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Item
1
The
Japanese
government
has
played
down
concern
about
a
possible
nuclear
meltdown, following a big explosion at
a nuclear power station in the north of the
country. The blast occurred a day after
the area was hit by a powerful earthquake
and
tsunami.
A
top
government
official,
Yukio
Edano,
said
a
steel
container
encasing the nuclear reactor had not
been ruptured by the blast.
News Item 2
Fifty
thousand
Japanese
military
personnel
had
been
ordered
to
join
the
huge
rescue
and
relief
operation
following
the
earthquake
and
tsunami.
More
than
1,000
people
are
feared
dead.
About
400
bodies
were
found
in
the
town
of
Rikuzentakata, and Japanese media
reports say 10,000 people are unaccounted for
in Minamisanriku. Damian Grammaticas in
the port of Sendai says the scenes of
devastation there are
astonishing.
News Item
3
International
disaster
relief
teams
have
been
sent
to
Japan.
The
United
Nations
said a nine strong
UN team of experts would include several Japanese
speakers.
Britain said it was sending
expert assistance after receiving a request from
Japan.
Singapore
is
also
deploying
an
urban
search
and
rescue
team.
American
forces
stationed
in
Japan
have
already
been
involved
in
rescue
operations,
and
more
than 50
territories and countries have offered
assistance.
News Item
4
As
officials
in
Japan
struggle
to
assess
the
extent
of
the
damage
following
the
tsunami
caused
by
a
massive
earthquake,
it’s
been
announced
that
some
300
people
are known to have been killed and more than 500
are unaccounted for in
the area around
the northern coastal city of Sendai. The
quake, the biggest ever
recorded in Japan, sent a wave of water
several meters high sweeping far inland.
Its epicenter was about 130km off
Japan
’s east coast. In the capital
Tokyo, several
hundred kilometers away,
buildings swayed violently during the quake, which
was
followed by a series of powerful
aftershocks.
News Item
5
Slowly but
relentlessly, Colonel Gaddafi’s forces seem to be
winning the
battle for
Ras
Lanuf.
Opposition
fighters
are
still
in
the
town,
but
they
are
under
intense
pressure. The bombing from government
warplanes continued today, and there’s
a big plume of smoke from the oil
installation which was hit a couple of days ago.
The
re’s no sign of either
the rebel fighters or the local population
beginning to flee
the
area.
If
Ras
Lanuf
falls,
it
brings
the
frontline
closer
to
the
main
opposition-held city of
Benghazi.
News Item
6
Tens
of
thousands
of
anti-government
demonstrators
have
marched
in
cities
across
Yemen
after
Friday
prayers,
demanding
the
removal
of
President
Ali
Abdullah
Saleh.
At
least
six
people
were
wounded
when
security
forces
fired
at
protesters
in
the
southern
port
city
of
Aden.
In
the
capital
Sana’a,
where
supporters of the government also held
a rally, police set up roadblocks to keep
the two sides apart.
News Item 7
The
American
State
Department
spokesman
PJ
Crowley
has
described
the
treatment of the . soldier suspected of
passing material to the Wikileaks website,
Private
Bradley
Manning,
as
“ridiculous”,
“
counterproductive”
and
“stupid”.
Private Manning has been charged with
offences including aiding the enemy, and
he’s being held in solitary confinement
in prison. Mr. Crowley said however that it
was right that Private Manning was
being held in jail.
News
Item 8
The abolition of the
death penalty was approved by the Illinois state
assembly in
January and has now been
signed into law by Governor Pat Quinn. Supporters
of
capital
punishment
had
urged
him
to
veto
the
change,
but
in
a
statement,
the
governor
said
he’d
concluded
that
executions
had
no
deterrent
effect
on
crime,
and that the death penalty system was
inherently flawed. Illinois has a dark history
of miscarriages of justice. Since 1977
when capital punishment was reinstated in
America,
20
death
row
inmates
in
the
state
have
been
exonerated.
The
last
execution in Illinois was in
1999.
News Item 9
In
London,
the
parliamentary
Foreign
Affairs
Select
Committee
has
heard
evidence about the recently announced
cuts to the budget and output of the BBC
World Service. Its director Peter
Herrick told the committee that the value of the
organization was highlighted by its
comprehensive coverage of the current turmoil
in
Arab
countries.
He
said
that
if
the
cuts
had
come
into
effect
earlier,
that
coverage
of
the
events
would
have
been
seriously
diminished.
