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Học từ vựng qua bản tin ngắn: Alliance (VOA News Words)

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Updated: 14 Apr 2014

Phương pháp học tiếng Anh hiệu quả, nhanh chóng: Các chương trình học tiếng Anh của Ban Việt ngữ VOA (VOA Learning English for Vietnamese) có thể giúp các bạn cải tiến kỹ năng nghe, hiểu rõ cấu trúc và ngữ pháp, và sử dụng Anh ngữ một cách chính xác. An alliance -- sự liên minh -- giữa các quốc gia thông thường là một hiệp định hợp tác chính thức. Nhiều liên minh dựa trên các vấn đề quốc phòng hay kinh tế. Các liên minh cũng có thể là giữa con người hoặc các tổ chức.

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VOA news for Monday, March 10th, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Monday, March 10th, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. Coming up, the latest on the situation in Ukraine, and the search for a missing Malaysian Airlines plane. Hello everyone, I'm Steve Norman. Russian forces have tightened their grip on Crimea as authorities in the breakaway territory pushed their plan to join Moscow. Ukraine's interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk spoke Sunday in Kyiv at a rally to celebrate the 200th birthday of Ukrainian poet and national hero Taras Shevchenko. "This is our land. Our parents and grandparents spilled their blood for this land. We will not give up a single centimeter of Ukrainian land. Let Russia and the Russian President know this." Mr. Yatsenyuk is to meet Wednesday with President Obama here in Washington to discuss the standoff in Crimea, a strategic peninsula in southern Ukraine where most of the people speak Russian. Russian lawmakers said the Kremlin had set aside !$1,100,000,000 to rebuild Crimea's industrial and infrastructure there if the disputed region votes on March [6th] 16th in a referendum to join Russia. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Sunday the planned Moscow-backed referendum is illegal and violates Ukraine's constitution. Other news, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says there is "no guarantee" that nuclear negotiations between Iran and the West will lead to a comprehensive deal when talks resume later this month. She spoke Sunday alongside Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in the Iranian capital. She said meetings with Iranian officials will target bilateral ties, regional conflicts, human rights and the resumption of nuclear talks on March 18th. Under an interim deal reached in November, Iran agreed to limit uranium enrichment for 6 months in return for an easing of Western sanctions that have crippled the Iranian economy. The deal took effect on January the 20th. Western powers accuse Iran of efforts to develop nuclear weapons and its ongoing research, while Tehran has repeatedly insisted its nuclear work is for peaceful objectives. Police in southern Iraq say a suicide bomber killed at least 42 people and wounded 157 others when he detonated an explosive-filled minibus at a crowded security checkpoint. The Sunday attack set 50 cars afire, killing those trapped inside as they waited for their vehicles to be searched. The bombing was at the northern entrance to the Shiite-dominated city of Hillah, about 100 kilometers south of Baghdad. There has been no claim of responsibility. Libyan navy and pro-government militias have dispatched boats to a port held by a rival militia to stop a North Korean flagged tanker from exporting oil sold without government permission. The government has banned militias from selling crude oil directly to the world market. The Libyan prime minister, Ali Zeidan, has threatened to bomb the tanker if it does not comply with Libyan government orders. He said the bombing could result in an "environmental disaster." Vietnamese searchers have spotted possible aircraft debris after combing the sea for nearly 48 hours in the hunt for a Malaysian passenger jet that vanished with 239 people aboard. Earlier on Sunday, officials investigating the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane said radar images show the missing jet may have inexplicably turned back before vanishing. At a Sunday news conference, Malaysia's director of civil aviation Azharuddin Abdul Rahman said as asked about whether the plane could have been hijacked: "On the possibility of hijack, we are not ruling (out) any possibility. However, it's important to state that our main concern is to focus our efforts on finding the missing aircraft. So, if we are able to find the aircraft, it will definitely help us to establish what exactly has happened." The Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared from radar screens about an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur in good weather. Air traffic controllers say they [never reached a distress call] never received 1 from the jet before it disappeared. William Clay Ford [Jr.] the Sr., that is, the last surviving grandchild of Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford, has died. He was the father of William Clay Ford Jr., currently the executive chairman of Ford. The elder Ford died of pneumonia at his suburban Detroit, Michigan, home on Sunday. He was 88. Get more news at voanews.com.

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Học từ vựng qua bản tin ngắn: Stock Market (VOA News Words)

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Updated: 24 Mar 2014

Phương pháp học tiếng Anh hiệu quả, nhanh chóng: Các chương trình học tiếng Anh của Ban Việt ngữ VOA (VOA Learning English for Vietnamese) có thể giúp các bạn cải tiến kỹ năng nghe, hiểu rõ cấu trúc và ngữ pháp, và sử dụng Anh ngữ một cách chính xác. Chào mừng các bạn đến với chương trình mới của VOA 'News Words.' Khi bạn nghe một bản tin về doanh nghiệp Hoa Kỳ, có lúc bạn nghe thấy cụm từ này: stock market. Một 'stock market' -- thị trường chứng khoán - là nơi mọi người mua và bán giấy chứng nhận quyền sở hữu, hay cổ phần, trong các công ty. Rất nhiều quốc gia có các thị trường chứng khoán. Ở Mỹ, thị trường nổi tiếng nhất là Sàn giao dịch Chứng khoán New York ở Wall Street. NASDAQ là một thị trường chứng khoán khác của Mỹ.

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VOA news for Tuesday, April 15th, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text VOA news for Tuesday, April 15th, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. Pro-Russia demonstrators defy Ukraine's ultimatum. Dozens killed in Nigerian bomb blast. I'm Ray Kouguell reporting from Washington. Pro-Russia demonstrators Monday defied a government deadline to vacate occupied buildings in exchange for amnesty as Ukraine's interim president threatened a military crackdown. Dozens of protesters smashed windows of the police headquarters in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka and scuffled with police as they took control of the facility. Russian President Vladimir Putin urged President Obama to discourage the Ukrainian government from using force against the protesters. During a phone conversation Monday with Mr. Obama, the Russian leader denied claims of Russian agents' involvement in the protests, calling them "speculations based on unreliable information.' Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters recaptured the ancient Christian town of Maaloula from anti-government rebels. Monday's government capture of that city came surely after that of Al-Sarkha, another town near Syria's border with Lebanon. A report from the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights finds widespread and systematic use of torture and detention facilities in Syria. Lisa Schlein reports from Geneva. A U.N. report describes conditions of detention in some Syrian government-run facilities as absolutely horrific, with dozens of people crammed into a tiny cell, forced to use one hole as a toilet. U.N. investigators say some detainees are subjected to physical, mental and sexual torture, which often leaves the victims permanently scarred. They say some have died. U.N. investigators say torture by armed opposition groups appears to be on the rise since 2013, particularly in Al-Raqqa in northern Syria. But they say torture is not committed by all armed groups, and when it occurs it is sporadic and not systematic as is the case with the government. Lisa Schlein, for VOA news, Geneva. An apparent car bombing in a Nigerian bus station killed at least 71 people and wounded more than 120 others Monday. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan visited the bus terminal on the outskirts of the capital, Abuja, several hours after the bomb exploded during Monday morning rush hour. He suggested Islamist militant group Boko Haram was behind the blast, although there has been no claim of responsibility. VOA's Heather Murdock has more. Shortly before 7:00 a.m. Monday morning, taxi driver Joseph Suleiman was driving into the city for work. He was about a half a kilometer from Nyanya Motor Park when the bomb exploded. "We were inside the car. We heard the bomb blast and my car was shaking. Everybody, we were totally confused." They were confused, he says, because there hasn't been an attack in the Nigerian capital in two years. Suleiman says he saw scores of badly injured people as he passed the bus depot. Some officials say despite nearly a year of emergency rule in three northeastern Nigerian states, the Boko Haram insurgency is growing. Heather Murdock, for VOA news, Abuja. The head of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 says an Australian ship will deploy an unmanned mini-sub "as soon as possible" to determine if signals detected by sound-locating equipment were from the missing jet. Angus Houston, who heads Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Center, says the small sub will use sonar to chart any debris in the search for the plane's flight recorders on the floor of the Indian Ocean. The Boeing 777 with 239 people on board vanished March eighth during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. A jury has been chosen in New York City terrorism trial of an Egyptian-born Islamic cleric. Eight men and four women were picked to hear evidence in the U.S. government's case against Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri. Abu Hamza is charged with conspiring with al-Qaeda to set up a jihadist training camp in the western U.S. state of Oregon in 1999. He is also accused of raising money to send militants to train in Afghanistan and with providing support to militants in Yemen who kidnapped 16 tourists in 1998. Four were killed during the Yemeni military's rescue attempt. Prosecutors say there is now enough evidence to warrant hate-crimes charges in the shooting spree that killed three people Sunday at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement complex in the central U.S. state of Kansas. Police have arrested Frazier Glenn Cross, a longtime white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan member, in connection with those shootings. I'm Ray Kouguell, VOA new. Details on these and other stories at voanews.com.

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VOA news for Thursday, April 24th, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Thursday, April 24th, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. Coming up, the latest on the Ukraine crisis. Rival Palestinian groups announce a unity deal. Hello everyone, I'm Steve Norman. U.S. Army paratroopers landed in Poland on Wednesday at the start of military maneuvers aimed at easing anxieties in allied eastern European countries alarmed at Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz is Poland's interior minister. He said Poland is preparing for the worst scenarios. He said it's not because there is any tension on the Polish-Ukrainian border. The situation there is calm, he said. Nevertheless, we have to check the readiness of the Polish state for scenarios worse than they are now. The U.S. troop landing comes 1 day after Ukraine scrapped a truce and resumed its push against armed pro-Russian separatists occupying buildings in several Ukrainian cities near the Russian border. Moscow responded to the move with a warning that it will retaliate if the interests of Russian-speaking citizens in the region come under attack. Ukraine's decision to resume what it calls "anti-terrorist" operations came after the discovery of 2 bodies near the rebel-controlled city of Slovyansk. Kosovo's lawmakers have approved a motion for a European Union-backed special court to try ethnic Albanians accused of committing war crimes during the 1998-99 war of independence from [Syria] Serbia. This follows years of pressure from the European Union and United States to investigate allegations of killings of civilians by ethnic Albanian rebels. Hundreds of ethnic Serb civilians were allegedly killed so that their organs could be harvested and sold on the black market. Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, the wartime leader of the rebels, has rejected the allegations. About 10,000 people died during the war, many of them ethnic Albanians. The 2 main Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, have announced a reconciliation deal, saying that they will try to form a unity government in the coming weeks. Hamas and Fatah split violently in 2007 and have since divided their people between 2 sets of rulers. It remains unclear how this plan would succeed where past attempts have repeatedly failed. It also adds new complications to the U.S. efforts to broker a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians. Both the U.S. and Israel condemned the agreement. Afghanistan's election commission has delayed releasing preliminary results from the country's April 5th Presidential election. Election officials say the extra time is necessary to ensure that possible irregularities are thoroughly investigated. Some 7,000,000 ballots were cast on election day. Partial results put former Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah in the lead with 44 percent followed by former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani with 33%. It is unclear whether Abdullah and Ghani will receive more than 50% of the vote in order to avoid a 2nd round election. The World Health Organization says effective vaccines against killer diseases are averting between 2,000,000-3,000,000 deaths every year. Lisa Schlein has a report. An increasing number of people in all age groups are being immunized against preventable diseases. WHO Director of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele says polio is on the verge of eradication. He says measles in Africa has gone down dramatically and the disease is being eliminated in the Americas and in the Pacific region, including China. He says the meningitis vaccine has been an outstanding success in saving lives in Africa. He says Angola and Congo Brazzaville are launching the introduction of roto-virus vaccines into their national health systems to coincide with World Immunization Week. Lisa Schlein, for VOA news, Geneva. Conrado Marrero, the oldest living professional baseball player, has died, died in his native Cuba at age 102. Marrero's grandson Wednesday confirmed the death, which came just 2 days before Marrero's 103rd birthday. He played ball in the United States, where he was a pitcher who was renowned for his control and presence. His long and storied career began in Sagua la Grande, 350 kilometers east of Havana. He went on to pitch for a string of Cuban and Mexican teams, including Cuba's national team, before making it to the U.S. Major Leagues in 1950 at the age of 39. This is VOA news.

