WORLD NEWS - 00:30 UTC, April 28, 2006By Voice of America Broadcast: Friday, April 28, 2006 Special thanks to Spag Bolo for posting his script of broadcast dication. It is zero hours thirty Universal

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00:00:02 OPRAH WINFREY: Hattie Mae, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it. 00:00:08 ROGER BANNISTER: If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another chance

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David Cameron today issues a highly personal plea to the people of Scotland not to rip apart the United Kingdom. 英国首相大卫?卡梅隆今日发出了一项个人呼吁,请求苏格兰人民不要撕裂联合王国。 The Prime Minister tells

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1. President Barack Obama is meeting with Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two met for several hours at the White House with Iran's nuclear program being a major discussion point. Netanyahu said Israel is a sovereign nation with the rig

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Iraq Changes Top Leadership at a Difficult Time 在困难时期,伊拉克改变最高领导层 From VOA Learning English, this is In the News. Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday that he would leave his position as prime minister of Iraq. His decision open

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Japan and South Korea have reached a historic deal to settle the issue of comfort women forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War Two. Japan offered an apology and will pay 1bn yen (8.3m USD, 5.6m Pound) to a South Korean-administered fund

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Books and arts 文艺 Bookreview 书评 Post-war Britain 战后英国 When the tide turned 变革之后 Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-59. By David Kynaston. 《打开历史,认识1957-1959年间的英国现代主义》 EARLY in 1959 pass

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Italian politics 意大利政治 Who will be Italys next prime minister? 谁将成为意大利下一任总理? As Silvio Berlusconi seems to be standing aside, the spotlight is on Mario Monti and the candidates of the Left 由于西尔维奥贝鲁斯

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法国总统称赞与越南的战略合作伙伴关系 PARIS, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- French President Francois Hollande met visiting Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung here on Wednesday, welcoming a strategic partnership agreement between the tw

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格鲁吉亚总理计划总统大选后辞职 TBILISI, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Georgia's billionaire prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said Monday that he intends to step down after the Oct. 27 presidential election, before finishing his term. In an ope

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葡萄牙外长辞职 LISBON, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Portas on Tuesday said he would quit the government, a day after the shock resignation of the country's Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar. Portas, who is also the leader o

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VOA新闻专有名词集合(人名、地名) 7 Tsfat 以色列城镇名 Tsutomu Takebe日本农业大臣 Tubas (West Bank town) Tulkarm (Palestinian twon) Tunisia Tutsi (Rwandan minority) Ugandan UNITA UNITO Uruguay Uzbekistan Vaclav

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HELSINKI, June 22 (Xinhua) -- Finnish President Tarja Halonen on Tuesday appointed(约定的,指定的) Mari Kiviniemi, new leader of the ruling Center Party, as the country's prime minister. Kiviniemi, 41, replaced her predecessor(前任) Matti

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Lee Kuan Yew, the statesman who transformed Singapore from a small port city into a wealthy global hub, has died at the age of 91. The city-state's prime minister for 31 years, he was widely respected as the architect of Singapore's prosperity. 李光耀

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黎巴嫩宣布组建新内阁 BEIRUT, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- A new government led by new prime minister Tammam Salam was formed in Lebanon on Saturday, after a 10-month deadlock. According to a decree signed by Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, Samir

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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said last Tuesday that he had instructed police to ban all citizens from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) from leaving the country after Pyongyang announced a similar ban. 马来西亚总理纳吉布

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乌克兰议会批准新内阁 KIEV, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Ukrainian parliament on Thursday approved a cabinet led by new Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk. The new interim government, which has gathered well-known politicians and prominent figures o

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday pledged continued support for economic reform in debt-ridden Greece. The United States wants to continue to be helpful and supportive in what will be a challenging process, said O

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Italian politics 意大利政治 The ex-Cavaliere is back on his horse 骑士归来 A favourable court judgment for the former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, may help Matteo Renzi shake up Italy 对于前总理西尔维奥贝卢斯科尼让人信服

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Australia and Japan 澳大利亚和日本 Scrum-halves 逐利先锋 Closer security ties with Japan unsettle some Australians 一些澳大利亚人对澳日更紧密的国防关系感到不安 THE prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, flew to the Aust

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