音频下载 Pfc. Paul Ison, a U.S. Marine runs through Japanese gunfire on Okinawa, May 10, 1945. World War II ended 70 years ago this week . On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered to allied forces led by the United States . The war was, and remains...

音频下载 File - Workers pick tea leaves at a plantation in Nandi Hills, in Kenya's highlands region west of capital Nairobi. There is a change in the air at the Tea Factory in Thika , Kenya . It is free of the dark smoke that rises from the boile...

音频下载 Ben Stonehill Seventy years have passed since World War Two ended . By the year 1948, many refugees from the war had left Europe and gone to the United States . That summer , American Ben Stonehill made tape recordings of Jews who had su...

音频下载 Secretary of State John Kerry and others watch as U.S. Marines raise the U.S. flag over the newly reopened embassy in Havana, Cuba. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry took part in a ceremony Friday to raise the U.S. flag at the countrys...

音频下载 Smoke continues to rise hours after two explosions at a warehouse in Tianjin, China, August 12. A large explosion in the Chinese port city of Tianjin has killed at least 50 people and injured at least 700 more . Officials and state media...

音频下载 Northern Cameroon The central African nation of Cameroon is taking steps to guard against attacks from Boko Haram militants . The government has deployed troops to all major towns to search people , goods , businesses and even private ho...

音频下载 Residents flee fighting in the Upper Nile capital of Malakal on May 2, 2015. (REUTERS/Denis Dumo) Since the middle of July , more than 16,000 South Sudanese have fled to the U.N. center in Malakal . They are fleeing the conflict in South...

音频下载 An employee burns meat at a customs house at Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg, Russia, August 6. The government in Russia is moving forward with efforts to destroy food imports from Western countries . The government banned the imports...

音频下载 This image made from a militant video posted on a social media website Aug. 5, 2015, reportedly shows a militant and Croatian hostage Tomislav Salopek. An Egyptian group linked to Islamic State said Wednesday it executed a Croatian citiz...

音频下载 Khanom farang kutii jiin being made at the Thanusingha Bakery. (Zinlat Aung for VOA News) The Chao Phraya River is an important part of daily life in Thailand . The Chao Phraya flows through Bangkok on its way to the Gulf of Thailand . Y...