I love my newspaper. It tells me the news every day. The newspaper has page after page of news. I also get the news from the radio and the TV. I also get the news from my friends. But I like the newspaper the best. I can read the newspaper any time I...
IN THE NEWS -May 4, 2002: UN Special Meeting On Children By Caty Weaver (Photo -UNICEF) This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. This Wednesday, the United Nations Genera...
IN THE NEWS -April 27, 2002: World Bank This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Program IN THE NEWS. The World Bank is not a normal bank. It is not a place where individuals borrow money. The...
IN THE NEWS – March 23, 2002: INS Re-Organization By Caty Weaver This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. President Bush is considering ways to re-organize the agency t...
IN THE NEWS - January 26, 2002: Congo Volcano By Caty Weaver This is Steve Ember the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS. Last week, a volcano exploded in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hot me...
IN THE NEWS -January 12, 2002: International Monetary Fund By Caty Weaver This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, In the News. A team from the International Monetary Fund completed a...
1 As the US Secretary of State Colin Powell prepares to arrive in Israel, the country’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has rejected pressure from Washington to end the military offensive in the West Ba...
Afghanistan’s New Leader Hamid Karzai has been sworn-in as the leader of Afghanistan’s interim government. The inauguration was hailed as a momentous day for the war-shattered country and the inte...
APEC Summit in Shanghai Asian Pacific leaders have condemned last month’s terrorist attacks on the United States but they failed to 1) endorse any military action launched in the war on terrorism. A...
Iraq has reacted defiantly to the American and British air raids on targets near Baghdad. President Sadam Hussein vowed to fight until victory on land, in the air and at sea. China and Russia have als...