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Top US defense military official has said that theIslamic State group presented a long term threatgreater than any other so far, and needed to bedefeated in Syria, as well as Iraq. Both US DefenseSecretary Chuck Hagel and his Chief of Staff Martin Dempsey were speaking after the grislymurder of an American hostage by the group. From Washington, here is Barbara Plett Usher.
“General Dempsey said it was possible to contain the Islamic State militants for a time, butthey would eventually have to be defeated. That couldn't be done without addressing theirbase in Syria and without the help of a regional coalition, he said. Neither he nor SecretaryHagel announced new military steps beyond the limited air strikes authorized by PresidentObama. But both described the threat in stark language. Short term, for westerners fightingwith the Islamists, it might return home. Long term, said Mr. Hagel,Islamic State demonstrateda combination of sophistication, money, resources and tactical ability beyond any terroristthreat so far seen. 'We need to prepare for anything,' he said.”
A hospital in the United States has discharged two American missionaries who has been treatingthe Ebola virus, saying they pose no risk to public health. They were both given anexperimental drug which has not been tested on humans before. The doctor in charge of theUS Care said his hospital had learned helpful lessons from the treatment.
Bank of America has agreed to pay almost 17 billion dollars for selling toxic mortgage loansthat helped trigger the financial crisis in 2008. The bank was accused of misleading investorsinto buying mortgage-backed securities that the soldiers saved for investments and led tobillions of dollars of losses. The US Attorney General Eric Holder said it was the largest deal theJustice Department has ever reached with a bank.
I want to be very clear, the size and the scope of this multi-billion-dollar agreement goes farbeyond the cost of doing business. This outcome does not preclude any criminal chargesagainst the bank or its employees, nor was it inevitable. Over these last few weeks, this casewould have been resolved out of court.
Turkey's governing AK Party has nominated the Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as thecountry's next Prime Minister. The decision was announced by the outgoing prime ministerRecep Tayyip Erdogan who takes over as President later this month. Sallen Garage reports.
Mr. Davutoglu was not the obvious choice for the post of Prime Minister. Initially the strongestcandidate for the position was thought to be the outgoing President Abdullah Gul, but hisname was soon discounted. Mr. Davutoglu has been loyal to Mr. Erdogan first as an adviser andthen as Foreign Minister. He will become Prime Minister after his election as the governingparty's new leader at the Congress next week. The opposition suspects he will run thegovernment at the bidding of Mr. Erdogan and says Turkey is heading to a new era of puppetPrime Ministers.
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The Governor of the US State of Missouri has ordered National Guard troops to withdraw fromthe town of Ferguson where there's been nearly two weeks of unrest sparked by a policeshooting of a black teenager. Governor Jay Nixon said the soldiers were no longer neededbecause tensions were easing. The guards were deployed on Monday after hundreds of peopletook to the streets to protest against the killing of the unarmed teenager Michael Brown by apolice officer in Ferguson.
The BBC has obtained audio recordings suggesting that the daughter of the authoritarianUzbek President Gulnara Karimova has been under house arrest for nearly six months. In therecordings which were smuggled out of Uzbekistan, Ms. Karimova says that she and herdaughter need urgent medical help. Ms. Karimova was one of the most powerful figures incentral Asia until she fell out with her father early this year.
The Red Cross says that customs checks have begun on trucks of a Russian convoy carryingaid for civilians in rebel-held eastern Ukraine. The regional head for the Red Cross LawrenceCorbett said the aid delivery would start by Friday. Several of the convoy trucks have reportedto be in the area between Russian and Ukrainian checkpoints.
Helen Bamber, the British psychotherapist who helped survivors of the holocaust has died atthe age of 89. As a young woman, she went to help care for survivors of the Germanconcentration camp where she saw her mission as listening and burying witness. DanielBircher reports.
In 1945, Helen Bamber went to help care for survivors of the German concentration camp atBergen-Belsen. She was 20 years old. It was an experience that was to shape the rest of herlife. For almost seven decades, she helped victims of human rights abuses, torture andtrafficking. In the early 70s she worked with Amnesty International and later founded theMedical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. In 2005, she set up her own charity theHelen Bamber Foundation.
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发表于 2016-8-23 19:09:05