Mr.
Herrick
also
acknowledged
there’d
been
damage
to
the
World
Service,
although
he
was
optimistic
about its future.
News Item
10
French police have found
25 million d
ollars’ worth of stolen
jewelry hidden in a
drain outside
Paris. Detectives found 19 rings and three sets of
earrings concealed
in
a
plastic
container
set
into
a
cement
mould
at
a
house
outside
the
French
capital. Investigators believe many of
the items were stolen from the luxury Harry
Winston boutique in Paris in a raid in
2008.
News Item
11
The ruler of Oman, Sultan
Qaboos, has announced he is to hand over some of
his
powers to officials from outside
the royal family. A royal decree said the
Legislative
Council
of
Oman
would
be
given
lawmaking
powers.
Until
now,
the
role
of
the
council
has been to advise the Sultan, who has ruled Oman
for four decades.
News Item
12
An agreement by Iceland
to pay compensation to Britain and the Netherlands
over
the
collapse
of
its
banking
system
has
run
into
problems.
President
Olafur
Grimsson
is
to
put
the
$$5
billion
deal
to
a
referendum,
even
though
it’s
been
approved
by
parliament.
A
previous
deal
with
different
repayment
terms
was
overwhelmingly rejected
by voters in Iceland last year.
News Item 13
President
Obama
says
the .
and
its
Nato
allies
are
still
considering
a
military
response
to
the
situation
in
Libya
where
he
said
the
people
were
facing
unacceptable
violence. But
Russia says it’s opposed
to any military inter
vention.
Nato
is
engaged
in
what
its
Secretary
General
called
“prudent
planning”.
While
Britain
confirmed
it
was
working
to
secure
a
Security
Council
no-fly
zone
resolution.
News
Item 14
A young Mexican
woman who gained worldwide attention last year
when she took
over as police chief in a
town plagued by drug-related violence has been
sacked
for abandoning her post. Marisol
Valles was hailed as Mexico’s bravest woman in
October when she became head of public
security in the border town of Praxedis
G. Guerrero.
News
Item 15
Marisol Valles, a
20-year-old criminology student, became police
chief in a town
when nobody
else
was
willing
to
take
the
job.
Her
appointment
six
months
ago
made
her
a
sensation
worldwide.
But
the
mayor
of
Praxedis
Guerrero
said
she
hasn
’t
come
back to work since last Wednesday, when
she took personal leave to take care of
her baby. Local activists told the BBC
that Mrs. Valles and her family had fled to
the United States after receiving
threats of kidnapping.
News
Item 16
The toy manufacturer
Mattel has closed its flagship Barbie store in
Shanghai just
two
years
after
it
opened
to
much
fanfare.
The
pink-theme,
six-floor
emporium
was launched in a drive to attract
Chinese consumers at a time when the famous
doll faced declining sales in the West.
But analysts said sales to Chinese consumers
were poor.
News
Item 17
Reports from Egypt
say democracy
activists have been
attacked
by men in plain
clothes armed with knives outside the
offices of the interior ministry in Cairo. It’s
the
first
time
since
the
toppling
of
President
Mubarak
last
month
that
the
protesters
appeared
to
have
come
under
such
an
attack.
Over
the
weekend,
activists stormed several offices of
the secret police.
News Item
18
The newly-appointed .
special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Marc
Grossman,
has
stressed
the
importance
of
pursuing
a
diplomatic
settlement
in
Afghanistan
alongside
military
operations.
During
his
first
visit
to
Kabul,
he
said
the
United
States supported the Afghan
government’s move towards talks with
th
e Taliban,
but he said it
was important that the Taliban end its alliance
with al-Qaeda.
News Item
19
Thirteen
soldiers
in
Mexico
have
been
charged
with
drug
trafficking
after
they
were
allegedly
found
in
possession
of
almost
a
tone
of
the
synthetic
drug
methamphetamine and
30kg of cocaine. A local military commander said
the men
had been transporting the drugs
from the capital Mexico City to Tijuana, on the .
border. President Felipe Calderon has
deployed about 50,000 soldiers to help fight
the war on drugs. Since he came to
power, more than 34,000 people have died in
drug-related violence.
News Item 20
The
suspect in the shootings in Tucson, Arizona in
January when . congresswoman
Gabrielle
Giffords was seriously wounded has been indicted
on a number of new
charges. Jared
Loughner now faces 49 counts, including the murder
of six people
and the attempted
assassination of Ms Giffords.
