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浏览:8372006-11-14 23:03:44 来自melodious: download Armed men in Iraq have carried out a mass kidnapping inside a government ministry building in central Baghdad. An Iraqi Education Minister says that according to police and eye-witnesses, between 40 and 100 people were taken away. From Baghdad, Andy Gilligan reports. Mass kidnappings by gunmen disguised as members of the security forces have become common in Bagdad, but it saw this as the largest since the US-led invasion. The men pulled up around 20 vehicles, wearing ministry of interior uniforms that had been recently designed to prevent militants getting hold of them. Once inside, the gunmen separated the men from the women, taking their mobile phones away. The women were then locked in a room, and at least 100 men were driven away from the building in central Baghdad. One minister said the kidnappings were a national catastrophe and called on the Iraqi government to take immediate action. In other parts of Baghdad, a car bomb was detonated close to a bus station in central Bagdad, killing 10 people and wounding 25. You are listening to the World News from the BBC. Parliament in South Africa is debating legislation which would recognize gay marriage. If passed, South Africa will be the first African country to give legal status to unions between homosexuals. The ruling African National Congress is backing the legislation, which is expected to become law, despite rejections by religious groups and traditional leaders. A new survey of the world's forests suggests that forest cover and forest density are actually increasing in a number of countries. While big and important woodlands are still being destroyed in countries such as Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Philippines, the researchers found they were increasing in almost half of the world's 50 most heavily-forested nations, including China and the United States. An environmental scientist to the University of Helsinki, Professor Pekka Kauppi, told the BBC that social changes were needed in order to restore forests. Nobody really wants to destroy forests, it is the problem of the societies, and rural areas, and the livelihood of people. They have to find their living in subsistence farming, so these societies have to be improved first as a whole. And only then, can the forests start recovery. Two paintings by one of the greatest masters of the Italian Renaissance have been found at a house in southern England after being missing for 200 years. The pictures were discovered at the home of a retired librarian in the city of Oxford, Jean Preston, who died earlier this year. Her family has bought the paintings for about $200 in the United States, Experts believe they are now worth about 2 million dollars. Police in the Chinese capital Beijing have denied reports that they had killed dogs which had fallen foul of new rules governing pet-ownership in the city. The official Chinese News agency said that while the police acknowledged they had rounded up hundreds of stray, unlicensed or abandoned dogs, the animals had not been killed, and the people could apply to adopt the dogs. 楼主
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