Somalia's government said it has repulsed a military attack by foreign-backed insurgents trying to overrun the presidential compound in Mogadishu and oust President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. News agencies report at least 110 people, mostly civilia

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(五月)

Somalia's government has played down reports that Ethiopian troops have re-entered the country in recent days. Islamist insurgents have clashed with pro-government militias near the Ethiopian border in central Somalia, and continue an assault on the

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Obama: Palestine-Israel Solution Must Be Based on 1967 Borders President Barack Obama says lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians must be based on two states, with Israel in its 1967 borders, with conditions.? In a major speech on U.S /Mid

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S. Sudans Displaced: Running from Violence, Longing for Peace 因为战事流离失所的南苏丹人民渴望和平 JUBA Violence has displaced hundreds of thousands of people across South Sudan, many of whom have taken refuge at United Nations base

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Kurdish Peshmerga Force Secures Kirkuk, Its Oil KIRKUK, IRAQI KURDISTAN The Kurdistan regional government has sent its Peshmerga troops into the adjacent province of Kirkuk to drive out insurgents, and to secure the area's rich oil fields. By doing t

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Myanmar Football Friendly Brings Together Battlefield Opponents KAREN STATE, MYANMAR As most of Myanmars [also known as Burma's] ethnic armies maintain a fragile ceasefire with the government, some of the troops were able to let off a little steam, W

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Libyan Displaced Receive Emergency Aid 利比亚流离失所人们接受紧急援助 A U.N. truck convoy carrying emergency supplies for nearly seven-thousand displaced people arrived Monday in western Libya. The number of displaced is growing as fig

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US May Soon Launch Airstrikes on Militants in Syria 美国将对叙利亚境内武装分子进行空袭 WASHINGTON The United States has conducted more than 175 airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and may soon launch attacks on the gro

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Syria's Civil War Fuels Violence in Iraq Iraqis are witnessing the worst violence to rock their country in five years. Bombings and other attacks against Sunni Muslim and Shiite targets are stoking sectarian tensions. One major reason is the civil wa

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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 04 October 2007 A group of elders including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu has told of the horrifying stories they heard during a visit to Sudan's Darfur region, and they urged the international

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 06 November 2007 International mediators are trying to secure the participation of key rebel leaders for peace negotiations on the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan. As Derek Kilner reports for VOA's East Africa bureau in

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By Scott Stearns Washington 14 September 2007 President Bush says he will start pulling some U.S. troops out of Iraq this month because his decision to send reinforcements earlier this year has been a success. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stea

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 20 December 2007 Zimbabwe ended 2007 with uncertainty looming over national elections scheduled for next year. Negotiations aimed at holding a free and fair vote had made progress, but remained deadlocked over key points. S

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By David Gollust Washington 18 December 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says Iraqi, Turkish and U.S. authorities need to work together to curb cross-border attacks into Turkey by Iraq-based Kurdish extremists. An unannounced visit by Rice to

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By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 21 December 2007 Zimbabwe's parliament this week passed new laws easing restrictions on political dissidence and the news media. The laws, which are due to be signed by President Robert Mugabe in the near future, are to pre

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By Carol Pearson Washington 24 October 2007 October 24th is World Polio Day. Since 1988, national governments, public health organizations and civic organizations have slashed the number of polio cases by more than 99 percent. But now the eradication

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 26 October 2007 Israeli and Palestinian leaders met in Jerusalem Friday for talks that focused on the creation of a Palestinian state and new Israeli sanctions on the Gaza Strip. Robert Berger has this report from Jerusalem

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 21 November 2007 The political crisis in Lebanon between pro- and anti-Syrian factions is about to come to a climax, with fears the outcome could split the country into two competing governments if a compromise cannot b

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By David Gollust State Department 28 December 2007 The United States, in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination, is urging all moderate Pakistani political forces including the party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take part in the coun

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 18 January 2007 One issue at the heart of the debate over President Bush's new Iraq strategy is whether it would be, as the president says, disastrous to remove U.S. troops before the new government is firmly established and th

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