By Jim Malone Washington 16 March 2006 Government prosecutors are trying to overcome a major legal setback in the death penalty case against Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person tried and convicted in

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(135) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(三月)

The United States is taking action against three Mexican drug cartels. The news comes as President Barack Obama prepares to travel to Mexico on Thursday for talks with President Felipe Calderon. The drug-related violence plaguing Mexico, particularl

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(四月)

US Media, Historians Mark 40th Anniversary of Watergate Scandal Start of a scandal It began in the early morning hours of June 17, 1972. Five men working for President Richard Nixons re-election campaign were arrested trying to break in to Democratic

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(六月)

Naomi Campbell at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, 05 Aug 2010 Supermodel Naomi Campbell has testified in the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor. She told the court she received di

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(86) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(八)月

Alleged Mastermind of Cole Bombing Arraigned in Military Court The alleged al-Qaida mastermind of the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was arraigned Wednesday in a military courtroom in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Nashiri, dr

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十一月)

US Trial of Alleged Arms Dealer Opens in New York The trial of a former Soviet Air Force officer and alleged international arms dealer dubbed a merchant of death by security experts is underway in New York. Police in Thailand arrested Russian busines

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(十月)

By Lauren Comiteau The Hague 26 October 2009 View of empty seats where Radovan Karadzic's defense team was supposed to sit at start of trial at War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, 26 Oct 2009 Making good on his threat, former Serb leader Radovan Karad

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(80) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十月)

By Lauren Comiteau The Hague 26 October 2009 Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic - File Photo More than 14 years after being charged with war crimes, Radovan Karadzic is expected to stand trial on Monday in The Hague. The former Bosnian Serb

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(89) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十月)

Campaign Begins to Ensure Free Press The African Union has launched an effort to rid East Africa of colonial-era defamation and sedition laws. Since independence, many countries have used them to clamp down on freedom of the press. The effort to have

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(42) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(七月)

印度洋岛上残骸确实来自MH370 French, Malaysian and Australian officials on Wednesday began a thorough examination of debris found last week along a beach on Reunion Island, near Madagascar. 法国、马来西亚和澳大利亚官方周三开始

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(十二月)

Europe Wakes Up To Prospect Of Female Terrorists play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0004:40repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. DAVID G

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(203) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: This past week, one of the last remaining secrets from the Watergate scandal was finally revealed. It's a report that prosecutors sent to Congress 44 years ago. Experts say the document could offer a precedent for how the R

发表于:2019-01-17 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台11月

We have put together field operation. Everybody said it is hard to gather 3,750 signatures over the course of couple days on the streets of city. I feel confident and we are out there today. But I feel pretty we will be ok. OK, confident. But I feel

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(71) / 评论(0) 分类 CNN2013年(七)月

By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 16 July 2007 Thirty five Ethiopian opposition leaders have been given life sentences for their role in the 2005 election protests that saw scores of people killed. Arjun Kohli reports from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi the

发表于:2019-01-19 / 阅读(99) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(七月)

【课堂热身】 首先,let's warm up,我们还是先来热热身。在第17课中我们讲到了一个短语 ace in the hole. It means a secret advantage, for ready to use if you need to. 可以翻译为:杀手锏,必杀技,锦囊妙计,

发表于:2019-01-23 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 英语早间课堂

A man accused of killing 5 women who were working as prostitutes has admitted he could have picked up all of them on the nights they disappeared. Steve Wright told Ipswich Crown Court, he might to have sex with 4 of the victims on those occasions an

发表于:2019-01-30 / 阅读(67) / 评论(0) 分类 英伦广角

By Catherine Maddux Washingron 10 April 2006 Maxwell Fornah, and Musa Vandi, who are both war amputees, battle for the ball in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, April, 1, 2006 The arrest of former Lib

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(173) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(四月)

Syrians Protest UN Report on Hariri Killing 叙利亚人对联合国关于哈里里遇害的报告表示抗议 Tens of thousands of protesters thronged central Damascus , waving Syrian flags and photo

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2005(下)--国政军事聚焦

By Lauren Comiteau The Hague 07 November 2007 The trial of Serb-Nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj has opened at the U.N. war crimes Tribunal in The Hague. He faces nine charges related to his use of hate speech and recruiting paramilitary groups, wh

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(78) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十一月)

By Kurt Achin Seoul 05 December 2007 The frontrunner in South Korea's presidential race has avoided what many political analysts describe as his only serious obstacle to victory. Prosecutors have cleared former Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak of fraud accu

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2007年(十二月)