IN THE NEWS - Russia, Iran and the Missile Defense Issue This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The next international talks on Irans nuclear program take place this month in Moscow. The talks come as Russia continues to oppose missile-defense p

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Iran, Israel and Palestinians To Top AIPAC Convention Every year, thousands of Jewish Americans arrive in Washington for the annual convention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee - or AIPAC. The group is the most influential pro-Israel lo

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A: Are you planning on taking classes next semester? B: Yeah. Thats the plan. A: What classes are you going to take? B: Im going to take an English and a math class. A: What else are you taking? B: Im also going to take a psychology class. A: Is that

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His wife asked him to buy a cigarette. Excuse me? he asked. Since when do you smoke? She said it was for the Chinese New Year. Her dead grandfather used to smoke. The cigarette was for grandpa. He went to the newsstand. He asked how much a pack of ci

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The United States is proposing a big conference on Afghanistan and wants to invite Iran, one of its neighbors. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says dealing with extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan req

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By Gary Thomas Washington 30 May 2007 The news that a fourth Iranian-American may have been arrested in Iran for alleged espionage has heightened questions about the Tehran government's seemingly contradictory behavior. Iranian and U.S. officials hav

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 18 February 2006 French officials have confirmed the first case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in their country. The virus was found in a wild duck in southeaster

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 27 March 2007 Beverly Hills, the upscale California community many movie stars once called their home, is getting a new mayor - an immigrant from Iran named Jimmy Jamshid Delshad. VOA's Mike O'Sullivan reports, the mayo

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 18 March 2006 Akbar Ganji has been set free after spending six years in prison Iran's most prominent dissident, journalist Akbar Ganji, has been released from prison, af

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NASA Satellite Offers Astonishing View of Venus Transit Skygazers massed outside the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the U.S capital, eager to see the rare transit of Venus. The museum offered telescopes. People donned special protective

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Iranian lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who defended Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, speaks in Oslo, where he applied for political asylum, 8 Aug 2010 Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman condemned to death by stoning, has allegedly confessed to adult

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US Senators Warn Latin America on Iran Ties Irans increasingly isolated regime retains friends in Latin America, most notably Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. U.S. Democratic Senator Robert Menendez had a stern message for the region. Unfortunately,

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Withdrawal of al-Shabab Offers Hope to Somalia's Transitional Government Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is offering amnesty to remaining insurgents in Mogadishu following the withdrawal of the Islamist group al-Shabab. But it is vowi

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By Edward Yeranian Cairo 31 October 2009 Iran's top lawmakers and its president have expressed disapproval of the United Nations-backed draft nuclear deal with the West, Saturday, offering varying degrees of criticism. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahma

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By Stephanie Ho Washington 08 March 2007 Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are accusing Iran of increasing persecution and legal prosecution of women's rights activists. As VOA's Stephanie Ho reports, the two groups held a joint news confe

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今天我们要学的词是translate。 Translate, 大家都知道,Translate, 是翻译的意思。不过,translate还有另外一个意思,那就是转变,变成。Translate words into actions, 把言辞落实为行动。The parents hope the

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By Nina-Maria Potts Paris, France 14 April 2006 watch French Riots report Following the rioting by disadvantaged young people in France last fall, the French government tried to institute a law making

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今天我们要学的词是quarantine。 Quarantine是隔离的意思。Mayor Nagin of New Orleans and his wife have been placed under quarantine after another passenger on their flight to China showed H1N1 flu like symptoms, 新奥尔良市市长纳金

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A heat wave in Iran has prompted the government to call for cutbacks in the consumption of water and electricity. The move comes as Iran deals with intensified international sanctions and an ongoing strike by Tehran's bazaar owners. The Iranian econo

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今天我们要学的词是transplant。 Transplant, 移植。 The patient is recovering from a kidney transplant, 病人刚刚接受肾脏移植手术,正在休复当中。美国一个七岁女孩进行肿瘤切除手术,医生被迫摘除肝、脾

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