THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Westward Expansion Brings Explorers, Settlers in Contact with the Plains Indians Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. This week in our series, we look at

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An Australian legislator has called for a sharp reduction in the number of immigrants allowed in the country, along with more rigorous background checks on new settlers. The intent is to determine whether immigrants from Africa or the Middle East ha

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Historians have revealed hard evidence thatthe settlers in the American colony at James Town, Virginia resorted to cannibalism to survivethe harsh winter of 1609. Researchers said damages to the skull of a14-year-old girl they named Jane show signs t

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 04 May 2007 Britain's Queen Elizabeth visited the historic Jamestown Settlement Friday, in the U.S. state of Virginia. Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in what would become the United States. The Queen's

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A wounded Israeli activist has lashed out at right-wing opponents believed to have targeted him in a bombing. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. Ze'ev Sternhell (file) A day after he was wounded in a bomb attack, prominent Israe

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Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank - home to about 300,000 Israelis - are a crucial issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and one that threatens to derail prospects for peace. U.S. President Barack Obama, in his speech to the Muslim wo

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Kerry Faces More Hurdles in Pursuit of Mideast Peace 克里追求的中东和平仍面临许多障碍 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says the latest efforts to secure a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians are slowly

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 17 January 2006 Israeli security forces are cracking down on Jewish settlers in the volatile West Bank town of Hebron after days of unrest. The settlers and government appea

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Beginners. For a few years, the city of Wenatchee has been introducing sculptures to the towns people. Every now and then, as I am walking along, I will see a new one. Some of them have been bought by the local council, but others are on loan; they w

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Under pressure from the United States to halt settlement expansion, Israel's leader is trying to calm the fears of one of his most important constituents: Jewish residents of the West Bank. Benjamin Netanyahu (file photo) Israeli Prime Minister Benj

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Israeli forces have evicted scores of Jewish settlers who had refused court orders to leave a house in the West Bank town of Hebron. The violence Thursday left about 20 people injured and has raised concerns of wider protests by Jewish settlers. 以色

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An annual Palestinian harvest means trouble in the occupied territories. 巴勒斯坦人一年一度的橄榄收获季节到来了,然而,这却意味著约旦河被占领土上麻烦的开始。 Jewish settlers attacked two news photographers co

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