British Oil Firm Accused of Corruption in Somalia Exploration Deal 英国石油公司被指控在索马里勘探协议中存在腐败行为 LONDON A British oil exploration firm has been accused of corrupt payments to government officials in Somalia

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(47) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2015年(九月)

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. American government lawyers this week brought criminal charges against a young Somali man in connection with a ship hijacking earlier this month. They say Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse is the only survivor of a

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Long ago, in a small village lived Vishnudutta, a poor Brahmin farmer. He worked hard but was not able to earn much. His son, Somadutta was always asking for more money. Be satisfied with what you have, my son, Vishnudutta would say. One day, Vishnud

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By Tendai Maphosa London 03 March 2008 A new Amnesty International report describes Somalia as one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist. The report says the threat to journalists in the war-torn country is now the worst it has

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At least three lawmakers have been assassinated in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland in recent months, increasing fears that radical Islamist insurgents in the south may be expanding their effort to weaken the government in Puntland. One r

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Malnutrition Rates Worsen at Newest Somali Refugee Camp Humanitarian agencies say the condition of newly-arrived Somali refugees at camps in Ethiopia is deteriorating as famine spreads inside Somalia. At the Hilaweyn camp along the Somalia-Ethiopia b

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US Pledges Aid for Drought-Stricken Somali Refugees With the drought in Somalia officially declared a famine, the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, was in the Dadaab refugee camps of Kenya to pledge Ameri

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Japanese Nuclear Crisis Leaves Fukushima Town Broken The Japanese town of Minamisoma was hit hard by the earthquake and tsunami in March. The disaster killed several hundred residents. Tens of thousands were then forced to evacuate as reactors at the

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Food Manga: Where Culture, Conflict And Cooking All Collide STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And I'm Steve Inskeep with one sure way to learn something about an overseas culture - learn about its food. This installment of Hidden Kitchens takes us to Japan. In pa

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I should say she was pretty, said a loud and cheery voice just behind him. 我要说她真漂亮。他身后一个声音快活地叫道。 Bernard started and looked around. The chubby red face of Benito Hoover was beaming down at himbeaming with man

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Which will finish her off in a month or two, the doctor confided to Bernard. 那会叫她在一两个月之内死去的。医生对伯纳透露了真情。 One day the respiratory centre will be paralyzed. 有一天她的呼吸系统中心会瘫痪,

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An hour later, in the Changing Room, Fanny was energetically protesting. 一小时以后,范尼在更衣室里提出了严重抗议。 But it's absurd to let yourself get into a state like this. Simply absurd, she repeated. And what about? A manone

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By Derek Kilner Nairobi 21 April 2008 At least nine people have been found dead at a mosque in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Residents say the victims, a number of them clerics from the mosque, were killed by Ethiopian troops during a weekend of hea

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By Katy Migiro Nairobi 14 June 2007 The bodies of two Kenyan policemen who disappeared while patrolling the Kenya-Somali border Sunday have been found. For VOA, Katy Migiro reports, the officers are suspected to have been killed by Somali Islamists.

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Turkish officials reported at least 274 miners have been reported dead after a coal mine explosion and fire in the western town of Soma. According to the mining company nearly 450 miners were rescued. Earlier reports said 120 workers are believed to

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By Margaret Besheer United Nations 20 March 2008 The U.N. Security Council is looking at options, proposed by the secretary general, for stabilizing Somalia. They include the possibility of sending a U.N. peacekeeping force to that country to take ov

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Residents in the town of Las Qoray in a disputed region between Somaliland and Puntland say there are signs of an impending military clash between the two regional rivals, following the take over of the strategic coastal town two days ago by Somalil

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Chapter Fifteen THE menial staff of the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying consisted of one hundred and sixty-two Deltas divided into two Bokanovsky Groups of eighty-four red headed female and seventy-eight dark dolycho

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Chapter Eleven AFTER the scene in the Fertilizing Room, all upper-caste London was wild to see this delicious creature who had fallen on his knees before the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning-or rather the ex-Di

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Mining in Turkey 土耳其采矿进行时 Death underground 地下墓地 The tragedy in Soma will also be felt in politics 在索玛镇发生的悲剧将在政治斗争中再次上演 TURKEY'S prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, faces public fury a

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