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Today is December 7th, 2016, National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in the U.S. And that's what's first up. It was 75 years ago that the nation of Japan attacked the United States naval base at Hawaii's Pearl Harbor. Japan, Germany and Italy, known as
老板Tom的班机因为台风来袭而停飞,从机场打电话给秘书Susan布置工作。 Tom: And if you don't mind, call our factory in China and see if things are OK there. I'm worried about flooding. S: Sure thing, boss. T: I'll tell you wh
【今日基础词】 Reward 【Transcript】 A naval officer fell overboard. He was rescued by a deck hand. The officer asked how he could reward him. The best way, sir, said the deckhand, is to say nothing about it. If other fellows knew Id pulled
How People In Greenland Learn How To Count Kids learn to count on their fingers, because theyre so, well, handy! And it makes sensemost number systems originally developed as people counted using their fingers. The counting system of native Greenland
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 24 April 2007 In Sri Lanka, Tamil Tiger rebels have mounted an air strike against a key government military base, killing at least six soldiers. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, it is the second air strike by th
By Steve Herman Okinawa, Japan 09 March 2006 The United States pledges to move 8,000 of its Marines off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. But U.S., Japanese and Okinawan officials are strugglin
By Ben Gilbert Baghdad 08 February 2006 The U.S. military says 100 Iraqi army battalions, totaling about 104,000 Iraqi soldiers, are now fighting alongside U.S. troops in Iraq. The U.S. military says
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says an announced decision by Kyrgyzstan to end U.S. access to an airbase serving NATO troops in Afghanistan is regrettable, but not a major setback for the Obama administration. Clinton discussed the Afghan confli
By David McAlary Washington 01 November 2006 A panel of scientists says African hunger, malnutrition, and rural poverty could be lessened if researchers could improve native vegetables well suited to difficult growing conditions. Africa is home to h
By Michael Drudge London 06 February 2006 Camp Delta Cell Block for uncooperative dedtainees The London-base human-rights group, Amnesty International, has issued a new report condemning what it calls
By Greg Flakus Fort Riley 25 March 2008 US troops at Fort Riley, in the Midwestern state of Kansas, are training for deployment in Afghanistan along with 31 soldiers from Afghanistan's National Army. Some 300 US soldiers are in the current exercise a
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 27 February 2007 Vice President Dick Cheney escaped any injury following a suicide bomb attack outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan that killed at least 12 people, and the number of dead could go higher. The
By David McAlary Washington 24 August 2006 Pluto is no longer a planet. The world's top group of astronomers, the International Astronomical Union, has stripped Pluto of the status it has held since its discovery 76 years ago. The body decided that,
Cuba defeated the United States Olympic baseball team Friday night, 10-2, to reach the gold medal match at the Beijing Summer Games. VOA Sports Editor Parke Brewer was at the contest at the Wukesong Sports Center and has a report. For the Chinese fa
Band Builds Fan Base Through Technology, Live Experience LOS ANGELES Nick Sherwin of California-based Suburban Skies says his band promotes itself and controls its own destiny thanks to 21st Century technology. Social media is a wonderful thing, and
The war-torn nation of Afghanistan is where we start. Despite an effort by a U.S.-led coalition to topple the nation's former rulers, a terrorist group known as the Taliban, they continue to pose a major challenge for the Afghan government. And the I
By David Lewis Kinshasa 02 March 2006 U.N. officials say a group of Congolese soldiers conducting a massive joint operation with U.N. peacekeepers mutinied Wednesday in the lawless east, forcing a hal
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 18 January 2007 Members of the far left in Italy's governing coalition are threatening to vote against refinancing the country's mission to Afghanistan. As Sabina Castelfranco reports for VOA from Rome, the lawmakers are
NATO officials say insurgents who carried out Sunday's deadly assault on a remote NATO outpost in eastern Afghanistan were able to penetrate the base before they were driven away by U.S. air strikes. Nine American soldiers were killed in the assault
By Tom Rivers London 03 September 2007 British military vehicles is seen on their way from the city of Basra, Iraq, 03 Sep 2007 The highly symbolic pull out of British forces from Basra Palace to a nearby airbase is widely seen as the beginning of th