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VOA news for Wednesday, January 8th, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text VOA news for Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. Iraq's government takes to the air to battle al-Qaeda in Anbar province, and Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi prepares to go back on trial. I'm Michael Lipin reporting from Washington. The Iraqi government says it has killed more than 20 militants in an airstrike near the al-Qaeda-held cities of Ramadi and Fallujah. An Iraqi military official told The Associated Press that Tuesday's airstrike targeted the al-Qaeda operations center in Ramadi, capital of the Sunni-dominated Anbar province. Al-Qaeda militants seized Ramadi and Fallujah last week. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has urged residents to "expel" the militants to preempt the need for government offensive. The United States is rushing air-to-ground missiles and surveillance drones to Mr. Maliki's forces to help with the fight. Egypt is set to resume the trial of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday. Mr. Morsi was ousted in a military coup last July. He is charged with inciting the killing of anti-government protesters while he was in office in 2012. But supporters of his Muslim Brotherhood movement insist Morsi is still Egypt's legitimate leader. Henry Ridgwell reports for VOA from London. Protests by supporters of former President Mohamed Morsi have been building ahead of the resumption of his trial. Demonstrations turned violent after Friday prayers last week and at least two protesters were killed. At one point, Mr. Morsi's supporters used a hijacked bus to try to break through police lines. The unrest is a deliberate ploy by the Muslim Brotherhood, says Professor Fawaz Gerges of the London School of Economics. "The strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood is to make the situation as unstable as possible in order to really frustrate the military-led government's effort to say 'Look, we have stability, we have security.'" In recent weeks, there has been a series of bomb attacks on military and government targets. Henry Ridgwell, for VOA news, London. A powerful arctic blast of air has swept across much of the United States, causing temperatures to plummet so low that thousands of schools had to shut down on Tuesday while millions of people were forced to stay indoors. Here in Washington, the latest temperature is minus eight degrees Celsius, with the wind chill of minus 15. As VOA's Brian Allen explains, a weather pattern called a "polar vortex" is causing the dramatic drop in temperatures. In Chicago, residents renamed their city "Chiberia" after the temperature dipped lower than parts of Siberia. "It's, it's really cold. It's cold especially, when you walk in the morning two or three minutes, your feet and hands just get really cold." More than half the country is feeling the affects of a dangerous blast of arctic air which is dropping temperatures to record lows. Camden Walker is a meteorologist with The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang. "The polar vortex, a spinning low pressure system, a very cold air that spins over the north pole or the south pole, and we are currently getting affected by the north pole polar vortex when the jet stream came south, the flood gates opened from the north and we had a direct flow from the arctic." Brian Allen, VOA news, Washington. U.S. medical researchers say anti-smoking measures have saved 8 million American lives since a landmark report on smoking and health was issued 50 years ago. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported on Tuesday that U.S. controls on tobacco since 1964 also have boosted the life expectancy for 40-year-olds. But the report says efforts must continue in order to cut the nation's death toll from cigarettes. China says it will allow the first privately-owned banks to operate in the country this year as part of efforts to open up the state-controlled banking sector. A Chinese regulatory body announced Tuesday that investors will be allowed to own and operate up to five banks in a closely supervised pilot project. Ownership will be restricted to Chinese citizens, with foreign investment being considered for the future. And in Cambodia, union leaders say garment workers will continue to strike over low wages despite a violent crackdown by authorities last week. Five unions say their workers will keep up the 15-day strike, demanding a salary of $160 per month. Cambodian factory owners say the work stoppage has cost them about $200-million. I'm Michael Lipin for VOA news. More on these stories at voanews.com.

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VOA news for Sunday, April 20th, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Sunday, April 20th, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. Late developments in the search of the sunken South Korea ferry. In Ukraine, a day of quiet. I'm Vincent Bruce reporting from Washington. Hundreds of divers, many civilian volunteers, battled strong undercurrents to enter the submerged ferry off the coast of South Korea Saturday. Authorities said divers had recovered three bodies from the vessel by late evening as flares illuminated the night skies and divers fought to gain access to the vessel. U.S. sailors and Marines aboard an amphibious assault ship assisted in the search efforts in the area. South Korean prosecutors now say the 26-year-old third mate left to steer the ferry through a treacherous waterway was navigating the area for the first time when the vessel listed on its side and sank with hundreds on board. The disclosure was late Saturday, nearly 90 hours after the ferry went down off the southwestern island of Jindo with 476 people on board. Ukraine's foreign minister says security operations to oust pro-Russian militants from buildings they have seized are suspended. Andrii Deshchytsia said Saturday efforts are suspended for the Easter holiday. He also said this would allow Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe monitors more time to organize. In March, the OSCE launched a special mission to gather information on security and human rights in Ukraine. The group is also working to facilitate dialogue in the country. There is a strong historical, religious connection between Russia and Ukraine. What role is religion playing in the current conflict in the run-up to Easter. For VOA, Michael Eckels has a report from Moscow. From the outset, clergy played a part in the demonstrations in Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine While church leaders of all faiths in Ukraine appear to support the new political leadership in Kyiv, the Russian clergy are keeping silent about recent events. For both Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox believers, Easter is the most significant religious holiday. And this year it coincides with Easter in the West. Many faithful are no doubt praying that Ukrainians and Russians can avoid an escalation of the current conflict. Michael Eckels, for VOA news, Moscow. French President Francois Hollande has expressed "immense relief" over the release of four French journalists held hostage in Syria for ten months. Turkey's Dogan News Agency, or DHA, says Turkish soldiers found the men on the border with Syria blindfolded with their hands bound. They had been captured in two separate incidents last June while covering the conflict in Syria. Islamic extremists Saturday claimed vi..., excuse me, claimed responsibility for the bombing in Nigeria's capital Abuja that left 75 people dead last Monday. In a video message, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, taunted authorities and claimed to be living somewhere in the capital. Meantime, Nigerian officials are still searching for 85 school girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok on Monday. Saturday, officials said 44 other girls have escaped from the kidnappers who seized them at a secondary school . Government officials from the U.S. and Vietnam attended a ceremony Saturday marking the next stage in an Agent Orange cleanup at a former American air base in central Vietnam. Marianne Brown reports from Da Nang City. The herbicide was sprayed by the U.S. military as a defoliant to destroy jungle cover for Communist troops. Its unintended but highly toxic byproduct, dioxin, has been linked to diseases such as diabetes, cancer and birth defects. U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear spoke at the event. "Beginning today the contaminated soil will be heated to extremely high temperatures to destroy dioxin." Healing the wounds of war has been an important issue for the two countries since diplomatic relations were normalized nearly two decades ago. Marianne Brown, for VOA news, in Da Nang. Searchers in Nepal recovered a 13th body from the snow Saturday after a massive avalanche swept the lower slopes of the world's tallest peak. Officials say three Nepalese guides, or Sherpas, remain missing after Friday's disaster on Mount Everest. An estimated 100 climbers are reported stranded above the site of what is believed to be the worst-ever climbing disaster on the mountain. Police in Pakistan say gunmen have shot a famous Pakistani television anchor, the latest in a wave of attacks on journalists in the country. Hamid Mir, a host for the private television channel Geo, was wounded in the attack in Karachi Saturday, but he is expected to survive. Police say Mr. Mir suffered three gunshot wounds to the stomach, leg and pelvic area. More on these stories at voanews.com. I'm Vincent Bruce, VOA news, Washington.

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Syrian 'Citizen Journalists' Use Social Media to Spread News

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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish Social media networks have come...

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VOA news for Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. What are called anti-terror operations in eastern Ukraine resume after signs of torture. Somali militants claim responsibility for killing a second member of parliament in as many days. I'm Ira Mellman reporting from Washington. Ukraine's interim president has ordered security forces to resume what he calls "anti-terror" operations in eastern Ukraine after a local politician from his own party and a second person were found dead with signs of torture. The order from Oleksandr Turchynov was made Tuesday following reports that a Ukrainian Air Force plane came under fire near the eastern city of Slovyansk and just hours after visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden departed the Ukrainian capital. Vice President Joe Biden, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Ukraine since the crisis erupted last year, offered the country's new government financial and technological support. While his trip is seen as a largely symbolic show of support, Biden had strong words for Russia. "But now it's time for Russia to stop talking and start acting -- act on the commitments they made to get pro-Russia separatists to vacate buildings and checkpoints, accept amnesty and address their grievances politically." Washington has called on Moscow to live up to commitments made in Geneva last week to put more pressure on the pro-Russian protesters to vacate state buildings. Russia denies any involvement in the protests. Henry Ridgwell, the VOA news, London. The United States is sending about 600 paratroopers to Poland and the Baltic states in an expansion meant to underscore its commitment to NATO allies as a result of the escalating tensions in Ukraine. Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby says 150 paratroopers based in Italy will arrive Wednesday in Poland. He said another 450 paratroopers will be deployed to Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. The bilateral exercises will last about a month. He said new troops will then rotate in for fresh exercises throughout the rest of the year. Militants in Somalia claimed responsibility for killing a second member of parliament in as many days. Al-Shabab said it shot Abdiaziz Isaq Mursal, who died Tuesday after an ambush in the district of Mogadishu. Authorities said he was shot multiple times and died on the spot. On Monday, the al-Qaeda-linked group took credit for a car bombing in Mogadishu that killed parliamentarian Isak Mohamed Ibrahim and wounded another lawmaker. U.N. Special Representative for Somalia, Ambassador Nicholas Kay, said the attacks are a reminder that while the Islamist group has lost territory over the past few years, it remains a threat in the country. "A reminder from them that they are still capable. They are still there. A reminder from them that they are determined to undermine the government and create the impression that the government has not got control. And, I think this will continue." Ambassador Kay commented Tuesday at the Washington-based U.S. Institute of Peace. U.S. is closely monitoring the situation on the Korean peninsula after reports that North Korea may be planning another nuclear test ahead of President Obama's trip to the peninsula. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. continues to urge North Korea "to refrain from actions that threaten regional peace and security.' Washington was responding to a warning by the South Korean military that the North may be preparing another underground nuclear test. Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said that assessment is based on increased activity at the North's nuclear test site. Mr. Obama travels to Japan Wednesday and to Seoul Friday. He is expected to discuss ways to deal with North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Death toll from last week's South Korea ferry accident exceeded 100 on Tuesday as divers continue pulling bodies from the sunken vessel. More than 200 people remain missing and are presumed dead after becoming trapped on the five-story passenger [trip,] ship, rather, which capsized last Wednesday. Divers retrieved 17 bodies from the 6,800-ton Sewol ferry early Tuesday. The pace of the recovery effort is expected to speed up as conditions improve. With an expected final death toll of around 300, the accident is set to become South Korea's worst ferry disaster in more than two decades. And the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Michigan's ban on using race as a factor for colleges admissions. The ruling Tuesday rejected a challenge to a measure passed by referendum in 2006. More on our website at voanews.com. I'm Ira Mellman, VOA news.

