Australia has intercepted a boat carrying almost 200 illegal migrants and is warning of a surge in displaced people heading to its shores from Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The vessel is the largest of the 15 boats of unauthorized arrivals detained in Aus

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(48) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(六月)

By Cathy Majtenyi 10 May 2006 A relative of eight year old Nastexo Abdi Ali comforts her in the Medina hospital in Mogadishu The United Nations has condemned the latest round of fighting in Somalia's

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By Jim Teeple Ramallah 18 February 2006 Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' apparent choice for prime minister, center, smiles during parliament session, Saturday A new Palestinian parliament convened on Saturday

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A radical Somali Islamist leader has condemned attacks on humanitarian workers in Somalia. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, aid workers have increasingly become a target in the conflict pitting Islamist and clan-base

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Earlier this week, a global survey of states most at risk of failure named Somalia and Sudan as the top two most unstable countries in the world. As VOA correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, both African countries

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Australia has promised to introduce the most comprehensive carbon trading program outside Europe in 2010. The government in Canberra plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least five percent by 2020, but it could make bigger reductions if other

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Lithuania's opposition conservatives have won the country's parliamentary election, which will give Lithuania its first conservative-led government in seven years. Stefan Bos reports for VOA from Budapest. Lithuania's Homeland Union leader Andrius K

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Australia's once dominant wine industry is facing its biggest challenge, as competition increases from lower-cost rivals and consumer tastes change. Producers are being encouraged to target exports to Asia to revive the industry. Penfolds 1962 vinta

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Somalia's transitional leadership is struggling to form a new government, following the resignation of former president Abdullahi Yusuf, and trying to prevent Islamist extremists from taking control as Ethiopian troops withdraw. Somalia's two top le

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US, Australia Announce Expanded Military Cooperation The United States and Australia have announced expanded military cooperation aimed at bolstering security in the Asia-Pacific region. President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gill

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By Breshna Omarkhel/Penelope Poulou Washington 27 October 2009 Cavalia A show that has charmed millions of people in other parts of the world is now playing in the United States. What makes Cavalia special is that the stars are horses, riders and ac

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: NPR's Invisibilia is back for a third season. The show about the unseen forces that shape human behavior is taking a look at concepts like reality, identity, emotion and how those concepts shape our experience - sounds kind of ab

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 19 October 2006 One-thousand people in Australia have conducted a four-day bird flu exercise that simulated the arrival of a planeload of flu-stricken passengers at Brisbane's international airport. The drill included customs o

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 07 September 2006 Australian officials are expressing concern over death sentences handed to six of its citizens in Indonesian for drug smuggling. Indonesia's use of the death penalty is a cause of concern in Australia, whic

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(The) military strike in '64 was...the worst thing that ever could happen to this country, because until today, we have never recovered from that. It was bad times. It was bad times. But at the same time, I think that the opposite of that was, that /

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By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 04 August 2006 Street scene in Mogadishu The recent ousting of unpopular factional warlords by Islamists in the Somali capital Mogadishu has raised hope among residents that peace will finally prevail after more than 15 years

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By Alisha Ryu Baidoa, Somalia 04 July 2006 Somalia's interim government in Baidoa says it will send a senior-level delegation to the capital Mogadishu in the coming days to meet with Islamic leaders, ahead of a second round of peace talks on July 15

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 01 June 2007 Officials in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland have confirmed local reports that a group of armed fighters, believed to be remnants of Somalia's defeated Islamist movement, arrived in a small coastal set

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By Barry Wood Belgrade 21 January 2007 An ethnic Albanian man casts his ballot with his son at a polling station in Presevo, 21 Jan 2007 Citizens of Serbia are casting ballots in the country's first parliamentary election since neighboring Montenegro

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By Noel King Khartoum 02 November 2006 Reconciliation talks in Khartoum between Somalia's transitional government and Islamists who control much of the country have ended before the rival parties even met face-to-face. On Wednesday, the Somali talks

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