News Item 21
Sixty-one-year-old
Alan
Gross
was
driven
into
the
Havana
courthouse
inside
an
unmarked
van
with
blacked-out
windo
ws.
He’s
charged
with
acts
against
the
integrity and independence of Cuba, and
prosecutors have said they are seeking a
20-year sentence. Mr. Gross has already
spent 15 months in a Cuban jail, accused
of
providing
satellite
communications
equipment,
which
is
illegal
in
Cuba,
to
groups
on the island.
News Item
22
The United Nations food
agency says global food prices reached a record
high last
month. The Food
and Agriculture
Organization
is warning that costs could spiral
even
further if unrest in Libya and the Middle East
keeps driving up the price of oil.
Rising food costs helped spark the
recent protests in Egypt and Tunisia.
News Item 23
The
commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan, General
David Petraeus, has issued
a personal
apology for the killing of nine young boys in
Kunar province on Tuesday.
Local
Afghan
officials
say
the
boys,
aged
12
or
younger,
had
been
gathering
firewood
when
helicopter
gunship
attacked
them
with
rockets.
Nato
says
there
was
a
mistake
in
relaying
information
about
the
position
of
presumed
militants
who were firing at a Nato
base.
News Item
24
Britain
is
to
end
its
international
aids
to
16
countries.
The
International
Development
Secretary
Andrew
Mitchell,
told
parliament
that
he
wanted
to
concentrate the
money
where it would
do most good. Nations like Lesotho and
Kosovo
will
lose
direct
funding,
but
others
like
Ethiopia
and
Bangladesh
will
receive more aid from the Department
for International Development, or
DEFID.
News Item 25Western
leaders have been discussing ways to increase
pressure on
the Libyan leader Colonel
Gaddafi to stop him killing the people rebelling
against
him
and
persuade
him
to
step
down.
The
Pentagon
in
Washington
says
it’s
repositioning naval and
air forces around Libya so that there’s
flexibility for action
should
government planners require it.
News Item 26
Two
of Argentina’s former military rulers have gone on
trial, accused of overseeing
the
systematic theft of babies from political
prisoners. Jorge Videla and Reynaldo
Bignone are accused of kidnapping about
30 babies whose parents were killed or
disappeared
during
military
rule.
The
babies
were
then
given
for
adoption
to
members of the Argentine military or
their allies. Both former leaders are already
serving long sentences for murder and
torture.
News Item
27
A
landslide
caused
by
intense
rains
has
destroyed
more
than
150
homes
in
the
Bolivian
city
of
La
Paz.
The
authorities
managed
to
evacuate
the
poor
neighborhood
of Kupini Dos before it was crushed
by a
collapsing hillside.
Right
across
Bolivia
thousands
of
people
have
been
left
homeless
by
weeks
of
heavy
rain.
News Item
28
The stage is set in
Hollywood for the Academy Awards, the film
industry’s biggest
night of the year.
Hot favorite to win Oscar’s glory is the British
drama The King’s
Speech, based on the
true story of the attempts by King George VI to
overcome a
bad speech impediment and
lead his nation in the Second World War. But the
film
faces
strong
competition
from
The
Social
Network
about
the
Internet
site
Facebook, as well as the western remake
of True Grit and the ballet thriller Black
Swan.
News Item
29
An
emergency
session
of
the
UN
Human
Rights
Council
in
Geneva
has
recommended
suspending
Libya
from
the
body.
The
council
also
authorized
an
international
investigation
into
the
violence
in
the
country
with
a
view
to
prosecuting those
responsible. The UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights Navi
Pillay told the council the
priority should be the safety of the civilian
population.
News Item
30
The French fashion house
Dior has suspended its star designer John Galliano
after
he
was
arrested
at
a
Paris
bar
and
accused
of
making
anti-Semitic
and
racist
remarks to a nearby
couple. Mr. Galliano has strongly denied any
wrongdoing. His
suspension comes just
days before the launch of Paris Fashion
Week.
News Item
31
Republican lawmakers in
the American state of Wisconsin have sent out
police to
search for a group of
Democratic Party politicians. The Democratic state
senators
left Wisconsin in order to
block a crucial budget bill, which includes
controversial
plans by the Republican
Governor Scott Walker to limit the power of trades
unions.
