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内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with In the News, in VOA Special English.The Democratic National Convention begins July twenty-sixth inBoston. The party will officially nominate its candidates forpresident and vice president in the November election. This weekJo... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English.The fifteenth International AIDS Conference ended Friday inBangkok. The conference takes place every two years. It is thebiggest gathering for scientists, AIDS activists, policymakers andpe... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Graphic ImageThis is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the UnitedStates, better known as the 9-11 Commission, gave its final reportThursday. The document is almost six hundred pages.... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English.Graphic ImageJohn Kerry, now officially theDemocratic nominee for president, has started a two-week campaigntrip across the United States. Senator Kerry will travel by bus withhis choice fo... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English.The United Nations is preparing to send a team of human rightsobservers to Sudan. Eight observers are expected in the capital onSunday. Plans call for six of them to leave Khartoum and go t... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.President Bush this week nominated Congressman Porter Goss to bethe new director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The presidentsaid Mister Goss is well prepared to reform and strengthen t... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.UnitedStates troops in Stuttgart, Germany.President Bush this week announceda major redeployment of American military forces around the world.Mister Bush said the plan would take place over ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.This week, there were two reports on the treatment of Iraqis byAmerican troops at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad. Both reportssaid responsibility for the abuses that took place was not l... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News, in VOA Special English.Republicans nominated George W. Bush this week for a second termas president. The election is November second. Mister Bush says heis running for president with a clear plan "to build a safe... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.Chechenwarlord Shamil Basayev This week, the government ofRussia offered ten million dollars for information leading to twocommanders of the rebels in Chechnya. Russian officials say ShamilB... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a plan forchanges in the political system in Russia. The measures wouldincrease the powers of the central government. Mister Putin said ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is expected to become the next presidentof Indonesia. With most ballots counted, the former military chiefand security minister has a wide lead over President Megawa... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.President Bush and Democratic party presidential candidate JohnKerry held their first presidential debate Thursday night at theUniversity of Miami in Florida. It is the first of three debate... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.PresidentBush and Senator John Kerry take part in their second debate,held Friday night at Washington University in St. Louis,Missouri. For 90 minutes they answered questions fromundecided v... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.The United Nations will use money left over from its oil-for-foodprogram in Iraq to pay for an investigation of that program.Secretary General Kofi Annan told the U.N. Security Council thisw... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.Americans in some states are already voting in the Novembersecond general elections. Thousands of people lined up to vote inFlorida, one of four states where early voting began Monday.Electi... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.On Monday, the United Nations nuclear agency reported that threehundred fifty metric tons of high explosives in Iraq were missing.The materials were kept at a storage center at Al Qaqaa near... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Mister Bush said American forces are making progress in trainingIraqi troops. He said one hundred twenty-five thousand should betrained in time for elections in Iraq. Voting is planned at the endof January.Iraq's temporary prime minister, Iyad Allawi... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.Yasser Arafat was buried Friday in the West Bank city ofRamallah, on the grounds of the Muqata. That is the headquarters ofthe Palestinian Authority which Mister Arafat led as president.Grap... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with In the News in VOA Special English.President Bush this week nominated his national security adviser,Condoleezza Rice, to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state.Mister Powell resigned.Condoleezza Rice has had a long relationsh... >>详细内容