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Technology Report - Amazon Launches E-Book Lending for Libraries 科技报道 - 亚马逊推出Kindle图书借阅服务 This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。 Amazon.com launched its Kindle
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, Iran test-fired a new missile. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the launch to a crowd in Semnan province, his birthplace and a base for missile launches. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dur
Cameroon Launches Campaign against Illegal Hospitals 喀麦隆开展打击非法医院运动 From VOA Learning English, this is Science in the News. Im Christopher Cruise. And Im Faith Lapidus. Today on the program we have three stories from the Afri
By Zulima Palacio Washington 16 May 2008 With the HIV/AIDS epidemic now 25-years-old, the World Bank has launched a new strategy to combat the disease where it is the most prevalent -- Africa. Nearly two million have died on the continent and HIV has
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 24 July 2007 The UN refugee agency is appealing for $48 million to provide badly needed assistance until the end of next year for thousands of Somali refugees who have recently fled conflict in Somalia. Lisa Schlein reports for
By Liam Cochrane Kathmandu 11 July 2007 Nepalese women carry fodder on a street in Kathmandu, (File Photo) The U.N.'s World Food Program is appealing for $49 million to help more than a million people affected by a decade of conflict. The WFP says th
By Scott Bobb Soweto, South Africa 19 April 2007 The government of South Africa recently announced a new plan to combat HIV / AIDS. The plan pledges to provide within five years life-prolonging antiretroviral treatment to 80 percent of the AIDS victi
The United Nations is launching a $35 million emergency appeal for Madagascar, which is suffering from multiple crises, including cyclones, drought and political instability. An aerial view of a part of Morondava, Madagascar shows floodwaters Thursd
Those who oppose the cause of peace will try in every way possible to sabotage this process as we have already seen this week. - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has launched the first direct peace talks b
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, is launching a Gaza Ramadan Appeal for $181 million to provide food, jobs and other assistance for one million Palestinian refugees. Seven months after the Israeli Operation in Gaza, UNRWA says very
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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, so there's a new Texas law that bans sanctuary cities, and it has outraged Democrats, immigrant advocates and also police chiefs. This measure overrides local laws and empowers police to ask anyone they detain if they a
By Raymond Thibodeaux Colombo 18 March 2008 Sri Lanka's Sinhalese-dominated government recently launched a program to spur thousands of its public servants to learn the Tamil language. It is seen as a bold step to ease tension between the country's S
By Efam Dovi Accra, Ghana 06 September 2006 Ghana's President, J.A. Kufuor, has launched a debt relief project that aimed at benefiting small businesses in the poverty-stricken country. Efam Dovi reports for VOA from Accra the deal is part of a $200
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 26 October 2007 The United Nations is launching an emergency appeal for $5.4 million to help more than 90,000 flood victims in Burkina Faso. The United Nations says these floods, the worst in decades, have caused widespread dev
By David Gollust Annapolis 27 November 2007 Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed Tuesday to seek a final-status peace accord by the end of next year - ending a seven year impasse. The parties, making the announcement at the U.S.-organized Annapolis
By Victoria Cavaliere New York 26 November 2007 The U.N. Development Fund for Women has launched a new advocacy campaign to end violence against women. The fund has recruited Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman to help promote the campaign, which is an i
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 10 July 2007 Pakistani paramilitary troops take position during heavy gunbattle with militants at Lal masjid, or Red Mosque, 10 July 2007 Pakistani security forces have launched a military assault on militants holding Islam
By Robert Raffaele Washington 17 September 2009 Israel is rejecting a call in a UN report to open an independent inquiry into the country's conduct its offensive almost a year ago in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli government said it is launching a dipl
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 06 October 2009 The United Nations is appealing for $74 million to provide emergency assistance to hundreds of thousands of victims of two catastrophic typhoons that have struck the Philippines in less than two weeks. A reside