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VOA news for Saturday, February 1st, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Saturday, February 1st, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. The Syrian peace talks accomplish little, but little may not be that bad, and the world markets a bit shaky today. Jim Randle reports. I'm Joe Parker reporting from Washington. The 1st round of peace talks between Syria's warring sides has ended with little progress, but did lay a foundation for future negotiations expected next month. Al Pessin reports for VOA from London. The United Nations and Arab League mediator, Lakhdar Brahimi, presented 10 points he believes the 2 sides agree on. But he acknowledged the list did not amount to much, mainly consisting of general statements about the need to negotiate a solution, ease the suffering of the Syrian people and build a country with respect for democracy and human rights. "Progress is very slow indeed, but the sides have engaged in an acceptable manner." The 2 sides could not even reach agreement on humanitarian issues. But Brahimi said that during 8 days of "difficult" meetings, the government and opposition delegations got used to sitting in the same room, something it was not initially clear whether they would do at all. Al Pessin, VOA news, London. Mr. Brahimi announced the next round of negotiations would probably begin February 10th, pending agreement from the Syrian government. United States Secretary of State John Kerry says Syria is not meeting its international obligations to destroy its chemical weapons under a deal brokered by the United States and Russia. Scott Stearns is with the secretary and filed this report from Munich. A month past the deadline to remove Syria's most dangerous chemical weapons, Kerry says the United States is deeply concerned by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's failure to meet the timetable. Mr. Assad agreed to the schedule with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, or OPCW. "Bashar al-Assad is not, in our judgment, fully in compliance because of the timing and the delays that have taken place contrary to the OPCW's judgment that this could move faster." Kerry spoke to reporters alongside German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Speaking through a translator, Steinmeier said Syrian delay risks Russia's standing on this issue as well. Scott Stearns, VOA news, Munich. Syria's government says security and logistical obstacles have slowed the collection and transportation of its chemical weapons. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed into law a bill on amnesty for anti-government protesters. The 63-year-old President on Friday signed the legislation that grants amnesty to those detained during anti-government protests on condition that they leave government buildings they've occupied. Opposition leaders have rejected the measure, which the President acted on after announcing a day earlier that he had gone on sick leave. 10sions in Ukraine rose Thursday after opposition activist Dmytro Bulatov was found outside Kyiv with cuts and bruises about his face. He'd been missing since January 22nd. Anna Neistat is an associate director of Human Rights Watch: "I think the President's silence under the circumstances is unacceptable. We know he is on sick leave but unless he is absolutely incapable of saying a few words, he should be now on TV, making it very clear sending a very clear signal that this is unacceptable." Mr. Bulatov says he was kidnapped by unknown abductors and held for days before being abandoned in a forest. Stock indexes tumbled in the U.S. and Europe today as investors worried about the faltering fortunes of emerging market countries across the globe. Jim Randle has more for VOA. The U.S. central bank has cut back economic stimulus efforts, which will push some U.S. interest rates higher. The change prompted investors to move money from emerging markets to the United States in search of better returns, contributing to some stock and currency market turmoil. William Cline, a scholar at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, says the worst is probably over. "Markets 10d to front-load the adjustment because they are anticipating what's gonna happen down the road. Much of the impact of higher U.S. interest rates, I think we've already seen." Years of low U.S. interest rate policies encouraged investors to put money in emerging markets where relatively higher interest rates gave them bigger returns. Jim Randle, VOA news, Washington. Markets dropped off today in New York, Frankfurt, Paris and London--a broad stock sell-off, the latest of several market retreats during the month of January. U.S. President Barack Obama says he believes the Russian city of Sochi scheduled to host the upcoming Winter Olympic Games is safe and Americans who want to go should continue with their plans. This is Joe Parker from the VOA news center in Washington.

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AS IT IS - January 28, 2013 - VOA News Program in Special English

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From VOA Learning English, welcome to AS IT IS! AS IT IS our new magazine show in Special English. Today and in the days to come, we will be expanding on major world events and reporting on issues that concern you. We will be talking with newsmakers, experts and VOA's own reporters to help make sense of this quickly changing world ---AS IT IS. Hello, I'm Jim Tedder. On today's show we look at possible cabinet changes as President Barack Obama begins his second term in office. We also explain how growth in the Asian economy comes at a cost... And we explore the findings of a report about the state of freedom around the world. President Obama is saying goodbye to some members of his administration and adding new faces to Cabinet as he begins his second term. Mister Obama has already made several nominations. Democratic Party Senator John Kerry is his choice to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. The president also named Republican former Senator Chuck Hagel to serve as Defense Secretary. If confirmed by the Senate he would replace Leon Panetta. Other nominations include White House Chief of Staff Jacob Lew to be secretary of the treasury. Timothy Geithner has served in that office since the start of Barack Obama's first term. VOA's Jim Malone says cabinet changes are common in second terms. "The cabinet level positions are grueling jobs. After four years in office a lot of cabinet officials are looking for a break, and administration higher-ups realize it's time to bring in fresh blood. It's a way to keep the energy in the administration going." Senator Kerry is expected to easily gain Senate confirmation to become America's top diplomat. Chuck Hagel, however, faces fierce opposition from within his own party for some of his positions on foreign policy. And Mr. Hagel's lack of deep managerial experience could also raise questions among Democrats. Jim Malone says Democratic support is especially important for the president's picks right now. "I do think we're in a very partisan place right now, and Democrats also realize that the president is going to have to stand up sat times for some of these appointees and make a fight." That was VOA's Jim Malone. East Asia is expected to have strong economic growth in the coming years. But that is only part of the story. Other sides of East Asia's economic promise are tension over territorial claims in the area and trade imbalances with the rest of the world. Mario Ritter has more. Recently, VOA spoke about East Asia with Kenneth Lieberthal. He is a top Asia expert with the Brookings Institution in Washington. He talked about some of the main issues in East Asia, ones that will continue to be important in the years to come. The World Bank estimates economic growth in East Asia and the Pacific will be 7.9 percent this year. That is higher than any other part of the world. The United States is working to improve trade ties with many nations in East Asia. Kenneth Lieberthal says the Trans-Pacific Partnership is an important step to improving trade. The TPP is a trade agreement with countries around the Pacific Ocean. "Specifically on US trade policy in Asia, I think the Obama administration is very heavily invested in the TPP process." Natural resources are an important part of export trade in East Asia. This has led to territorial disputes. For example, the islands known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan are thought to be rich in oil. China and Japan have competing claims for the territory. Kenneth Leiberthal says he has not seen evidence that either China or Japan is willing to reduce tensions over the islands. China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines are all involved in territorial claims with neighbors over West Pacific islands. East Asia has long been a source of exports. China's big trade imbalance with the United States has concerned American lawmakers for years. Some blame China's control of its currency for the big trade deficit. But Kenneth Leiberthal does not think so. Instead, he notes a number of other issues. One is China's direct support for many of its industries with government aid. Kenneth Lieberthal says Chinese rules at home also hurt countries seeking to export to China. He says the protection of intellectual property rights is another concern. But he says the biggest task for the United States in East Asia and overall is to deal with its fiscal problems at home. "I think Washington's biggest single challenge overall is to get our fiscal house in order." He says the national debate over fiscal policy and its end result will have the biggest effect on future ties in East Asia. has more. "All text, audio and video material produced exclusively by the Voice of America is public domain. However, some images and graphics are licensed for use and covered by all applicable copyright laws."

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VOA news for Thursday, April 17th, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Thursday, April 17th, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. Coming up, Kyiv suffering reversals in eastern Ukraine. Also, China's slowing economy. Hello everyone, I'm Steve Norman. Ukraine's efforts to restore order in the troubled eastern par of the country didn't go so well on Wednesday when pro-Russian separatists were seen atop several Ukrainian army vehicles, hoisting Russia flags. Jamie Dettmer in Kyiv is following the story. The column of six armored personnel carriers was seized on the city of Slovyansk on the eve of talks in Geneva between diplomats from Russia, Ukraine and the West. Kyiv authorities deny claims by locals that Ukrainian paratroopers manning the troop carriers switched sides after agitators offered them food. Separatists say the soldiers' morale was low and that they hadn't been given supplies for several days. Ukrainian defense officials say the column was captured with the help of Russian agents. Kyiv insists that hundreds of Russian troops have crossed the border and are coaching and instructing separatists on tactics. The allegation is dismissed by Moscow. Jamie Dettmer, VOA news, Kyiv. Nearly 300 people are still missing after a ferry capsized off the southern coast of South Korea Wednesday with more than 462 people aboard, most of them high school students. Coast guard officials say 174 people have been rescued and four are confirmed dead. Many are feared trapped in the submerged ship or stranded in 12-degree water. South Korean Navy SEALs are continuing their search inside the sunken vessel, but officials warn those trapped inside may not have survived. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will meet his National Security Council on Thursday after suspected militants carried out a string of deadly attacks and abducted more than 100 school girls. Late Wednesday, Nigeria's Joint Information Center said only eight of the abducted students were still missing. In a statement, Nigeria's defense director said one of the "terrorists" who carried out the school attack had been captured as well. There was no initial claim of responsibility, but the assault is similar to attacks that have been carried out by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. A U.S. Navy robotic submarine searching for the wreckage from the missing Malaysian airliner was once again forced to cut short its mission on Wednesday. The Australian agency coordinating the search gave no explanation for what caused the interruption, or how long it lasted. Meantime, Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told reporters Wednesday the search for the Boeing 777 will not be lessened in anyway. "I think as far as Malaysia is concerned, I can only speak for Malaysia, we will not scale down. This is the promise that I made to the families of the passengers and we will continue." He also said that [more than] more countries might get involved in the next phase of the search. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March eighth. There were 239 people aboard. Chinese officials say economic growth for the world's second largest economy slowed in the first quarter of the year. Economists are warning that the downward trend could continue as China seeks to transform its economy with market-based reforms. VOA's Bill Ide in Beijing reports. China's National Bureau of Statistics says economic growth in China during the first quarter slipped to its slowest pace in 18 months. Bureau spokesman Sheng Laiyun says the growth rate of 7.4 percent is a reflection of China's efforts to transform its economic model. He says the figures were still within the range the government expects, and that there are already signs of progress in the government's efforts to reform the economy. Sheng adds, however, that "at the same time the complexities of the global economy continue to put downward pressure on the Chinese economy." He says that, "looking forward, persistent efforts are needed to oversee the rollout and implementation of government policies." Bill Ide, VOA news, Beijing. A portrait of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban, is expected to bring up to $80,000 for her charity. The painting depicts a 16-year-old Malala doing her homework. It will be auctioned on May 14th at Christie's. The money raised will support the work of the Malala Fund, including helping young Syrian refugees in Jordan and girls freed from child labor now attending school in Pakistan, according to Malala, who was badly wounded but survived the October, 2012 attack. Get more news at voanews.com.

