Now time for the business news, and when the markets in Europe closed couple of hours ago, London's FTSE 100 was down 1.3%, and the Dax shed over 0.5%, in the US, trading comes to close shortly and the Dow and Jones is on 73 points while the SP 500 i

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Millions More Children to Receive Vaccines More than one million children die each year from severe diarrhea and pneumococcal disease. Today (Tuesday), the GAVI Alliance announced an expanded campaign against the two leading killers of children world

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POLL: Most Americans Want Congress To Make Zika Funding A High Priority play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0002:56repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update you

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The latest report on landmines has both good and bad news. It says governments have provided a record level of funding to remove the weapons. But at the same time the use of antipersonnel mines has increased. 刚刚出台的有关地雷的报告中既有

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CDC is afraid is afraid to fund firearms research. David Hemenway, professor of health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Twenty years ago they were doing a tiny amount of funding for firearms research, $2.6 million a year, $2.6

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今天我们要学的词是 bolster。 Bolster 是加强,支持的意思,The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a must-pass piece of legislation that includes a provision that would dramatically bolster American funding for global in

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Creative New Zealand wants to make changes. At the moment, Creative New Zealand has four organisations: the Arts Council, the Arts Board, Te Waka Toi, and the Pacific Arts Committee. Together these organisations have 55 staff including 28 directors.

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By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 21 June 2007 Legislation providing $34 billion for State Department and foreign aid programs has sparked sharp debate over a range of issues in the House of Representatives. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, the Bush administra

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Joe DeCapua 15 July 2010 Were seeing a lot of competition for resources, which is inevitable in periods of scarcity. A new report warns that promising developments in HIV prevention could be undermined by funding gaps and a lack of political will. Th

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The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a nearly $97 billion spending measure that funds the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and provides counter-insurgency funding for Pakistan. The Senate is expected to vote next wee

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Funding Levels for UN Women Questioned The mandate of U.N. Women is large, and some supporters are concerned that its starting budget of $500 million dollars is not enough to promote women and gender equality around the world, especially at the count

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There is a trade war underway between the U.S. and China, and it is a big concern to the global economy. But there's another deeper rift brewing between Washington and Beijing. And that stems from China's effort to unseat t

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State and territories education ministers will meet in Sydney shortly to try to thrash out a deal on school funding. The government has come under fire for deciding to doubt Labor's school funding model after 2014. New South Wales, Voctoria, Tasmania

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By Sabina Castelfranco Khartoum 15 March 2008 The U.N. World Food Program says efforts to bring food to people in Sudan's troubled Darfur region are continuing, despite logistical challenges. WFP says insufficient security on the roads has led to att

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今天我们要学的词是barrier。 Barrier是障碍的意思。Language barrier, 是语言障碍。Trade barrier, 是贸易壁垒。The lack of funding was the biggest barrier to the road improvement, 意思是道路改善的最大障碍是缺少资

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今天我们要学的词是short of。 Short of, 指达不到的,缺少的。 The project was set aside because we are short of funding, 这个项目下马了,因为我们资金不足。麦当劳三月上旬表示,由于欧洲部分地区的恶劣

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今天我们要学的词是 put in jeopardy。To put something in jeopardy 意思是使某事陷入危险。His behavior put our reputation in jeopardy. 他的行为使我们的名誉受到了威胁。Quitting your daytime job to pursuit your dream w

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The United Nations World Food Program has to drastically cut the number of hungry North Koreans it feeds because of a lack of international funding and new restrictions imposed by Pyongyang. The World Food Program originally planned this year to rea

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 15 November 2007 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Pentagon funding shortfalls resulting from congressional debate about the conduct of the Iraq war could result in difficulty supplying the troops and significant layoffs

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Have you got a good idea you could turn into a business? Not much cash to get off the ground? In many countries that's when people turn to crowdfunding. This is a method of raising finance online by asking a large number of people each to chip in. Th

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