House speaker John Boehner has abruptly resigned from congress. NPR's Susan Davis reports the Republican lawmaker from Ohio says the ongoing battle with the far-right faction of his party was bad for congress and for the American people. He walked in

发表于:2018-12-02 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 2015年NPR美国国家公共电台9月

With the government now in partial shutdown as a budget battle wages in Washington, at least for the moment the respective sides seem dug in. Republicans have put forth proposals to reopen small slices of the government and create a negotiating commi

发表于:2018-12-17 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

BBC News with Jonathan Izard. The head of US Congressional Committee on Intelligence says he has seen no evidence of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential election campaign last year. Speaking to Fox News, the Committee Chairman De

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 09 January 2008 African Union leader John Kufuor, held talks with Kenya's president and opposition leader in Nairobi in a bid to break a post-election deadlock that has inflamed ethnic tensions to violent levels. VOA Corresponde

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(一月)

By Patricia Nunan Trincomalee 29 June 2006 As Sri Lanka threatens to slide back into all-out civil war, much talk is focused on paramilitaries - armed groups accused of carrying out attacks on civilians. Both the government and the Tamil Tiger separ

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(104) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(六月)

Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill said Tuesday that he thinks the country is on the right track despite sporadic terrorist activity and a post-election political stalemate. The senior U.S. diplomat, soon to retire, held a farewell pre

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(八)月

Sustained armed clashes between rebel groups and Sudanese forces have re-emerged in Sudan's western region of Darfur as another round of peace talks appear to be going nowhere. The international peacekeeping mission there says more than 14,000 civili

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(二月)

Counting and data input workers at the Independent High Electoral Commission in Baghdad, Iraq, 11 Mar 2010, as data is calculated before an election result can be declared The first partial results from Iraq's national elections Sunday indicate the S

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By Peta Thornycroft 20 October 2009 Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai during a press conference in Harare, 16 Oct 2009 Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Mozambican leader Armando Guebuza are to meet late Tuesday for talks on wa

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(61) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(十月)

美国众议院选出新议长 This is not a job I ever wanted or I ever sought. He could be the first reluctant House speaker in modern American history. 这并非是我想要的工作,也不是我所追求的。瑞安将成为美国当代历史上第

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(一月)

Now, leading our news this morning. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has confirmed he wants Labor to support turning back asylum seeker boats. The policy reversal has exposed internal divisions within Labor with members of the left faction promising to

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe turns 93 tomorrow. He's the world's oldest leader. Exactly two years and two months older than runner up Queen Elizabeth. Mugabe has led Zimbabwe since independence from Britain 37 years ago, and

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(58) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台2月

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. I want to speak about the ongoing and increasingly urgent efforts to avoid default and reduce our deficit. Right now, the House of Representatives is still trying to pass a bill that a majority of Republicans a

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By Noel King El Fasher, Sudan 05 June 2006 Sudanese children collect water from a well in the village of Brikatouly in South Darfur, Sudan The international community is pressing the parties in Sudan'

发表于:2019-01-31 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(六月)

The parties to Zimbabwe's power sharing agreement have failed to agree on the allocation of cabinet posts. Tendai Maphosa reports for VOA from Harare that the opposition says the only option is intervention by the Southern African Development Commun

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(十月)

The secretary general of the Arab League says he is heading for Beirut this week for talks on a new plan to end the Lebanese political crisis. 阿拉伯国家联盟秘书长说,他将于本星期前往贝鲁特,讨论结束黎巴嫩政治危机的新

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai and two senior members of his party were temporarily prevented from traveling to South Africa Thursday when Zimbabwe officials confiscated their passports and then returned them. Tsvangirai is e

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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could announce his new cabinet as early as today as he prepares to revisit key policies. Former minister Simon Crane and Kim Carr are both tipped to make a comeback. The new cabinet meets next week and is expected to discuss

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Belgium MPs have voted to give terminally ill children the right to die regardless of age. Takingthe law on euthanasia further than anywhere else. Despite protests from the Catholic Church,there was overwhelming support in parliament for extending a

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The United States has confirmed that it is holding talks with Turkey about stepping up their joint military campaign against Islamic state group in northern Syria. A state department spokesman Mark Toner gave more details. 美国方面确认将和土耳

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