The U.S. Navy says more American warships have been sent to the east coast of Somalia, where a vessel carrying more than 30 tanks and other military equipment is being held by pirates. As VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bur

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(九月)

By Benjamin Sand Kabul 11 August 2007 Taleban insurgents say they may release 21 South Korean hostages more than three weeks after they kidnapped them. The word came as the insurgents held a second day of face-to-face talks with South Korean official

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 30 March 2006 watch Jill Carroll profile American journalist Jill Carroll has been released by her captors in Iraq, nearly three months after she was kidnapped at gunpoint.

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By Al Pessin Washington 21 December 2007 The commander of U.S. forces in East Africa and the Middle East says he has ordered his naval commanders to take a tougher approach to pirates off the coast of Somalia, in an effort to help the region's econom

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A European tour group taken hostage by gunmen in southern Egypt 10 days ago has been released. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the 11 European tourists, along with eight Egyptian drivers and guides, are thought to b

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 28 September 2007 The Nigerian military says it is leading a manhunt for gunmen who seized two foreign oil workers in the latest attack on the country's troubled oil industry. Gilbert da Costa in Abuja reports that the kidna

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 22 January 2007 Some of the ten Somali men accused of piracy stand in the dock under guard of Kenyan police officers in the court in Mombasa (3 Feb 2006) Piracy attacks are falling worldwide but hot spots remain, including i

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Pirates have hijacked two more ships off the coast of Somalia, an Iranian cargo vessel, and a Japanese-operated tanker. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the attacks are the latest in a string of attacks in the busy a

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The explosion of piracy off the coast of Somalia in recent years has exposed a weakness in the United Nations maritime law that makes high seas piracy illegal throughout the world. An undated image made available in London, 08 Apr 2009 by Maersk Lin

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Wednesday a multi-pronged U.S. effort to curb Somali-based maritime piracy. Among other things, the United States will move to track and freeze assets of pirate gangs, and press Somali authorities to s

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Michael Scott Moore is a journalist who traveled to Somalia to write a book about the history of piracy in the Horn of Africa. Things did not go the way he planned. The title of his new book tells you what happened. It's called The

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NATO warships have launched an anti-piracy operation off the coast of Somalia by escorting one ship to port with plans for a similar operation on Tuesday. 北约军舰在索马里沿海开展一项反海盗的行动,他们护送了一艘船进港,另

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By Nico Colombant Okrika Island, Nigeria 21 May 2007 Militants and villagers in Nigeria's restive, oil-rich and lawless Niger Delta are pleading for help from the incoming government that takes power next week. They say dialogue and development are n

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By Sarah Simpson Lagos 05 March 2008 A foreign worker taken hostage by gunmen in Nigeria's troubled oil-region has been released. The kidnapping was the first abduction of a foreign national for almost five months and raised fears that a period of re

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 07 April 2007 Somalia In Somalia, two cargo vessels that had been hijacked by pirates have been released. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. The first of the vessels seized, the MV Rozen , was in pirate hands for m

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 04 September 2007 Afghan officials say police have killed one of the Taleban leaders responsible for the kidnapping of 23 South Korean volunteers last month. From Islamabad, VOA correspondent Benjamin Sand reports. Provinci

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An organization representing Somali journalists has raised concern with the continued captivity of three freelance journalists - an Australian, a Canadian, and a Somali kidnapped nearly two months ago. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA's East Africa

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 07 April 2008 France has mobilized members of an elite military police force in response to the hijacking of a French yacht last week by Somali pirates. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi, the troops have been sent to Djibo

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The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq has released its 13th human-rights report, which covers the first six months of 2008 and shows a marked drop in violent attacks by militias or criminal gangs in the country. But Lisa Schlein reports for

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By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 03 November 2006 An unidentified boy sells fuel at the waterside in Yenagoa, Nigeria, Nov. 2 2006 Nigerian officials involved in talks to release two foreign oil workers kidnapped Thursday say they expect the men to be rele

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