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VOA news for Tuesday, March 25th, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. Major economic powers suspend Russia from the Group of 8 bloc, and Ukraine orders a total military pullout from the Crimean peninsula. I'm Michael Lipin reporting from Washington. President Barack Obama and leaders of other major economic powers have agreed to suspend Russia from a major international coalition in response to its annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. Mr. Obama met with the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Canada and Japan and the Netherlands on Monday. Together those nations make up the Group of 7 industrialized economies. In a joint statement, the G7 leaders said they were suspending Russia's participation in the expanded Group of 8 industrial nations until Moscow changes course on Ukraine. Ukraine's interim government has ordered its troops to withdraw completely from Crimea, where Russian forces have taken control of major Ukrainian military installations in recent days. Ukraine's acting President, Oleksandr Turchynov, said he ordered the pullout in response to Russian threats against the lives of Ukrainian service members and their families. Ukrainian leaders also fear Russia will try to occupy parts of their country's mainland. VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from Kyiv. While there are hopes that an emergency Group of 7 meeting in The Hague can use diplomacy to defuse the crisis, Ukrainian officials say their country's northern, southern and eastern borders are increasingly under threat but their military is ready to defend the homeland. Ukraine National Security and Defense Council Secretary Andriy Parubiy says there are about !100,000 members of Russia's military poised along Ukraine borders. The cabinet minister contends that despite assurances from Russian officials that they are engaged in routine drills, in reality those forces are on full alert. Parubiy also says the interim government has given Russia an ultimatum to free Ukrainian officers who are being held in Crimea after Russian forces seized nearly 200 Ukrainian military installations. Steve Herman, VOA news, Kyiv. Malaysia says a new analysis of satellite data indicates its missing passenger jet crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. Malaysian authorities made the announcement on Monday, saying they believe there were no survivors from the 239 people where were on board the Malaysia Airlines plane that vanished on March 8th. The news came as an Australian Navy ship tried to locate several objects seen by aircraft searching for the missing plane in Indian Ocean waters, southwest of Australia. The United States has criticized an Egyptian court's decision to impose death sentences against 529 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement, calling the moving shocking. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Monday it seems impossible that the 100s of defendants could be tried in accordance with international standards in only 2 days. VOA's Elizabeth Arrott has more from Cairo. The condemned were convicted of killing a policeman, attacking others and destroying property. The sentencing came after just 2 court sessions and before the defendants lawyers say they were permitted to make their case. The majority was condemned in absentia, with fewer than 200 of those on trial in court, 16 suspects were acquitted. An appeal is permitted, and given the rushed circumstances of the trial, human rights and legal experts believe the verdict is unlikely to stand. Even members of the government-linked National Council for Human Rights condemned the verdict. Member Nasser Amin wrote on Twitter the court ruling "will be overturned as soon as the defendants demand a retrial." Elizabeth Arrott, VOA news, Cairo. An investigative reporter has helped Ghana's police to break up a forced prostitution ring in the African nation and rescue 6 Vietnamese women. The ring, allegedly run by 2 Chinese men, was broken up this month thanks in part to the reporting of local newspaper, The New Crusading Guide. And week 4 of the Oscar Pistorius trial began on Monday with police reading text messages from the athlete's girlfriend who said she sometimes was afraid of Pistorius. Police say Reeva Steenkamp sent a message less than 3 weeks before Pistorius fatally shot her. They said the message was, "I'm scared of you sometimes and how you snap at me and of how you will react to me." You can find more on those stories by checking our website at voanews.com. That's where we're updating the news from around the world 24 hours a day. I'm Michael Lipin reporting from Washington.

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VOA News in Special English for 23 Nov 2012

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VOA NEWS IN SPECIAL ENGLISH November 23, 2012 A cease-fire that stopped eight days of deadly fighting between Israel and Hamas held Thursday. Thousands of Ga...

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VOA news for Sunday, April 6th, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Sunday, April 6th, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. A huge turnout in Afghanistan's election. France vows out of the 20th anniversary genocide ceremony in Rwanda. I'm Vincent Bruce reporting from Washington. Afghanistan's polling stations closed Saturday after what election officials called a successful turnout of voters casting their ballots for a new Afghan President. As Sharon Behn reports from Kabul, many voters defied repeated threats by the Taliban. The moment that everyone was dreading never happened. Despite a number of attacks, the Taliban failed to derail the Presidential election and 1,000,000s of Afghans joined the process of choosing a new Afghan leader. Walking out of the polling stations under gray skies, Afghanistan's voters-- men and women, young and old-- proudly showed their purple-ink-stained fingers, proof they had voted. The United Nations said this year's newly registered voters included !1,300,000 women. When Afghanistan's roughly 6,200 polling stations finally closed late in the day, the relief in Kabul was almost palpable, and the heavy security presence on the streets began to ease. Sharon Behn, VOA news, Kabul France has cancelled plans to attend a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide following allegations by Rwanda's President that France participated in the mass killings. In an interview to be published Sunday, Rwandan President Paul Kagame told the weekly Jeune Afrique that France and Belgium played what he called a "direct role" in the political preparation for the 1994 genocide. The French Foreign Ministry said Justice Minister Christiane Taubira, who had been due to travel to Rwanda on Monday, would no longer attend the commemoration. More details on these stories at voanews.com. A Nigerian soldier says he has witnessed incidents that suggest some of the country's military commanders are working together with Boko Haram, an Islamist militant group blamed for 1000s of deaths since 2009. The soldier gave his account to VOA's Hausa service. Pam Dockins has the story. This soldier from a unit in northeastern Nigeria says he wants the world to know that some Nigerian army commanders are facilitating the death of their soldiers one by one. The soldier, who does not want to be identified, told us his unit recently walked into a Boko Haram ambush after traveling to the town of Bama to assist another Nigerian military unit. Nigerian authorities have refused repeated requests to discuss the anonymous soldier's allegations, but some analysts of deep protracted conflict in northern Nigeria say the charges could have merit. Pam Dockins, VOA news, Washington. !10,000s of supporters of embattled Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra rallied Saturday just outside Bangkok, part of a 3-day gathering to counter months of sometimes violent anti-government protests. In their largest show of force in months, the pro-government "red shirts" said they are prepared to fight any move to oust Ms. Yingluck from office. In his weekly address Saturday, U.S. President Barack Obama said the budget he sent to Congress earlier this year is built on the "idea of opportunity for all" and would "grow" the middle class and shrink the deficits that have been cut in half since he took office. "Today, our economy is growing and our businesses are consistently generating new jobs. But decades-long trends still threaten the middle class. While those at the top are doing better than ever, too many Americans are working harder than ever, but feel like they can't get ahead." In the Republican address, Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina said federal job training programs are too scattered, bureaucratic and inefficient. He said Democrats should support Republican legislation to streamline the programs. "A more responsive and efficient system will ensure our workforce competes and wins in the 21st century. Less bureaucracy means more resources helping those in need, rather than getting caught up in the quagmire pit of red tape and regulation that big government creates." Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Islamist rebels in Syria to end the infighting that killed his chief representative in the civil war-torn country. Zawahiri delivered his message by audio posted online late Friday. He said "sedition" is to blame for the death of Abu Khaled al-Suri. Al-Suri, who co-founded Syrian rebel group Ahrar al-Sham, part of the powerful Islamic Front, was killed in February in a suicide attack. Israel's chief negotiator, Tzipi Livni, has said that peace talks with the Palestinians should continue. I'm Vincent Bruce, VOA news.

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VOA news for Saturday, November 9th, 2013 - 20131109

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Saturday November 9th, 2013 From Washington, this is VOA news. Still differences to discuss over Iranian nuclear program, and in Somalia, six are killed in a car bombing in Mogadishu. I'm Vincent Bruce reporting from Washington. In Geneva Friday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said diplomats are working to see if they can "narrow some differences" with Iran over its disputed nuclear program. "I don't think anybody should mistake that there are some important gaps that have to be closed." Kerry spoke shortly after arriving in Geneva to join the talks. Diplomatic sources say Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will join his Western counterparts in Geneva Saturday to try to secure a deal over Iran's disputed nuclear program. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters in Moscow on Friday that Russia favors a solution that recognizes Iran's right to have a peaceful nuclear program and enrich uranium under the watch of the International Atomic Energy Agency. In Washington, President Barack Obama said the deal being discussed would offer modest relief on the economic sanctions on Iran, but that most would stay in place. "We can provide them some very modest relief, but keeping the sanctions architecture in place, keeping the core sanctions in place." Police in Somalia say a suspected car bomb has exploded outside a hotel in Mogadishu, killing at least six people. Witnesses say a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives Friday to the gate of the Maka al Mukarama hotel, which is popular with Somali officials, in central Mogadishu. A government spokesman [said] told VOA's Somali service that at least 15 people were wounded, including a member of the Somali parliament. Reports say another explosion was heard in the same area shortly before the attack. There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts. Further details at voanews.com. A new report before the U.S. Congress says Afghan soldiers and police will require more support to sustain the gains made by NATO forces during a troop search two years ago. In the report, according to U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, there has been a fundamental shift in the fighting in Afghanistan, with Afghan forces now handling 95 percent of the conventional operations and 98 percent of special operations. However, the report also says when the NATO mission in Afghanistan concludes at the end of 2014, Afghan forces "will be at high risk" unless they receive continued aid and advice from the international community and the international coalition. President Barack Obama traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, to speak about continuing challenges to U.S. economic growth. With a port of New Orleans as a backdrop, Mr. Obama returned to favorite themes to underscore economic successes and [remained] remaining challenges to the economy. Successes include 7.8 million jobs added, declining deficits and healthcare costs, a recovered auto industry and a stronger housing market. Challenges include rebuilding the dilapidated infrastructure, providing more support for the middle class and making investments in education. Another challenge: what Mr. Obama calls the "constant cycle of manufactured crises and self-inflicted wounds" from Washington. Super typhoon Haiyan is muscling its way across the central Philippines, having already killed at least four people, according to officials. The most powerful storm to hit the Pacific this year, Haiyan has blown off roofs, uprooted trees, downed power lines and caused other destruction while muscling across the region. Officials say at least seven other persons are injured. Due to a lack of communications, the full extent of the damage and casualties will be unclear for some time. Uganda says the Democratic Republic of Congo's government will sign a peace deal on Monday with rebel group M23, which gave up its fight this week. The U.S. labor market once again added 204,000 jobs in October, defying economists' predictions that last month's partial government shutdown would slow down hiring. Madagascar's electoral commission says its presidential election will go to a runoff vote after no candidate received an outright majority in the first round last month. The Olympic torch is taking a slight detour on its trip from Greece to Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Winter Games. This Saturday, it will spend some time in space. Russian cosmonauts will carry the torch outside the International Space Station as they begin a six-hour maintenance mission. For all the latest news, visit us at voanews.com 24 hours a day. I'm Vincent Bruce, VOA news, reporting from the VOA news center in Washington.

