The economic effects of the coronavirus could push around half a billion people into poverty, Oxfam said this week. 乐施会本周表示，新冠病毒产生的经济影响可能会让数十亿人陷入贫困。 The report was released by the Nairob...
And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English. If you are feeling nervous or stressed, a simple thing can help. Take a deep breath. Deep breathing can calm your nerves and lower the chemicals in your body that can lead to stress. If one...
Brazil Neighborhood Hires Own Medical Team to Fight Coronavirus Emerson Barata makes a map of Sao Paulo's largest favela neighborhood, Paraisopolis. He then makes a mark for each known coronavirus case in the area. At the center of the favela of arou...
Experts: Africa Faces Existential Threat from Coronavirus Health officials have predicted that some African countries will have many thousands of coronavirus cases by the end of April. African health care systems are less prepared to treat serious in...
On Easter Sunday, Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli will perform from Milan's empty Duomo cathedral. He will be accompanied only by the cathedral's organist, Emanuele Vianelli. The concert can be seen live on Bocelli's YouTube channel at 1700 UTC....
Today, we begin a series from a book by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. The book is called A Princess of Mars. It is the first book in a series that Burroughs wrote about a man who travels to Mars during the last years of the 1800s. There, the...
Daniel Larrea died recently after several days of high fever and struggling to breathe while slowly turning blue signs of being infected with the new coronavirus. Then his family found an unexpected problem: No one in their city of Quito, Ecuador wou...
This week we answer a question from Rafael. He asks, 本周我们来回复拉斐尔提出的一个问题。他问道： Question: 问题： What's the difference between too and very? Very 和 too 有什么区别？ Answer: 回复： Dear Rafael, 亲爱...
Climate Change Drives Gender-Based Violence in Somaliland-Oxfam Thirty-five-year-old Fatima who for privacy did not want to use her family name 35岁的法蒂玛，为了隐私，不想用她的姓氏 says their family lost all their livestock to dro...
President Trump on Hand as Navy Hospital Ship Leaves for NYC Its name defines the mission, the US Navy hospital ship Comfort,typically deployed around the world for medical relief, 美国海军医院的慰安舰，它的名字定义了它的任务，它...
