BBC news with Johnson Izard. Russia says it's prepared to back a 48-hour ceasefire in the city of Aleppo following an impassioned appeal by the UN envoy to Syria,Staffan De Mistura who welcomed the Russian move but warned the challenge now was for Mo...
A high-profile member of the International Olympic Committee, Patrick Hickey,has temporarily stepped down after being arrested in Brazil by police investigating the illegal sale of tickets for the Rio Games. Mr. Hickey is a member of the IOC executiv...
俄欲与美联手打击叙反叛分子 美体操女将西蒙强势扫4金 时间:2016-08-21 08:34来源:未知 作者:voa365 点击: 149 次 音频下载 BBC news with Jonathan Izard. Russian bomber plans have begun using an airbase in Iran to launc...
BBC news. A court in South Africa has sentenced a woman to ten years in prison for abducting a new born baby nearly 20 years ago and raising her as her own. The 50-year-old woman had pleaded not guilty to the charges of fraud and kidnapping. The baby...
BBC news with Stewart Macintosh. The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has released a video purporting to show some of the school girls it abducted from the northern town of Chibok in 2014.The video features a masked armed man taunting the governmen...
BBC News. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says the electronic account of the Russian athlete Yuliya Stepanova has been hacked. It said the password for Ms. Stepanovas account held on its own computers was illegally obtained which allowed someone...
The UN Security Council says it prepared to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan if it attempts to obstruct the deployment of extra peace keepers to the country. United Nations wants to send an extra 4,000 troops following the latest violence betwee...
The first athletics world record has been broken at the Rio Olympics, a dramatic start to the opening day of track and field events. Almaz Ayanaof Ethiopia took gold in the women's 10,000 meters, smashing a 23-year-old world record by nearly 14 secon...
It is often said by those who work in development that simply improving sanitation around the world could effect huge change. More than a third of the global population doesn't have access to clean safe toilets and running water. In the Kenyan capita...
BBC news with Jerry Smit. President Putin has accused Ukraine of resorting to terror after the Russian security service said it had prevented a Ukraine plot to sabotage essential infrastructure inside the disputed territory of Crimea. Mr. Putin warne...
The president of Turkey and Russia said they will open a new chapter in their relationship which was shattered when Turkey shot down a Russian warplane close to the Syrian border last November. After meeting in St. Petersburg, Recep Tayyip Erdogan an...
A row has developed between the US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and 50 former national security officials, mainly of whom served in the last Republican administration under George Bush. In an open letter, they predicted that Mr. Trump...
The international Paralympic committee has banned Russia from competing in next month's game in Rio because of what it called the country's state sponsored doping program. The Russian sports minister says the decision is beyond common sense. The Turk...
The Russian Olympic Committe says that most of the team will be allowed to take part in the Rio games. It confirmed that 271 have been cleared to compete, with five more waiting for final decision. Alex Capstick reports from Rio. The last-minute vett...
The Olympic torch has arrived in Rio de Janeiro by boat, after three-month tour of Brazilian cities. The Mayor of Rio Eduardo Paes carried the torch on its few laps, but there were chaotic scenes later when the torch relay was challenged by demonstra...
