NPR 2009-11-26

President Obama plans to unveil his strategy for Afghanistan next week. He'll give an evening address from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The White House says he will first brief members of Congress. The president's senior military command

2017年CRI China obtains tangible achievements in reform

China's top economic planner is suggesting significant steps have been made in supply-side structural reforms, as well as the curtailing of hot-money outflows. CRI's Guan Chao with more on the National Development and Reform Commission's year-end ses

NPR 2009-01-04

Israel began a ground incursion inside Gaza today with a significant number of troops backed by tanks and helicopters. The operation is designed to seize areas of northern Gaza used by Hamas militants to fire rockets into southern Israel. Israeli Ma

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Forget the Federal Reserve. Forget the European Central Bank. The institution whose decisions will matter most to the world economy over the next five years is China's State Council. 忘记美联储(Federal Reserve)，忘记欧洲央行(European Cent

VOA标准英语 Bangladesh Wants to Boot Beggars off the Streets

The South Asian nation of Bangladesh wants to do something about the increasing number of beggars migrating into its cities from the countryside. Legislation has been approved that could send many of the country's most destitute to jail for openly a

VOA标准英语2010年-Turkish PM Calls Israel's Reaction to

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his lawmakers at the parliament in Ankara, 01 Jun 2010 Turkey's prime minister criticized Israel Tuesday for a bloody massacre that killed at least nine people on a Gaza-bound aid ship. A small number of Turk

VOA标准英语2009年-NATO, Russia Revive Dialogue

Foreign ministers from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, have recently agreed to resume ties with Russia that were suspended in August as a result of Moscow's five-day war with Georgia. The NATO/Russia Council was created in 2002 as a

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2007年VOA标准英语-General Petraeus Says Some Troops May Leave Ira

By Al Pessin Washington 10 September 2007 The American commander in Iraq says the U.S. troop presence there will be reduced by about 2,000 this month, and another 3,500 by the end of the year. But General David Petraeus said he needs most of the 168,

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A prolonged drought means that Cape Town, South Africa is running out of water. The city is frantically trying to cut back the use to delay day zero. That's the day the city will shut off the taps, currently estimated to fa

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BEIJING China, the worlds leading emitter of greenhouse gases from coal, is burning far more annually than previously thought, according to new government data. The finding could vastly complicate the already difficult efforts to limit global warming

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The archetypal worker in an advanced economy used to be a man on a production line or a salaryman in a city office a secure, yet repressed, cog in a machine. A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many/I had not thought death had undone so many, wrote

EU Presses Hungary to Make Further Spending Cuts

The European Union is heightening its pressure on Hungary for reforms, saying that it has failed to effectively control its budget deficit and that its new constitution may be unlawful. EU economy minister Olli Rehn said Wednesday that the Budapest g

AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-12-14

1. A judge in Atlanta sentences Brian Nichols to multiple life sentences with no chance of parole. Nichols killed four people in a brazen courthouse shooting in 2005. The case was repeatedly bogged down by legal complications, angering families of v

AP 2010-12-04

1. Members of the president's deficit commission will begin weighing in on a controversial plan being presented by the panel's co-chairman today. The plan calls for cuts to social security, curtailing tax breaks and deep cuts in spending. However, it

VOA双语新闻 ---Kenyan Parliament Passes Power-Sharing Ame

Kenya's Parliament has unanimously approved a bill to amend the constitution to allow for a power-sharing agreement between the country's two main parties. Both sides have expressed strong support for the deal, but the bigger test will be to see how

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MOSCOW, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Curtailing cooperation between Moscow and the European Union (EU) will blunt the economic competitiveness of the European countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. Severing economic ties between the EU an

China's Supreme Court to improve work style

BEIJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Supreme People's Court (SPC) on Wednesday announced plans to improve its work style, echoing a call by the newly elected leadership of China's ruling party to reject extravagance and reduce bureaucracy. The SPC's plan

2015年CRI US Senate blamed for curtailing surveillance system

US lawmakers have been struggling to restore the controversial surveillance program, one of the key provisions of the Patriot Act, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks. The secret program was exposed by former