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VOA Khmer update on 23 May 2013,Opposition Holds Demonstration for Election Reform Cambodia news

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VOA News for Wednesday, January 1st, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. New Year's celebrations ring in 2014. Israel releases another group of Palestinian prisoners. I'm Ray Kouguell reporting from Washington. Fireworks are crackling through the night skies around the world as revelers celebrate the first moments of 2014. Crowds gathered in public spaces in major cities across the Asia-Pacific region to ring in the New Year with music, fireworks and revelry. The night skies in New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong started the worldwide celebration of the New Year. Dubai created what it called the world's largest fireworks show. And about a million people are expected to gather in New York's Times Square to watch a giant ball drop at the stroke of midnight five hours from now, New York being the best known of the American New Year's Eve rituals. Russian President Vladimir Putin used a New Year's address to warn terrorists he will fight them until their "total destruction," following the two suicide bombings in the southern city of Volgograd on Sunday and Monday that left 34 people dead. Mr. Putin said that at the country's most trying times, Russia has always been united and consolidated. Representatives of South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for talks on ending deadly civil unrest that broke out earlier this month. The tribal bloodshed erupted when President Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused Machar, an ethnic Nuer, of attempting a coup. The U.N. says the fighting has left more than 1,000 people dead and displaced tens of thousands. Israel released 26 more Palestinian prisoners who were jailed for deadly attacks on Israeli civilians, most of them occurring more than 20 years ago. It was the third scheduled release under an agreement to revive peace talks between the two sides. VOA's Scott Bobb reports. Ramadan Yakoub is tasting freedom for the first time in 21 years. Until a few hours ago, he was in prison convicted of killing an Israeli woman. His release brought to 78 the number of long-term Palestinian prisoners freed as part of confidence-building measures to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The release early Tuesday brought a joyous celebration and a welcome from the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas: "This day is a happy day for all of us, for our people, for our families and for our hero prisoners who were freed today." But the release angers many Israelis who view the former prisoners as terrorists. Scott Bobb, VOA news, West Bank. The United States freed the last three Uighur prisoners from Guantanamo Bay for their new lives in Slovakia. The men, Muslims from China, were among 22 Uighurs arrested in Afghanistan and held as alleged terrorists. The Syrian government missed a Tuesday deadline for moving its most deadly chemical weapons components out of the country, with international monitors attributing the delay to unspecified security concerns and bad weather. Under an internationally brokered deal announced earlier in 2013, Damascus was to have shipped its most lethal chemicals, including about 20 tons of mustard nerve agent, out of the Mediterranean port of Latakia by December 31st. The toxins are slated for destruction at sea, with a mid-2014 deadline looming for the removal of the entire Syrian chemical arsenal. Pakistan's former military President Pervez Musharraf goes on trial for treason today. He says [the change] the charge is unfounded and the result of a political vendetta. Ayaz Gul has details. In a special video message to a gathering of more than 200 retired army generals in Islamabad Tuesday, former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf vowed to "boldly" confront the treason trial and other legal challenges facing him to prove them wrong. "All these cases are framed cases. I have not done anything for myself, for my family's benefit. I only acted for the country and for its people." Pakistani authorities say they have put in place tight security measures to ensure resumption of the legal proceedings. Mr. Musharraf faces the death penalty if found guilty. Ayaz Gul, for VOA news, Islamabad. A senior Iranian nuclear negotiator says Iran and world powers have made "good progress" in talks on how to implement an agreement regarding the country's nuclear program. Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said that "some issues remain" after experts from both sides met in Geneva Tuesday. I'm Ray Kouguell, VOA news. These and other stories at voanews.com.

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VOA news for Friday, February 14th, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Friday, February 14th, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. U.S. secretary of state heads to Beijing to seek Chinese help in curbing North Korea's nuclear weapons program, and team China wins 2 gold medals at the Winter Olympics. I'm Michael Lipin reporting from Washington. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is traveling today to Beijing, where he is expected to urge Chinese officials to do more to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program. VOA's State Department correspondent Scott Stearns has this report from Seoul, where the top us diplomat met with South Korea's President and foreign minister on Thursday to discuss how the 2 allies should deal with North Korea. With little progress in talks between Pyongyang and Seoul, South Korea says it will go ahead with the U.S. on planned joint military exercises that North Korea says will disrupt efforts at family reunions. Speaking through a translator, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-sen said it's time to keep the pressure on Pyongyang. "We share the view that a principled and effective 2-track approach of pressure and dialogue is necessary. In this regard, based on firm ROK-U.S. collaboration, we will make greater efforts with China and other countries to achieve substantial denuclearization of North Korea." Kerry says China has a "unique and critical role" in bringing North Korea back to talks on its nuclear program. Scott Stearns, VOA news, Seoul. A Tibetan man has set himself on fire near a monastery in western China's Sichuan province. Sources tell VOA's Tibetan service that Thursday's self-immolation at the Kirti Monastery was an apparent protest against Chinese rule in Tibetan regions of the country. It is the 2nd self-immolation by a Tibetan this year. Since 2009, more than 120 Tibetans have set themselves on fire, often fatally, to demand that China allow the return of exiled Tibetan leader The Dalai Lama and respect Tibetan freedoms. A team China has won 2 gold medals in speedskating at the Sochi Winter Olympics. In Thursday action, Chinese speedskater Li Jianrou won the women's 500-meter race, while China's Zhang Hong took the top spot in the women's 1,000-meter speedskating event. In skiing, American freestylers dominated the 1st-ever men's Olympic slopestyle competition, sweeping the top 3 spots. While the Olympic luge athletes wrapped up their competition in Sochi on Thursday night with the inaugural team relay event, VOA's Parke Brewer was at the Sanki sliding center in the mountains above Sochi and has this report. Favorite Germany captured the 1st-ever Olympic gold medal in luge team relay, with the silver going to host Russia, and Latvia getting the bronze. The Germans have won this event at the last 10 world championships. It's 1 of the more intriguing new events that has been popular on the World Cup circuit this season. Finishes can be unpredictable because of possible false starts and crashes. The team relay features each of the luge disciplines racing in this order-- women's singles, men's singles and then doubles. German doubles brakeman Tobias Arlt said through a translator that he and his teammates are close friends and this was a special win. "We are so happy. We've made, we've made history in sports and we've won a medal." Parke Brewer, VOA news, at the Sochi Olympics. Afghanistan has released 65 suspected militants from a former U.S. detention facility, defying warnings from the United States against such a move. Afghan officials said the prisoners were freed from the Parwan Detention Facility on Thursday. Among those scheduled to be released was Mohammad Wali, who[m] the United States says is a Taliban militant explosives expert who had targeted U.S. and Afghan forces. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said several weeks ago the government had reviewed the prisoners' cases and cleared them for release. He said their conditions of detention were turning the men against their own country and fostering loyalty to the Taliban. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the release was a "major step backwards" for the rule of law in Afghanistan. And U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi says Washington and Moscow have promised to do more to break an impasse in Syrian peace talks. Brahimi discussed the issue with senior Russian and U.S. officials in Geneva on Thursday, urging them to use their influence with rival Syrian peace delegations who represent the government and the opposition. Brahimi said a potential failure of the talks is staring him in the face. And the U.S. travel tourism industry says it is succeeding in attracting more visitors to the United States. A U.S. government and private industry group called Brand USA said new advertising has brought more people to the country 1 million last year. I'm Michael Lipin.

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VOA news for Friday, April 11th, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Friday, April 11th, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. Coming up, the latest on the Ukraine crisis, and more peacekeepers for the Central African Republic. Hello everyone, I'm Steve Norman. NATO has released satellite photographs showing [that] what it says are 40,000 Russian troops massed near the Ukrainian border, along with tanks, aircraft and other hardware said to be awaiting orders from Moscow. The satellite intelligence comes as the government in Kyiv seeks to defuse tensions in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian protesters seized control of government buildings that happened earlier in the week and issued demands for a vote on joining the Russian Federation. The U.N. Security Council has approved an expanded peacekeeping force of 10,000 soldiers and 1,800 police for the Central African Republic. They will become operational in September and replace the current African Union peacekeeping mission. French Ambassador Gérard Araud told reporters the African and French forces have been working hard on the ground, but the security situation remains volatile, and the authorization of new U.N. force will be a turning point. "Their mandate under Chapter 7 will focus on protection of civilians, restoration of law and order, support to humanitarian access, monitoring of human rights and fight impunity." Also at the Security Council on Thursday, U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power, who visited the Central African Republic this week, said the violence [in] the country has witnessed has brought it "to the edge of disaster." India's election moved to the country's heartland on Thursday, a region that will play a critical role in deciding the political fortunes of the ruling Congress Party. Anjana Pasricha reporting now from New Delhi. Spread over 14 states and territories and covering some 110 million voters, Thursday's vote was the first big round: it will decide the fate of 91 parliamentary seats. But nowhere was it as crucial as in the populous Uttar Pradesh, where ballots were cast in the west. The north Indian state sends 80 lawmakers to the 543-member house and is famously known as the route to power in the Indian capital. Voting has been largely peaceful. But on Thursday, suspected Maoist rebels blew up a jeep, killing at least two paramilitary soldiers. Anjana Pasricha, for VOA news, New Delhi. A frontrunner in Afghanistan's presidential voting wants to see a transparent vote count in this month's election. When asked about a possible run-off, former Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah told VOA's Afghan Service on Thursday that it's more important that the process be fair and legitimate, regardless of who [the] ultimately wins the April 5 vote. Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission says more than 45 percent of ballots have been entered into its data system, and that a partial vote count can not be released until at least 20 of 34 total provinces are counted. A final tally is not expected until mid-May. The United States and Mongolia are bolstering military ties after a deal signed in Ulan Bator by [defense secretary] U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. The Mongolian capital is the last stop on Secretary Hagel's 10-day Asian tour, which has also included visits to China and Japan. And search crews have detected more underwater transmissions they believe belong to the flight data recorder of the missing Malaysian jetliner. It went missing on March eighth while traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard. South African runner Oscar Pistorius returned to the witness stand in his murder trial Thursday, as prosecutors tried to portray him as self-centered in his relationship with girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Lead prosecutor Gerrie Nel focused on the apology Pistorius made when he first began his testimony this week, saying the athlete chose to make a spectacle in the courtroom rather than apologize in private. "You never thought about them. You never thought how they would feel, sitting in the public gallery of a court while you made that apology. Did you think how they would experience that, or did it only matter about Pistorius, Oscar Pistorius?" Pistorius said he did not have the chance to meet with Steenkamp's family, and that he believed they would not be able to talk to them. Nel also repeatedly accused Pistorius of not taking responsibility for being a negligent fire(arm) owner. Pistorius is on trial for murdering Steenkamp. Get more news by going to our website at voanews.com. I'm Steve Norman, VOA news in Washington.

