Guinea's new military leaders named international banker Kabine Komara as the country's new prime minister. Komara is a senior director at the African Export-Import Bank in Cairo and was one of four men who labor leaders nominated for the post follo

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Education Report - How a Small Change in Teaching May Create Better Readers This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to preschool children. But a new study

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By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 30 December 2006 Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed Saturday morning for crimes against his people. Iraqi officials present at the hanging say Saddam went to his death a broken man, but showed no remors

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After President's Departure, Yemen Braces for Transition of Leadership Inspired by protests across the Arab world, demonstrators in Yemen took to the streets to demand the ouster of President Saleh, who has ruled the country with an iron hand for mor

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 20 September 2006 Thailand's Army Commander-in-Chief Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin listens to a reporter's questions in Bangkok Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006 The Thai army commander who led a coup against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinaw

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 November 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is urging nations to do more to combat biological weapons, and to create global safeguards to keep them out of terrorist hands. Kofi Annan at a review conference on Biological

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By Benjamin Sand Irbil, Iraq 25 October 2006 Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is promising a major crackdown on illegal militias, which are blamed for widespread sectarian violence. During a nationally televised speech Maliki also sharply reject

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By Steve Herman Tokyo 20 September 2006 In Japan, it is Shinzo Abe by a landslide. The government's chief cabinet secretary, as expected, has swept the election for leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party, putting him in position to take over as

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 24 May 2007 Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora vowed in an address to the nation on Thursday his government would crush the Islamic militants who are battling the army in a Palestinian refugee camp. The U.N. says half th

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By Paula Wolfson White House 25 June 2007 President Bush has condemned the latest round of suicide bombings in Iraq. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the situation in Iraq, and new threats to the security of information technology were on the agenda when

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By Gilbert Da Costa Abuja 30 January 2006 President Olusegun Obasanjo Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has vowed to stamp out violence in the country's troubled Niger Delta. He spoke late Monday a

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By Amberin Zaman Nicosia 27 January 2006 Turkish Cypriot community leader Mehmet Ali Talat says the European Union can and must play a major role in pushing for a settlement to re-unite the Greek and

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 26 January 2007 As leaders of the 53-member African Union prepare to meet in Ethiopia next week for a summit, a report commissioned by leading non-governmental organizations is urging the African Union to improve its performanc

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The United States said Monday the government of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe cannot be considered legitimate in the absence of a presidential runoff election. In the wake of opposition candidate Morgan Tsvangirai's forced departure from the c

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Speaking with his Palestinian counterpart at the start of a Palestinian investment conference in London, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he felt President-elect Barack Obama can bring a new energy to the Israel-Palestinian peace process. Br

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MLK Holiday Celebrates Late Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s rise as a civil rights leader began in 1955 when he spearheaded the drive to desegregate public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. By August 1963, Reverend King's push for equal righ

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Nigeria's Religious Leaders Work to Stop Violence Kaduna, much like the Nigerian state itself, is divided into a mainly Muslim north and a predominantly Christian south. In April 2011, post-election riots in Kaduna state descended into religious viol

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By Ernest Leong Washington, DC 12 January 2006 watch MLKing Profile report Martin Luther King, Jr., a Southern black minister and civil rights leader, crusaded for equality through nonviolent means. H

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1) head over heels 很爱一个人,为他神魂颠倒 2) wear your heart on your sleeve 感情外露 3) big heart 热情大方

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听歌学英语:A Perfect Indian-Sinead O'Connor A Perfect Indian Sinead O'Connor Sinead O'Connor出生在都柏林一个传统的天主教家庭,她小时候曾是唱诗班成员,十九岁就开始了歌手生涯。1987年出道时,唱片公司想

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