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Secretary of State Hilary Clinton says the US will vigorously raise to the Iranian government, the administration's concerns about the eight-year-prison sentence given to Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi. She was convicted this week by a co
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 04 October 2007 Ethiopian officials have condemned a bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives that would bar some financial aid to Ethiopia unless the government in Addis Ababa improves its record on democracy and huma
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Republicans in Congress are on the verge of fulfilling a long-held dream. The House and Senate have passed bills that would eliminate or reduce the tax that people pay when they inherit large estates - larger than $5.5 million. I
World markets are mostly lower amid continuing fallout from the failure of the U.S. House of Representatives to approve a bailout package for troubled financial institutions. 美国国会众议院否决金融救市计划的影响还在继续,世界大
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 19 October 2007 There is a new hitch in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, a powerful group of Israeli lawmakers is trying to prevent concessions on Jerusalem. Sixty-one o
Iran's revolution 伊朗革命 Waiting for God 等待真主 Debunking the myths that sustained Ayatollah Khomeini's republic 揭示领袖霍梅尼共和国之谜 Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic. By Michael Axworthy. 《伊朗革命
By VOA News 16 April 2008 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States needs to overhaul its approach to national security. Gates told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday there needs to be what he called a fairly dramatic change to better protect th
By Mil Arcega Washington 11 March 2008 Despite losses in the billions of dollars in risky home loans, those who run the companies responsible for so-called subprime loans reported huge earnings last year. Lawmakers on Capitol Hill questioned the chie
By Leslie Boctor Cairo, Egypt 07 March 2007 Emotions remain high in Cairo, even after Egypt asked for Israel to investigate whether Israeli soldiers killed Egyptian POWs during the 1967 war. Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit and Israeli For
By Amberin Zaman Istanbul 10 May 2007 The Turkish parliament has backed Thursday a proposed amendment to the constitution to enable the people to elect a new president directly. The measure is a key provision in a package of electoral reforms the cha
By Deborah Tate Washington 15 February 2008 The chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is to meet with his House counterpart Friday to try to resolve the political standoff over legislation to overhaul wiretapping legislation before curre
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 07 December 2007 U.S. Congressional Democrats are asking the Justice Department to investigate whether the CIA's destruction of videotapes documenting the interrogation of terrorism suspects amounts to obstruction of just
今天我们要学的词是bolster。 Bolster, 是加强,支持的意思。 The UN Security Council is sending a new peacekeeping force in order to bolster South Sudan, which marked its independence on July 9th, 为支持7月9日新独立的南苏丹
今天我们要学的词是breathing room。 Breathing room意思是喘息的机会。The troops pushed forward with the assault and did not give the enemy any breathing room, 部队继续推进攻势,不给敌人留下丝毫喘息的机会。 美国
The chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed establishing an independent commission to investigate Bush administration policies dealing with such controversial issues as detainees and wiretapping, as well as decisions that led to
By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 14 September 2007 The Bush administration is planning to give domestic law enforcement agencies increased access to powerful spy satellite technology. The Department of Homeland Security says the satellites will be use
Kenyan parliament members are calling for an investigation into the ownership and destination of a shipment of Russian-made tanks and other weapons aboard a Ukrainian ship seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia. The call follows a recent report,
By Dan Robinson Washington 15 October 2009 As President Barack Obama held the fifth in a series of meetings with advisors and military officials on Afghanistan, U.S. lawmakers were raising more questions about U.S. strategy in the country. A congres
Amid concerns about the U.S. economy and a potential recession, U.S. lawmakers are discussing a possible economic stimulus package aimed at easing burdens on Americans. Majority Democrats in the House of Representatives say they intend to work with R
Iran's Foreign Minister says the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and representatives of the P5+1 group will be held on the sidelines of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva next week, since no substantial agreement has been reached in the l