Without the Democratic
lawmakers, the Senate cannot reach a quorum and
the
bill, which would have been passed
easily by the Republican majority, cannot be
voted on.
News
Item 32
A
former
Serbian
police
chief
has
been
jailed
for
27
years
for
his
role
in
the
murder of more than 700
ethnic Albanians in Serbia’s province of Kosovo in
1999.
Vlastimir Djordjevic was
convicted by the international tribunal in The
Hague on
four counts of crimes against
humanity.
News Item
33
The New Zealand Prime
Minister John Key has said it’s unlikely that many
more
survivors will be found in the
city of Christchurch, hit by an earthquake on
Tuesday.
Mr. Key said he hadn’t given
up
hope of finding
people
but that the authorities
had to be
realistic. At least 70 people have been killed,
but up to 300 others are
missing.
News
Item 34
A mass polio
vaccination campaign is being planned in Burma
after a 7-month-old
baby was found to
have the virus. It’s
the first case
there for three years. Burma
had been
on the
point of being
declared
free of polio, a
highly contagious virus
that
can lead to paralysis and which is spread mainly
through contaminated food
and water.
Four years ago, the Burmese government immunized
nearly 7 million
children.
Since
a
drive
to
eliminate
polio
began
more
than
20
years
ago,
the
number
of cases has dropped by 99% worldwide. A team from
the World Health
Organization
is
already
in
Burma
to
work
out
how
to
stop
its
spreading
again
there.
News Item
35
More than a quarter of a
million people have taken part in a march and
rally in
central
London
to
protest
against
the
deep
public
spending
cuts
introduced
by
Britain’s
coalition
government.
The
march
which
was
organised
by
trade
unions
was
the biggest protest in Britain since an anti-war
rally eight years ago before the
invasion of Iraq.
News Item 36
The
Cuban
government
has
freed
a
jailed
dissident
who
had
refused
to
go
into
exile in Spain as a condition for his
release. Ivan Hernandez, a journalist who was
one of
75
opponents that the government arrested
in 2003, was released along
with
six
other
prisoners.
Mr.
Hernandez
is
among
a
group
of
dissidents
whose
freedom was brokered
by the Catholic Church. He has said he intends to
continue
to write about the issues
facing ordinary Cubans.
News
Item 37
Finance
ministers
from
the
G20
economies
meeting
in
France
have
reached
a
deal aimed at preventing a repeat of
the global financial crisis. The accord covers
what indicators can be used to measure
economic imbalances, such as large trade
surpluses. The French Finance Minister
Christine Lagarde described the deal as a
compromise agreed after sometimes frank
and tense negotiations in Paris.
News Item 38
The
. Treasury says billions of dollars moved by New
Ansari to Dubai included the
drug money
of two major traffickers
—
one
supplying heroin in southwest Asia and
the Middle East; the other smuggling
heroin, opium and morphine in the border
regions
of
Afghanistan,
Pakistan
and
Iran
by
designating
New
Ansari
a
major
money laundering vehicle. The . is
trying to chip away at its financial foundations.
Americans are now banned from doing
business
with the company
and with 15
individuals and firms with
links to it.
News Item
39
A European court has
upheld the right of television viewers in the
European Union
to watch important
sporting events, such as the World Cup, without
having to pay.
Football’s
world
governing
body
FIFA
and
the
European
body
UEFA
want
to
broadcast
World
Cup
and
European
championship
matches
on
pay
TV.
But
the
court
ruled that these games are of national importance.
It said wide public access
to events,
deemed to be of major significance to society,
should be ensured.
News Item
40
An
opposition
activist
in
Belarus
has
been
sentenced
to
four
years
in
prison
for
taking
part
in
a
large
protest
in
December
against
the
disputed
re-
election
of
President
Alexander
Lukashenko.
Vasily
Parfenkov,
who
campaigned
for
an
opposition
candidate, had been charged with participating in
mass disorder. He’s
the first of 30
opposition figures to be tried.
News Item 41
Kyrgyzstan’s parliament has voted to
name one of its mountains after the Russian
Prime Minister
Vladimir
Putin.
The
parliament
said
it
would
immortalize
the
Russian
leader’s
name. Putin Peak stands at 4,500
meters, higher than Yeltsin Peak, named after
the
former
Russian
leader.
However,
both
are
dwarfed
by
the
7000-metre
Lenin
Peak, named over 80 years
ago.
News Item 42
The group of policemen is
accused of forming a death squad which killed more
than
45
people
over
the
last
10
years.
