April 4th is the United Nations' International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. The occasion provides an opportunity for the world to reflect on both the progress made, and the challenges that remain, in clearing landmines and un

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2018年(四月)

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Trump's longest-serving aide is leaving the White House. Hope Hicks has been at Trump's side since before the start of his presidential campaign nearly three years ago. Today she's the White House communications director,

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台3月

As Trial Begins In Charlottesville Protest Death, Community Reflects RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The man accused of ramming his car through a crowd of protesters at a white supremacist rally goes on trial this week in Charlottesville, Va. Jury selection sta

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By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 10 January 2007 watch Avalanche Safety report Avalanche! is the most frightening alert a mountain traveler can hear. Uncontrollable snow slides in the world's mountainous regions -- from the Himalayas to the Alps to Nort

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By Benjamin Sand Balakot, Pakistan 05 October 2006 A year after last October's massive South Asian earthquake, aid agencies are warning that nearly two-million people are facing a second Himalayan winter without proper shelter. VOA's Benjamin Sand r

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By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 17 February 2006 Mudslides triggered by heavy rains have buried a village in the eastern Philippines. At least 15 bodies have been recovered. The Red Cross says hundreds are m

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 22 January 2007 An international human-rights watchdog is warning that Rwanda could erupt into a new cycle of violence if the authorities do not protect participants of the country's grassroots trials that hear and prosecute

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Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council Sichan Siv has written a new book, called Golden Bones, that tells how he survived the Khmer Rouge terror in his native land and came to prosper in the United States. As VOA's Greg Flaku

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Rescue teams search the site of the Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane crash in Tripoli, Libya, 12 May 2010 A Libyan airliner with 104 people on board has crashed during landing at Tripoli's airport. At least 103 people have been confirmed killed, with a

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New York financier Bernard Madoff was jailed Thursday after pleading guilty to bilking investors out of an estimated $64.8 billion - the largest financial scam in U.S. history. Madoff now faces up to 150 years in prison. But investors who lost their

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Auschwitz March Highlights Worries about Anti-Semitism in Hungary OSWIECEM, POLAND Amid concerns about the rise of extremist parties in Europe, around 10,000 people from around the world took part in a march Monday between the former Nazi death camps

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By Birungi Machrine Kampala 26 November 2007 Attacks using acid are becoming more frequent in Uganda. Up to 2003, there were only 145 recorded attacks, but over the last three years, there have already been 87. Survivors often suffer from severe emot

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: The mass shooting in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School transformed the lives of many people in the community. Survivors found they have a powerful voice in the gun control debate. And they have been speaking up. Soph

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Students across the country walked out of school yesterday to demonstrate against gun violence. The national school walkout also marked the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre outside of Denver. Paula Reed was te

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The heart-wrenching reunion. Many have been waiting for the Ebola-free Texas nurse and her cute and cuddly pooch are back together. And judging by all those hugs and kisses, they two clearly missed one another. And the wagging tail points it out as w

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By Carolyn Weaver New York 09 February 2007 watch Human Trafficking report A coalition of women's and human-rights advocates in the United States is pressing New York state legislators to pass a law against human trafficking. Investigators say that

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At least 140 people have died in Australia's worst-ever bushfire disaster. Arsonists, who are thought to have been responsible for some of the devastating outbreaks in the southern state, Victoria, have been accused of mass murder by Australian Prim

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The U.N. refugee agency says 65 people are dead or missing and presumed dead in three separate incidents involving smuggling boats in the Gulf of Aden during the past 48 hours. Somalia and Gulf of Aden These tragic events are just the latest in a lo

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By Melinda Smith Washington 01 October 2009 Child with cancer A childhood cancer foundation based in the U.S. estimates that 160,000 children around the world are diagnosed each year with cancer. The odds of survival are better in developed countrie

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Sixty-four years ago, the United States dropped the first nuclear weapon used in war on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A few days later, another was exploded over Nagasaki. More than 200,000 people died in the bombings and many of them were Korean.

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