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Học từ vựng qua bản tin ngắn: Surveillance (VOA News Words)

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Phương pháp học tiếng Anh hiệu quả, nhanh chóng: Các chương trình học tiếng Anh của Ban Việt ngữ VOA (VOA Learning English for Vietnamese) có thể giúp các bạn cải tiến kỹ năng nghe, hiểu rõ cấu trúc và ngữ pháp, và sử dụng Anh ngữ một cách chính xác. Sau đây là một từ mà bạn có thể đã nghe tới. Nó nằm trong câu chuyện về việc các cơ quan tình báo của chính phủ Hoa Kỳ theo dõi hồ sơ điện thoại và internet của người Mỹ.

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VOA news for Sunday, April 27th, 2014

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Thanks to http://gandalf.ddo.jp/ for audio and text Sunday, April 27th, 2014 From Washington, this is VOA news. Ukraine cites Russia for airspace violation. U.S. President Obama is in Malaysia. I'm Vincent Bruce reporting from Washington. Ukraine's prime minister says Russian military aircraft repeatedly crossed into Ukraine's airspace in what he called Russian aggression designed to undermine global security. Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Rome during a trip to Italy that included talks with Pope Francis told reporters Saturday that Russian forces had "violated" Ukrainian airspace seven times overnight. "We do understand the reason Russian military did it. The only reason is to provoke Ukraine to strike missile and to accuse Ukraine of waging the war to Russia." On Friday, U.S. military officials also said Russian aircraft had flown into Ukrainian airspace, a charge Russia denies. VOA correspondent Brian Padden in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk says anti-American sentiment appears to be on the rise among pro-Russian separatists. Padden reports an angry mob confronted him as he tried to cover a rally in front of an occupied building. "As we were walking away, the crowd just got more angry and started following us and one guy tried to grab my colleague's camera. I tried to stop him. [He]Then he grabbed me and another guy came with a baton. But before anything could really deteriorate into a real scuffle, the police kind of came between all of us and pulled us out and we just kept walking. But they followed us for a good 20 meters, yelling, continuing to yell at us to 'Get out,' to 'Go home.'" Saturday, President Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to visit Malaysia in nearly half a century. Mr. Obama arrived in Kuala Lumpur, the third stop on an Asian tour aimed at reassuring allies in the region. VOA White House correspondent Luis Ramirez traveling with the president has a report. With a red carpet and an elaborate honor guard at a ceremony in central Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's King Sultan Abdul Halim and Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak welcomed Mr. Obama on this two-day visit aimed at strengthening already robust trade and security ties. Malaysia is predominantly Muslim and the national mosque is on the president's itinerary as a gesture of good will. He comes to Malaysia as the country remains preoccupied with last month's mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people aboard. At a state dinner Saturday, the Malaysian monarch thanked Mr. Obama for U.S. cooperation in the ongoing search for the missing plane. Luis Ramirez, VOA news, Kuala Lumpur. More details on these stories at voanews.com. Fifteen deaths have been reported in Iraq following attacks Saturday as the country approaches parliamentary elections. Officials say at least six people died in two separate attacks in the capital, Baghdad. All violence elsewhere killed nearly ten people. Saturday's violence happened a day after at least 33 people were killed in bombings at a campaign rally for Shiite political organization. Egyptian authorities have detected the country's first case of the deadly SARS-like virus called the Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS. Egypt's state-run news says a 27-year-old Egyptian who recently traveled to Saudi Arabia tested positive for the disease Saturday morning. Doctors are treating him at a Cairo hospital. It appears no candidate won a [major] majority in Afghanistan's April 5th election so there will be a second runoff vote between Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani. The runoff should be held within 15 days of final results due on May 14th. A permanent museum to remember the Tiananmen crackdown of 1989 has officially opened in Hong Kong. Rebecca Valli reports from Hong Kong for VOA. While references to the crackdown are banned on the mainland, activists and politicians in Hong Kong have long called on Beijing to offer a full account of what happened on June 4th, 1989. In 1989, Chen Qinghua was a representative sent by the Hong Kong Student Association to support the student movement, which had been demonstrating for months against corruption and calling for political reform. He says that in the late evening of June third he was at a medical station near Tiananmen Square and what he saw filled him with disbelieve and anger. "Starting from 10:30, 11 o'clock, people were brought in with gun wounds. Some of them were dead on arrival." The government in China says the protests were counter-revolutionary and insists that China has moved on from that political turmoil. Rebecca Valli, reporting for VOA news, Hong Kong. NATO and British officials say five international troops have been killed in a British military helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan. No further details at this time. More details at voanews.com. I'm Vincent Bruce, VOA news, reporting from Washington.

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Sudanese Woman Sentenced to Death for Apostasy

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15 May 2014

VOA News ... Ibrahim's husband, Daniel Wani, is a Christian.  He said in an interview with VOA that police prevented him from attending his wife's final appeal but that he will continue to fight for her life ... Sudanese Information Minister Ahmed Bilal told VOA ((South Sudan in Focus)) that Ibrahim's sentence is not final. He also ......(size: 2.2Kb)

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Women attend a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped schoolgirls of the Chibok secondary school, in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 13, 2014.

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Nigeria rules out prisoner swap for missing girls

Mail Guardian South Africa

15 May 2014

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has ruled out the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the freedom of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants a month ago. Britain’s Africa Minister Mark Simmonds, in Nigeria for talks about the international rescue mission, told reporters on Wednesday that he raised the issue with Jonathan during a meeting in Abuja ... International involvement ... Special powers....(size: 5.0Kb)

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Miners carefully carrying a rescued friend hours after an explosion and fire at a coal mine killed at least 17 miners and left up to 300 workers trapped underground, in Soma, in western Turkey, late Tuesday, May 13, 2014, a Turkish official said.

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Turkey mine blast kills at least 201, hundreds trapped

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14 May 2014

SOMA. At least 201 people were killed and hundreds more remained trapped underground after an explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey, the government said today, warning that rescue efforts faced a race against time. The toll has risen rapidly since Tuesday’s disaster in the province of Manisa, when a total of 787 mineworkers became trapped inside the mine ... We have had very little news and when it does come it’s very bad,” he added ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)

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A woman holds an anti-war placard and a sign as Buddhist monks beat drums and chant sutras during a rally against Japan's plan to reform constitution in Tokyo Thursday, May 15, 2014.

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Will Japan's Two-Edged Sword Shred Its Pacifist Constitution?

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15 May 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. As documents go, it serves as one of the seven wonders of the world. Along with helping to redefine the role of Japan's emperor, from being "divine" to "supreme" and "the symbol of the state and of the unity of the people," these indelible principles are enshrined in Article 9 of Japan's postwar constitution ... This abrupt, historical pivot is backed by the U.S ... While the U.S ... The U.S ... 183 ... 165....(size: 7.3Kb)

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Friends and family members of 9/11 victims visit a September 11 Memorial waterfall during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011 in New York.

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Obama visits 9/11 museum, says terrorism can't break us

The Times of India

15 May 2014

NEW YORK. President Barack Obama praised the new September 11 museum on Thursday as "a sacred place of healing and of hope" that captures both the story and the spirit of heroism that followed the attacks. "Like the great wall and bedrock that embrace us today, nothing can ever break us ... The museum, which commemorates the 2001 terrorist attack, as well as the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, opens to the public on May 21 ... 11 ... ....(size: 3.4Kb)

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Ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia Cancel Anti-China Protest

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16 May 2014

Sem Chi, head of the Association of Khmer Vietnamese in Cambodia, told VOA's Khmer service that the demonstration has been postponed “indefinitely.” ... A Cambodian border police officer, who spoke with VOA on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that more than 600 Chinese and Taiwanese people have crossed the Bavet border checkpoint since tensions broke out earlier this week....(size: 2.1Kb)

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Violence Claims at Least 22 Lives in Iraq

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16 May 2014

VOA News. Bombings and shootings around Iraq's capital killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens more on Thursday ... ....(size: 0.8Kb)

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Biden Tells Chinese General to Stop 'Dangerous' Actions in Disputed Territory

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16 May 2014

VOA News. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has told a top Chinese military official that Beijing's actions the South China Sea are dangerous and provocative ... ....(size: 0.9Kb)

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Filipinos Join Vietnamese Anti-China Protests

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16 May 2014

VOA News. Filipinos and Vietnamese residents in the Philippines have staged a joint protest against China's incursions into South China Sea territories claimed by their countries. . ... ... ... . U.S ... ... ....(size: 1.3Kb)

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China Detains Rights Lawyer Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary

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16 May 2014

VOA News ...   ... . Tang has represented uncompensated victims of land grabs and imprisoned rights defenders. . ... ... ....(size: 0.8Kb)

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India's Likely PM Modi Has Modest Roots

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16 May 2014

VOA News. Narendra Modi, who is set to become India's next prime minister, had a modest upbringing that stands in contrast to that of his chief political rivals in the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.   ... ... ... ... ... ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)

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Nigerian President Cancels Chibok Trip

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16 May 2014

VOA News. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has canceled a visit to a northeastern town where Islamist militants last month seized more than 200 schoolgirls. Officials said Friday that Jonathan is not able to make the trip to Chibok village in Borno province because of security considerations ...   ... ....(size: 1.4Kb)

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Hagel: US Will 'Do What We Must' to Stop Iran from Getting Bomb

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16 May 2014

VOA News. United States Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Washington will do whatever it takes to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, as talks continue between Tehran and world powers in Vienna ... They hope to have an agreement in place by July 20 ...   ... ....(size: 1.3Kb)

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UN Report on Ukraine Slams Human Rights in East

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16 May 2014

VOA News ... Separatist leaders in Donetsk say they have asked Moscow to consider formally "absorbing" the region into the Russian Federation, but on Thursday Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a spokesman for Russia's Foreign Ministry as saying it had not received an official request from the "Donetsk People's Republic" to join Russia ... ....(size: 1.9Kb)

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Early India Election Results Favor Opposition

Voa News

16 May 2014

VOA News. Officials are counting votes in India following what is being billed as the world's largest democratic exercise.  . Early election results Friday put the opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, led by prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, on course to win the most seats in parliament ... ....(size: 1.5Kb)

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Up to 18 Still Trapped in Turkey Mine

