Category: In The News (时事新闻)

The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket at an emergency meeting on Sunday. All 15 council members, including China, approved the statement. The…

During the search for Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, experts have found lost shipwrecks and undiscovered volcanoes. But they have not found any wreckage from the missing jetliner. The passenger plane…

Four miners were rescued in eastern China after spending 36 days underground, reported the country’s state-run news agency. The workers were lifted from a mine in Shandong Province Friday night.…

It’s the biggest craze in Thailand. Life-size dolls believed to possess the spirits of child angels have become popular in recent months. The dolls, known in Thai as luk thep,…

For nearly a year, candidates have been telling American voters that they are best qualified to become the next U.S. president. On Monday, voters will have their say in an…

America’s top diplomat was in Cambodia Tuesday on the second stop of his trip to Asia. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Cambodian government leaders and opposition party members…

The leaders of Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea are calling for African nations to have more power and influence at the United Nations. President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and President Teodoro…

The Islamic State group has released a video of nine militants it says took part in the terror attacks in Paris last November. The attackers, most from Belgium or France,…

A magnitude-7.1 earthquake shook south-central Alaska Sunday. At least four homes were destroyed but no injuries or deaths were reported, according to the Associated Press and the Alaska Dispatch News.…

From VOA Learning English, this is In The News. Falling oil prices are one reason leading measures of world stock markets have dropped in value this year. Yet a United…

About 1 percent of visitors to the United States who arrived by air or sea last year overstayed their visas, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Tuesday. About…

An American student has been arrested in North Korea. The arrest is the latest in a series of arrests of U.S. citizens. Analysts say North Korea uses the citizens as…

Police are investigating threats against dozens of schools this week in seven U.S. states. Searches failed to find bombs or other dangers. Threats were called in to at least 26…

Iran says it welcomes the easing of economic sanctions, but will remain wary of the United States. Monday, Iran’s Defense Minister called the U.S. sanctions “hostile” toward Iran. The U.S.…

A day after lifting economic sanctions against Iran for meeting the terms of the nuclear agreement, the U.S. announced new, limited sanctions against several Iranian citizens and companies for helping…