after the death of President Warren Harding. Elected in his own right the following year, Coolidge left office in 1929. Now, his le

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Hundreds of immigrants officially became American citizens in New York on Friday in a sometimes emotional ceremony of swearing-in and welcoming. That is the sound of 165 newly minted U.S. citizens representing 48 nations of the world, pledging their

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Washington Week: Focus on Immigration, Same-Sex Marriage A proposal to dramatically boost U.S. border security could be the key to unlocking bipartisan support needed to pass comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate. Democrat Charles Schumer sa

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Washington Week: Focus on Immigration Reform, Benghazi Attack A push to overhaul U.S. immigration laws has been gaining momentum in the Senate, where a bipartisan reform bill was unveiled last month. This week, senators could decide whether the bill

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美海军家属要求伊朗释放囚犯 VIENNA As the crowd of journalists covering the Iran talks swells, so too do the opportunities for media coverage. Hoping to catch the attention of high-level diplomats, the family of American-Iranian marine Am

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5月5日,奥巴马总统在俄亥俄州州立大学出席2013届学生的毕业典礼,不过他的讲话并非劝学生们好好学习天天向上,而是鼓励他们勇敢发出自己的声音。演讲的核心是公民意识,奥巴马在讲话

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For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rat

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Thank you all very much for that excellent introduction, we're going to jump right in and talk about the presidential cabinet today. The advisors who run different parties of the U.S government. When the president stars a second term, that's when you

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A Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, it was started by President Barack Obama in 2012. It allows young immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children to apply for a renewable two-year visa. That allows them to work legally in the

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 February 2008 The UNHCR says a comprehensive solution has been found that will enable some 218,000 Burundian refugees who fled to Tanzania in 1972 to end their lengthy exile and begin new lives, either in Tanzania or in Buru

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Immigration reform advocates march in Washington DC As the U.S. Congress moves beyond the issue of health care, some lawmakers are pushing for an overhaul of the nation's immigration system. At the heart of the debate is a proposal to give legal stat

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