Los Angeles Times Wins Pulitzer Prize Honors 2005普利策奖 《洛杉矶时报》再度胜出 The Los Angeles Times won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service on Monday for a series of articles exposing deadly medical problems and racial injust

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Sometimes, you need to leave home to see it clearly. On our recent trip to Canada, we found an American comic who was taking stock of the U.S. from just across the border. ERIK GRIFFIN: It's good to be here, guys, up here i

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抗议群众聚集芝加哥抗议两峰会 Though the NATO Summit starts May 20, protestors are already filling the streets of the host city, Chicago. Friday was originally supposed to be the opening day protest rally of the G8 meeting in the city. 虽

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening, because I have some -- some very sad news for all of you -- Could you lower those signs, please? -- I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad

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VOICE ONE: Im Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about writer Langston Hughes, who has been called the poet voice of African Americans. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Langston Hug

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By Phuong Tran Nouakchott, Mauritania 07 August 2007 Malouma, one of Mauritania's most famous griot traditional singers, was elected to the national Senate this year as an opposition member. She is bringing her fight against social injustice from the

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By Trish Anderton 11 January 2008 After a week in a Jakarta hospital, former Indonesian President Suharto remains in critical condition with a weak heart and failing lungs and kidneys. His medical team says he is still not strong enough to undergo su

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Independent Cambodian Radio Station Runs Without Jailed Owner A few days a week, radio station owner Mam Sonando would go on air to talk to callers. Now, the station and its listeners have to do without him, as he sits in prison across town. The DJ w

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New Audio Book Revives Slave's Firsthand Account Academy-award-winning actor Louis Gossett, Junior, reads the words of Solomon Northup from his autobiography, Twelve Years a Slave, which was published in 1853. It tells how Northup, a free black man f

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: Nowhere Boy is a young adult novel about Ahmed, a Syrian refugee whose father dies on the journey to Europe. Ahmed and his father were originally trying to get to England, but now, as an orphan alone in Brussels, that dream fades.

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Leading the news this morning. Investigators hope to begin the grim task today of retrieving bodies left behind at the MH17 crash site. A team from Australia and Netherlands has finally been given a full license to the area after five frustrating day

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By Dorian Jones Istanbul 07 February 2008 Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling Justice and Development party has won the first of two votes in parliament to change the country's constitution to lift a ban on the wearing of religious headscarves at universi

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影片《白宫管家》重温美国民权史 Lee Daniels' The Butler carries the signature of acclaimed director Lee Daniels, whose fim Precious won an Oscar. Now, he tells the story of the Civil Rights movement through the eyes of a White House but

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A Step Towards Justice for One Kashmiri Family SRINAGAR, INDIAN-KASHMIR In what is being called an unprecedented decision, a court in Indian-controlled Kashmir recently held police responsible for the killing of a 12-year-old boy in a 2010 attack. Th

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 12 October 2006 watch US Terrorism Report Last month, portions of a classified U.S. government intelligence estimate on global terrorism were leaked to the media, which reported the document as saying the war in Iraq

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By Rosanne Skirble Washington 10 October 2007 Welcome to American Profiles, VOA'sspotlight on notable Americans who have made a difference in how we think, live and act. Today: Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, whose controversial bids for the White Hou

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'Occupy Wall Street' Protest Joined by Labor, Community Groups Anti-Wall Street protestors were joined Wednesday by labor unions and community organizers demonstrating in New York against what they see as economic injustice. The Occupy Wall Street pr

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By Cindy Saine Washington 05 November 2007 President Bush has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, imprisoned Cuban dissident Oscar Elias Biscet, and six others. VOA Correspondent Cindy Saine reports

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 08 October 2009 Child rights advocates have kicked off more than a month of global activities leading up to the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Convention, which was adopted by the U.N. Gener

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Tan Sitong: A Scholar and Martyr 谭嗣同:为国赴难的学者 Tan Sitong(18651898), native of Hunan province. He was a famous reformist who was well versed with both writing and sword. Tan Sitong loved reading extensively and was especially keen

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