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BBC News with Nick Kelly
After a day of speculation about an imminentceasefire, sporadic violence
has continued on theGaza Strip into the night. Earlier several
Palestiniansources said a truce between Hamas and Israelwould be announced
tonight, but Israel said it hasn't finalized a deal and some Palestinian
andEgyptian officials indicated that while an agreement was close it wasn't yet
fully agreed. Israeligovernment spokesman Mark Regev has told the BBC that until
a diplomatic solution isachieved its military operation in Gaza will continue.
At least 20 Palestinians are reported tohave been killed today in Gaza as
Israeli rocket strikes intensified. Jon Donnison is in Gaza.
Despite the growing clamour of voices saying a ceasefire is imminent. The
noise in Gaza todaycontinues to be that of war. There have been scores more
Israeli air strikes and the death toll isrising fast among those killed today,
two brothers, aged two and four, as well as their parents,also two journalists
from a Hamas-linked television channel. And Hamas continues to firerockets. This
one, it says, was aimed again at Jerusalem. It fell short, nobody was hurt.
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has meanwhile arrived in Israel
for talks on the wayforward.
Rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have seized the
regional capital Goma.Fighters from the M23 rebel group entered the city with
little resistance from the Congolesearmy or United Nations peacekeepers. Gabriel
Gatehouse is in Goma.
For nearly two decades, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been in a
state of almostpermanent conflict. The United Nations' mission here is the
largest peacekeeping forceanywhere in the world, and yet, Goma fell today to
just few hundred men. The UN and theCongolese government have accused Rwanda of
supporting the rebels. Rwanda denies theaccusation. But this mineral-rich part
of eastern Congo now once again threatens to pullneighbouring countries into a
wider African war.
Efforts to allow women to become bishops in the church of England have been
defeated. Theproposal failed by a few votes to get the required two thirds'
backing among lay members ofthe general synod that church's governing body.
Bishops and clergy backed the plan by a clearmargin. Supporters have called the
vote disastrous and damaging. The Reverend RoseHudson Wilkin says she's
disappointed by the result.
I believe passionately that women should be in leadership within the House
of Bishops, and so Ithink it is a sadness today for the church. When I came out
and felt the rain, I thought showersof blessing, but actually no, tears from
God, tears at the decision we've just made.
Opponents say there is no scriptural backing for women bishops although
many otherProtestant churches already consecrate them.
World News from the BBC
The United Nations says there has a dramatic fall in the rates of HIV
infections in manycountries, where more people are receiving treatment than ever
before. The UNAIDS programcalled it as a historic slowing down of the epidemic.
The most marked changes have been in theworst affected African countries. In
Malawi and Botswana, infection rates fall by more than70%.
Four men have been charged in California with plotting to kill Africans and
destroy overseas UStargets. One of four is a former member of the United States
air force. David Willis reports.
The FBI says a former US air force man serving in Afghanistan help to
introduce the other threemen to the doctrine of a former al-Qaeda leader. Sohiel
Omar Kabir, a US citizen who was bornin Afghanistan is alleged to offered
accommodation and meetings with terrorists in Skypeconversations with the
others. One of whom was born in Mexico, another in the Philippines, andthe third
is a US citizen. Together the FIB says the group was planning to to engage in
what itcalls a violent Jihad which was included bombing military bases and
government facilities inboth Yemen and Afghanistan.
A strike called by two of Argentinas biggest unions has paralysed much of
Buenos Aires andother cities. Most trains and subway lines were close, flights
were cancelled, and the streets inBuenos Aires remained empty as roadblocks were
set up to access routes to the capital.
And a Greek man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing nine million
personal data files in amass breach of private information. Police said the
45-year-old was found have taken data filescontaining Greek tax numbers, vehicle
license plate numbers and home addresses. Some ofthe files may have been
duplicated. The police now trying to work out how the data found afterthey
raided the man's home, came to be in his procession and whether he intended to
sell it.
BBC News
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发表于 2016-7-11 17:31:44