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President Obama wants Congress to finish work on healthcare legislation. Hes calling on lawmakers to bring bills to the floor and vote on them. Republicans hate the bills and many want to scrap the existing legislation. And Mr. Obama says thats a fat
Democratic leaders are working today to unite the party behind a healthcare overhaul bill. They're hoping to push through Congress before the break. There was talk of a March 18th vote in the House, but the president's spokesman Robert Gibbs says law
By Peter Heinlein United Nations officials say preparations for Afghanistan's October 9 presidential election are on track, despite expectations of violence. U.N. and Afghan diplomats reject warnings
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Five women were honored last week in Washington for their efforts to increase the economic and political progress of women. Vital Voices, an international nonprofit organization, presented its Globa
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Abdullah Gul was sworn in this week as the eleventh president of Turkey. The fifty-six-year-old economist formerly served as foreign minister. Abdullah Gul after his election He easily won the election in
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Robert Zoellick is President Bush's choice to head the World Bank. He is fifty-three years old and currently a vice chairman at Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank. He has held a number of
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The opening ceremony of the 17th Communist Party Congress in the Great Hall of the People China's Communist Party is meeting this week in Beijing. More than two thousand delegates are electing party leader
Updated This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The violence this week in Kenya has thrown the usually peaceful country into crisis. Its economic and democratic progress may be in danger. The crisis began Sunday after election officials declared
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道节目。 About three thousand delegates from around China are in Beijing for this year's meeting of the National People's Congress. 近3千名来自全国各地的
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Singer Angelique Kidjo Wins Award for Human Rights Work 贝宁着名歌手基德约获人权奖 Benin-born musician Angelique Kidjo has won a major human rights award, along with three African youth activist movements. Kidjo and the groups were honor
AS IT IS 2016-05-10 Surprise Move Holds Off Rousseff Impeachment 巴西总统罗塞夫弹劾受阻 In a surprise move, the acting speaker of Brazils lower chamber of Congress called for a new vote in the impeachment process against President Dilma Ro
Vietnams Parliament Approves New Prime Minister 越南国会通过阮春福出任新总理 Vietnamese lawmakers approved Nguyen Xuan Phuc as the countrys new prime minister Thursday. Phuc was the only candidate for the position. He was chosen at the
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AS IT IS 2016-09-02 Michel Temer Sworn In as President of Brazil 巴西总统米歇尔 特梅尔宣誓就任 Brazils new president has appealed for national unity after lawmakers voted to remove Dilma Rousseff from the office Wednesday. In a speech t
AS IT IS 2016-03-22 Brazil's President Faces Political Crisis 巴西总统面临政治危机 President Dilma Rousseff faces a political crisis as a Supreme Court Justice has blocked her Cabinet appointment and the majority of Brazilians support her i
助理国务卿努兰表示北约支持乌克兰 In the estimation of NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow, today's security environment is complex and fast moving,increasingly more dangerous and less predictable than it has been in a lon
192 印尼总统可能迫于威胁放弃主张 Indonesia Leader Could Back Off Threat Patricia Nunan Jakarta 18 Jul 2001 11:50 UTC Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid may be 1)backing down from a 2
And while a few Indonesians have recently joined ISIS, 虽然最近还是有些印尼人加入伊斯兰国 their number is tiny, far fewer in per capita terms than the number of Belgians. 但他们的数量是非常少的,按人均来计算比比利时
So even though we've been growing, the structure of the economies has not changed very much. 即使我们一直在发展,经济的机构并没有什么改变。 We are still exporting commodities, and exporting commodities is what? It's exporting j