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北京时间4月11日消息，美国司法部周三在纽约地区法庭对苹果、阿歇特出版公司（Hachette SA）、英国出版巨头HarperCollins、英国麦克米伦出版公司（Macmillan）、美国企鹅出版集团（Penguin）和西蒙与舒斯特出版公司（Simon & Schuster）发起反垄断诉讼，称其涉嫌合谋操纵电子书定价。
据熟知内情的消息人士透露，苹果和麦克米伦否认曾合谋抬高电子书价格，两家公司都已拒绝与美国司法部进行和解谈判。这两家公司将辩称，苹果与出版商之间达成的定价协议增强了电子书行业中的竞争，目前亚马逊在这一行业中占据着主导地位。
上个月曾有一名消息人士称，司法部正在对苹果进行调查，试图查明这家公司如何更改出版商对iPad电子书的收费方式。另有两名消息人士透露，隶属哥伦比亚广播公司旗下的西蒙与舒斯特出版公司、拉加德尔集团（Lagardère SCA）旗下的阿歇特出版公司以及新闻集团旗下的HarperCollins正寻求避免陷入代价昂贵的司法战争，最早可能在今天达成和解。
美国司法部称，该部将在今天宣布一项“非指定的”反垄断和解协议。
BBC news with Mike Cooper.
南苏丹拒绝从与苏丹交界地区撤军
Sudan has pulled out of negotiations with South Sudan as heavy fighting continues for a second day between the two countries over the dispute of the Heglig oil field. A senior official in Khartoum said Sudan had also complained to the United Nations and African Union about what it calls South Sudan's unjustified aggression. But a spokesman of the South Sudanese army, the SPLA, Col. Philip Aguer said Khartoum provoked the fighting.
It was out of the decision of the government of South Sudan to attack Heglig, but it was Khartoum who for a whole year targeted by air and land SPLA positions, the extensive wage we may publicly know. In just one month in March, Khartoum carried out 60 air strikes. And in the last 48 hours, the Khartoum government decided to attack SPLA positions in unity state. The SPLA responded to this attack, fought back and chased the attacker up to Heglig.
叙利亚政府承诺12日实施停火
The Syrian government has promised to stop military operations on its territory at dawn on Thursday. But it said it would respond to what it called attacks by armed terrorist groups. Syria's used the expression to refer to operations by opposition forces. Anti-government forces say they'll abide by the truce, provided government troops withdraw their heavy weapons from towns and cities. Jim Muir reports from neighbouring Lebanon.
Even as the ceasefire announcement was being made, people in Homs were still hearing the terrifying noises of incoming shellfire that have been them for weeks. Activists reported a flurry of offenses by troops and tanks in many other parts of the country, the north and northwest, the valley just to the west of Damascus and down in the south near Deraa. But if both sides stick to their words, the sounds of war should die awary at dawn. The announcement from the Syrian defense ministery said that after successfully combating the crimes of what it called armed terrorist groups, the military forces would cease all operations as of Thursday morning.
美国政府起诉苹果等6家公司操纵电子书价格
The United States government has filed an anti-trust case in New York against the technology giant Apple and some major book publishers, claiming they conspired to limit competition for electronic books. The lawsuit accuses Apple of colluding with the book publishers to change the way books are sold. From Washington, here's Peter Bells.
According to the lawsuit, Apple colluded with publishers such as Macmillan and Penguic to limit competition for the pricing of E-books. The lawsuit alleges Apple and the publishers reached an agreement where retail price competition would effectively end and prices would significantly increase, guaranteeing the computer giant a 30% commission on each E-book sold. According to reports, three other publishers have agreed to settle the case.
World news from the BBC.
美国强生隐瞒安定药物风险被判赔偿11亿美元
A judge in Arkansas has fined the American pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson more than a billion dollars for misleading doctors and patients about the risks of anti-psychotic drug Risperdal. The juries found that Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals engaged in false or deceptive act by claiming that Risperdal was better and safer than competing drugs.
美国涉嫌枪杀黑人少年的社区协警被起诉
American prosecutors investigating the shooting dead in Florida of an unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin said they'll now charge the man who fired the gun. A neighbourhood Watch Volunteer George Zimmerman said he shot him in self-defence after he was punched and beaten by Mr Martin . Mr Zimmerman was not arrested at the time because a controversial Florida law allows citizens to use lethal force if they feel threatened.
阿尔及利亚首任总统本·贝拉去世
The death has been announced of Ahmed Ben Bella, one of the men who led Algeria's War of Independence from France and he went on to become its first elected prime minister and president. He was 96. Peter Hihger looked back at Ahmed Ben Bella's life.
Ahmed Ben Bella spent most of Algeria's long and bloody independence war inside of French prison. He gave political direction but x gave place of x mistakes. And after independence in 1962 he became Algeria's first elected prime minister, and the following year, its first elected president. Once in power though, not all Ben Bella but his policies were popular. And in 1965 he was overthrown and jailed. Afer more years in detention, Ben Bella went to exile in Switzerland. In 1990, he made a dramatic return to Algeria. But Ben Bella was already old and he eventually went back in to exile.
秘鲁9名矿工被困地下6天后获救
Nine Peruvian copper miners who have been trapped under ground since last Thursday have been brought safely to the surface. Witnesses said the men left the mine one by one at around 7 in the morning local time. They had been trapped in a tunnel about 200 meters below the surface when the small and informal copper and gold mine partially collapsed. The accident prompted calls for closer regulation.
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