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The Columbian president Alvaro Uribe has ordered the military to rescue the former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt from the left wing rebel group---the Fark. Ms Betancourt was kidnapped 5 years ago. From Columbia, Jeromy.M reports.

President Alvaro Uribe's returned to the talk that won him two presidential elections: tough talk. “We are not playing games with these bandit” he said, ordering his troop to rescue one of the most high profile hostages the Fark. hold, Ingrid Betancourt. With Fark rejecting his overture to release 300 guerrillas in prison in exchange for the hostages they hold, the president ordered the armed forces to conduct rescue operations. The announcement hasn’t been welcomed by families of the hostages, it's well-known that Fark rebel had ordered to kill their captives should rescue be attempted.

The Russian Foreign Minister has again highlighted disagreements over Kosovo and America’s Missile Defense Shield following an acrimonious summit meeting with leaders of the European Union, speaking to the BBC, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it was not up to the United Nation Security Council to change the status of the Serbian province. “When you speak about the possibility of metting of minds between EU, the United States and Russia, you are certainly burdened by colonial instincts. The case of Kosovo is not a case between Russia, EU and the United States; it’s a case for the people of Serbia.

A senior American State Department official, David Satterfield has admitted that some locally hired workers at the United States embassy in Iraq and its regional offices as well as their families are at imminent risk of attack by insurgents. Mr Satterfield said that the process of granting asylum in the US to those Iraqis judged to be at highest risk had already begun.

Venezuela has questioned the motives behind the visit to the country by a delegation of conservative members of the European parliament. The 4 MEPs all members of the central right European People’s Party are in Caracas to discuss controversial plans by the Venezuelan authorities to close the private television channel RCTV next week, a member of the delegation, the British MEP Daniel Hannan said their visit had convinced them that the European Union should speak out against the planned closure. “if these were the closure of a TV station in a stable democracy then we would indeed be able to, a case just a question of renewing a license, but when you set it against passion of intimidation political trials against opponents of the regime of arbitrary fines and sanctions, you know, that ought to worry us, it’s a slow but steady descent from democracy into dictatorship, and if you can catch it at an early stage, you should.

There’s been no let-up in the violence in Gaza with Israel launching more air attacks against militants killing at least 8 people, meanwhile, Palestinian factions have continued to fight each other.

World news from the BBC.

A United Nation's report has accused Sudanese security forces of killing more than 100 people in what it describes as indiscriminate shooting at villagers in southern Darfur. The report from the UN Human Right office quotes witnesses who saw hundreds of heavily armed men, many in uniform, firing with machine guns and rockets-propelled grenades.

A small group of refugees from Burundi who have lived in neighboring Tanzania for up to thirty five years have become the first of more than 8000 to leave Africa for a new life in the United States. The UN refugee agency said 88 Burundians flew from western Tanzania to the Kenyan capital Nairobi from where they will continue onto various cities in the United States.

American deep sea treasure hunters say they have recovered more than half a million silver and gold coins from a ship wrack in the Atlantic ocean. They described the treasure as the world’s biggest ever such find likely to be worth $500 million. W.G. reports from Miami.

A Florida based marine exploration company Odyssey believes it has hit the jackpot, the details of the discovery called project blacks one are still being tightly guarded, the precise location of the ship wrack has not been disclosed where the company clarifies it’s legal position, there were suggestions that it lies just off the coast of southwest England, but for now the company would only say that it is well outside any country's territory or waters.

Surgeons at a London hospital are pioneering a new technique for giving radial therapy to patients with breast cancer. They are trying out a single targeted dose of radiation during surgery instead of a lengthy course of treatment afterwards. Doses of radiation can reduce by two-thirds the risk of cancer recurring after breast surgery. The surgeons believe that if this new method is successful, it could cut delays for delivering radial therapy across the world.

BBC world news.

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Recur: v. if something, especially something bad or unpleasant recurs, it happens again. （尤指不好或不快之事）再次发生：There is a danger that the disease may recur in later life. 日后这种病有复发的危险。A recurring nightmare 一再出现的噩梦。