2006年VOA标准英语-South Africa's Human Rights Commission Criticiz

By Rowan Reid Johannesburg 16 June 2006 Students attend classes at the Meadowlands High School in Soweto (2000 photo) South Africa's Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) says many of the country's school children are unable to receive a quality education

2006年VOA标准英语-Kenyan Pastoralists Hardest Hit by Drought

By Alisha Ryu Kajiado, Kenya 19 January 2006 The Kenyan government says 3.5 million of the country's 32 million people are in need of immediate food aid as a result of a severe drought ravaging many p

2006年VOA标准英语-Kenyan Government Accused of Splitting Oppositi

By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 05 December 2006 Police in Kenya's capital have dispersed demonstrators protesting government support of a faction within the country's main opposition party, a move observers say effectively splits the opposition before ne

2006年VOA标准英语-Milosevic's Body Returned to Serbia for Bu

By Stefan Bos Budapest 15 March 2006 The body of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has arrived in Serbia on a commercial flight from the Netherlands for a private burial in his home town of

2006年VOA标准英语-US Passengers Face Additional Airport Security

By David Byrd Washington 10 August 2006 The terrorist plot to blow up aircraft flying between Britain and the United States is having repercussions in many airports around the world. Investigators have indicated the plot centered on a plan to use li

2006年VOA标准英语-Rumsfeld Says Terrorists Unlikely to Gain

By Al Pessin Ifrane, Morocco 13 February 2006 US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, left, listens to Morocco's King Mohammed VI, right, during a meeting at the King's palace in Ifrane, central Moro

2006年VOA标准英语-Inquiries in Italian Football Scandal Wide

By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 14 May 2006 A football (soccer) scandal in Italy is taking its toll. One Italian referee's accreditation to the upcoming World Cup in Germany has been withdrawn, and prosec

2006年VOA标准英语-Cease-Fire Takes Effect, Holding

By Robert Raffaele Washington, D.C. 14 August 2006 watch Lebanon Ceasefire No major clashes have been reported between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon after a U.N.-mediated ceasefire took hold earlier today to stop more than a mont

2006年VOA标准英语-Israel Says It Will Not Hold Talks with Syria

By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 07 December 2006 Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, says he has no intention of opening peace talks with Syria, and that it was wrong to link the Arab-Israeli conflict with efforts to stabilize Iraq - as called for by memb

2006年VOA标准英语-UN Launches Campaign to Protect Children from N

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 15 June 2006 Boy with open wound on his forehead waits to be attended to by doctors in Balakot The United Nations is launching a global campaign to protect children from dying and being injured in natural disasters. The U.N. D

2006年VOA标准英语-General: NATO On Track to Expand Role in Afghan

By Al Pessin Kandahar, Afghanistan 15 June 2006 The commander of NATO forces worldwide says his troops from several countries are on track to take responsibility for security in southern Afghanistan in July, and that NATO could expand to the one rem

2006年VOA标准英语-Somalis Caught in Crossfire Between Warlor

By Alisha Ryu Mogadishu 01 June 2006 For the past several months in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, militias loyal to secular factional leaders have been engaged in deadly battles with militias of th

2006年VOA标准英语-Aftermath of Racist Killing Spree Lingers

By Nina-Maria Potts Antwerp, Belgium 01 June 2006 watch report on Belgium Belgium is still reeling from the aftershock of the racially motivated killings of an African nanny and her two-year-old charg

2006年VOA标准英语-Egyptian Police Stop Attempted Demonstrati

By Challiss McDonough Cairo 01 June 2006 Police in the Egyptian capital have arrested at least three people who were trying to get to a small symbolic demonstration outside a police station where an a

2006年VOA标准英语-World Powers Present 'Far Reaching' Nuclea

By David Gollust State Department 01 June 2006 Foreign ministers of major world powers meeting in Vienna have reached agreement on a package of incentives for Iran to halt sensitive nuclear activities

2006年VOA标准英语-Iraq Will Investigate Allegations Against

By Scott Stearns White House 01 June 2006 Iraq will launch its own investigation into reports that U.S. Marines last year intentionally killed as many as 24 unarmed civilians in the town of Haditha. U

2006年VOA标准英语-US Navy and Marines Help Treat Injured Aft

By Chad Bouchard Jogjakarta, Indonesia 01 June 2006 Aid organizations and foreign governments are providing field hospitals and medical care for those injured in Central Java's devastating quake. The

2006年VOA标准英语-Bush Urges Immigration Compromise

By Paula Wolfson White House 01 June 2006 President Bush is urging members of the U.S. Congress to overcome their differences and pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The president acknowledg

2006年VOA标准英语-US Vice President Cheney Notes Growing US-India

By Michael Bowman Washington 22 June 2006 U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney has hailed the growing partnership between the United States and India, saying the two countries share common goals, from the fight against terrorism to the expansion of trade

2006年VOA标准英语-Bakassi Residents Accept Land Transfer to Camer

By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 23 June 2006 Preparations are under way for transfer of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula from Nigeria to Cameroon. Initial outrage over the decision seems to have died down, and residents are agreeing to be resettled in Niger