Activists: Nigeria Elections Should Be Postponed 活动人士称尼日利亚应该推迟选举 WASHINGTON Nigerian expatriates and activists recently gathered in Washington to denounce the deadly raids and massacres by the militant group Boko Haram.

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(一月)

Washington Braces for Controversial Netanyahu Address to Congress WASHINGTON An increasingly-strained relationship between the Obama administration and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu will be on display this week, as the prime minister visits Washi

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 21 February 2007 Human rights groups are blasting Kenyan police for killing one of Kenya's most wanted criminals, saying that the suspect should have been taken into custody and tried rather than shot. As Cathy Majtenyi rep

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By Bill Rodgers Washington, DC 17 February 2006 watch US Prisoner report U.S. officials have dismissed a United Nations human rights report calling on the United States to either bring to trial or rel

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Iran's pro-reform leader Mir Hossein Mousavi addressed tens of thousands of supporters in the Iranian capital Tehran Mondduring a huge rally to protest the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There were reports by eyewitnesses that a demon

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PACs Boosted by Supreme Court Ruling The contest for control of the White House is not limited to just the presidential candidates' own campaigns. There are also outside groups that want to affect the results of the election. And in the 2012 presiden

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A planned state visit to Washington by French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the end of March may be overshadowed by European allegations of protectionism against the U.S. Leaders of France, Britain and Germany accuse the U.S. Defense Department of alt

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Egyptians Take to the Streets Ahead of Constitution Vote Supporters and opponents of the country's proposed new constitution have taken to the streets across the country ahead of the referendum. In Cairo, those against the draft charter have made the

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Obama Expected to Take Executive Action on Undocumented Immigrants 奥巴马将采取措施解决非法移民问题 WASHINGTON In coming weeks, President Barack Obama is expected to take executive action to address the plight of millions of undocumen

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Activists Decry Lagos Slum Demolition 活动人士谴责拆迁拉各斯贫民窟 LAGOS Acting on a court order, authorities in Nigeria demolished a slum last month in the commercial capital, Lagos. But human rights activists say the order was illegal

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Guns and gun safety are very much in the news again this week. This morning, the Justice Department moved forward with a process to ban bump stocks. That's the accessory that enables guns to fire like automatic weapons. Yesterday

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Protesters are gathering in more than two dozen cities across the country to condemn the practice of separating immigrant parents and children at the southern border. At least 600 children were taken from their parents last month

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 15 June 2007 Russian human rights activists say about 20 young people have disappeared since April in Dagestan, a troubled region of the Caucasus in southern Russia. VOA correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports from Moscow that m

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Egypt's Pro-Military Media Decried, Defended CAIRO Egypt's media have moved, almost as one, to back the military-led government. While press freedom groups have condemned the stifling of a free media, some defend the one-sided coverage as key to Egyp

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Films Offer Contrasting Views of WikiLeaks 两部电影截然相反的维基解密的观点 Bill Condons feature film, The Fifth Estate, on WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, focuses on the war of information in the digital era and asks whethe

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Syrian Activists Decry Focus on Chemical Weapons 叙利亚活动人士公开谴责关注化学武器 CAIRO As the international community acts to neutralize Syria's chemical weapons capabilities, some in the Syrian opposition say the brutality of the

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By Dan Robinson 08 November 2009 President Barack Obama stands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, 07 Nov 2009 The House of Representatives has approved a more than $1 trillion plan by majority Dem

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By Kari Barber Port Harcourt, Nigeria 07 June 2007 Newly instated Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua will face as one of his first challenges controlling the unruly and lawless Niger Delta. Kidnappings of foreigners have escalated as armed militants a

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A few commuters in a subway train making stop at Park Kultury subway station in Moscow, 29 Mar 2010 Moscow has one of the most extensive metro systems in the world, and arguably one of the best. But, a new stop dubbed, The Station of Suicides, has ma

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今天我们要学的词是fraud。 Fraud, 是指欺骗行动。美国大选来临前, voter fraud, 选票造假的问题倍受关注。美国少数族裔和低收入社区的组织团体ACORN正在接受有关选民登记造假的调查。 ACORN i

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