Officials at former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's Peacekeeping Training Center say the threat of a West-Africa-led invasion of Ivory Coast is unlikely to materialize and would mostly aggravate the power crisis that has seized the country since...
今天我们要学的词是campaign。 Campaign, 有选战的意思。美国总统大选虽然已经结束，但是 The 2008 presidential campaigns will certainly be discussed for years to come, 2008年总统选举在今后很多年里依然会是人们...
为迎接2012伦敦奥运会、鼓励市民多运动，本月将会有100张乒乓球桌出现在伦敦街头，游客和市民可以随时进行一场露天的乒乓球比赛。这个街头推广活动名为乒，是由非营利组织唱响伦敦联手...
Political experts agree that the economy and worries about the high unemployment rate will be the dominant issues in this year's election, even though the United States and its allies remain at war in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama would like to...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American Defense Secretary Robert Gates says history will judge whether the war in Iraq was justified. He spoke during a visit to a military base in western Iraq. Secretary Gates visited the base after Pres...
A letter to My Daughters-Barrack Obama Dear Malia and Sashar, I know the you both had a lot fun in the last two years on the campaign trail, going to picnics and parades and stay fairs,eating all sorts of the junk food your mother and I probably shou...
Supporters of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, presidential candidate of Poland's Law and Justice Party, show victory signs during his last political rally of this campaign in Warsaw, Poland, 2 Jul 2010 Sunday, Polish voters are choosing their new president from...
Newly inaugurated President Benigno Aquino III administers the oath on local officials during his first day at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, 30 June 2010 Benigno Aquino III was sworn in Wednesday as the Philippines' 15th president, le...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. One of Barack Obama's campaign promises was to reform immigration policies. On Thursday he gave his first major speech on the issue as president. BARACK OBAMA: In sum, the system is broken. And everybody kn...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. BP is making another attempt at tackling the oil spill that's been dumping as much as 19,000 barrels of oil each day for over a month in the Gulf of Mexico. NPR's John Ydstie has details. The goal is to...
