In The News (时事新闻)

2009-12-05 ‘Not Just America’s War’ Obama Says in Announcing Afghan Plan

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American forces in Afghanistan have launched their first offensive since President…

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2009-11-28 Corruption Digs Deepest in Countries in Conflict

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Transparency International is out with its two thousand nine report on…

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2009-11-14 Remembering Wars of the Past, and the Present

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. November eleventh, nineteen eighteen, was the day Germany signed a cease-fire…

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2009-11-07 A Second Term for Karzai; US Jobless Rate at 10.2

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. People in Afghanistan were supposed to vote again Saturday for president.…

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2009-10-31 Gays and Disabled Are Now Protected Under Hate Crimes Law in US

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, President Obama signed an expansion of federal law on…

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2009-10-24 Targeting Violence Against Women in Armed Conflicts

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. On September twenty-eighth, security forces attacked unarmed pro-democracy demonstrators in Conakry,…

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2009-10-17 Pakistan Under Pressure From Wave of Attacks

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Two weeks of suicide bombings and other attacks have shaken Pakistan.…

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2009-10-10 Obama, Faced With Two Wars, Wins Peace Prize

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This was the surprise announcement Friday from Oslo, Norway: THORBJOERN JAGLAND,…

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2009-10-03 Crime Labs in US Come Under a Microscope

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The use of scientific knowledge in legal cases is called forensics,…

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2009-09-26 G20 Leaders Talk About Economy — and Iran

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week, leaders of the top industrial and developing economies gathered…

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