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President Bush says Iran will face progressively stronger international action if it rejects the latest proposals for resolving the confrontation over its nuclear program. Mr. Bush said the United States would not waver in demanding that Iran suspend its enrichment of uranium. Proposals for a negotiators’ settlement of the dispute were delivered to Iran two weeks ago by the European Union. Mr. Bush says this is a historical opportunity for the Iranian government.
“Iran’s leaders have a clear choice. We hope that they will accept our offer and voluntarily suspend its activities so we can work on an agreement that will bring Iran real benefits. If Iran’s leaders reject our offer it will result in action before the Security Council, further isolation from the world and progressively stronger political and economic sanctions”.
The American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the United States will take it very seriously if North Korea went ahead with the test launch of its long-range ballistic missile. Dr. Rice says such a launch would be considered a provocative act that contravened previous agreements. From Washington, our State Department correspondent Jonathan Bill reports.
“While US diplomacy has been focused on confronting Iran and its nuclear ambitions, North Korea has been pressing ahead with a more obvious threat. The communist country under its enigmatic leader Kim Jong Il may have already produced enough plutonium for ten nuclear warheads. More recently, it’s been carrying out work on a long-range missile system. US intelligence believes that missile system is now ready to be launched. Condoleezza Rice said it would contravene Pyongyang’s earlier promise of a moratorium after it launched a short-range missile into the Pacific in 1998 to widespread condemnation ”.
Three American soldiers have been charged in connection with the deaths of three men taken prisoner in southern Iraq last month. The Iraqi men had been detained in Salah ad Din province. The American soldiers face charges of murder, attempted murder, conspiracy and obstructing justice. Our Baghdad correspondent Andrew North reports.
“The soldiers are from the US army's 101 Airborne Division. In a statement, the American military said they’d been charged with murder, attempted murder and obstructing justice in relation to the death of three male detainees during an operation in Salah ad Din province northwest of Baghdad about six weeks ago. A statement released last week, which first announced the investigation into the accident had begun, said the three men had died after being taken into custody. The US military said it was suspicions of soldiers that had led to the inquiry which began in mid-May”.
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The governor of the American state of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco has announced that she will be sending National Guard troops to patrol the streets of New Orleans, following a weekend violence in which six people were killed. Five of those who died were teenagers. Governor Blanco was acting at the request of the city’s mayor Ray Nagin, who asked for as many as 300 troops and extra policemen. Our Washington correspondent James Coomarasamy. reports.
“The troop deployment follows a particularly bloody weekend in New Orleans. Early on Saturday morning five teenagers were found shot dead in or near a car in the city center. Victims are what are thought to be drug-related killings. It’s the worst single incident in more than a decade in a city with a reputation for violent crime, but where the crime rate had dropped sharply in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In the past few months, though, that has begun to change with residents' concern that a lack of adequate schooling and housing as a result of the Hurricane has made matters worse”
Work has started in building a vault to deepen inside of a Norwegian mountain to house a seed bank of all known varieties of the world’s crops. Surrounded by permafrost, the 300-meter deep refrigerated chamber in the Artic will be protected by blast-proof doors and air locks. It is designed to contain about 3 million unique seed varieties currently stored in special banks around the world. Norway's Agriculture Minister said it could serve as a Noah’s Ark for future generations if food crops are wiped out by a plant epidemic, nuclear war or climate change.
In the latest group match at the football World Cup in Germany, one of the pre-tournament favorites Spain has qualified for the knock-out phase with a three goals to one victory over Tunisia. The Spaniards came back from a goal down earlier on to score three goals later in the second half. Earlier the team from Ukraine balanced back to beat Saudi Arabia four nil.
words and expressions
enigmatic: Of or resembling an enigma; puzzling Noah's Ark: 诺亚方舟 permafrost: Permanently frozen subsoil, occurring throughout the Polar Regions and locally in perennially frigid areas. plutonium: A naturally radioactive, silvery, metallic transuranic element, occurring in uranium ores and produced artificially by neutron bombardment of uranium. Its longest-lived isotope is Pu 244 with a half-life of 76 million years. It is a radiological poison, specifically absorbed by bone marrow, and is used, especially the highly fissionable isotope Pu 239, as a reactor fuel and in nuclear weapons. Atomic number 94; melting point 640=C; boiling point 3,235=C; specific gravity 19.84; valence 3, 4, 5, 6.See table at element provocative: Tending to provoke.
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