经济学人音频版 Unit10:Briefings-Sri Lanka...
Oil prices in Asia slipped briefly below $60 a barrel for the first time in more than 18 months, then rallied to $61, after a two-day plunge. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. Analysts say that worries over the state of the world economy and prospec...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 13 March 2008 A brief lull in Israeli-Palestinian fighting is over. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, a new spike in violence is eroding hopes for a ceasefire. The Islamic Jihad group fired rockets at Is...
By Scott Bobb Nairobi 12 February 2008 The chief mediator in the Kenya reconciliation talks, Kofi Annan, has briefed the Kenyan parliament on the negotiations. VOA's Scott Bobb reports from Nairobi that the former U.N. secretary-general placed a medi...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Islamabad 08 January 2008 A team of forensic experts from Britain's Scotland Yard briefed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on their ongoing efforts to help with the probe into the assassination of former prime minister and...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 11 December 2007 The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael Hayden, briefed members of Congress Tuesday about the CIA's decision to destroy videotapes of terror suspect interrogations. His appearance...
By Meredith Buel Washington 06 November 2007 Protests are continuing in Pakistan following President Pervez Musharraf's decision to suspend the constitution and declare a state of emergency. South Asian analysts say there is a small window of opportu...
By Deborah Tate Capitol Hill 01 August 2007 U.S. officials sought to reassure members of Congress Wednesday that the State Department would have a key role in a planned U.S. military command for Africa (AfriCom). They also underscored that the comman...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 14 June 2006 Key Bush administration officials have briefed members of Congress on the situation in Iraq. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill as Democ...
This series is about the disappearance of something, religious faith. It's the story of what is often referred to as atheism , the history of the growing conviction that God doesn't exist. Given the f...