U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has made Tuesday a previously unannounced visit to Iraq. The vice president has been meeting with Iraqi leaders, about a month before a deadline for U.S. forces to withdraw from the country. 美国副总统拜登星期二对

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Senators that President Barack Obamas decision to withdraw 33,000 American troops from Afghanistan by the end of next summer was a tough call that strikes the right balance amid competing interests. At a Senate

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The U.S. military says the number of its troops in Iraq is now less than 50,000, the lowest level since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. 美国军方说,目前驻伊拉克美军不足5万人,是2003年出兵伊拉克以来的最低水平。 The ann

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Iraqi officials testifying before a committee of Congress have urged the United States to be cautious in how it withdraws military forces from their country. Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and another member of Iraq's parliament also said Thursday

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Experts are concerned about increasing attacks by the Islamic militant group al-Shabab in Somalia. In the past few weeks, the group has increased suicide bombings of Somali hotels and military targets. These attacks have caused the Trump Administrati

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Russia's president said Sunday that Russian troops will begin pulling out of Georgia on Monday, as Western leaders called on Moscow to abide by its commitments under a cease-fire deal. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who brokered the truce, warned

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U.S. President George Bush says Russia must not lay claim to the breakaway Georgian republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Mr. Bush says all Russia forces must leave Georgia. Russia says there is no timetable for that withdrawal. 美国总统布什说

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WASHINGTON, June 19 (Xinhua) -- White House on Wednesday strongly condemned the despicable attack on the United Nations office in Somalia. Today's attack highlights the repugnant terrorist tactics al- Shabaab continues to use to stand in the way of e

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IN THE NEWS - Draft Constitution Signed for Somalia 新闻报道 - 索马里签署宪法草案 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 Somalia has taken a big step along its so-called roadmap for e

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Returning Somali Refugees Rebuild Lives 索马里难民返回家园重建生活 Abdullahi Mohamed, a former refugee from Somalia, has returned to his country in search of work. Mohamed, now in his 20s, spent many years living in the Dadaab refugee ca

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AS IT IS 2016-03-05 Al-Shabab Attacks Continue in Somalia 索马里极端组织青年党持续制造自杀式炸弹袭击 The Al-Shabab terror group continued its latest offensive in Somalia on Tuesday. Witnesses and officials say 16 people died and

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The first of four Chinese ships sent to evacuate nationals in Vietnam has left with just under a thousand people onboard. The ship is on its way to Haikou. Four ships with a capacity of around a thousand people are set to evacuate Chinese citizens af

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The United States observes Veterans Day November 11, a national holiday to remember and honor military veterans of all wars. Veterans Day dates back to the end of World War I in 1918. This year it falls less than two months before all U.S. troops are

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U.S. President Donald Trump is talking about withdrawing American troops from the war-torn Middle Eastern nation of Syria. The Pentagon has said there are around 2,000 U.S. troops there. Their main mission has been to fight the ISIS terrorist group,

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Washington Closely Monitoring Rising Tensions Between Nuclear Rivals华盛顿密切关注印巴紧张关系 The United States is closely watching escalating tensions between Pakistan and India. While U.S. focus in the region is on the American troop

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New fiction新小说 Somali son索马里之子 A voice from Africa来自非洲的声音 Sep 17th 2011 | from the print edition Crossbones. By Nuruddin Farah. Riverhead; 389 pages; $27.95. Buy from Amazon.com 《死亡髅骷》;努鲁德因?法拉著;

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The major U.S. presidential candidates highlighted their positions on the Iraq war in high-profile Senate hearings that featured testimony from the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus. Republican Senator John McCain and Democr

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U.S. President George Bush says Russia may be violating the terms of a cease-fire in Georgia less than a day after agreeing to stop the fighting in the former Soviet republic. The president spoke amid reports that a Russian military convoy had presse

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The United Nations has called it the worst humanitarian crisis since 1945, and, just today, the lead editorial in The Washington Post called it the worst crisis you have never heard of. Drought and famine threaten 20 million people in the war-torn co

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