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Attack their villages and loot, rape and kill. The head of the UN Humanitarian Office in North Kivu Patrick Lavand'Homme says that some of the instability in North Kivu could be blamed on government troops, the FARDC, loyal to a dissident Congolese General Laurent Nkunda. "DRC is now a democratically elected government. But actually what we see on the ground for the moment is that the protection of the population that should be done by the national army is not effective yet. At the same time, the level of exactions, it seems that the FARDC are the first perpetrator in the country to do the exactions."
Forest fires in Greece have killed as many as 19 people. Officials say they are struggling to keep pace as fires fanned by strong winds race across the Peloponnese peninsula. Several people are reported to be burned to death in their cars as they attempted to flee the flames. Malcolm Brabant has more from Athens.
This has been the deadliest day of a terrible summer of forest fires. At first, it seemed the worst fire was in the seaside town of Areopolis in the Mani region. Six people died there including a couple of French hillwalkers whose charred remains were found locked in a final embrace, then came even more dire news from a community called Zaharo. Whipped up by force 9 winds, the fire traveled with lethal velocity. Villagers trying to escape their cars were overwhelmed. They were surrounded by a wall of fire and could not break through.
A court in the United States has refused to block the extradition request by France for the former military leader of Panama Manuel Noriega, who is being released from an American jail next month. Mr. Noriega was captured by US forces during their invasion of Panama in 1989 and he is serving a sentence for drug trafficking and racketeering. Our Miami correspondent Andy Gallacher reports.
Manuel Noriega was once viewed by the United States as an ally in the fight against communism and drug trafficking. He is due to be released next month and had appealed to be allowed to return to Panama. But a Florida judge has refused to block an extradition order to France where he faces further charges of money laundering and a 10-year sentence. Manuel Noriega's lawyers had argued that his status as a prisoner of war negated the French request and he should be allowed to go home.
A court in the American state of Mississippi has sentenced a former police officer, member of the White supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan, to life in prison for his role in the 1964 kidnapping and murder of two African-American teenagers. Prosecutors described the killings in which the two young men were bound and weighed down and thrown into a river as one of the most horrific/terrific crimes in the history of Mississippi State.
World News from the BBC.
It's been announced in Germany that a second attack on foreigners took place last weekend, a day after 8 Indians were assaulted in the east of the country. It happened near the western German city of Miens. Two men from Sudan and Egypt were beaten by three men chanting racist abuse. The Sudanese man is reported to be badly injured. Two suspects were in custody.
Three British soldiers have been killed and two others wounded in southern Afghanistan after an American aircraft accidentally bombed their position. The plane was called in to help troops fighting the Taliban in Helmand Province. United States said the deaths would be thoroughly investigated. The commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Helmand Province, brigadier John Noriman says the incident was deeply regrettable. "The terrible tragedy, I mean, is all the more devastating prevalent because we've been working with the US Air Force a great many times during the time we've been out here, and on many, many times, bombs dropped by an American aircraft saved the lives of, of, of the hundreds of British troops."
A government official in Georgia says its forces have fired at what they believed was a Russian aircraft violating Georgian airspace. The officials said the incident took place on Wednesday in the mountains of Abkhazia. He said Georgian forces could not confirm if they brought it down. Russia has denied that any of its planes were involved.
An American general says withdrawing US forces from Iraq now would be a giant step backward. General Rick Lynch said recent security improvement south of Baghdad would be lost if President Bush heeded the advice of a veteran Republican Senator John Warner and announced to withdraw by Christmas.
A report by China's family planning authorities has highlighted the huge gender imbalance among children under 4 years old. Report names one city Lianyungang, where there are 163 boys for every hundred girls.
BBC World News.
Glossary:
hillwalker n.
The term hillwalking is used to describe activities which might be referred to as hiking or mountaineering elsewhere, with the term hills being understood generally to include mountains, as these are referred to specifically using the term "mountaineering" only in specific circumstance.
whip up
=stir up 激起, 鼓动, 煽动
weight down
If you weight something down, you put something heavy on it or in it in order to prevent it from moving easily.
