Assad Missing Syria Chemical Weapons Deadline 阿萨德未遵守叙利亚移交化武限期 STATE DEPARTMENT Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has failed to meet Wednesday's deadline for turning over most of his chemical weapons under a deal brokered...
International Community Struggles to Ease Syrian Suffering 国际社会努力缓解叙利亚的局势 WASHINGTON As each day passes and the death toll rises, millions of Syrians are increasingly worried about their fate in a war with no end in sight....
New Yorkers React to Actor Hoffman's Death 纽约人对演员霍夫曼之死的反应 NEW YORK Philip Seymour Hoffman, the award-winning actor who died Sunday of an apparent heroin overdose in Manhattan, is being mourned by members of the Broadway an...
One-Time Slave Pen Now a Museum About Horrors of Slavery ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA The award-winning movie 12 Years a Slave is based on the memoir of Solomon Northrup, a free black man from New York who was kidnapped in Washington in 1841. It is also the...
Graphene Called Amazing, Versatile Material of the Future 前景光明的多功能材料石墨烯 In 2004, two scientists at the University of Manchester in England isolated a carbon-based material called graphene, with some unusual properties. Andre...
Broadway Celebrates Legendary Cotton Club 百老汇庆祝传奇的棉花俱乐部 NEW YORK From the early 1920s to 1940, Harlems Cotton Club was the showplace for African-American performers in New York. 纽约从20世纪20年代早期到20世纪40年代...
Emergency Food May Soon Arrive in CAR 紧急食品将很快到达中非 The World Food Program says it plans to use both trucks and planes to bring emergency supplies to Central African Republic. Insecurity has reduced food deliveries in recent weeks...
Female Blues Singers Shine in Memphis 蓝调女歌手走红美国孟菲斯 MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE When the first blues recordings appeared in the early 1920s, women singers like Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith were the stars. But over the years since then, me...
The Horror Of Homs The old district of the Syrian city of Homs has been under siege by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for almost eighteen months. The populace there is starving. A convoy of twelve trucks with over 100 tons of food i...
Obama Secures Commitments on Hiring Long-Term Unemployed 奥巴马政府出台政策雇佣长期失业人员 WHITE HOUSE President Barack Obama met with top American CEOs at the White House Friday to discuss commitments their companies have made to h...
Expanded Partnership To Help Smallholder Farmers 意在帮助小农户的合作关系 From the very beginning, reducing global hunger and poverty has been one of President Barack Obamas overarching priorities. That is why the President and the United...
A New Day In Madagascar A new president has taken office in Madagascar, the island nations first democratically elected leader since 2009 when former President Marc Ravalomanana was forced from office in a coup. Hery Rajaonarimampianina was sworn in...
Samantha Power On Civil Society 萨曼莎鲍尔谈公民社会 The end of the Cold War ushered in an era of unprecedented growth in democracy and with it civil society. But in recent years, democratic growth has stagnated, said U.S. United Nations Am...
Washington Week: Focus on Obama's Executive Authority A top Republican lawmaker is blasting U.S. President Barack Obama as lawless in his use of executive orders to advance policy goals in the absence of congressional action. Additional clues are eme...
U.S. Supports Religious Freedom Around The World 美国支持全球宗教自由 The Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan social science fact tank [research organization], recently released a report on religious hostilities. According to the study, in 2...
