美语听力 English Café 463

Topics: American Presidents George H. W. Bush; architects let rip with a wave of ambitious and beautifully crafted buildings; to keep (someone) out of (ones) hair; pronouncing dead versus debt Words: to appoint ambassador liaison running mate foreign

VOA双语新闻：8、美古复交 美籍古巴人情绪复杂

美古复交 美籍古巴人情绪复杂 President Barack Obama's decision to ease restrictions on U.S. trade with Cuba is attracting a lot of attention from the business community, with many companies poised to enter the last communist stronghold in

NPR 2011-02-27

Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi appears to have lost control of Libya, according to its major European ally, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome Italy has come under intense pressure from the US and Euro

NPR 2011-10-28

The eurozone's debt-fighting pact to bail out Greece and shore up the continent's banks is behind today's big advances in financial markets worldwide. On Wall Street, all the major US stock indexes have risen, ranging from 3% and 3.5% in afternoon tr

News & Reports 2012-02-05

Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This EditionRussia and China veto a UN Security Council draft resolution which backs an Arab League plan to promote a regime change in Syria. A Chinese diplomat addresses the Euro

NPR 2009-05-25

From NPR News in Washington, I am Craig Windham. The second ranking Democrat in the Senate Dick Durbin of Illinois says President Obama is likely to announce this week his nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court justice David Souter. Durbin says M

奥巴马解除对越南的军事武器禁售

AS IT IS 2016-05-24 Obama Permits Military Weapons Sales to Vietnam 奥巴马解除对越南的军事武器禁售 President Barack Obama has lifted the 50-year-old limit on the sales of military weapons to Vietnam. The announcement of the decision wa

CNN 2011-12-12

Bet I will. Thanks to our friends out at Joplin Missouri for getting things started today, during next ten minutes were gonna talk about Parliamentary politics and technology challenge, were starting with Europes economy. Its in the middle of crisis,

美古签署通讯漫游服务协议

美古签署通讯漫游服务协议 The U.S.-based firm Sprint signed a deal with Cubas state telecommunications agency Etecsa, with the objective to reach millions of tourists expected to visit the island in coming years. The move comes as Washingt

VOA慢速英语2016 美国40年后重启原油出口

AS IT IS 2016-01-11 US Crude Oil Exports Restart After 40 Years 美国40年后重启原油出口 The U.S. made its first export of crude oil in four decades last Thursday. 上周四美国进行了40年来的首次原油出口。 The exports were bann

VOA双语新闻 US, Britain Reject Annan Criticism

The United States and Britain have rejected U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's allegations that they are partly to blame for the Iraq oil-for-food scandal. Mr. Annan made the comment in what he thought was an off-the-record meeting. 美国和英国拒

英闻天下——398 EU Official Killed in Damascus Rocket Attack

The EU's foreign policy chief is offering her condolences following death of an EU official working in Syria. Catherin Ashton says policy officer Ahmad Shihadeh was killed during a rocket attack while working in the suburbs of Damascus. Can I begin b

英闻天下——411 Syrians Mark Second Anniversary of Unrest

Syrians are marking the second anniversary of the start of the civil war in the country. The two-year-long conflict has cost almost 70-thousand lives and reportedly forced a million to flee the country. The anniversary comes at the time when arming t

Business Channel 2006-11-08&10

Hey, Chris, how are you? At Havana's International Trade Fair, the arrival of these men drew everyone's attention. Thank you for coming to Cuba. On the right, US cattle rancher, John Parke Wright, a F

美国古巴重开使馆恢复外交

WASHINGTON, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Cubans on Monday raised Cuba's national flag over the country's newly opened embassy in Washington D.C., the U.S. capital, as diplomatic relations between two nations were restored after more than half a century. Cuban

特朗普威胁终止与古巴关系正常化

Donald Trump has threatened to abandon US efforts to restore trade and diplomatic ties with Cuba unless Havana makes new concessions, setting the stage for a clash with a US business community eager to exploit the opening up of the island economy. 唐纳

中英双语新闻 卡斯特罗迎来90岁大寿

The UN Security Council says it prepared to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan if it attempts to obstruct the deployment of extra peace keepers to the country. United Nations wants to send an extra 4,000 troops following the latest violence betwee

历史上的今天-Today in History 2013-10-17

October 17th 1973Dawn of the energy crisis, as Arab oil-producing nations say they will cut back on oil exports to Western nations and Japan. The results are totally embargo until the following year bringing severe oil shortages and rising inflationt

PBS高端访谈:在五十年的敌对之后,美国和古巴接下来的关系会怎样?

JUDY WOODRUFF: For more on the resumption of relations between the U.S. and Cuba, we turn to Maria de Los Angeles Torres. She's a Cuban-born American and a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where she is also executive director of the

英语听力精选进阶版 8543

Euro Zone finance ministers have decided to break off talks with Greece over a possible new bailout until after a referendum on Sunday. The Greek Finance Minister Yanis Vourovakis called the decision blackmail and said this was a very dark moment for