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Beginners. Do you enjoy shopping? Do you do it very often? Are there many shops where you live? Here in Wenatchee, a small town, we have a few shopping areas. Some stores are well known; others are privately owned, small businesses. I like shopping w
标准英语,VOA,Iraqi,official,election,By Stephanie Ho Washington 15 January 2006 A senior Iraqi official says the Iraqi government will soon announce the official results from last month's elections. Meanwhile, he also downplayed reports
By Al Pessin Pentagon 07 December 2006 President Bush and members of the Senate served notice on the Iraq Study Group Thursday that its 79-recommendation report on U.S. Iraq policy is not likely to be adopted in its entirety. But the group's co-chai
By David McAlary Washington 03 May 2007 Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. is shown posed for a studio portrait in his space suit in this June 1962 file photo One of the first U.S. astronauts and only the fifth American in space, Walter Schirra, has die
By Margaret Besheer Washington 13 May 2006 Prime Minister-designate Nouri al-Maliki Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Nouri al-Maliki continued Saturday to try to form a government of national unity, in
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 14 July 2006 Lebanon has accused Israel of 'barbaric aggression' in its current military offensive, and called on the U.N. Security Council to declare a cease-fire., Israel rejected the criticism, and charged Lebanon
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 21 December 2007 Analysts and activists in the Middle East say the year 2007 in some Arab countries was marked by backtracking from the tentative moves toward more democratization and openness that had been seen in 2005 an
By Margaret Besheer Irbil 04 December 2006 Former Secretary of State James Baker, co-chairman of Iraq Study Group, walks past with Vice President Dick Cheney, after meeting with President Bush, 13 Nov 2006 For weeks, the American media has been buzz
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 11 July 2006 Republicans and Democrats in Congress continue to put forward conflicting assessments of the situation in Iraq. Lawmakers also considered a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office re
By Margaret Besheer Baghdad 16 April 2007 In the Iraqi capital, illegal Sunni and Shi'ite groups are trying to shift the sectarian balance of neighborhoods to their favor. They use intimidation and executions to force residents of different sects to
By Jim Malone Waashington 14 December 2006 Puerto Rican widow Digna Nieves cries over coffin of her husband, Army Spc. William Lopez Feliciano during a funeral service (File) While President Bush prepares his new strategy on Iraq, public-opinion pol
By Meredith Buel Washington 17 May 2007 The commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, General James Conway, says his forces in volatile al Anbar province are continuing to see a significant reduction in violence. He says local tribesmen are joining the Ir
By Michael Bowman Washington 03 June 2006 A U.S. military investigation has concluded that U.S. troops did not intentionally kill innocent civilians in an Iraqi village. Two other incidents are still
By Al Pessin Pentagon 21 May 2007 Violence continued in Iraq Monday, after a particularly deadly weekend for U.S. troops, and the killing of a key insurgent leader. VOA's Al Pessin reports from the Pentagon. A wounded Iraqi woman is wheeled into a ho
By Bill Rodgers Washington, D.C. 07 March 2007 watch Iraq War Protest report A coalition of anti-war groups is planning a march on the Pentagon to protest the Iraq war. The March 17th protest will come on the 40th anniversary of a 1967 march on the
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 19 June 2006 In the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, the insurgency wracking other parts of the country seems remote. In a region that has long attended to its own affairs, people are looking to the future. In the cit
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 12 January 2007 watch Iraq Hearings President Bush's call for more than 20,000 additional U.S. troops in Iraq is facing scrutiny in both houses of Congress, where the Democratic Party is now in control. But as VOA's
By Scott Stearns White House 17 June 2006 President Bush is promising more help for Iraq's new government, following his surprise trip to Baghdad this past week. Opposition Democrats say the president is not moving fast enough to get U.S. troops hom
By Barry Newhouse Irbil 10 February 2007 General David Petraeus has taken over as commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, during a time that he called a decisive moment for the country's future. In an address at his official handover ceremony Saturday, Ge
At least 23 people in Indonesia were crushed to death when a crowd surged forward to receive a cash hand-out from a wealthy family, part of a tradition during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. In addition to the deaths, several people were critical