VOA标准英语2011--Yemen Opposition Rejects Gulf Proposal o

Yemen Opposition Rejects Gulf Proposal on Power Transfer Yemen's opposition rejected on Monday a Gulf Arab initiative for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down because the proposal appears to offer him immunity from prosecution, while Saleh himse

VOA标准英语2011--Africa's Bright, Dark Economic Spots Get

Africa's Bright, Dark Economic Spots Get Attention As the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank spring meetings kick off in Washington this week, Africa's economies are the talk of both guarded optimism and cause for concern. Since the mid

VOA标准英语2011--Nigeria Counting Votes From Parlimentary

Nigeria Counting Votes From Parlimentary Elections Election officials in Nigeria are counting votes from Saturday's parliamentary elections in which large numbers of people turned out to cast ballots despite instances of violence. Counting began as s

VOA标准英语2011--US Spending Debate Moves on to Next Phas

US Spending Debate Moves on to Next Phase The months-long political debate on this year's U.S. government spending ended late Friday night with President Barack Obama and lawmakers agreeing on $38 billion in cuts. But numerous officials in Washington

VOA标准英语2011--Harry Connick, Jr Shows Off Broadway Per

Harry Connick, Jr Shows Off Broadway Performances New Orleans crooner Harry Connick, Jr. was the toast of Broadway last year with a series of big band concerts now available on CD and DVD. Harry may be New Orleans born and bred, but his love affair w

VOA标准英语2011--Josh Kelley Comes Full Circle with 'Geor

Josh Kelley Comes Full Circle with 'Georgia Clay' Singer Josh Kelley had to settle for a career in the pop field before returning to his first love - Country music. He has come full circle with his debut Country album, Georgia Clay. The album's title

VOA标准英语2011--African Union Honors Rwanda Genocide Vic

African Union Honors Rwanda Genocide Victims The African Union held a moment of silence Thursday to mark the 17th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. A lone candle wrapped in purple ribbon burned in the center of the African Union plenary hall as

VOA标准英语2011--Amnesty International: Many Bahraini Pro

Amnesty International: Many Bahraini Protesters Shot, Some at Close Range The global rights group Amnesty International has a fact-finding team in Bahrain this week. Members have been meeting with government officials, human rights advocates and oppo

VOA标准英语2011--Thousands Protest Nuclear Power in Japan

Thousands Protest Nuclear Power in Japan Thousands of Japanese took to the streets of Tokyo to protest the country's nuclear-power plants. The rally occured as engineers continue to work on bringing the Fukushima Daiichi plant under control, after it

VOA标准英语2011--SatelliteTechnology Helps Human Rights M

SatelliteTechnology Helps Human Rights Monitors AU.N. panel of experts is expected to release a report soon citing evidence of war crimes in the final months of Sri Lanka's civil war. Among the evidence the panel reviewed was satellite imagery from t

VOA标准英语2011--Chernobyl Disaster Leads to Advances in

Chernobyl Disaster Leads to Advances in Science, Medicine The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant did much more than change the lives of hundred thousands of affected people. It also contributed greatly to Western science. Physicists and medical

VOA标准英语2011--Somalia Government Postpones Elections t

Somalia Government Postpones Elections to 2012 With its mandate set to expire in less than four months, the Somali government has decided to postpone national elections until 2012. On August 20, the original mandate bestowed to Somalia's transitional

VOA标准英语2011--US Sharpens Criticism of Syria’s Assad

US Sharpens Criticism of Syrias Assad A senior U.S. State Department official said Tuesday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's actions against protesters are completely inconsistent with those of a responsible leader. U.S. diplomats are talking t

VOA标准英语2011--Chernobyl Evacuees Re-Visit Former Home

Chernobyl Evacuees Re-Visit Former Home In Ukraine they call them Chernobylites'. People affected by the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in then-Soviet Ukraine. Residents evacuated after the April 26, 1986 disaster lost their homes as w

VOA标准英语2011--In Kenya, a Community Fights Against Mal

In Kenya, a Community Fights Against Malaria As World Malaria Day is observed worldwide April 25, VOA takes a look at Malindi, a city on Kenya's coast that is fighting malaria through community action. As the world works to eliminate malaria deaths b

VOA标准英语2011--Obama's Mother Inspires Magical Journey

Obama's Mother Inspires Magical Journey During his run for the presidency, Barack Obama often talked about his mother, Ann Dunham, and the lessons she taught him through her work with poor rural communities around the world. Dunham died of cancer in

VOA标准英语2011--Hidden Charges Inflate Price Tag

Hidden Charges Inflate Price Tag A while back, a friend of ours took his son to a professional basketball game. He walked up to an arena window and purchased two tickets for $40 apiece. But his credit card was NOT charged $80. The clerk assessed an a

VOA标准英语2011--Key Vote Looms in US Amid Polarized Poli

Key Vote Looms in US Amid Polarized Political Atmosphere Sometings during the next several weeks, the U.S. Congress will take up the issue of raising the nation's debt ceiling so that the United States can continue to borrow money to cover a national

VOA标准英语2011--Remembering Hazel Dickens

Remembering Hazel Dickens Trailblazing bluegrass and folk singer-songwriter Hazel Dickens recently died at the age of 76. Dickens was a performer whose childhood in a West Virginia coal mining town led her to become a labor activist and inspired a li

VOA标准英语2011--'Facebook' for Scientists Could Speed Ad

'Facebook' for Scientists Could Speed Advances Social networks like Facebook allow users to keep in up with their friends. Now, a social network for scientists hopes to use the technology to speed up scientific progress. As he worked on a medical ima