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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Joe Crowley started the day Tuesday on a short list of Democrats who could someday be speaker of the House. By the end of the day, he had lost his primary to a 28-year-old first-time candidate. She is a Democratic socialist n

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The United States said Thursday it will seek Libya's expulsion from the U.N. Human Rights Council as an initial step to try to bring an end to violence in the North African country. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will join in a meeting of the U.N

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By Michael Bowman Montevideo 10 March 2007 Thousands of Uruguayans took to the streets of Montevideo to protest President Bush's arrival in their country late Friday. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from the Uruguayan capital, where Mr. Bush is making t

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Workers are grieving the deaths of eight colleagues killed in a mass shooting at a beer distribution company in Manchester, Connecticut this morning. Police say the gunman, also an employee of Hartford Distributors, opened fire before he killed himse

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1.President Barack Obama is set to sit down with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge Massachusetts police Sergeant James Crowley at the White House today. Crowley is white and arrested Gates who is black on a disorderly conduct cha

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By Franz Wild Abidjan 06 July 2006 People from several sides of Ivory Coast's conflict are disappointed at the results of a meeting between the government and rebels that was chaired by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. Franz Wild reports for VOA f

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It started with a simple experiment: take some graphite - the black stuff in the middle of a pencil - and put a piece of tape over it. When the scientists at the University of Manchester did that, they found that they could develop a material that co

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President Barack Obama said Tuesday the Burmese decision to extend democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest for another 18 months is unjust and called for her immediate, unconditional release. Officials say the trial outcome will have a nega

美国国家公共电台 NPR A Stage Revival, And 50 Years Of Survival, For 'The Boys In The Band'

AILSA CHANG, HOST: The Boys In The Band opened off-Broadway 50 years ago. Since then, the play has been lionized as a groundbreaking portrayal of gay life in the 1960s. But it's also been criticized for depicting attitudes that run counter to the cur

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We welcome people coming to the United States. We're going to make sure that the process by which people come here, and travel here, is as safe as it can be. - Assistant US Secretary of State for Public Affairs P.J. Crowley The State Department said

2007年VOA标准英语-Ivorians Seek Justice for Illegal Toxic Waste D

By Phuong Tran Dakar 11 January 2007 Some victims of last year's toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast are staging a hunger strike to demand promised government compensation, while others are joining lawsuits. At least 10 people died, and thousands wer

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The United States said Monday that the twin bomb attacks in Uganda attributed to Somali al-Shabab militants have backfired, only strengthening Uganda's commitment to Somali peacekeeping. U.S. agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, are

VOA标准英语2010年-Iranian Scientist Said to Request Repa

An Internet video supposedly showing missing Iranian nuclear physicist Shahram Amiri Share This A man who Iran claims is a missing nuclear scientist has turned up at the Iranian interests section of the Pakistani embassy in Washington. Pakistani fore

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JUDY WOODRUFF: We take a closer look now with P.J. Crowley. He's a former assistant secretary of state for public affairs during the Obama administration. He also had a 26-year career in the U.S. Air Force. And David Kramer, former assistant secretar