Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been indicted on corruption allegations that forced him to resign last year. The charges include fraud, breach of trust and failure to report income. Ehud Olmert, 07 Sep 2008 Mr. Olmert is accused of acc

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(八月)

LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: The newest season of RuPaul's Drag Race on VH1 has just begun. It's an all-star season. And the show has never been more popular. Each week, the queens perform in front of RuPaul and a panel of judges for a spot in the Drag

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Golden Fruit Of the fruits of the year I give my vote to the orange. In the first place it is a perennial----if not in actual fact, at least in the greengrocers shop. On the days when dessert is a name given to a handful of chocolates and a little p

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By Yi Suli Carl's Corner, Texas 03 October 2006 watch Carl's Corner report Carl's Corner in the southwestern state of Texas used to be an old-fashioned truck stop. Today it is a city in its own right, a haven for truckers passing by, a frontier for

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(138) / 评论(0) 分类 2006年VOA标准英语(十月)

By Phuong Tran Dakar, Senegal 22 November 2006 Discovered three years ago in Kenya, an Asian fruit fly species is spreading throughout Africa, posing a threat to crops and livelihoods. Farmers and government officials are starting to devise strategi

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By Peter Fedynsky Moscov 06 September 2007 Kazakhstan has suspended launches of the Russian Proton rocket at the Baikonur Space Center following a failed liftoff and loss of the payload, a Japanese communications satellite. VOA Moscow Correspondent P

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By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 22 June 2007 Hundreds of Pakistanis protested Britain's decision to honor author Salman Rushdie with a knighthood. Rushdie has been accused of insulting Islam in his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. From Islamabad, VOA corres

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By Paula Wolfson Washington 19 January 2006 U.S. intelligence officials say the voice heard on an audiotape aired Thursday on Arab television is indeed that of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. In the

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France's ambassador to Tbilisi is being hailed as a hero for his role in rescuing two American children trapped behind enemy lines in a Russian-occupied region of Georgia. VOA's Peter Heinlein in Tbilisi reports diplomats and relief agencies are wor

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 18 September 2009 NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks during a speech at the Concert Noble in Brussels, Belgium, 18 Sep 2009 In another sign of closer ties between western nations and Russia, NATO's new secretary

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By Ravi Khanna Washington 23 October 2009 Afghanistan is getting ready for a second-round presidential election between President Hamid Karzai and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, after a fraud investigation brought Mr. Karzai's totals to

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By Victoria Cavaliere New York 06 December 2007 International mediators are due to present a report to the United Nations Security Council next week on Kosovo's push for unilateral independence from Serbia. More than a dozen European nations and the

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Poet Rupi Kaur: 'Art Should Be Accessible To The Masses' DAVID GREENE, HOST: Rupi Kaur has been called the pop star of poetry. She's 24 years old. And she's famous for these raw, minimalist poems she posts on Instagram to more than a million and a ha

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2017年NPR美国国家公共电台10月

By Andre de Nesnera Washington 11 March 2008 Dmitri Medvedev, 42,officially becomes president of Russia on May 7. He will succeed Vladimir Putin, who has led the country for eight years. But Mr. Putin will not leave the political scene - Mr. Medvedev

发表于:2019-01-20 / 阅读(117) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(三月)

By Robert Berger Jerusalem 11 June 2007 At least nine Palestinians have been killed in a flare-up of factional fighting in the Gaza Strip. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, repeated attempts to restore calm have failed amid a powe

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As Ruto Trial Resumes, Kenya Debates ICC Future NAIROBI Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto is back at his trial at the International Criminal Court after returning to Kenya following the Westgate mall attack. Kenyans remain divided on whether the

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By Alan Silverman Los Angeles 12 December 2007 Novelist Khaled Hosseini's international best-seller set in 1970s Afghanistan and present-day America has been made into a Hollywood studio movie. Alan Silverman spoke with the author and cast members fo

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My friends and I decided to do something a little different this year. Instead of going to a crowded club or throwing a party on New Years Eve, we decided to take a harbor cruise instead. The cruise would be four hours long, and it included dinner, m

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By Scott Stearns Washington 11 January 2007 U.S. President George Bush is sending more troops to Iraq as part of what he says will be a new way forward. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns looks at the president's changing approach to the co

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For more on North Korea's latest nuclear test, I spoke earlier with Professor Ruan Zongze, deputy head of the China Institute of International Studies, a think tank of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

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