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内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English.Jean-Bertrand ArisitideThe Organization of AmericanStates, the O-A-S, met Thursday in Washington to discuss theviolence in Haiti. Rebels are threatening to seize the capital, Portau Prince,... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English.President Bush this week urged Congress to pass an amendment tothe United States Constitution to ban same-sex marriages. He saidthis is needed to stop what he called activist judges and loc... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English.This week, the French Senate approved a law to give publicschools the right to ban almost anything worn clearly as a show ofreligion. The law passed by a vote of two-hundred-seventy-six tot... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with In the News, in VOA Special English.A temporary constitution signed this week in Iraq takes effect onJuly first. That is one day after a temporary government is expectedto take office.IraqiGoverning CouncilAll twenty-five mem... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Broacast: March 20, 2004This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English.President Bush said Friday that every government has a duty tofight and destroy terrorism. He said any sign of weakness onlyinvites more violence for all nations. Mi... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English.Hearings took place this week into intelligence and lawenforcement failures before the attacks on the United States intwo-thousand-one.The Bush administration is disputing accusations that ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.Nations from around the world agreed this week to give more thaneight-thousand-million dollars in development aid to Afghanistan.That amount is to be provided during the next three years. Th... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.Wednesday was the tenth anniversary of the start of widespreadethnic killings in Rwanda. Thousands of people attended a nationalburial ceremony in the capital, Kigali. They gathered there to... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, In theNews.President Bush this week announced his support for a proposal byIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The plan is called adisengagement. Details published Friday said Israel would re... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with In the News, in VOA Special English.The United States Supreme Court heard arguments this week aboutthe rights of foreign terrorism suspects. The cases involveprisoners held at the United States Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay,Cu... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is John Dryden with In the News, in VOA Special English.The European Union now has twenty-five members instead offifteen. Among the new E-U countries are the Czech Republic,Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the former Yugoslav republic ofSlovenia. S... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English.President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld apologizedthis week for the treatment of Iraqi prisoners in Baghdad. MisterBush said he was sorry for the suffering caused to the prison... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.India's Congress Party has defeated the party of Prime MinisterAtal Bihari Vajpayee in national parliamentary elections. TheCongress Party and its allies won a majority of seats in thenation... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.Sudan has had conflict throughout its history. The country gainedits independence from Britain in nineteen-fifty-six. The current warin Sudan began twenty one years ago. Black southerners re... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.US TradeRepresentative Robert Zoellick, third from left, and CentralAmerican trade dignitaries, reach out to shake hands inWashington The United States has signed atrade agreement with five ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.Iraq now has leaders in place to take power temporarily from thecoalition administration on June thirtieth.LakhdarBrahimiSpecial United Nations diplomatLakhdar Brahimi urged Iraqis this week... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is In the News in VOA Special English.As America's fortieth president, Ronald Reagan promised thenation a hopeful future. This made him very popular. So did his warmways with people.PresidentBush during funeral services Friday for Ronald Reagan ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.President Bush this week announced more steps to helpAfghanistan. He met at the White House Tuesday with Afghan PresidentHamid Karzai. At a news conference, they spoke of progress towarddemo... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English.TimMontgomeryThis week, the United StatesAnti-Doping Agency accused four top runners of drug violations. Theathletes could face lifetime bans from competition. One of them isTim Montgomery.... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with In the News, in VOA Special English.SaddamHusseinThis week brought events manyIraqis never thought they would see. On Thursday, Saddam Husseinappeared before an Iraqi court. So did eleven of his former topofficials. The ouste... >>详细内容