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内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.Heads of state and other officials from thirty-four nations met this week for the first-ever Summit of South American and Arab Countries. The officials attended the two-day conference in Brasili... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'JAMES STEWART: "You think I'm licked. You all think I'm licked! Well I'm not licked. And I'm going to stay right here and fight for this los... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.The leaders of Afghanistan, Indonesia and the Palestinian Authority met with President Bush in Washington this week. Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited the White House on Monday. He and Mis... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.French President Jacques Chirac could not gain enough support to approve the EU Constitution.Leaders of the European Union are trying to rescue the proposed E.U. constitution. Voters in France ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Hopes grew all week for a plan to cancel the debt of some of the world's poorest countries. On Friday, Britain's finance minister said he expected the Group of Eight nations to reach an agree... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.People are not always happy when called to serve on a jury. But jury duty is a responsibility for Americans. A jury decides the facts in a civil or criminal case. Trials often last just a day or... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.Sunday will be six months since the earthquake and tsunami waves in the Indian Ocean. The undersea quake produced a series of ocean waves as high as ten meters. Extensive damage spread across ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.President Bush spoke to the American people on Tuesday about the war in Iraq. Mister Bush did not announce any policy changes. He spoke on the first anniversary of the change of power from the... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.Judith MillerNew York Times reporter Judith Miller went to jail this week after she refused to say who told her the name of a C.I.A. officer. A federal judge said Miz Miller was violating the l... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.In Cairo Friday, officials confirmed the arrest of an Egyptian man sought in connection with the London bombings last week. Egypt's Interior Ministry says he denies any involvement. Magdy Elna... >>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 a federal judge to become the one hundred ninth justice of the United States Supreme Court. John Roberts is fifty years old. He grew up in the Midwestern sta... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.Organized labor in America split apart this week. On Monday, two major unions announced that they are cutting ties with the nation's biggest labor group, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. The two unions are t... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.The Middle East has two new leaders, in Iran and Saudi Arabia.The new president of Iran is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The conservative former mayor of Tehran will be fifty years old next year. Irani... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Gaza is a small area on the Mediterranean coast. It is long but narrow. Israel captured the Gaza Strip from Egypt in the nineteen sixty-seven war. It also captured the West Bank from Jordan. Th... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.From East Asia to West Asia, it was a busy week in efforts for peace. On Monday, the government of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement signed a peace agreement in Helsinki, Finland. The treaty... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Shep O'Neal with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.This week, crude oil traded briefly at a record sixty-eight dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices are up about fifty percent from last year. With inflation considered, p... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.Building after building under water. Refugees in shelters. Thousands of others unsure where to go. Appeals for help. Anarchy. Bodies in streets. This is what one of America's historic citi... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Doug Johnson with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Vice Admiral Thad Allen The Bush administration has named a new leader for the federal recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen will command the operations... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Doug Johnson with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.This week in Washington, the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Judge John Roberts. President Bush has nominated him as the seventeenth chief justice of the United States. Federal judges s... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.Representatives join hands at the close of talks on North Korea's nuclear program in Beijing, China, September 19, 2005On Monday, six nations signed an agreement in Beijing that would end North ... >>详细内容