2006年VOA标准英语-Sri Lankan Government, Rebels Agree to Lon

By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 25 January 2006 Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels have agreed to hold new talks in Switzerland aimed at shoring up their deteriorating peace agreement. Norwegia

2006年VOA标准英语-US Launches Decade-Long Mission to Pluto

By David McAlary Washington 19 January 2006 The United States has launched the first spacecraft to the distant, icy planet Pluto. The distance from Earth is so great the journey will take nine years f

2006年VOA标准英语-US Rejects Truce Offer in Bin Laden Tape

By Paula Wolfson Washington 19 January 2006 U.S. intelligence officials say the voice heard on an audiotape aired Thursday on Arab television is indeed that of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. In the

2006年VOA标准英语-Rice Reorganizing US Foreign Aid Efforts

By David Gollust Washington 19 January 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, continuing a bureaucratic shake-up, is reorganizing the United States' foreign aid apparatus. She is creating what amou

2006年VOA标准英语-Nepalese Government Enforces Curfew

By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 20 January 2006 The government of Nepal has imposed a dawn to dusk curfew across the capital and put opposition leaders under house arrest to stop an anti-government rally

2006年VOA标准英语-Italy Steps Up Efforts to Stem Spread of B

By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 20 January 2006 As concerns over the spread of bird flu increase, Italian police have stepped up controls at sites that could be at risk. Thousands of chickens and eggs wer

2006年VOA标准英语-Pioneering Soul Singer Wilson Pickett Dies

By Ray McDonald Washington 20 January 2006 Wilson Pickett, whose dynamic soul hits reflected his turbulent offstage life, is dead at age 64. VOA's Ray McDonald has more on the singer known as the

2006年VOA标准英语-Iraqi Women Seek Greater Rights

By Margaret Besheer Washington 20 January 2006 Two women cast their votes at a polling station in Iraq on Decemeber 15, 2005 As final results of January's election for a four-year parliament are annou

2006年VOA标准英语-New Concern Over Human Smuggling in Africa

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 January 2006 The U.N. Refugee Agency, UNHCR, says the death this week of 20 Africans smuggled on a boat heading for Yemen underscores the urgent need for international action

2006年VOA标准英语-Pakistani PM in US for White House Talks

By Paula Wolfson Washington 22 January 2006 Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz (file photo) Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz is in the United States for talks Tuesday with President Bush. The

2006年VOA标准英语-Italy to Pull Troops Out of Iraq by End of

By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 22 January 2006 Italian Defense Minister Antonio Martino, second from left, reviewing the Italian Joint Task Force in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005 (file)

2006年VOA标准英语-Southern Thai Militants Target Mobile Phon

By Ron Corben Bangkok 22 January 2006 Thai bomb squad officer defuses bombs found on the roadside in Narathiwat province, Nov. 25, 2005 Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand have adopted a new tactic

2006年VOA标准英语-Nigeria Pursues 'Political Solution' to Ho

By Gilbert Da Costa Abuja 21 January 2006 An unidentified Shell contract worker stands outside the Warri airport after being evacuated from Benisede oil platform in Warri, Nigeria Ethnic Ijaw leaders

2006年VOA标准英语-Father of Kosovo's Independence Movement D

By Barry Wood Washington 21 January 2006 Ibrahim Rugova Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, the father of the province's movement to gain independence from Serbia, died of lung cancer on Saturday. He was

2006年VOA标准英语-A Unique Art Museum That Shows Only Work b

By Carolyn Weaver Washington, DC 20 January 2006 watch Women Museum report It may be the only museum of its kind in the world. The National Museum of Women in the Arts was established 25 years ago to

2006年VOA标准英语-Future of US Nuclear Arsenal in Flux after

By Al Pessin Washington 20 January 2006 The United States has dismantled its entire fleet of Peacekeeper missiles, the most modern, powerful and capable inter-continental ballistic missiles in the U.S

2006年VOA标准英语-New Electric Suspension System Smoothes Ou

By Zulima Palacio Austin, Texas 20 January 2006 watch Suspension report Electric suspensions offers more stabilility One day, exhausting car rides over bumpy terrain, with all the dangers and damaging

2006年VOA标准英语-Pope Benedict Honors Swiss Guards 500 Year

By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 22 January 2006 Swiss Guards in their blue-yellow bloomered dress uniforms attend a special mass in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2006 Pope Benedict t

2006年VOA标准英语- Palestinians Set to Vote in Elections, Ha

By Meredith Buel Washington 23 January 2006 Palestinian men attend a Fatah pre-election rally in front of a poster of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, in Gaza City, Monday Jan. 23, 2006 On

2006年VOA标准英语- The Supreme Court Weighs in on Issue of P

By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 23 January 2006 watch Right to Die report The Supreme Court last week upheld a controversial law in the state of Oregon that allows physicians to prescribe lethal dose