Libya's former justice minister, who has resigned following the government's crackdown on protestors there, says the country's leader Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie plane bombing in 1988. Mr. Gadhafi has always denied that he knew o

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(65) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(二月)

Overwhelmed by Migrants, Italy Mulls Action to Stabilize Libya 受移民事件影响意大利考虑采取措施稳定叙利亚 LONDON Thousands more migrants have arrived on the southern shores of Italy from North Africa in the past two days. Authori

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President Barack Obama on Wednesday held his first solo news conference since March, answering reporters' questions on issues ranging from Afghanistan and Libya, to the impasse with Congress over federal deficit reduction and raising the government's

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Hillary Clinton overnight. She is taking responsibility for security failures and that deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya that left a US ambassador dead and 3 other Americans as well. ABC's Reena Ninan spoke with Hillary Clinton and joins us from Lima,

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By Sabina Castelfranco Tripoli 22 November 2006 European and African nations met in Libya on Wednesday to seek ways to stem the rising tide of illegal migration. The Libyan foreign minister, Abd al-Rahman Shalgam, told the conference that EU countri

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 20 July 2007 Summer has brought a new wave of arrivals of illegal immigrants from north African shores to Italy's southern island of Lampedusa. This week the holding center on the island was overwhelmed with the sheer numb

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By Bill Rodgers Washington 29 June 2006 Watch Libya Report The United States is expected to officially remove Libya from its list of nations that sponsor terrorism soon. It's the latest step by the Bush administration to foster closer ties with Trip

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Tensions between Switzerland and Libya are continuing to escalate as Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi enacts a number of retaliatory measures to protest the recent arrest of his son and wife in Geneva. The son, Hannibal Gadhafi and his wife were arrest

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A son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi met senior Bush administration officials Tuesday in another sign of improved U.S.-Libyan relations. Saif al-Islam Gadhafi sees Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Thursday. VOA's David Gollust reports from the

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The International Organization for Migration says it believes more than 300 African migrants, possibly as many as 500, drowned after their boats sank off the coast of Libya. Libyan officials say 21 people are confirmed dead and about 20 others have

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Italian officials are pressing for steps to prevent a repeat of the tragedy involving hundreds of migrants from Africa who are missing and believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean over the weekend. The migrants were cramped in un-seaworthy vess

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US Muslim Leaders Condemn Violent Protests in Libya, Egypt The violence in Benghazi and Cairo has shocked Americans -- including American Muslims. A group of U.S. Muslim leaders joined other clergy at the National Press Club here in Washington on Wed

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European Rights Court Rules in Favor of African Migrants The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favor of Sub-Saharan African migrants who had sought asylum in Italy in 2009. Italy had intercepted the migrants boats at sea and returned them t

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Eccentricity, Repression Marked Gadhafi's Rule Colonel Moammar Gadhafi died Wednesday, ending his months-long fight against transitional fighters. To the end, he refused to step down, a stubbornness that reflects his 40-year dictatorship. He was the

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron says he would like to see a United Nations resolution condemning Libya's use of force against anti-government protesters. He was speaking in Qatar during a tour of Gulf Arab states. Back in Britain, controversy

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 04 December 2007 Representatives from Sudan's neighbors met with international mediators in Egypt to discuss the conflict in the Darfur region of Western Sudan. Derek Kilner has more from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi. T

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 11 July 2007 The Libyan Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences for six foreign medical workers imprisoned on disputed charges that they infected Libyan children with HIV. But there is still a chance they could be spa

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今天我们要学的词是phase out。 Phase out, 是逐步结束的意思。世界上最年轻的国家南苏丹独立后宣布,学校教育将逐步淘汰阿拉伯语,改用英语教学。 The government of South Sudan announced it will phase

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今天我们要学的词是heavy-handed。 Heavy-handed, 手段强硬的。耶鲁大学法学教授蔡美儿发表新书。 The book sparked a fierce debate about heavy-handed parenting style, 这本书引起了围绕对孩子严厉管教的育儿方式

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Libyan officials say hijackers who took over a Sudanese plane and forced it to land in Libya have now surrendered. The officials told reporters the hijackers gave themselves up Wednesday, hours after releasing at least 87 of the plane's passengers. 利

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