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16 May 2014

VOA News. Taner Yildiz, Turkey's energy minister, said a "maximum of 18 people" are still trapped inside a coal mine in Soma following an explosion and fire that killed more than 280 people.  . Yildiz also said Friday officials expect the final death toll from the accident to be around 302 people ... ... ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)

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Critics Say Uganda's New HIV Law a Giant Step Backward

All Africa

16 May 2014

[VOA]A Ugandan bill criminalizing the "willful" transmission of HIV and mandating HIV tests for certain groups is awaiting the president's signature to become law. Such a law could be a setback in the country's fight against AIDS . ....(size: 0.2Kb)

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Chinese Worker Killed in Vietnam Protest

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16 May 2014

Tensions between the two countries see no sign of abating. . Nguyen Quang Hoan, an official in central Vietnam's Ha Tinh province, where the unrest took place, told VOA's Vietnamese Service that thousands of Vietnamese participated in a peaceful anti-China protest that turned ugly in the end ... At a news conference in Hanoi Thursday, government spokesman Le Hai Binh blamed the protests on "bad elements." ... is ill advised ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)

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Top Vines, 1969

Its 1969 in my head
I just wanna have no place to go
Livin thru the sound of the dead
I'm gonna get stoned look round at my soul
I'm hearin voices in the trees
And seein footsteps in the rain
I just wanna die before I loose my dol
I have been cryin in my sleep
Cause I dont kno where i've been
I just wanna live to see another day
Hey hey hey hey
When I get my buick six
I'll see my life drop in that whirlpool
If I get to see you again
You're the only one I know
Here we go
There I stand
I'm a seed
Of a man
Dare I go
Dare I stare
I'm a seed

Top Vines, She Is Gone

On my way to God
All the way to nowhere
Searching with a hope
Ain't that hard to know it
She is, she is gone
Wishing on a star
Looking for a meaning
Fate tore us apart
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On our way to God
Searching without hope
Wishing on a star

Top Vines, Animal Machine

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Girl you've been lacking a pretense
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Girl you've been lacking a pretense
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I'm looking over the deep end
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Shoot like an animal machine
Straight from the colors of her dream
Colors of her dream
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Top Vines, A Girl I Knew

Allie was a girl I knew
Took my heart and tore it in two
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There are times I feel ashamed
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They tell you where to move
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Cried so much on the kitchen floor
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Record deal and a movie role
Telling me it's all okay

Top Vines, Sunchild

Sun child
You're a sun child
Awoken by the spirit of the day
Well I've grown wild
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Forgot about the engine in the rain
Don't let it bring you down
For us that ain't the way
We'll keep our lives reserved
For those who have to pray
But I can't pray
Sun child
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Awoken by the spirit of the day
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Forgot about the engine in the rain
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For us that ain't the way
We'll keep our lives reserved
For those who have to pray

Top Vines, Winning Days

The winning days are gone
Because I know just where I'm seeing
Was given eyes I know
I can hear
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And when I want to go
I can dream
I've been trying
All my time
I'm just seeing it rise
Cause it could be the land that's over me
So I just wanna let it breathe
The winning days are gone
Because I know just where I'm seeing
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I can dream
I've been trying
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So I just wanna let it breathe for now
Get up and go outside
It can help your mind too
Get up don't hide away
Cause I know where there's gold
I didn't know when I was flying
I'm sinking like a stone
I can dream

Top Vines, Dope Train

I hear the sound
Comin' up
Goin' down
Danger in the hollow
Sewer on the side
Waitin' for the morrow
Dope to get ya by
See for a mile
What I mean
To decide
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Waitin for the morrow
Dope to get ya by
You're forever dreamin'
And forever bored
Everything ya needed

Top Vines, Atmos

Out in the atmosphere
Far, far away from here
I hear the sound of you
Tellin ya I love you
If I were anywhere
What me I got no care
As long as I see you
Tellin ya I love you

Top Vines, Amnesia

I cannot remember my own sanity
Gods love ain't forever
He'll set us free
Thought I had to tell you
we came from the breeze but I dont care forever
I dont need a thing

Top Vines, A.s Iii

In the early morning
Underneath the autumn shade
I don't need no more reminding of the day
Now the leaves are falling
And the sun won't be around
And the words I am are singing to the clouds
Na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Top Vines, Anysound

I am a Vine
All twisted and frayed
Lookin' for light
A million ways
Time hangin' around
Been getting' me down now baby yeah
Show me any sound
Kill me now I'm dead
Keep for yourself
Or throw it away
Damage your health
Or manage your brain
Time hangin' around
Been getting' me down now baby yeah
Show me any sound

Top Vines, Country Yard

I'm tired of feelin sick and useless
then speakin every other way
gluin my eyes together girl
might be the right escape
there's nothin in the secret garden
just images of blue and white
losin my mind forever girl
maybe the only sign
down in a country yard
I was taken by the shadows
although we couldn't see that far
I was dreamin of tomorrow
I really don't need a change
I really don't need what's mine
out in a country yard
it'll be just fine
aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhiiiiiii
down in a country yard
I was taken by the shadows
although we couldn't see that far
I was dreamin of tomorrow
I really don't need a change
I really don't need what's mine
out in a country yard
it'll be just fine

Top Vines, Brain Dead

I want the world around me
For it to be gone
And it to be free
Dead in the brain
Is your claim to fame
I live by the sound
Thinkin' enough about it
The spirit is gone
In what I believe
Dead in the brain
Is your claim to fame
I live by the sound
Out in a dream
When I feel sorrow
Try make believin' anyway
Dead in the brain
Is your claim to fame
I live by the sound

Top Vines, Autumn Shade II

Look through me because I am transparent
Her to know me but why even know yourself
I'm beginning to need all that I can't have
I'm succeeding to speak like I'm fucking mad
Looking at the autumn shade
You am I and I am great
Looking at the autumn shade, oh yeah
Look through me because I am transparent
Her to know me but why even know yourself
I'm beginning to need all that I can't have
I'm succeeding to speak like I'm fucking mad
Looking at the autumn shade
You am I and I am great
Looking at the autumn shade, oh yeah

Top Vines, Get Free

I'm gonna get free
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I'm gonna get free
Ride into the sun
She never loved me
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Why should anyone?
(Come here, come here, come here)
I'll take your photo for ya
(Come here, come here, come here)
Drive you around the corner
(Come here, come here, come here)
You know you really oughta
(Come here, come here, come here)
Move out of California
Get (get)
Me (me)
Far (far)
When I have alot to lose
Save (save)
Me (me)
From (from)
Here! (here)
When it's pretty time
Look into your mind
Don't wait
I'm gonna get free
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I'm gonna get free
Ride into the sun
She never loved me
She never loved me
She never loved me
Why should anyone?
(Come here, come here, come here)
I'll take your photo for ya
(Come here, come here, come here)
Drive you around the corner
(Come here, come here, come here)
You know you really oughta
(Come here, come here, come here)

Top Vines, Fuk Yeh

Yeah ma ma my baby
Yeah ma ma my girl
Yeah ma ma my baby
You'll never rule the earth
This ain't the real world
It ain't a fuckin' thing
People are full of hurl
And so are all their friends
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Yeah ma ma my girl
Yeah ma ma my baby
You'll never rule the earth
Two of a kind
Three ain't a pair
Real love were blind

Top Vines, Futuretarded

I don't know how the future started
We might as well all be retarded
Cut from an image turned to stone
Makin' me feel it to the bone
Deep in the jungle or Sahara
Real people carry on regardless
Left unaffected left alone
The sun, the earth, the moon their home
In the beginning
Or the old days
Surreal lives and mine are strange
Oh yeah I say
It's like futuretarded
C'mon baby don't say
C'mon baby don't mind
Every night every day

Top Vines, Autumn Shade

Slip into the autumn shade
I could sleep for days
But I like the sun when
I can hear another sound
It's a long way down
Keep my head up
Who am I to be this way
Dreamin so insane
But I like the sun when
Falling through another plan
Never one the same

Top Vines, Fuck The World

Walk the fields and we stare at the ocean
Roll the wheel but forget the notion
Life was better before was smaller
The minds computer will fuck the world up
Feels like a dream
I know you want it
Don't feel supreme
Nobody got it
World
c'mon fuck the world
c'mon fuck the world
c'mon fuck the world
Walk the fields and we stare at the ocean
Roll the wheel but forget the notion
Life was better before was smaller
The minds computer will fuck the world up
Feels like a dream
I know you want it
Don't feel supreme
Nobody got it
World
c'mon fuck the world
c'mon fuck the world
c'mon fuck the world
Fuck the world, don't
Fuck the world, don't
Fuck the world, don't
Fuck the world, don't
World
c'mon fuck the world
c'mon fuck the world
c'mon fuck the world

Top Vines, Evil Town

Evil is what you are
As well as being sharp
I fell right to it
She sells and I don't
Like it feels
Like shonen knife and kills
But they dont mind in an evil town
Evil is what you are
As well as being sharp
I fuckin' feel to it

Top Vines, Factory

Days are long but the minds are strong
In the factory
Heads are down and all the people frown
In the factory
I'm so down I put my head around every noose I see
Days are long but the minds are strong
In the factory
Eyes are mean but the walls are clean
In the factory
Patience now they're gonna string you out
In the factory
I'm so tired I never go outside every night I sleep
Days are long but the minds are gone

Top Vines, Ain't No Room

There ain't no room for me in the city
The lights go down but it looks so pretty
So take me away from the corner
Let me hide away in the fauna
With something at my side
Forget it now forget it then
We'll hang around without a care
There ain't no room for me in the city
The lights go down but it looks so pretty
So take me away from the corner
Let me hide away in the fauna
With something at my side
Going outta my head
Was it something I read
Forget it now
Forget it then

Top Vines, Don't Listen To The Radio

Don't listen to the radio
Hear something that ya ready know
I got no radio
Don't speak upon the telephone
Hear somethin' that you're never shown
I got no telephone
Get out the way today
(Oh yeah I say)
Get out the way today
(Oh yeah I say)
Don't listen to the TV show
Feel someone that you ready know
I got no T.V.O
Get out the way today
(Oh yeah I say)
Get out the way today

Top Vines, Candy Daze

Candy daze are here to stay forever
They light the way and keep us all together
C'mon C'mon
Singin' a song
It won't be long
For we are gone
Candy daze are here to stay forever
They light the way and keep us all together
It'll be alright
I don't know I say it might
It'll seem alright

Top Vines, Vision Valley

Are you here forever standin' by the road
With the benefit of feelin' on your own

Top Vines, TV Pro

See the late night talk show guest professional
A movie star and some kind of telectual
Hes a she cause shes got more obsessional
Cause whenever I get uptight know you will
See the late night talk show guest I guess you will

Top Vines, True As The Night

Down in there left by the side of the railway
Day goes by into the night, I was thinking
And my love is true
And my love is right
And my love is true
True as the night, oh
Hear the sound over the trees, there's a river
I don't know where to begin or to end it
And my love is true
And my love is right
And my love is true
True as the night, oh
I stand alone inside me
The things you've told didn't harm me
Yeah, we all move on
Yeah, we all move slow
I stand alone inside me
The things you've told didn't harm me
Yeah, we all move on

