Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has made his first official trip to Washington to meet U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. During his visit, Smith made clear that the new Australian government will go ahead with its plan to withdraw i

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International relief agencies say Burma's military government has been granting visas to a larger number of foreign relief workers this week. But the agencies complain that once in Burma, the authorities are preventing many from traveling to the Iraw

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After years of failed attempts, North Korea has set a satellite into orbit. It was connected to a rocket that launched yesterday, some experts called the launch a big deal for North Korea. Chance for the country to show off its progress with technolo

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今天我们要学的词是 keen. keen 的意思是热切的、热衷的。China experts believe that there is every reason, every incentive for both the U.S. and China to at least create the appearance that they are both keen to stabilize the South

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary toll road: a road that requires drivers to pay a fee to use it shred: to break up into very small pieces pulp: soft, wet material congestion: high volume; crowdedness absorbent: holds a lot of water Tarmac: a road material ma

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August 18, 2005—Call it x-ray vision for archaeologists. High- tech scans and computer modeling have offered scientists a noninvasive glimpse inside the delicate burial case of a millennia- old mumm

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By Parke Brewer Munich 13 June 2006 Allianz-Arena stadium in Munich Twelve different cities are hosting the 2006 World Cup football finals in Germany. Of those 12, nine had existing stadiums undergo reconstruction for the month-long tournament, whil

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1. Defending his Iraq strategy, President Bush says reconstruction has been ' uneven ' but spreading economic progress is giving people hope for a democratic future. 2. The trial of Saddam Hussein and

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U.S. lawmakers want Iraq to use bigger oil profits to pay for more of its own reconstruction. VOA Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Iraq's parliament has approved a supplementary budget that raises this year's spending to more than $70 billion. A

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 14 March 2006 Wednesday the Liberian president will address what is called a joint meeting of Congress, an honor given to foreign leaders, the most recent being Italy's pr

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By Chad Bouchard Yogyakarta, Indonesia 24 October 2006 Nearly five months after a deadly earthquake struck Indonesia's Java Island, thousands of homeless survivors still struggle to rebuild their lives. Delays in the reconstruction effort and an ina

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The European Union said on Wednesday that Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai should serve as prime minister in any national unity government with President Robert Mugabe. From London, Tendai Maphosa has more in this report for VOA. EU sp

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shake hands after addressing the press in New Delhi, 26 April 2010 Anxious Himalayan Nation Prepares for Unprecedented Hosting of Dignitaries India has pledged to continue

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France's President Nicolas Sarkozy greets an unidentified Red Cross nurse with Haitian earthquake survivors during a visit of the makeshift tents on The Champ de Mars in Port au Prince, 17 Feb 2010 The aid promised by French President Nicolas Sarkozy

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The international community meets at the United Nations this week to make financial commitments to earthquake-ravaged Haiti's reconstruction. Haitian President Rene Prval is expected to ask for some $11.5 billion to rebuild his country. Haiti's long-

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The commander of NATO military forces, General John Craddock, said the alliance must change the way it conducts operations so the next mission does not suffer the same problems as the alliance's effort in Afghanistan. NATO's top operational commande

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First of Japan Disaster Survivors Get Temporary Houses A month after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, more than 125,000 people remain in evacuation centers. Others are living with relatives. Most of th

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Displaced Gazans Fear Returning Home Despite Israeli Assurances BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA The Israeli military has told residents of several neighborhoods in Gaza that they may return home, seeming to indicate that the operation to destroy infiltration tunne

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Obama: Iran Nuclear Deal Top Ten Achievement of 2015 奥巴马称伊朗核协议乃2015年十大成就之一 LONDON The nuclear deal struck between Iran and six world powers in July ended decades of negotiations and setbacks, and has been hailed by U

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: There may still be terrorist attacks carried out in its name, but the state of Islamic State is really no more. ISIS is down to a handful of enclaves, but there are still hundreds of U.S. forces fighting ISIS in Syria. And the Pen

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