The UN refugee agency and 10 other partners are launching a nationwide campaign to help the victims of forced displacement in Colombia. The campaign will use the Internet to make the public aware of the displacement crisis and to provide practical i

发表于:2019-01-04 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2008年(七月)

1. President Bush and German Chancellor Merkel urge the UN to intervene if Iran won't retreat from resuming its nuclear program. 2. If the UN Security Council does confront Iran over its atomic activi

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By Alex Villarreal Washington 14 January 2008 It was billed as the world's largest ice skating rink, in one of the most unlikely locations -- warm, smog-filled Mexico City. As VOA's Alex Villarreal reports, the rink brought a unique form of fun to th

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By Noel King Kigali 08 September 2007 Humanitarian aid groups are sounding the alarm as fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo forces tens of thousands of civilians from their homes in North Kivu Province. Noel King has more in this rep

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 04 August 2007 The United Nations Children's Fund says it is concerned that tens of thousands of primary school children in flood-stricken parts of Pakistan will miss out on school, because it has not received much-needed fundi

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I walked ten thousand miles, ten thousands miles to see you And ever gasp to breath, I grabbed it just to find you I climbed up every hill to get to you I wandered ancient lands to hold just you And every single step of the way, I paid Every single n

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1. The fate of a Ford Hood gunman has now been decided. A military jury sentenced Major Nidal Hasan to death for the 2009 shooting rampage that left 13 dead and another 30 injured. 2. Thousands converged on the nation's capital to pay tribute on the

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The U.N. refugee agency reports the number of uprooted Somalis arriving this year in the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya has surpassed 45,000. The UNHCR says thousands of Somali refugees, desperate to escape fighting in their cou

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By Tendai Maphosa London 23 January 2008 A new survey reports that an estimated 5.4 million people have died in the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998. Another 45,000 are dying every month. From Lo

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By Patricia Nunan Kathmandu 25 April 2006 Thousands of people have rallied on the streets of Nepal's capital Kathmandu to celebrate the decision by King Gyanendra to reinstate parliament and allow opp

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By Scott Bobb Chupanga, Central Mozambique 21 March 2007 watch Mozambique Schools In central Mozambique 140,000 people have lost their homes due to flooding that has also destroyed more than 100 schools. Relief workers are scrambling to provide food,

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By Lisa Bryant Lourdes 26 June 2006 For nearly 150 years, millions of Christian pilgrims from Europe and elsewhere have flocked to the small French town, Lourdes, where it is said the sick can be healed, miraculously. The Roman Catholic church has a

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By Ron Corben Bangkok 19 June 2008 The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is calling for urgent aid for thousands of farm families that suffered losses during last month's cyclone in Burma. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, while aid experts s

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The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported excessive rainfall is causing havoc with the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in seven Southern African countries. People take the high road to p

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Massive protests in Bangkok backed by exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra have so far gone peacefully. But fears remain that violence may still be triggered as protesters seek to force the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to resig

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This video image released by the Turkish Aid group IHH purports to show Israeli soldiers aiming a gun on the deck of a Turkish ship, part of an aid convoy heading to the Gaza Strip, 31 May 2010 Last week, protests occurred worldwide, both in support

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An international group of midwives is calling for a dramatic increase in midwifery services especially in remote poor areas, so the lives of many more women and their babies can be saved. The World Health Organization says more than two million women

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin addresses Tea Party supporters during a rally in the desert outside Searchlight, Nev. Saturday, March 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken) Thousands of so-called Tea Party activists rallied in the hometown of Senate Democ

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In Turkey the deep divisions between supporters of the secular state and the Islamic-rooted government have reopened again following the death of a well-known secular campaigner. The Tuesday funeral of Turkan Saylan, the founder of a pro-secular ass

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Ethiopian Workers Struggle After Repatriation from Saudi Arabia 被遣返的埃塞俄比亚工人争取返回沙特 ADDIS ABABA More than 160,000 Ethiopians working in Saudi Arabia were expelled last year and sent back home due to new stricter labor

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