EXPLORATIONS - Women Around the World Continue to Struggle for Their RightsBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with E

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Egypt has fully banned the tradition that some call female circumcision and others call female genital mutilation. The government acted after a girl in southern Egypt died. Her mother took her to a docto

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Topping our look Cross Country this morning, from the mouths of babes. Luck be a lady tonight. I fell into a ring of fire. Far more mature than his five years of age might suggest, you're witnessing Cameron Barilone's first gig as a professional sing

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Three activist groups have sued the government over new guidelines on a U.S. law that protects against sexual violence at colleges and universities. The groups Democracy Forward, the National Womens Law Center, and the National Center for Youth Law b

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印巴边境爆发严重冲突 SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- An Indian border guard of Border Security Force (BSF) was killed and six others wounded in skirmishes with Pakistani border guards on the international border in

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1. The FBI says a North Carolina woman who raised a child kidnapped from a New York hospital two decades ago was in custody. Ann Pettway will appear in a New York federal Court Monday to face kidnapping charges. She surrendered in Bridgeport, Connect

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Officials say it was the largest demonstration in French history, with turnout across the country estimated to be at least 3.7 million, with nearly half of that total gathering in Paris. French news media say more people showed up in the capital than

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BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed again to the hospital in Los Angeles to reattach a feeding tube to her stomach Sunday, her publicist said. The 94-year-old actress was taken from her home to UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical

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BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's top legislature on Friday ended its bimonthly session(会议), adopting a series of bills including a law on vehicle and vessel taxation, which is aimed at standardizing taxation and promoting environmental aw

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SEOUL/WASHINGTONThe U.N. Security Council said Wednesday that it was working to craft new sanctions against North Korea after its latest nuclear test, while the United States and other world powers voiced skepticism about Pyongyang's claim that the u

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China urged the United States to stop imposing sanctions against telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp for alleged violation of US export controls on Iran. 中国敦促美方停止以涉嫌违反美国对伊朗的出口管制政策为由对我国电信设备

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VOTERS in Texas have had three electoral excitements lately. The first was that in February, after a series of rejections, federal judges in San Antonio finally approved a new map for the states congressional districts, meaning that Texas could final

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There have been extraodinary scenes in the US Congress where Democratic Party politicians are stating a sitting to demand tighter gun laws. They've occupied the floor of the the House of Representatives late into the night. The Republican speaker Pau

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Traffic police departments of Hangzhou and Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang, on March 9, 2017 published a record of local traffic accidents and violations in recent years. 3月9日,中国浙江省东部的杭州和温州两地的交警部门,公布了

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MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) -- Russian long jumper Tatyana Kotova had been banned for a provisional doping case, the Russian Anti- Doping Agency announced Friday. The three-time world indoor champion had a sample at the 2005 World Championships tested po

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According to North Korea's state-run KCNA, Pyongyang announced the total success of the test, which took place at 10:00 a.m. local time Wednesday as ordered by top leader Kim Jong Un. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the test was dee

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The leader of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has warned the United States of more attacks in retaliation(报复) for last week's killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. In a statement posted on the Internet Wednesday, Yemen-based Nasser al-Wahishi

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今天学的词是brazen。 Brazen的意思是悍然的,明目张胆的。北韩宣布它进行了第一次核试验。媒体报导说,中国政府谴责北韩不顾国际社会的呼吁,悍然实施核试验: China denounced North Korea as bra

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ISLAMABAD, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan had strongly condemned the U.S. drone strike that killed four people in the country's North Waziristan tribal region on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said. An American spy aircraft fired missiles into Mir Ali

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violate vt.以违反;对(妇女)施暴;侵犯 Those who violate traffic laws will get a ticket. 违反交通规则的人将会接到罚单。 The rapist was imprisoned for violating a young woman. 这名强暴犯因为对一位年轻妇女施暴

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