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Florida Latino Support Divided in US Presidential Election Most of the Cuban-Americans playing dominos in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood came to this country as political refugees to escape Fidel Castro's communist regime. As the largest Latino g
US Muslim Congressman Faces Reelection, Islamic State MINNESOTA American voters say the fear of the Islamic State group is one of their most important concerns in the upcoming mid-term elections. President Barack Obamas decision to attack Islamic Sta
By Jeff Swicord Washington, DC 23 January 2007 watch US Poverty report The United States is a wealthy nation, but poverty still exists here. By the government's own measure, more than one in every eight Americans lives below the poverty line -- on i
By Carolyn Weaver New York City 24 September 2007 Summer in New York is a season of outdoor festivals, and although summer is mostly over, one arts festival continues to the end of September. The River to River Festival was founded in 2001 to lift th
By Katherine Cole Washington 19 May 2008 During the last weekend of April, close to 80,000 people from as far away as Japan, Australia and Germany converged upon the town of Wilkesboro, North Carolina. What drew these people to the small town in the
By Greg Flakus New Orleans 24 April 2008 U.S. President George Bush met with the leaders of Mexico and Canada in New Orleans earlier this week, giving that city much needed attention as it continues to recover nearly three years after it was devastat
By Steve Herman New Delhi 19 February 2007 The final resting place in India for the 16th century Mughal Emperor Humayun Humayun's tomb has pitted urban planners and environmentalists against bureaucrats. As VOA's Steve Herman reports from New Delhi,
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 27 March 2008 As Zimbabweans prepare to go to the polls Saturday, pre-election activity is being closely watched by an estimated 3 million Zimbabweans living in neighboring South Africa. Although they cannot vote, these exi
By Melinda Smith Washington, D.C. 28 November 2006 watch Polonium report A handout image released November 20 2006, shows Alexander Litvinenko, at the University College Hospital, in London Three people have been sent for radiological testing to see
South Korean investigators have released what they call interim findings in a probe of this month's shooting of a South Korean tourist by North Korea's military. However, amid the North's total refusal to cooperate in an investigation, serious infor
US Muslims Join Together to Impact Politics, End Discrimination The number of Muslims living in America has increased by two-thirds since the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil 11 years ago. Many emigrated here and they live with discrimination from some
Burmese pro-democracy activists have welcomed the stated policy approach by the new Thai government and its call for political change in Burma ahead of Burma's general elections, scheduled for 2010. The Thai Government is also looking to other South
By David McAlary Washington 14 December 2006 President Bush has expanded the number of African nations receiving special U.S. aid to combat malaria. Mr. Bush says there can be no turning back from his goal of cutting the number of malaria deaths in
By Tendai Maphosa Harare 13 September 2006 In Zimbabwe, police have prevented protest marches organized by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions from taking place. In Harare and elsewhere in the country, the police sealed off the places where marche
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 12 March 2007 Los Angeles gets little respect as an artistic or cultural center from its rivals on the East Coast, such as New York or Boston, but the sprawling West Coast city is highlighting its role as a creative hu
South Korea is calling its ambassador to Japan home, in the latest flare-up of a decades-old dispute. As VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul, the islands at the heart of the conflict trigger some very painful memories for Koreans. South Korean Forei
By Greg Flakus Houston 20 February 2008 Senator Barack Obama won the Wisconsin state Democratic presidential primary, Tuesday, the ninth win in a row for the charismatic junior senator from Illinois. On the Republican side, Senator John McCain was th
By Ron Corben Bangkok 13 September 2006 Singapore's restrictions on protests by civic groups at the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund next week have drawn criticism from Bank officials, as well as from activist groups.
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: People in Ferguson, Mo., will vote to choose a mayor tomorrow. It's the town's first mayoral election since 2014. And that was the year a white police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old black man, Michael Brown. Then there we
世界上跑得最快的是什么?答案是光速。它每秒能跑186,280英里。因为即使在太空中,光速也大致相同,所以光年也就用于描述不同星球之间的距离。记住了哦,光年是距离单位,不是时间单位