VOA慢速英语--Close to Finland, NATO Troops Train for Battle

The drive from the Russian border to the Tapa military base in Estonia is only three hours by tank. And that concerns the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO. The military base once belonged to the Soviet Union. Now, it has 1,000 NATO soldiers

VOA双语新闻：23、乌克兰总统虽令停火 志愿民兵依然东进

乌克兰总统虽令停火 志愿民兵依然东进 More volunteers with Ukraine's Donbas Battalion, a pro-government militia that recently merged with the National Guard, were preparing to deploy to the restive east Monday - in the middle of a temp

2016年CRI Chinese Medical Team in South Sudan Ten Years on

Alex Bakiet, who speaks Chinese fluently, is the president of Wau Teaching Hospital in South Sudan. He said when the Chinese medical team first came to Wau ten years ago, he was still a volunteer. That's when he came into contact with his Chinese cou

【跟着英剧练发音】Parades End E02 - 22

文本： V Valentine Wannop E Edith Duchemin C Christopher Tietjens G General Campion S Sylvia Tietjens V: I'm sorry. Oh... I'm so pointless. Everything's... Everything is so horrible. Beastliness everywhere and I live like an ant, but I thought at

2006年VOA标准英语-Former Liberian Girl Soldier Struggles to

By Nico Colombant Monrovia 04 January 2006 Later this month, Liberia will inaugurate Africa's first elected female president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Her task will be to help rebuild her war-shattered

美联社新闻一分钟 2005-08-04

美联社,新闻一分钟,emergency,US,Iraq,1.A spacewalking astronaut venture s beneath shuttle Discovery's belly and successfully completes an unprecedented emergency repair. 2.In the single deadliest bombing of US troops in Iraq, a roadside

VOA标准英语2012--Syrian Rebels Claim Advances

Syrian Rebels Claim Advances On a cross-border visit to the Turkish city of Antakya, Ahmad al-Kanatre Abu Hamza, commander of the Omar al-Mukhtar battalion of the Free Syrian Army, said the FSA is making big gains in territory and manpower. The comma

VOA标准英语2010年-Korean War Still Keeps Peninsula on Ed

S. Korean Media: North Korea Aired Unauthorized Recording of World Cup Opener The Demilitarized Zone, at the 38th parallel, is the four-kilometer buffer separating North and South Korea. The recent sinking of South Korean warship, the Cheonan, in the

VOA标准英语2010年-In Afghanistan, US Pilots Aim to Save

Medevac units play a crucial role in Afghanistan, providing emergency care and transportation to injured soldiers, and to Afghan civilians In July, the U.S military recorded its highest monthly death toll in the nine-year Afghanistan war. As the casu

VOA标准英语2014--Ukraine Volunteer Militia Deploys to East During Cease-fire

Ukraine Volunteer Militia Deploys to East During Cease-fire NEAR KYIV More volunteers with Ukraine's Donbas Battalion, a pro-government militia that recently merged with the National Guard, were preparing to deploy to the restive east Monday - in the

VOA常速英语2014--加州消防员为火灾季做准备

California Firefighters Ready for Severe Fire Season 加州消防员为火灾季做准备 HEMET, CALIFORNIA Years of drought have put California at risk of a serious fire season, and firefighters in Hemet, California, are training to be ready for the

美国国家公共电台 NPR In 'Red Sky At Noon,' A Western On The Eastern Front

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Benya Golden is a Jewish Cossack. This is not a Mel Brooks movie but a new novel. Benya Golden is a political prisoner in the gulag who is pressed into a kind of dirty dozen battalion of horse riding Cossacks and convicts who detes

VOA双语新闻 Troop Deployment Near Baghdad

Britain says it could deploy combat troops near Baghdad to free up U.S. forces for counter-terrorism operations before Iraqi elections planned for January. 英国说他们将在伊拉克部署战斗部队，以便使美军腾出手来，在明年一月

美国有线新闻 CNN 美国军方回应如何应对朝鲜核武器试射

American leaders are discussing how to respond to North Korea's latest's weapons test. It involved a missile that flew over Japan, a U.S. ally, before landing somewhere in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday. North Korea's government controlled media called

voa标准英语2008-Military Women Take on New Roles in Iraq

Despite official U.S. policy banning women from military jobs that could put them into direct combat, women have increasingly been part of the ground operations - and seen fighting - in Iraq. A special team of female soldiers has accompanied male tr

VOA标准英语2009年-Former Congolese Rebels Desert DRC Army

Hundreds of former rebels have deserted the Congolese army in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, citing complaints about pay and their assigned military ranks. The U.N. mission in Congo says discussions with the breakaway group are ongoing. T

VOA标准英语2009年-Training Afghan Forces Poses Challenge

Training a competent, well-equipped Afghan security force is key to the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan, even with President Obama's decision to commit thousands of more Americans to the fighting. But U.S. military officers in Afghanistan say lang

VOA双语新闻 --- 北约峰会讨论阿富汗及新成员问题

The NATO summit has convened in formal session in Bucharest, Romania. Members are focusing on military operations in Afghanistan and how and when to enlarge the alliance. 北大西洋公约组织在罗马尼亚首都布加勒斯特举行正式会议。

VOA双语新闻：以色列建国60年 巴难民处境

Sixty years ago, May 8, 1948, Israel declared its independence - following a decision by the United Nations to partition the area known as the British mandate territory of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. Israelis celebrate their independence,

新西兰英语 320 Military funeral

The funeral for Lieutenant Tim ODonnell was held today at Linton Military Camp. Linton is the nearest military camp to Tims hometown, Feilding. Tim was killed a week ago in Afghanistan. Listen to August 4th 2010 for more about what happened. He is th