Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Most recently in our series, we have been talking about the War of Eighteen Twelve between the United States and Britain. In the summer of eighteen fourteen, the two countrie

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Lisa McAdams Russia clinched deal Friday with the European Union on the terms of its entry into the World Trade Organization. President Putin agreed in return to the EU's backing of Russia's membershi

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World's First Anti-Tobacco Treaty Goes into Force 国际第一个反烟草条约生效 The world's first treaty aimed at cutting tobacco-related deaths has come into force. The World Health Organizati

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1.US officials say there are new signs North Korea may be planning even more missile launches. Today it fired its sixth short-range missile since Monday and officials say there are signs of more activity. 2.Members of the United Auto Workers union h

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06 Threatening Other Countries GLOSSARY military exercise war game; a way to train an army or navy group, or a way totest equipment for warfare, by testing systems as if an actual battle or war ishappening * Sometimes countries use computer simulatio

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January 14th 1963George Wallace is sworn in as Alabamas new governor and vows segregation now,segregation tomorrow,segregation forever.Months later, Wallace stands in the schoolhouse door at the University of Alabama, trying to block black students f

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Lesson 11 Do you know the value of this package? [00:-0.50]你知道这包裹的价值吗 [00:-1.00]Last time on Murder at Midnight... Where's Victor? [00:-1.50]《午夜凶杀》最后一集... 维克多在哪儿? [00:-2.00]He left my office five

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223. Treaty with France, 1800. 223.与法国人签订条约(1800年) This vigor convinced the French that they had been hasty in their treatment of the Americans. 这种气势让法国人相信他们对待美国人的态度过于草率, They

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181 俄罗斯和中国重申支持反弹道导弹条约 Russia, China Reaffirm Support for ABM Treaty Larry James Moscow 16 Jul 2001 14:32 UTC Russia and China say they want the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Mi

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171 日本不会在联合国大会上讨论京都协议 Japan Will Not Press Kyoto Protocol At Climate Conference Steven Shayman Tokyo 15 Jul 2001 16:08 UTC Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi s

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173 俄中会谈侧重友好与合作 Putin-Jiang Summit to Focus on Friendship, Cooperation Larry James Moscow 15 Jul 2001 08:02 UTC Chinese President Jiang Zemin is 1)due in Moscow Sunday, for a sum

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UN Approves Nuclear Terrorism Treaty The United Nations has approved a treaty aimed at preventing nuclear terrorism.Passage of the measure ends seven years of negotiations. In the end, no vote was nec

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234 布什与普京关于导弹防御体系的会谈取得进展 Progress Made With Putin On Missiles - Bush Scott Stearns White House 25 Jul 2001 19:45 UTC President Bush Wednesday briefed Congressio

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221 普京声称俄美达成协议但未取得突破性进展 Putin: Russia-US Agreement Good Progress, No Breakthrough Larry James Moscow 23 Jul 2001 16:26 UTC Russian President Vladimir Putin says a

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China's Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday that the country will not attend the negotiation on ban on nuclear weapons, which will be held on March 27th in New York. But the spokesperson of the ministry also addressed that China's stand on completel

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The Maori Party believes that the beach and sea were not mentioned in the Treaty of Waitangi so they belong to Maori just as they did before Europeans came to this country. In 2004, the Foreshore and Seabed Act said that all beaches up to the high ti

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A new report finds survivors of landmines and other explosive remnants of war continue to suffer discrimination and general neglect from the governments that promised to assist them. The so-called Voices from the Ground report is issued by Handicap

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China and the United States have agreed to strengthen cooperation in areas like clean energy, as the international community gets ready to discuss a new climate treaty in Copenhagen, this December. U.S. special envoy for climate change Todd Stern has

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See Waitangi Day 2008 Today, Waitangi celebrations were held as usual but it was not a day of protest. It was a day for celebrating that Maori and Pakeha people are united in this country. Thousands of families came to celebrate. They enjoyed the foo

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See June 26th 2008 for background to this news. On Saturday, eight Maori iwi celebrated the Treelord settlement in Turangi near Lake Taupo. It is called Treelord because the fishing settlement with another iwi was called Sealord. The celebrations at

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