An American woman held for more than a year in Iran has arrived in Oman. Sarah Shourd was released today. She was arrested along with two American men while hiking in July last year along the Iran-Iraq border. As NPR's Jackie Northam reports, there a

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2010年NPR美国国家公共电台9月

12. to ask (someone) for (one's) hand: to ask girl's parents for marriage approval(指男人请求女方家长应允将女儿嫁给他, 这里的someone是指女方的家长,one则是指要求婚的对象,hand 只能用单数形式) Mr. Su

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British Officials Say Nerve Agent That Poisoned Two People Same as Earlier Incident Britains interior minister says a poison used to sicken a British man and woman last week is the same one that sickened a former Russian spy and his daughter. Sajid J

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BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Monday addressed an event for foreign diplomats and representatives of international agencies and said that China will work with other nations toward world peace and development. China will

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NAIROBIU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made a surprise visit to Somalia on Tuesday to show support for the war-torn country and its efforts to restore normalcy after more than 20 years of chaos. Kerry traveled from Nairobi to Mogadishu, becoming t

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NB: This is not a word for word transcript Yvonne: Hello, I'm Yvonne Archer, this is 6 Minute English and thanks to Alice for joining me today. Alice: Hi Yvonne. Yvonne: Hello Alice. Now recently, an artefact - a very old piece of art - which many hi

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Committee Chairman in both the Senate and House say they will begin investigations into a secret CIA counterterrorism program that the Bush administration did not disclose to Congress for nearly eight years. Former Vice President Dick Cheney alleged

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The State Department is warning Americans to be extra careful about traveling to Mexico, the day after three people, two of them US citizens, were gunned down in Ciudad Juarez. NPRs Sonari Glinton has the story. Drug cartel violence, especially along

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1. Minneapolis police have released an official list of the eight people they believe are missing in the collapse of a bridge. Rescuers say they will continue to search until all of the missing are found. In the meantime, hundreds of people are expec

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By Peter Heinlein United Nations officials say preparations for Afghanistan's October 9 presidential election are on track, despite expectations of violence. U.N. and Afghan diplomats reject warnings

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1. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has headed to China with high-level talks beginning later this week. Both the US and China are downplaying any dispute over the plight of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng who is reported be sheltered by US diplo

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AS IT IS 2016-01-05 Saudi Arabia Ends Diplomatic Ties With Iran 阿拉伯结束与伊朗的外交关系 Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Sudan have cut off diplomatic relations with Iran. On Saturday, Saudi Arabia executed a well-known Shiite Muslim leader.

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委内瑞拉驱逐三名美国外交官 CARACAS, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua on Monday announced that they were ordering three American diplomats who were allegedly found to be related to the violent actions that have g

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The Swedish security service SAPO accused Russia on Wednesday of using as many as one-third of its diplomatic staff in the Scandinavian country for clandestine intelligence gathering. 瑞典国安局SAPO周三指控俄罗斯,称其利用多达三分之

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IN THE NEWS - Fixing Iraq -- by Facing Iran, Syria and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict as Well?By Brianna Blake Broadcast: Saturday, November 18, 2006 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The

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WORLD NEWS - 00:30 UTC, April 19, 2006By Voice of America Broadcast: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 It is zero hour thirty Universal Time. I'm Jim Tedder in Washington. Chinese President HuJinTao has began

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WORLD NEWS - 00:30 UTC, April 18, 2006By Voice of America Broadcast: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 Special thanks to Kwahili, Jonathan Song, Tina Zhong, Sophie Anny, ... for posting their scripts of dictati

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One of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's sons told a Syrian television station late Wednesday he is in the suburbs outside Tripoli and that loyalist commanders have told him their men would fight to the death. Seif al-Islam Gadhafi vowed that he

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It's the silly season in India-China relations. If you've tuned into one of the more hawkish Indian television channels or are reading the views of the many experts on India and China, it might seem like the two countries are at each other's throats

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BRASILIA, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Brazil said Wednesday it will send a delegation to Washington over alleged U.S. spying on Brazilian individual and corporate communications in the wake of revelations by intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden. Without

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