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内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English Program IN THE NEWS.Next Saturday is International Women's Day. The United Nationssays it will observe the day with a meeting to honor the women ofAfghanistan.Graphic ImageU-N officials say the event wi... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.Last Sunday, Switzerland voted to join the United Nations. Ifapproved by the U-N, Switzerland would become the one-hundredninetieth member of the world organization.More than fifty-... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.Tuesday, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolutionconcerning the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. It wasthe first U-N resolution on that issue since Octobe... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.President Bush is considering ways to re-organize the agency thatenforces laws about foreigners coming into the United States. Theagency is the Immigration and Naturalization Servic... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.Graphic ImageEvery year, the Committee toProtect Journalists releases a report on the conditions faced byreporters around the world.The report tells about killings and suspicious di... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.The Angolan government and the UNITA rebel movement signed acease-fire treaty Thursday in the country's capital, Luanda. Thetreaty ends a civil war in Angola that began twenty-seven... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program In The News.The world's first permanent International Criminal Court wasestablished this week. The governments of sixty-six countries haveapproved the treaty establishing the court. However, the... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.The leader of the Roman Catholic Church has called the highestlevel American church officials to his headquarters in Rome. PopeJohn Paul has called the American Cardinals to meet at ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English Program IN THE NEWS.The World Bank is not a normal bank. It is not a place whereindividuals borrow money. The Bank does loan money but not in theexact same way as a local bank.The World Bank is one of t... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.This Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly opens aspecial meeting on children. Leaders of more than seventy nationsare expected to attend. The heads of several U-N agencies... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was freed Monday afternineteen months of house arrest. Thousands of supporters welcomedthe leader of the National League for Democracy as ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.Russia and the United States have reached an agreement to reducethe number of nuclear weapons they possess. Russian and Americandiplomats have been negotiating the deal for months. ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.A new nation was born this week. On Monday, East Timor officiallydeclared its independence in a ceremony in Dili. Thousands of peopleattended the celebration. They watched as United... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.The Justice Department has approved new powers for the FederalBureau of Investigation to spy inside the United States.On Thursday, Attorney General John Ashcroft eased restrictions o... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program, In The News.Next week, a traditional national council called a loya jirgawill meet in the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul. Aboutone-thousand-five-hundred delegates will choose a new leader forAfg... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.President Bush has proposed creating a new federal agency. Ifapproved by Congress, the Department of Homeland Security wouldbecome the fifteenth cabinet-level department of the Unite... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.Leaders from the Group of Eight nations begin their yearlymeeting Wednesday in the western Canadian province of Alberta. Theywill gather for two days in the Kananaskis mountain area.... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Emberwith the VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS.The Palestinian Authority announced Wednesday that presidentialand legislative elections will be held in January. Two days earlier,President Bush called on the Palestinians to elect ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program IN THENEWS.Graphic ImageSeveral major American companieshave admitted recently to dishonest reporting of their financialcondition. The latest wrongdoing happened at the huge communicationscompa... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English program, IN THENEWS.Graphic ImageA new report says that the diseaseAIDS will cause a sharp drop in life expectancy in fifty-onecountries by the year Two-Thousand-Ten. A study by the United StatesCensus... >>详细内容