1. Secretary of State John Kerry is remembering a young diplomat killed in Afghanistan Saturday. Twenty-five-year-old Anne Smedinghoff was killed in a bombing, the first diplomat killed since the Benghazi attacks. 2. Members of Rick Warren's Southern

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VOICE ONE: I'm Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about Percival Lowell whose work led to the discovery of Pluto. His efforts and imagination helped change the history

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Obama: No Ground War in Iraq 奥巴马总统称不准备向伊拉克派遣地面部队 President Barack Obama on Wednesday said the United States would not fight another ground war in Iraq. He commented after a top American general suggested some com

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US Ambassador to South Korea Injured in Attack 美国驻韩国大使遇袭受伤 A Korean nationalist stabbed the U.S. ambassador to South Korea on Thursday. The knife attack, which took place in Seoul, has left Ambassador Mark Lippert with 80 stitch

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AS IT IS 2016-03-16 Russia Says It Will Withdraw From Syria 普京下令俄罗斯军队撤出叙利亚 Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian forces to withdraw from Syria, Russian state media report. 俄罗斯国家电视台报道:俄罗

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Obama Nominates New Defense, Spy Chiefs Obama made his choices official in the White House East Room with Hagel and Brennan standing by his side. The president noted that Hagel, a Vietnam War veteran, would be the first person of enlisted military ra

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US commander for Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, speaks at a press conference at the U.S. embassy in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq (File Photo) A recent wave of violence across Iraq is drawing more attention to the impending decrease in U.S. forces in that

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UN: Afghanistan at Crossroads The top United Nations diplomat in Afghanistan said Wednesday that the country is at a crossroads as it begins taking on responsibility for its own security. The senior U.N. envoy in Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, told

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A representative from the U.N. Mission in Sudan has dismissed reports that extra troops would be sent to the Abyei region in advance of the tense vote. Responding to recent reports the United Nations planned to deploy an additional 100 troops in the

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Kerry Sets Own Diplomatic Style at State Department From the start, John Kerry said he knew he had big heels to fill replacing Hillary Clinton. She said his service on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee made him the right choice. He has a view of

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President Bush has awarded America's highest civilian honor to three men who were instrumental in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. 美国总统布什把美国非军人最高荣誉奖章授予了三个在伊拉克战争中曾起到关键作用的美国人

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Related: Profile of John Kerry US President Barack Obama has nominated Senator John Kerry as his next secretary of state, elevating the longtime lawmaker and foreign policy expert to the top diplomatic job he had coveted. Obama says Kerry has all the

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Henry Kissinger is a well-known name in China. He is widely thought as an old, sincere friend of the Chinese people. Dating back to 1971, Henry Kissinger, who was Nixon's National Security Advisor, flew to Beijing, where his meetings with then Chines

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 04 June 2008 Russia's relations with independent countries that once formed the Soviet Union have often been contentious, and Moscow's efforts to exert influence in the region have also led to tensions with the West, particu

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David Gollust Senior U.S. officials say that Britain, and not the United States, invited an Iranian team to visit Iraq. But they say the Bush administration did not oppose the gesture and believes Ira

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South Sudanese government and rebels started peace talks on Tuesday. Mediators hope to end the fighting that has left the worlds newest state on the brink of civil war. The talks in neighbouring Ethiopia will focus on brokering a ceasefire to halt th

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China's Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva has stressed the need to resolve disputes in the South China Sea through negotiations and consultations, in accordance with international law while respecting historical facts. Ma Zhaoxu t

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 08 February 2008 A delegation from the East African regional bloc IGAD has concluded a visit to Kenya to discuss the current political crisis. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi, recent days have seen a flurry of diplomatic

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1. President Barack Obama is in the Czech Republic, signing a major arms reduction treaty with Russia. Obama and Russian President Medvedev signed the treaty, shrinking both nations' arsenals to 1550 over seven years. It still needs to be ratified by

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This is AP news minute. 1. The White House said today that president Trump asks national security advisor Michael Flynn to resign because of a trust issue, not a legal one. But house democrats are demanding an investigation into Flynn's contact with

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