The refugee situation in Uganda has reached crisis proportions, said U.S. Ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac. In remarks to the Uganda Solidarity Summit on Refugees, she warned, To prevent a broader humanitarian disaster, the response of Ugandan auth

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(157) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2017年(6月)

Hunger Crisis in East Africa - Somalia Some 14.4 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya need humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations. In some places, acute food insecurity could soon deteriorate into famine. Famines are rare,

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在这个有趣演讲中,生物学家Ameenah Gurib-Fakim介绍了在孤岛和非洲大陆上的稀有植物。其中包括变形树,或许能治疗哮喘的小岛香油膏,以及能解决未来食品危机的猴面包树和猴苹果

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人口越来越多,优秀人才也越来越多,应聘工作变得越来越难,竞争压力越来越大....... This is not a word for word transcript. Rob: Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I'm Rob and with me today is Natalie. Natalie: Hi

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More government support, including subsidies and a favorable pricing mechanism, is needed for the country to use desalinated seawater to quench its thirst, a top industry expert said。 The lack of an effective pricing mechanism for desalinated water

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And now Canada is taking even more. 并且现在加拿大正在接收更多的难民 And yet, if you ask Canadians what makes them proudest of their country, 如果你问加拿大人他们的国家最让他们感到骄傲的是什么 they rank multic

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Europe's debt crisis 欧洲债务危机 World's worst menu 世上最烂账单 Greece has no good options left 希腊没有好牌可打 May 26th 2011 | Berlin | from the print edition VIENNAS glories are largely faded but its name is being mentioned w

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WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Roszke, Hungary sits right at this nation's border with Serbia. Here one week ago we wade into the river of refugees flowing from the Middle East to Western Europe. We meet our share of Iraqis, Afghans, North Africans, but most of t

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环卫工人罢工导致里约热内卢垃圾危机 RIO DE JANEIRO, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Rio, Brazil's second-largest city, has been facing a trash crisis following days of sanitation workers' strike. The city-wide strike, which began last Saturday am

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From Cambodia to California industrial-scale sand mining is causing wildlife to die local trade to wither and bridges to collapse. And booming urbanisation means the demand for this increasingly valuable resource is unlikely to let up 从柬埔寨到加

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奥地利部长呼吁谈判解决克里米亚危机 VIENNA, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Austrian Economy Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner on Thursday called for a reasonably negotiated solution to the crisis in Ukraine's southern Crimea autonomous republic. Ru

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Policymakers of the Group of Twenty nations are set to gather at the Russian city of St. Petersburg for the upcoming G20 summit. The G20 members represent about 80 percent of the global economy, and the two-day summit is set to open on Wednesday. Chi

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潘基文关注叙利亚危机的恶化 UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Monday called for an early end to the Syrian crisis while expressing concern for the deterioration of the conflict in the passing year of

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MEXICO CITY, April 13 (Xinhua) -- The death toll for Sunday's road accident in Mexico's eastern state of Veracruz has risen to 36, local civil protection authorities said. The accident occurred early Sunday morning when a passenger bus crashed agains

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American farmers again started to farm more land. 美国农民又一次开始大面积耕种。 They also used more yield-boosting technologyas did farmers in other parts of the world. 他们也使用了更多增加产量的科技,就像世界各地的

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JUDY WOODRUFF: One of the gaping wounds of the housing crisis and the great recession that immediately followed it was a huge jump in the number of foreclosures in cities and regions around the country. In many ways, the housing market today is healt

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HARI SREENIVASAN: We take a closer look at Europe's approach to the crisis with William Swing, director-general of the International Organization for Migration and former U.S. diplomat, and David O'Sullivan, the European Union's ambassador to Washing

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Once inside the European Union, travel is easy. Passport checks are airports are rare, and the roads are open. Thanks to the so-called Schengen Treaty signed back in 1985 which only requires identity controls on Europe's external borders. But the per

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So I'm here to tell you a story of success from Africa. 在这里,我要跟大家分享一个在非洲的成功故事。 A year and a half ago, 一年半以前 four of the five people who are full time members at Ushahidi, 在这里的5个人是Ush

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Thailand 泰国 Everything is broken 支离破碎 Long in crisis, Thailand is close to the brink. Without compromises on both sides, it may well collapse 深陷危机,泰国局势急转直下。对峙双方若互不让步,该国局势可能即将崩

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