Among
those
already
in
jail
are
several
high-
ranking
officers,
including
one
colonel,
the
highest
rank
in
the
country’s
military police. The federal police
investigation that led to the arrests began more
than a year ago when the authorities
noticed an increase in the number of deaths
in the areas to where these policemen
were assigned.
News Item
43
Astronomers say the Sun
unleashed a huge flare early on Tuesday, its
strongest for
four
years.
They’ve
warned
this
coul
d
create
a
geomagnetic
storm
around
the
Earth,
which
might
interfere
with
electrical
power
grids
and
communication
systems.
Reports
from
southern
China
already
speak
of
disruption
to
radio
broadcasts.
Researchers
say
the
Sun
is
becoming
more
active
after
several
relatively dormant
years.
News Item
44
The World
Bank says rising food prices have pushed an extra
44 million people
into poverty since
last June. The Bank’s food price index has shot up
by 15% in the
last
four
months
alone.
The
World
Bank
figures
show
sharp
price
increases
in
wheat, maize, sugar, and edible oils
over the past six months, with prices almost
reaching the peaks of the year 2008
when there were food riots in a number of
countries in the developing world.
Wheat and maize are the basis of many poorer
people’s diets. But the poor suffer a
double whammy because they also spend a
larger proportion of their income on
food than those in richer countries.
News Item 45
A
court in Ecuador has fined the American oil giant
Chevron a reported $$8 billion
for
polluting a large part of the country’s Amazon
region. A lawyer for the plaintiffs
said they’d been awarded the sum after
accusing the Texaco oil company, which
was
bought
by
Chevron
in
2001,
of
damaging
swathes
of
the
northern
jungle.
Chevron said it intended to
appeal.
News Item
46
Swiss
voters
have
decided
in
a
referendum
to
retain
the
current
system
which
allows
army-issue
weapons
to
be
kept
at
home.
It
means
several
million
Swiss
men
won’t have to deliver their weapons
into army arsenals. A
co
alition of civil
and
religious
groups
and
centre-left
parties
had
wanted
the
system
overturned,
arguing that
Switzerland has one of Europe’s highest
gun
-related suicide rates. But
traditionalists
said
banning
the
weapons
would
have
broken
the
long-standing
trust between
the Swiss people and the army.
News Item 47
The
report
says
that
in
less
than
a
decade,
the
number
of
women
dying
during
pregnancy
or
childbirth
has
reduced
by
40%.
The
sharp
fall
is
due
to
better
healthcare
facilities,
education
and
the
widespread
use
of
mobile
phones.
The
study also shows
Bangladeshi women are having fewer babies. Only
one fifth of
them have four or more
children. Now experts say the country needs to
achieve a
UN goal of reducing the rate
even further in the next four years.
News Item 48
An attack on a crowded nightclub in the
Mexican city of Guadalajara has left 6
people dead and more than 20 wounded.
Unidentified gunmen sprayed the city
centre
bar
with
bullets
and
threw
a
hand
grenade
before
escaping
in
three
vehicles.
Police
said
the
attackers
were
customers
who
returned
to
extract
revenge after a
late-night dispute with other drinkers.
News Item 49
The
President
of
South
Africa,
Jacob
Zuma,
says
his
government
will
set
up
a
$$ billion fund to create
jobs in a country where more than one in five
people are
unemployed.
In
his
annual
state
of
the
nation
address,
Mr.
Zuma
said
he
was
concerned
that
unemployment
and
poverty
persisted
despite
10
years
of
economic
growth.
News Item
50
India
and
Pakistan
have
agreed
to
resume
peace
talks
suspended
since
the
Mumbai attacks in 2008,
which India blamed on militants from Pakistan. In
a joint
statement, the
nuclear-
armed neighbors said they’d
agreed to resume dialogue on
all
issues
including
the
disputed
region
of
Kashmir.
They
said
Pak
istan’s
foreign
minister would visit
India by July to review progress. A BBC
correspondent in Delhi
says mistrust
between India and Pakistan remains
huge.
News Item
51
A . government
investigation into safety in Toyota cars has found
no problems as
with th
e
electronics in the company’s vehicles. The .
Transportation Secretary Ray
LaHood
spelled out the inquiry’s findings. Since 2009,
the Japanese company had
recalled
more
than
12
million
cars
and
vans
across
the
world
to
deal
with
problems such as
sticking accelerator pedals.