音频下载 Indian leader Narendra Modi (L) shakes hands with Maldivian leader Abdulla Yameen in New Delhi last year. The Indian Ocean island nation of the Maldives has told India it will not permit China to set up military bases on its territory ....

音频下载 The U.S. town of Ferguson , Missouri is tense , one year after the shooting death of an unarmed black man . A white police officer shot and killed 18 -year-old Michael Brown . Monday night , police arrested more than 20 protesters in Fer...

音频下载 Opposition in Parliament, above, has slowed reform legislation supported by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Although popular, Mr. Modi's party does not have a majority. In India , government efforts to reform the economy have slowed . The...

音频下载 Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., in this September 16, 2014 file photo (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke) United States lawmakers have begun considering the international agreement to restrict Irans nuclear activities . Some mem...

音频下载 South Korea has blamed North Korea for landmine explosions that injured two South Korean soldiers near the demilitarized zone (DMZ). South Korean officials are accusing the North Korean military of illegally entering the country and plan...

音频下载 Syrian refugees travel on the main street of Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, Jan. 15, 2015. The United Nations refugee agency says hundreds of thousands of Syrians who fled to Jordan t...

音频下载 Anti-corruption activists say billions of dollars earned from criminal acts are passing through the London property market . They also say a lot of the money for housing and other real estate is coming from Russia . The British governmen...

音频下载 The middle class in Uganda is expanding . So too is the countrys tourism industry . The growth of restaurants and high-end hotels is evidence that both foreigners and Ugandans are spending money . But the owners of these businesses have...

音频下载 FILE - Facebook logo on a computer screen is seen through glasses held by a woman. The social media company Facebook has opened its first African headquarters in Johannesburg , South Africa . Facebook representatives recently gathered in...

音频下载 Beiruts waterfront area of Dalieh is one of the few public stretches of coastline in Lebanon . But that could soon change . This past May , developers came to Dalieh with the hope of building hotels and other properties . Their bulldozer...