Senate President Rose Francine Rogombe is Gabon's new interim head of state, following Monday's death of long-time leader Omar Bongo. She is expected to organize new elections by the end of July. Gabon's Senate speaker Rose Francine Rogombe, 66, swo

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(六月)

Asia's six-member Shanghai Cooperation Organization, or SCO, held a meeting in Moscow Friday to discuss ways of combating terrorism, drug-trafficking, and organized crime in Afghanistan. Among those invited to the meeting were diplomats from the Uni

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The Obama administration's chief Africa diplomat said Wednesday he believes the independence referendum in southern Sudan, beginning Sunday, will be peaceful and successful. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson is promising

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(121) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(一月)

Africa's highest security body has added its voice to the international chorus condemning the use of lethal force against demonstrators in Libya. The African Union Peace and Security Council chose its words carefully in dealing with an insurrection a

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英国驻伊使馆重新开放 After visiting the newly re-opened British Embassy in Tehran, Londons Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said it was vital to open a dialogue with Iran's leaders. 英国驻德黑兰使馆重新开放,伦敦外交部长菲

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By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 11 July 2006 Indonesia's parliament has passed a bill to extend political autonomy for Aceh, but human-rights activists and former Achenese rebels say the law does not satisfy a 2005 peace agreement. The conflict has revived

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中方不接受南海仲裁 克里访中东斡旋伊拉克危机 A senior Chinese diplomat is downplaying any suggestions of international arbitration connected to disputes in the South China Sea. Vice foreign minister Zhang Yesui has made the commen

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Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte has dismissed suggestions the United States is trying to dictate anti-terrorism policy to Pakistan's new government. American diplomat made the statement at the end of meetings with Pakistani officials, polit

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The United States has remembered the nearly 3000 people who died fifteen years ago in the 911 Jihadist attacks. President Obama paid his tribute at a memorial service at the Pentagon, one of the targets of the attackers. Fifteen years ago, a Septembe

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As European Union foreign ministers begin the week in Brussels, Turkey tops the agenda. On Monday, Turkey moved one step closer to becoming an EU member. European Union leaders have agreed to examine Turkey's economic and monetary policy, to make sur

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By Peter Heinlein U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is urging the Security Council to act quickly to protect civilians in Sudan's troubled Darfur region. The United States is preparing to introduce a

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Gunmen Kidnap Algerian Envoy in Baghdad 阿尔及利亚外交使节在巴格达遭持枪歹徒绑架 An Algerian diplomat , Abdel Wahab Fellah, tells VOA that his mission chief Ali Belaroussiand anoth

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 23 November 2007 Polls show that Israelis and Palestinians support next week's international peace conference sponsored by the United States. But as Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, they don't believe it w

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By Margaret Besheer Washington 19 December 2007 A senior Turkish diplomat says U.S. intelligence shared with Turkey led to recent raids inside northern Iraq against Kurdish rebels from the Kurdistan Workers Party or PKK. From Washington, VOA's Margar

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Chinese diplomats continue to express outrage over Japanese Prime minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni war shrine last month. Yang Houlan, Chinese ambassador to Myanmar Yang Houlan is the latest to condemn the visit. In an article published by

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The State Department has condemned Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's announced decision to bar international relief groups from distributing aid in that country within a year, and said blame for resulting hardships will rest with the Khartoum gover

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The U.N.'s humanitarian chief says he is disappointed with the government in Burma because it has not moved faster to allow in international aid workers and relief supplies to the cyclone-devastated country. 联合国救援机构的负责人表示,他

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The Bush administration Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to a diplomatic resolution of the Iran nuclear issue though also saying it forecloses no options in dealing with the matter. The comments followed an Israeli newspaper story that U.S. military

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A breaking news here. According to the Saudi state TV, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has died in hospital aged in his 90s. King Abdullah was admitted into hospital last year due to lung infection. Ukrainian troops have abandoned their defense of Donets

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The Charity say the children estimated more than half a million boys and girls under 5 would die of hunger this year in countries plagued by conflict, as feuding parties deliberately block humanitarian aid. The charity says that there were more than

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