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Analysts: Ukraine's Challenges Are Also Russia's 分析师称乌克兰战争同时也是俄罗斯自身面临的难题 KYIV Ukraine's pro-European revolution succeeded this year in replacing its Russia-backed president with leaders favoring European
Education Report - Vietnamese Man Wants a Book Revolution in his Country From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report in Special English. A Vietnamese man hopes to raise the quality of education in his country by building parent libraries
Today's current events coverage begins with the report on the death of a controversial world leader. Fidel Castro, who ruled the Caribbean island nation of Cuba for almost 50 years, died Friday at the age of 90. His brother Raul who took over the cou
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: America's Break with Britain Divides Families and Friends 建国史话 (13):美国革命:你站在哪一边? STEVE EMBER: From VOA Learning English, this is THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in S
Yulia Tymoshenko is Ukraines prime minister and one of the worlds few female leaders. She is head of the All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland party and the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. She was born in 1960 and spent her teenage years rising through the Soviet Co
By VOA News Havana, Cuba 15 February 2007 watch Inside Cuba: pt 3 Now to the third and final report in our special series, Inside Cuba - Reporter's Notebook. It is an in-depth look at life on the island as President Fidel Castro remains out of the p
Election Surge by Egypt's Old Guard Frustrates Revolutionary Youth Egypt's revolution primarily was an uprising of the young -- a rejection of the old, stifling, decades-long government. So it is particularly galling to many activists that two of the
Tens of Thousands Jam Cairo's Main Square Demanding Reforms Tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square and several other towns to call for faster reforms and to protest this week's jail release of police officers and form
Oscar-Nominated Film 'The Square' Examines Egypt Uprising, Aftermath The Egyptian uprising that unseated President Hosni Mubarak, a decades-long autocrat, is three years old. An unusual documentary, The Square, takes an intimate view of the events an
This is the 10th year that China has participated in the Earth Hour campaign. At 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, the lights were turned off at several landmark buildings to help raise awareness about energy conservation and environmental sustainability.
Brazil's history has been expressed through its national passion for music. Samba, the country's dominant musical style, was used by politicians in the '30s in an attempt to create unity and a sense of national identity in this vast multi-racial stat
(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 /
Modern samba was born in the poorer areas of Rio, and left-wing singers were inspired by the new samba do morro, samba from the hills, that dealt with the harsh realities of life in communities where there were few facilities to cope with the newcome
Sergio Mendes ensured that the international image of Brazil was still that of an easy-going, exotic paradise. But back in Brazil, the reality was rather different. Life was not easy. The soldiers had inherited serious economic problems, but the earl
Joyce was one female Brazilian singer who dared to write her own songs. There were no women song writers at all in Brazilian music, so the first, very first time when I appeared on stage, I was booed off stage. That was 1967, I was 19 years old, and
This was a period when black communities across the Americas were taking renewed entrust in their African roots. In the United States, it was the era of black pride and an emphasis on black history, while in Africa itself in the early 70s, guerrilla
-Over time, what he created, the idea of utopian experience, actually became as equal part of the funding of what we come to think as America as the Puritans' work. And much of the sexual revolution does, in fact, owe a great debt to that 1840 Maypol
By Stefan Bos Budapest 04 November 2007 Hungarians remembered Sunday those who died when troops from the Soviet Union crushed the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against Soviet domination and Communism. But as Stefan Bos reports from Budapest, this year's
American agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug died at his home in Dallas, Texas Saturday at the age of 95. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work to stop world hunger. Known around the world as the father of the Green Revolution, his eff
By Elizabeth Arrott Cairo 18 October 2009 Deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's ground force, Gen. Noor Ali Shooshtari is among those killed in the attack, Sunday, 18 Oct. 2009 Iranian state media report that a suicide bomber in the