(Test) The U.N.Secretary-General says he is "optimistic" a climate-change agreement can be reached in Copenhagen that will include specific recommendations on key elements that will take effect immediately.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The agreements announced by Clinton and Indian Foreign Minister S.M.Krishna aim to accelerate a growing partnership ignited by the two countries' landmark nuclear cooperation accord reached in 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

The IAEA chief did not elaborate on the draft deal, but news agencies report that it is essentially similar to an agreement reached in Geneva earlier this month.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Jiang also accused developed nations of abandoning the principle reached in earlier accords, which require them to cut greenhouse gas emissions, but do not make the same requirement of developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.12.16

It is like a miracle." African Union Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra says the deal reached in Addis Ababa will not be enough to remove A.U.sanctions imposed on Madagascar because of the coup.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

"There is a recognition on the part of the international community that the agreement that was reached in Tehran a week ago between Iran and Brazil and Turkey only occurred because the Security Council was on the brink of publicly releasing the text of the resolution that we have been negotiating for many weeks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

A new report says the number of foreign students in the United States reached a record high in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Over the years, big oil and gas companies recovered much of the easily reached supplies of gas in America.

VOA: special.2009.10.23

Last week, we told you that the number of foreign students in the United States had reached an all-time high.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

It was the hand that Beatrice had grabbed in hers when he reached for one of the purple flowers.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Oil reached the coastline late Thursday near the mouth of the Mississippi River in the southern state of Louisiana.

VOA: special.2010.05.01

He says the increase in milk production reached a high of more than six kilograms per cow per day.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

When they were tired or wanted to be held they cried out in tiny voices and reached up with their little arms.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

In some areas of Uganda, rates of brown streak reached more than eighty-five percent in two thousand five and two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

They could see a test version of the Viking landers that reached Mars in July of nineteen seventy-six.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

She reached the blanket just in time to see the weasel run off with a tiny rain baby hanging from its mouth.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The trees are pretty even if they have not yet reached their full colors in the fall.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

The estimate has reached about five percent countrywide and as high as twenty percent in some cities.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

The latest government report shows that their share of nonfarm jobs nearly reached fifty percent in September.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

In the end,only five of them reached an agreement: the United States,China,India, Brazil and South Africa.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

But,on the other hand, Ms.Teltscher says mobile phone usage has reached sixty-eight percent in developing countries.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

When the young man stepped in front of McKinley, McKinley reached out to shake his hand.

VOA: special.2010.07.29