JERUSALEM, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) joined a petition filed by human rights organizations to the Supreme Court against the Israeli law of infiltration and asked to revoke it, local media reported...
DALI, Yunnan, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- A group of 13 children drew widespread attention in China last week by helping their parents claim wages held in arrears. The children, the youngest of whom was five, stood in a line in downtown Dali, a major tourist...
今天我们要学的词是petition。Petition, 请愿书。日本去年三月大地震引发核泄露。 A citizen's group in Japan is gathering signatures for a petition that is calling on the government to permanently shut down all nuclear power p...
Nearly half of Guinea's Electoral Commission members have signed a petition asking to elect a new head for the commission. The demand comes less than two weeks before the country is scheduled to hold presidential elections on October 24. As official...
BP says it may find out in the next 12 to 14 hours whether its latest attempt to cap a devastating oil spill works. CEO Tony Hayward concedes it's risky. Earlier, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen announced that the damaged pipe spewing crude from the f...
Church leaders, human rights activists, and healthcare workers in Uganda have delivered a petition, demanding the withdrawal of an anti-homosexuality bill in parliament. Critics say the bill's passage could set a precedent for other African countries...
Pagan Amum, Secretary general of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, and his northern deputy are among detained during a protest Alan Boswell | Nairobi 07 December 2009 Pagan Amum, the secretary general of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement,...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 19 October 2007 There is a new hitch in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, a powerful group of Israeli lawmakers is trying to prevent concessions on Jerusalem. Sixty-one o...
