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The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo says he's documented allegations of thousands of killings of civilians including massacres in the Sudanese region of Darfur. MR. Moreno-Ocampo said the Sudanese authorities had shown little desire to begin prosecutions for crimes against humanity. But Sudan's representative of the UN said Sudan continued to investigate any crimes. From the UN, Crispin Throde reports.
The Darfur crimes database must make a dreadful reading. Collected by investigators from the International Criminal Court, it lists thousands of the alleged murders including many massacres . According to the ICC's Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, in many incidents eyewitnesses would account the attackers saying things like "we will drive you out of this land". Mr. Ocamp's report also lists other crimes including thousands of deaths as a result of displacement and hundreds of the alleged cases of rape. The Sudanese government has said its judiciary will investigate those incidents. But the ICC prosecutor says that at this stage it does not appear that they have done that .
Members of parliament in Somalia which has had no central government for 15 years have voted in favor of a new African peacekeeping force to be deployed. Parliament meeting in the central town of Baidoer called for an end to the international arms embargo in order to strengthen the hand of transitional government in Somalia. An Islamist militia that last week seized control of the capital Mogadishu has now taken control of Joha. Mahamad Ibrahim Mualimu, a journalist in Joba, says people there are scared.
The situation in Joha is now calm, but you know the feeling of people is very tense and there is a, today, there has been a lot of fighting around and in Joha. And the people are very frightened there by the fighting.
A delegation headed by the Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmud Zarha, which has been seeking to raise money for the beleagued Hamas government, says it's managed to bring 20 million dollars in cash into Gaza Strip. The money was carried across the border from Egypt in suitcases. Palestinian officials say that the cash was collected from various sources and that the frontier officials have been informed of the move. They said it would be used to ease the government's acute cash crisis.
President Bush has spoken publicly about the much criticized Guantanamo Bay prison camp on Cuba for the first time since three inmates committed suicide there on Saturday. Mr. Bush said he'd like to close the centre, but the decision would depend on whether the US Supreme Court allowed the detainees to go on trial in military courts.
I'd like to close Guantanamo, I also recognise that (that) we're holding some people who are gone dangerous, and that we'd better have a plan to deal with them in our courts in the best way to handle, and my judgment handle these types of people through military courts. That's why I wait on the Supreme Court to make a decision.
His remarks came as an Afganistan government delegation returned from visiting Afghan inmates in Guantanamo. They said they'd spoken freely to all 96 Afghan prisoners and had found the conditions there to be humane.
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has said he is willing to open talks with some insurgent groups in an effort to end the violence. Mr. al-Maliki said the door was open for those who had left the political process and now wanted to return. He didn't specify which groups he was referring to.
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Scientists say that nighttime flights are much more damaging to the environment than daytime air travel. In new research published in the journal Nature, they say vapor trails produced by aircrafts do far more damage during the night. The reason is condensation water vapour emitted from the hot engines of aircraft condensing into trailing clouds. Our science reporter Mike Migravel has more.
The scientists say that in daylight the trails act like mini clouds, they are good for the environment because their white color deflects the Sun's rays and reduces temperatures. At night when the sun goes down this positive benefit is lost. The impact of night trail is surprisingly large. In the United Kingdom only a quarter of flight take place in darkness. but this accounts for up to 80% of greenhouse effect from condensation.
Congressional inspectors in the United States say that up to 1. 4 billion dollars of aid money may have been paid to fraudulentclaimants in the aftermath of the hurricanes that struck the country last year. Their report detailed numerous cases where payments were made to bogus recipients and addresses.
And football. A dramatic injury time goal has given Germany 1-0 win over Poland and virtually ensured the host's qualification for the second round of World Cup finals. Poland's defeat means they are almost certainly eliminated.
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words and expressons
beleague: 围攻 bogus: Counterfeit or fake. claimant: A party that makes a claim. condensation: The act of condensing. fraudulent: Engaging in fraud; deceitful
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