Top Vines, Take Me Back

There's no point in doin' what I've done
Lives are goddamned ruined like the runts
Take me back to the weather
Bend the tracks wish forever
Take me back for I go down there no more
Chew us up and spit us out again
Wavin' bye and getting high on trends
Take me back to the weather
Bend the tracks and wish forever
Take me back for I go down there no more
Well the road is long
But I know I can survive
Been away so long

Top Vines, Sunshinin

sunshinin rain's drivin
don't wanna believe
in the saints comin
don't try'n fool my head
the weather can be
any place I am
gone oh oh yeah
gone yeeaahh
drug buyin fake lightin
don't wanna believe
in the way I am
don't try'n fool my head
the weather for me
are the birds flyin
home oh oh yeah

Top Vines, Sun Child

Sun child
You're a sun child
Awoken by the spirit of the day
Will I wild
Speaking so mild
Forgot about the engine in the rain
Don't let it bring you down
For us that ain't the way
We'll keep our lives reserved
For those who have to pray
But I can't
Sun child
You're a sun child
Awoken by the spirit of the day
Will I grow wild
Speaking so mild
Forgot about the engine in the rain
Don't let it bring you down
For us that ain't the way
We'll keep our lives reserved
For those who have to pray

Top Vines, Spaceship

Mother said
Get me out
Brother meant
Get me out
I got a spaceship in the yard
We're only fourteen years apart
Or am I lost beside the stream
Tattoo my head tattoo my feet
I will leave home

Top Vines, She's Got Something To Say

Shes Got Something To Say To Me
About me never comin round
Shes Got Something To Say To Me
And dont know how to be left out
Are you tellin me what you ain't knowin?
Shes Got Something To Say To Me
About me never comin round
Shes Got Something To Say To Me
And dont know how to be left out
Are you tellin me what you ain't knowin?
About me ever coming round to play
And I wouldnt want to let you down
Meet you in the morning after daze
Soaking the sunrays from the ground
Shes Got Something To Say To Me
About me never comin round
Shes Got Something To Say To Me
And dont know how to be left out

Top Vines, Scream

First time that we met it was exciting
And was new
Last time that we met
You'd more important things to do
I don't really know
Just what it is you're looking for
Next time come to me
And I will show you to the floor
I know you got it, yeah I want it
But you are colder than no other
If I were older would you bother?
But now I know it's fucking over
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba
Ba ba do wup ba ba ba

Top Vines, Ride

That's the start, the middle, and the end
Aren't you glad the universe pretends
If I don't get this message home
Once again I'm gonna hate alone
Ride with me
Ride with me
Ride with me, Oh
Ride with me
Ride with me
Ride with me unless you
Bored aloud ignore the right to be
Invite me down because we like to see
The colours through your loaded mind
Fuck the world and liberate our time
Ride with me
Ride with me
Ride with me, Oh
Ride with me
Ride with me
Ride with me, Yeah
I'm not waiting a long life
I'm not waiting alone
Ride with me
Ride with me
Ride with me home
Ride with me
Ride with me

Top Vines, Rainfall

We were hiding from the rain and the thunder
I've been staring out for days
As I wonder a long day around
So here we are again we're outnumbered
The feeling is a wave that I'm under
But I heard it call my name in the summer
Is it ever gonna change in my slumber
I can hear myself walking through this world
Can't believe it's not
They're talking so retarded
I don't know
It might not show

Top Vines, Outtathaway

I get
What I own
Don't let
The feelings that I choose
'Cause everybody else do
Gotta get outtathaway!
No time for me to stay
Everyone in the world dont affect you
We think
You're a lot different
Your number ain't your thing
Your life is on the wrong end
Gotta get outtathaway!
No time for me to stay
Everyone in the world dont affect you
C'mon
C'mon
C'mon
Gotta get outtathaway!
No time for me to stay
When I speak out of line

Top Vines, Orange Amber

Orange amber in the sun
Shining 'til the day is done
I remember long ago
Standing in that orange world
How did the time just slip away?
I'd do anything to make it stay
Orange amber in the sun
Shining 'til the day is done
I remember long ago
Standing in that orange world
Been searching high, been searching low
Well, there ain't no better place to go
Orange amber in the sun
Shining 'til the day is done
I remember long ago
Standing in that orange world
Orange amber
Orange amber
Orange amber

Top Vines, Nothin's Comin'

Tell where I'm going to
Got nothing I wanna lose
Round and round and back again
Grin upon my fuckin head
Nothin's comin
I feel your death
Nothin's comin
Fallin' in or outta space
So sick of our human race
All for one ain't nothing real
Tell you how I fuckin feel
Nothin's comin'
I feel your death
Nothin's comin'
Nothin's comin'
Nothin's comin'

Top Vines, Ms. Jackson (outcast Cover)

I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologize a trillion times
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologize a trillion times
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologize a trillion times
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologize a trillion times
Me and your daughter
Got a special thing going on
You say it's puppy love
We say it's full grown
Hope that we feel this
Feel this way forever
You can paint a pretty picnic
But you can't predict the weather
Can't predict the weather
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologize a trillion times
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson
I am for real
Never meant to make your daughter cry
I apologize a trillion times
Me and your daughter
Got a special thing going on
You say it's puppy love
We say it's full grown
Hope that we feel this
Feel this way forever
You can paint a pretty picnic
But you can't predict the weather
Can't predict the weather

Top Vines, Mary Jane

Mary Jane said life's a wait
I already knew
Because we're down
We'll lose the town
Just like I would choose
Mary Jane said minds are games
I went to the moon
Before we know
She'll have to go
Wish I were there too
But I've got to go
Mary Jane
Mary says
I, I can love you
Life's a wait
Why, why should I lose
When I've got to go

Top Vines, Manger

Burning down the manger
'Cause my Lord's a stranger
Beatles are bigger than Jesus
'Til the end of time we will be alive
We know more now than we did then
We'll only be awhile
Making the future right
Strung out and here today
We'll take your life away
We'll only be awhile
Making the future right
Strung out and here today
We'll take your life away

Top Vines, Highly Evolved

I'm feelin happy
So highly evolved
My times a riddle that'll never be solved
Dreamin for somethin
Reachin for somethin
Just waitin for the sun to carry me in
If you feel low
You can buy love
From a payphone
I don't feel low
My brother Bill
He work for the market
Life is an arrow now and he is the target
Dreamin for somethin
Reachin for somethin
Just waitin for the sun to carry me in
If you feel low
You can buy love
From a payphone
I don't feel love
Highly evolved
I don't feel low

Top Vines, Kara Jayne

Oh, baby girl
I wanna see you night and day
And in my world
I hope nothing will ever change
For you girl
I'll be waiting and waiting
And waiting and waiting
Oh, baby girl
I wanna ride into the sun
And in my world
Try take a shot at everyone
For you girl
I'll be waiting and waiting
And waiting and waiting
You should know
I'll be waiting and waiting
And waiting and waiting
Oh, baby girl
Oh, baby girl
I love you
Oh, baby girl
Oh, baby girl

Top Vines, In The Jungle

in the jungle you can sleep
with the commandments at your feet
where the devil lays his hand
you don't even need to think
I'm tearin holes without a sink
but I know just where I stand
lines from the story you put before me
I don't know what to choose
under the oak tree tin all around me
I don't know what to prove
yeah she felt you felt like hell
in the jungle you're in the jungle
you're in the jungle that's you
in the jungle you're in the jungle
you're in the jungle ooooooohhh
and I'll be waitin for a hit yeah
ain't gonna seem fair tonight
and I'll keep havin other fits yeah
because it makes me feel alright
alright alright ooohhh ooohhh yeah right ooohhh ooohhh yeah
so if you should need a hand
write down the address of the land
but I'm runnin out of time
I'll tell you when it's time to leave

Top Vines, I'm Only Sleeping

When I wake up early in the morning,
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream
Please don't wake me, no
don't shake me
Leave me where I am
I'm only sleeping
Everybody seems to think I'm lazy
I don't mind, I think they're crazy
Running everywhere at such a speed
Till they find, there's no need
Please don't spoil my day
I'm miles away
And after all
I'm only sleeping
Keeping an eye on the world going by my window
Taking my time
Lying there and staring at the ceiling
Waiting for a sleepy feeling
Please don't spoil my day
I'm miles away
And after all
I'm only sleeping
Keeping an eye on the world going by my window
Taking my time
When I wake up early in the morning,
Lift my head, I'm still yawning
When I'm in the middle of a dream
Stay in bed, float up stream
Please don't wake me, no
don't shake me
Leave me where I am

Top Vines, Homesick

I left my home
I left my home yeah, yeah
Where I should go
Where I should go yeah, yeah
Nothin's gonna save you
Nothin's gonna save you out there
Went on my own
Went on my own yeah, yeah
Without my phone
Without my phone yeah, yeah
Nothin's gonna save you
Nothin's gonna save you out there
Nothin's gonna save you
Nothin's gonna save you or give
I can see the leaves of golden glisten in the sun
Making time for everyone is what I should have done.
Blue and green with eyes between are acting all the same
You and me are never free until we're cast away
But it really doesn't matter couldn't change it if I tried
Though it really doesn't matter

Top Vines, Hey

Hey, what are you doing today?
I had enough of my time
And so I threw it away
All away
Give me all or give me nothing
All I want or nothing more
I'm as bored as she is lonely
Wanting for no one to call
So is there ain't nothing you know?
I had enough of your smile
And so I'm letting it go
I'll let go
Give me all or give me nothing
All I want or nothing more
I'm as bored as she is lonely
Wanting for no one to call
Show me the daylight
Oh, when I'm there
Tell me it's alright
Oh, when I'm there

Top Vines, Gross Out

C'mon now let me feel the gross out ain't corruptin' you
Alone and trippin' out on acid agein' in your room
I feel so down
Time bring me round
C'mon now let me feel the gross out obvious and aloof
I know ya never had a faith in all that which ya knew
I feel so down
Time bring me round
C'mon now let me feel the gross out

Top Vines, Going Gone

Anna made the world turn black
Got hit out on a motor track
Now nothin's gone to waste for sure
Was written on her bedroom wall
In to the world
I'm goin'
Anna made the world turn blue
With nothin' but her life to lose
Now nothin's gone to waste for sure
Was written on her bedroom wall
Into the world
I'm goin
Out of the world
Gone
I'm goin'
Out of the world

Top Vines, Get Out

Find a way out
Get what you can
Keep your head now
Listen when I sing
C'mon get out outta here
C'mon get out over me
C'mon get out
God don't need ya
Find a home now (A home now)
See where you get (Where you get)
Sleep alone now (Alone now)
Or makin a friend
C'mon get out outta here
C'mon get out over me
C'mon get out
God don't need ya
I know you're thinking 'bout yourself (About yourself)
Why would you think of no one else? (Of no one else)
I'll keep on movin with the sound (Vin with the sound)
And sure do hope you come around
C'mon get out outta here
C'mon get out over me
C'mon get out
God don't need ya