VOA常速英语2016 安全行走地球 需要排雷行动

安全行走地球 需要排雷行动 Once the fighting ends, peace treaties are signed, and armies are disbanded, we assume that life in former conflict areas will soon return to normal. But that's hardly the end of the story. Too often, former batt

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VOA常速英语2017--美国发布《关于安全行走在地球上的报告》

Excess and loosely secured weapons and munitions worldwide pose a security risk and humanitarian threat through illicit diversion to terrorists, insurgents, and other destabilizing actors. Landmines, unexploded ordnance, and other explosive remnants

VOA常速英语2017--美国支持约旦河西岸的排雷工作

The West Bank is littered with landmines and unexploded ordnance, due to decades of conflict beginning as far back as 1948. A survey conducted in 2012 identified 90 minefields. Of these, 13 were laid by the Jordanian military between 1948 and 1967. T

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The United States is a leader in supporting the clearance of dangerous remnants of war all over the world. Since 1993, we have invested more than 2.6 billion dollars to clear or destroy landmines, unexploded ordnance, and other dangerous conventional

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 31 August 2006 U.N. agencies are joining forces to clear unexploded munitions they say is endangering the lives of tens of thousands returning to Lebanon. The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) has signed a formal partnership with th

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Threat posed by Iraq's Scud ballistic missiles. Militarily, Scuds were insignificant. But politically, Scud attacks on Israel and Saudi Arabia could have torn the coalition apart. The political importance of hunting down the Scuds was so great that t

VOA常速英语2017--美国挪威致力于哥伦比亚排雷行动

The United States and Norway are co-leading the Global Demining Initiative for Colombia. Unexploded ordnance and mines continue to take thousands of lives. More than 11,000 Colombians have been wounded or killed by landmines and unexploded ordnance o

VOA常速英语2017--美国助力老挝排雷

Between 1964 and 1973, in an effort to prevent the movement of supplies, armaments and North Vietnamese fighters across neighboring territories and into Vietnam, the U.S. Air Force dropped over 270 million cluster bombs on Vietnam's western neighbor,

VOA常速英语2017--美国呼吁为黎巴嫩排雷

Lebanon has the highest proportion of cultivable land in the Arab world. Indeed, the region has a long history of agricultural activity. There is evidence that as far back as 8,000 years ago, people living in today's Lebanon cultivated fruit trees, a

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2006年VOA标准英语-Cluster Bomb Treaty Comes Into Force

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 12 November 2006 A Cluster Bomb Unit, dropped by Israeli warplanes, sits in southern village of Ouazaiyeh, Lebanon, November 9, 2006 A new international treaty aimed at reducing the deaths and injuries from cluster bombs, land

AS IT IS 2016-08-12 Unexploded Bombs Still a Problem in Laos

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By Margaret Besheer Erbil, Iraq 25 June 2006 Nearly three million Iraqis are at risk each day from landmines and other unexploded bombs and munitions from conflicts past and present. By some estimates, as many as 20 million landmines are buried acro

VOA标准英语2012--New Documentary Illustrates Plague of Leftover Landmines

New Documentary Illustrates Plague of Leftover Landmines In many regions of the globe, surviving a war is followed by surviving the peace. From Laos, where this new documentary was filmed, to Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Cambodia, and many other coun

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The American Civil War The military aspect of the United States Civil War has always attracted the most attention from scholars. The roar of gunfire, the massed movements of uniformed men, the shrill o f bugles, and the drama of hand to hand combat h