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President Obama announced an agreement with Congressional Republicans Monday. It would extend for two years the tax cuts put in place by former president George W. Bush. The tax cuts were to end in January. The compromise extends current income tax r
Republican presidential nominee John McCain has reversed his earlier decision and decided to participate in Friday's long scheduled debate with Democrat candidate Barack Obama. McCain had said he would not attend the debate unless there was agreemen
Russian Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev is backing a campaign to crack down on smoking in Russia, the world's second biggest tobacco market after China. In a message on his video blog, he warns that one in three Russians are hooked on cigarettes and
Leaders of the world's advanced economies have committed to a long-term goal of slashing their emissions of carbon blamed for global warming. Officials say the plan is a first step toward building consensus but activist groups and at least one Afric
By Gary Thomas Washington 29 June 2007 The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed itself and agreed to hear the appeals of detainees held at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. As VOA correspondent Gary Thomas reports, legal scholars say it is a high
By Leslie Neuhaus Addis Ababa 30 January 2007 Somalia's president agreed Tuesday to a national reconciliation conference to try to end 16 years of fighting in the war-ravaged country. As Les Neuhaus in Addis Ababa reports for VOA, the announcement p
NATO ministers meeting in the Belgian capital have thrown their weight behind a U.S. plan to reorganize the military command in Afghanistan, to better handle an influx of new troops. A general view of NATO defense ministers' meeting in Brussels, 12
U.S. President Barack Obama says he seeks unity at the G-20 economic summit in London, and a new arms deal with Russia. It was a busy day of diplomacy for Mr. Obama as he launched his first overseas trip as president. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon
Leaders of the world's 20 major developed and emerging economies have agreed on huge spending measures to boost world economies and implement tougher financial regulations to try avoid such crises in future. Coming out of their full day meeting in L
Bangladesh's government is granting amnesty to mutinous border guards in exchange for them agreeing to peacefully return to their barracks. Bangladeshi media say several civilians were killed and two army colonels died in the early stage of the muti
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Kenya has agreed to help launch a new strategy for combatting piracy off the coast of Somalia. The proposal calls for police from the Horn of Africa to deploy on international warships to arrest Soma
By Luis Ramirez Jerusalem 30 September 2009 Palestinian relatives of Fatima Al Zaq, scheduled to be released from Israeli prison celebrate in Gaza City, 30 Sep 2009 Israel says it has agreed to release 20 Palestinian women from its prisons in exchan
By Douglas Bakshian Cebu, Philippines 13 January 2007 Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have authorized the drawing up of a charter that would give their organization a legal basis for the first time since it was founded four deca
By Noel King Khartoum 08 September 2006 New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has secured the release of Paul Salopek, an American reporter currently imprisoned in Sudan's Darfur region. Noel King reports Richardson arrived in the capital Khartoum for
By Lisa Bryant Paris 14 March 2008 European Union countries wrapped up a two-day summit in Brussels Friday agreeing to forge laws to meet climate change goals and create a new union that would group the European Union and Mediterranean countries outs
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 09 January 2007 Interim Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (R) with his PM Ali Mohamed Gedi during a media briefing in Mogadishu, 09 Jan 2007 Somalia's interim president say a U.S. strike late Monday on al-Qaida hideouts in
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 14 March 2007 The U.S. Senate has voted to consider a Democratic Party-sponsored resolution to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq. The 89 to 9 vote occurred after opposition Republicans blocked two previous attempts to debat
By Scott Stearns Washington 09 May 2008 Burma's military government has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo plane to deliver relief supplies for victims of Saturday's killer cyclone. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Burmese offici
今天我们要学的词是jaw-dropping。 Jaw-dropping, 令人惊讶的。 The seventh Harry Potter movie opened to a jaw-dropping $330 million in global ticket sales over the weekend, 《哈利-波特7》周末上映全球票房3.3亿美元,让人跌
By Phillip Wellman Abidjan 12 November 2007 An official spokesman for Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo has said the president believes political leaders from across the spectrum must work together in order to guarantee lasting peace in the country. T