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Attack their villages and loot, rape and kill. The head of the UN Humanitarian Office in North Kivu Patrick Lavand'Homme says that some of the instability in North Kivu could be blamed on government troops, the FARDC, loyal to a dissident Congolese General Laurent Nkunda. "DRC is now a democratically elected government. But actually what we see on the ground for the moment is that the protection of the population that should be done by the national army is not effective yet. At the same time, the level of exactions, it seems that the FARDC are the first perpetrator in the country to do the exactions."
Forest fires in Greece have killed as many as 19 people. Officials say they are struggling to keep pace as fires fanned by strong winds race across the Peloponnese peninsula. Several people are reported to be burned to death in their cars as they attempted to flee the flames. Malcolm Brabant has more from Athens.
This has been the deadliest day of a terrible summer of forest fires. At first, it seemed the worst fire was in the seaside town of Areopolis in the Mani region. Six people died there including a couple of French hillwalkers whose charred remains were found locked in a final embrace, then came even more dire news from a community called Zaharo. Whipped up by force 9 winds, the fire traveled with lethal velocity. Villagers trying to escape their cars were overwhelmed. They were surrounded by a wall of fire and could not break through.
A court in the United States has refused to block the extradition request by France for the former military leader of Panama Manuel Noriega, who is being released from an American jail next month. Mr. Noriega was captured by US forces during their invasion of Panama in 1989 and he is serving a sentence for drug trafficking and racketeering. Our Miami correspondent Andy Gallacher reports.
Manuel Noriega was once viewed by the United States as an ally in the fight against communism and drug trafficking. He is due to be released next month and had appealed to be allowed to return to Panama. But a Florida judge has refused to block an extradition order to France where he faces further charges of money laundering and a 10-year sentence. Manuel Noriega's lawyers had argued that his status as a prisoner of war negated the French request and he should be allowed to go home.
A court in the American state of Mississippi has sentenced a former police officer, member of the White supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan, to life in prison for his role in the 1964 kidnapping and murder of two African-American teenagers. Prosecutors described the killings in which the two young men were bound and weighed down and thrown into a river as one of the most horrific/terrific crimes in the history of Mississippi State.
World News from the BBC.
It's been announced in Germany that a second attack on foreigners took place last weekend, a day after 8 Indians were assaulted in the east of the country. It happened near the western German city of Miens. Two men from Sudan and Egypt were beaten by three men chanting racist abuse. The Sudanese man is reported to be badly injured. Two suspects were in custody.
Three British soldiers have been killed and two others wounded in southern Afghanistan after an American aircraft accidentally bombed their position. The plane was called in to help troops fighting the Taliban in Helmand Province. United States said the deaths would be thoroughly investigated. The commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Helmand Province, brigadier John Noriman says the incident was deeply regrettable. "The terrible tragedy, I mean, is all the more devastating prevalent because we've been working with the US Air Force a great many times during the time we've been out here, and on many, many times, bombs dropped by an American aircraft saved the lives of, of, of the hundreds of British troops."
A government official in Georgia says its forces have fired at what they believed was a Russian aircraft violating Georgian airspace. The officials said the incident took place on Wednesday in the mountains of Abkhazia. He said Georgian forces could not confirm if they brought it down. Russia has denied that any of its planes were involved.
An American general says withdrawing US forces from Iraq now would be a giant step backward. General Rick Lynch said recent security improvement south of Baghdad would be lost if President Bush heeded the advice of a veteran Republican Senator John Warner and announced to withdraw by Christmas.
A report by China's family planning authorities has highlighted the huge gender imbalance among children under 4 years old. Report names one city Lianyungang, where there are 163 boys for every hundred girls.
BBC World News.
Glossary:
hillwalker n.
The term hillwalking is used to describe activities which might be referred to as hiking or mountaineering elsewhere, with the term hills being understood generally to include mountains, as these are referred to specifically using the term "mountaineering" only in specific circumstance.
whip up
=stir up 激起, 鼓动, 煽动
weight down
If you weight something down, you put something heavy on it or in it in order to prevent it from moving easily.
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