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BBC news with Jerry Smit President Obama's topcounter-terrorism advisor
John Brennan has giventhe most detailed explanation so far of America'suse of
drone attacks to kill suspected terrorists. In aspeech in Washington, Mr Brennan
said the strikesby unmanned aircraft were helping to win the waragainst Al
Qaeda. Paul Adams reports. This is not the first time the Obama administration
hasconfirmed the use of drone strikes, but Jone Brennan has gone further than
anyone so far inlaying out the rationale for a policy that remains
controversial. He said he had been told bythe president to be more open with the
American people. He said drone strikes were legal,ethical, necessary and
proportional, overseen with what he called extraordinary care andthoughtfulness,
especially when the target was an American citizen. Al Qaeda was, he said,losing
badly. For the first time since America's war on the organization began, Mr
Brennan saidit was possible to envision a world in which the core of Al Qaeda
was no longer relevant.Ukraine is coming under growing pressure from Europe over
the treatment of the jailed formerprime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Five European
presidents have said they won't attend thesummit in Ukraine next month. The
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she might boycottfootball matches staged
there during Euro 22. Mr Tymoshenk, a political rival of the currentUkrainian
president, is serving 7 years in prison after being convicted of abuse of
office. A ferryin India carrying about 350 people has capsized in the
northeastern state of Assam. A policespokesman said at least 100 bodies have
been recovered. More than 100 people are stillmissing. From Delhi, Sanjoy
Majumder reports. The double-decker ferry which is packed tocapacity is said to
have capsized following strong winds and rain on the Brahmaputra river inthe
northeastern state of Assam. Eyewitnesses say many of the victimes were swept
away bythe river's strong currents. Boats are common modern transport in the
area which has dottedthe small islands and villages along the banks of the
river. Many of the boats are overcrowdedwith poor and minimal safety features.
Fighting has broken out between rival groups ofsoldiers in the capital of Mali a
month after the president was toppled in a coup. Witnesses saidmembers of the
presidential guard had clashed with troops loyal to the coup leaders. Gunfirewas
heard at a bridge in Bamako and near the building that houses the Malian
statebroadcaster. A spokesman for the coup leaders said the presidential guard
was trying toreverse their take-over. A suicide attack on a police convoy in
northeastern Nigeria has killed atleast 10 people and wounded more than a dozen
others. Witnesses said the bomber on amotorbike rammed into a police vehicle in
the town of Jalingo. A nearby market and thegovernment building were badly
damaged. The Islamist militant group Boko Haram has beenblamed for a wave of
killings across Nigeria. World news from the BBC. The president of FranceNicolas
Sarkozy has said he'll sue a news website over allegations he asked the then
Libyanleader Collonel Gaddafi to fund his 2007 election campaign. The media part
website haspublished a letter apparently said by the former head of Libyan
Intelligence, offering up to 66million dollars towards the campaign. Mr Sarkozy
was furious. "This is a slur, a slur. When Ithink that there are journalists who
dare give any credits to this - to Gaddafi's son, to thesecret services of Mr
Gaddafi. It's a forgery". Thousands of people in the east of theDemocratic
Republic of Congo have fled renewed clashes between the army and troops loyal
toBosco Ntaganda, a renegade general who's wanted by the International Criminal
Court.Hundreds of troops who support the general seized two towns in the region
on Sunday. APeruvian policeman, who survived for 17 days in the jungle after
escaping from clashes with left-wing rebels has been reunited with his family.
Luis Astuquillca had been searching for a group ofhostages. Luis Astuquillca is
only 22 years old, but already a hero in Peru. With a bandagehand, he got off a
military plane, and then embraced his mother, sister and grandmother. Theyoung
officer suffered bullet wounds during a mission to rescue 36 people who are
kidnappedby the Shining Path rebels. No details are yet known about how he's
survived for 17 days in thePeruvian jungle. One of the biggest matches of the
English football season, the top-of-the-tableclash between Manchester City and
Manchester United has ended in a 1-0 for City. The resultkeeps alive their hopes
of a first league championship since 1968.
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发表于 2016-7-11 17:31:45