1. US and Iraqi forces continued their joint operation in an area west of Ramadi on Friday, try to restore security ahead of Iraqi elections set for a few weeks from now. 2. A Georgian court said on F

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AS IT IS 2016-06-08 Poland Leads NATO Military Exercises 波兰主导北约军事演习 More than 20 North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO member states, began a large military training exercise Tuesday. The exercise is part of efforts by the a

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A regional summit on the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is under way in Nairobi. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for an end to the fighting and warned that the conflict risked spilling over into the wider sub-re

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Having all kinds of people in class, I am learning from people with different experiences, Steve said. No matter where Steve Maina Muchiri has gone to study, he finds his way right back to the university he calls home, Eastern Kentucky University. I'

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In 1973, as a young birding instructor in Maine, Kress began transplanting hundreds of downy puffin chicks from Newfoundland to Eastern Egg Rock, and later on to several other Maine islands. Stephen Kress made his name by bringing Atlantic puffins ba

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Thousands Flee Latest Congo Fighting Much attention is again focused on the eastern DRC due to fighting between government forces and M23 rebels. However, the U.N. refugee agency says the situation in North Kivu Province has been growing steadily wor

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今天我们要学的词是famine。 Famine, 饥荒。 The United Nations declared a famine in parts of southern Somalia and called for an immediate international response, 联合国宣布索马里南部部分地区陷入饥荒,呼吁国际社会立即

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By CCTV reporter Zhang Nini Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has embarked on an official trip to Romania to attend an official summit. He will attend a China-Central and Eastern Europe leaders' meeting there as guest of his Romanian counterpart Victor-Vior

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Wk 20 (14 May 1955) Communist States Sign The Warsaw PactThis Week in HistoryThe Soviet Union and its communist allies in Eastern Europe sign a pact to strengthen ties. In 1955, the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies signed a security pact in t

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今天我们要学的词是heavy-handed。 Heavy-handed, 手段强硬的。耶鲁大学法学教授蔡美儿发表新书。 The book sparked a fierce debate about heavy-handed parenting style, 这本书引起了围绕对孩子严厉管教的育儿方式

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More than 700 rescuers specializing in sanitaion, chemical defense and engineering have formed 8 teams to work on the ship. They have been removing obstacles from the ship, decontaminating it and transferring the victims' bodies out of the ship. Mean

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By Noel King Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo 17 October 2007 Prospects for children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are darkening, as fighting continues between forces loyal to dissident General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army. Prote

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For more on the eastern star tragedy, our reporter Tang Bo joins us from the scene of the accident. Q1. Hello Tang Bo, can you describe the mourning ceremony for us? Q2. As for the ongoing search for the missing, what challenges are search teams faci

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China states that both countries share an approximately 2,000 kilometer long common border, but India disagrees. Disputes in some areas along the line, especially the eastern so-called McMahon Line, triggered a Sino-Indian war in 1962. Over the past

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named a former Nigerian president as his special envoy to help resolve the crisis in violence-wracked Eastern Congo. Mr. Ban also said Monday, that he is willing to go himself to Africa to meet with the preside

发表于:2019-02-06 / 阅读(79) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十一月)

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has embarked on an official trip to Romania to attend an official summit. He will attend a China-Central and Eastern Europe leaders meeting there as guest of his Romanian counterpart Victor-Viorel Ponta. Following the visit

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It started in Greenwich, England. Hour by hour, it traveled west. It hit all the Americas. Then it hit Asia. Then it hit Russia, eastern Europe, and eastern Africa. In just 24 hours, nobody in the world was talking. People were still moving their mou

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By Noel King Masisi 16 October 2007 Humanitarian officials warn a crisis in eastern Congo's war-torn North Kivu Province is deepening with each passing day. A new eruption of fighting between rebels and the Congolese army has sent thousands of civili

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The Eastern Star was carrying 456 people on an 11-day trip up the river from Nanjing to Chongqing when it capsized near the small community of Jianli in Hubei. The ship, said to have been hit by a tornado around 9 in the evening on Monday, took only

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今天我们要学的词组是at large。At large,意思是逍遥法外的,未被俘获的。Police in northern Switzerland are conducting a manhunt for an attacker who injured five people, including at least one seriously, , and warned the publi

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