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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Each year, the editors and news directors of the Associated Press choose what they believe are the top ten news stories of the year. AP voted the Iraq War t

NPR 2011-11-18

Contagion from the European debt crisis is far from contained as US banks are warned they are at serious risk, and bond yields rise everywhere in the eurozone except Germany. Teri Schultz also reports from Brussels that financial authorities are now

CNN 2011-02-28

Let's go Cross Country, see what's happening in Orange County, California. Search is on for this bumbling robber who police say spent 6 minutes searching for his gun before he held up a convenience store. Surveillance cameras caught him digging throu

NPR 2010-04-08

Crews are trying to bore holes into a West Virginia coal mine. Theyre trying to vent poison gas, so they cant send rescue crews into search for four miners. They were in explosion Monday that killed 25 other people. NPRs Dianna Douglas is in Melville

NPR 2010-06-01

Fury in the streets of Istanbul, Turkey where hundreds tried to storm the Israeli Consulate today. It was a similar scene in Greece and parts of the Arab World reacting to Israel's deadly attack this morning on an international aid flotilla bound for

NPR 2009-6-18

President Obama today called for a new consumer protection agency as part of his sweeping effort to rewrite the financial rules of the road and avoid future economic meltdowns. NPR's John Ydstie reports. Speaking to an audience in the East Room of th

NPR 2011-03-19

The US will not go it alone in Libya, but President Obama says it will join the international community in enforcing a UN resolution aimed at stopping the Libyan regime's attacks on demonstrators. It authorizes the use of force with an explicit commi

SSS 2009-02-27

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? February 28th is International Sword Swallowers Awareness Day, according to practitioner Dan Meyer, who recently demonstrated the technique at the AAAS meeting in Chic

英语博客：Summer Camps Are Here.

This is the first week of Summer vacation. The first couple of days seemed a bit unreal; my two youngest kept on asking if they had school the next day. Nope, I would reply,it's the Summer, remember? Thankfully, we are getting used to a slower pace.

美国的这个妇女节不太平，特朗普压力山大

A Day Without a Woman unfolded across the USA on Wednesday with strikes and rallies as organizers called on women to skip work and not spend money to demonstrate their economic strength and political clout. 周三，一项名为世界上没有女人会

沙特妇女争取开车的权利

沙特妇女争取开车的权利 WASHINGTON If you are a woman and live in Saudi Arabia, authorities say you are not allowed to drive a car. This Saturday, however, Saudi women across the kingdom are set to defy this driving ban to draw attention to

俄电视频道在英国银行账户被关闭

The UK arm of Russias state-owned international broadcaster RT has had its British bank accounts shut down, prompting accusations from Moscow that London is attacking free speech. 俄罗斯国有国际广播机构今日俄罗斯(RT)的英国分支在英

【英语语言学习】巴拿马运河

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Panama Canal was built almost 100 years ago and is now undergoing a major expansion. The waterway will be widened, making room for bigger ships, and that means more cargo and more revenue. The expansion promises big rewards f

Widespread demonstrations mark World Cup draw

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 30 (Xinhua) -- With the world watching the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Preliminary Draw in the city of Rio de Janeiro, protestors took to the streets on Saturday. A variety of causes took people to the Gloria Marina, the location

美国巴尔的摩市长发布宵禁令

Rioters plunged part of Baltimore into chaos Monday, torching a pharmacy, setting police cars ablaze and throwing bricks at officers just hours after the funeral of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, a black man who died from a mysterious spinal injury sustai

巴西人抗议主办2014年世界杯

BRASILIA, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Brazilians frustrated with poor public services took to the streets Thursday across the country, claiming their taxes are spent on preparations to host the upcoming 2014 World Cup. The so-called Day of Struggle against th

Libyan Rebels Seize Gadhafi Compound

Rebel fighters have seized Moammar Gadhafi's compound in the capital, Tripoli, and are celebrating what they consider a major victory over the Libyan leader and his loyalist troops. The rebel fighters fought their way into Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya co

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After the applause, he used the quotations book to make a more subtle point, about his reality distortion field. 掌声过后，他用《牛津引语词典》展示了更巧妙的一点，关于他的现实扭曲力场观点。 The quote he chose was

PBS高端访谈:伴随政治局势紧张 委内瑞拉动乱持续

Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets in protest again today. Two demonstrators were killed, as a political crisis in this failing state deepens. Our chief foreign affairs correspondent, Margaret Warner, reports. Organizers dubbed it the Mothe

PBS高端访谈:为什么年轻的俄罗斯人正在动员反对腐败

JUDY WOODRUFF: Widespread protests broke out in cities across Russia's 11 time zones yesterday to denounce government corruption. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner begins our coverage. MARGARET WARNER: The sentence for Kremlin criti