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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The United States, Norway and Britain have called for talks to resume in Sudan so that plans can move ahead for the south's independence later this year. The southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) called off talks with the Khartoum-based

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今天我们要学的词是recess。 Recess, 是暂停,休息的意思。The judge called a short recess, 法官宣布暂时休庭。The Congress will soon go into the Christmas-New Year recess, 国会不久就要进入圣诞-新年的休会期。S

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Ah Guinness! We have lots of it in our house at the moment. My brother loves it. I'm not unfamiliar with it either. Back in London, I used to drink it mixed with 7Up. I found it too bitter to drink neat. If you've never tried it, you should. It is a

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Libya has banned Switzerland's national carrier, Swiss International Air Lines, from flying to Tripoli. This is the latest twist in ongoing diplomatic row between countries over the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son, Hannibal. 'Technical reasons' prom

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 13 December 2006 A judge is the latest victim of Palestinian factional fighting in the Gaza Strip. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, there is growing concern among Palestinians that the situation is spi

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Agriculture Report - Groups Press for US Ban on Antibiotics in Healthy Animals This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Antibiotics are used to cure bacterial infections. But about fifty years ago, farmers started to give small amounts of

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Free Press Eludes Burma Despite End of Censorship This week, newspapers in Burma will hit newsstands without ministry censorship for the first time since 1962. For the staff at The Myanmar Times, a Rangoon-based weekly, this is the first editorial me

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You'll Never Guess One of America's Boom States During a spring of extraordinary flooding in America's Northern Plains, the mostly flat, lightly populated state of North Dakota experienced 17 record river crests. This, after one blizzard after anothe

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Maliki: Immunity Key Issue in US Withdrawal Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says his country's refusal to grant immunity from prosecution to U.S. troops led to President Barack Obama's decision to withdraw the remainder of American forces by the

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It started with a simple experiment: take some graphite - the black stuff in the middle of a pencil - and put a piece of tape over it. When the scientists at the University of Manchester did that, they found that they could develop a material that co

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Campaign Begins to Ensure Free Press The African Union has launched an effort to rid East Africa of colonial-era defamation and sedition laws. Since independence, many countries have used them to clamp down on freedom of the press. The effort to have

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Kerry Returns to Mideast to Press for Talks Kerry returns to the region after talks late last month produced what he called real progress. With a little more work he believes the start of final status negotiations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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World Press Freedom Declines Just one out of six people across the globe enjoyed a free press last year. Freedom House President David Kramer says the global decline in press freedom is a huge concern. A free press is critical to any country's democr

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A: I want to exchange this dress. B: You can exchange it with anything of the same price. A: Are there any sales today? B: We're having a big sale next weekend, but nothing today. A: What's going to be on sale? B: Dresses, skirts, blouses, pantsuitse

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A: I would like to exchange this dress. B: You can exchange this dress with anything of the same value. A: Is there anything on sale today? B: I'm sorry. There are no sales today. A: Are dresses going to be on sale? B: Everything's going to be on sal

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AMERICAN MOSAIC -June 14, 2002: New Memorial to Dr. Seuss / Question About Father's Day / Music by Bonnie Raitt HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magazine in Special English. (THEME)

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By Challiss McDonough Cairo 18 January 2007 For months, Iraqi and U.S. officials have been trying to shut down a satellite television station that shows Iraqi insurgent videos and denounces the Shi'ite-led government of Iraq. But the station continu

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I can hear your voice I can see your face I can read your mind I know theres no more games to play (No more reasons to stay)No more blue sky day(No more words to say) Because your touch, your touch is different now The smile in your eyes is gone War

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Todd: So, Anja, you are from Switzerland? Anja: Yes, exactly. Todd: So, I thought we would talk a little about your country. Anja: OK. Todd: First of all, what do you like most about being Swiss? Anja: Actually, what I like the most about Switzerland

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