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浏览:8892006-11-16 21:11:45 来自cxyf413: download The United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is opening an international conference on the crisis in the Sudanese region of Darfur, with a new plan addressing Sudan’s refusal to allow the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force. Mr. Annan has described the situation on Sudan’s border with Chad as very fragile and volatile. Adam Mynott is at the talks. There is a growing pressure now on everyone to find a solution, I mean, as there has been for three and a half years this crisis has been going on. I think there’s a bit of rare politic being played now by the United Nations. I think they realized that the Sudanese Government are not going to let a UN force in. So they are looking at the next best option, which is beefing up the existing African Union force. Now the plan is to do this in three phases: to provide some extra money and equipment to start off with, then to substantially increase the number of men operating on the ground and then the third phase will be to switch to a joint UN-African Union force, jointly mandated.” The Authorities in Iraq say some of the men abducted in a mass kidnapping in Baghdad earlier this week were tortured and killed, contrary to earlier report that most have been freed unharmed. The Ministry for Higher Education said some of those who were released had spoken of other captives being murdered. The Ministry estimated that 70 of those taken at gunpoint from a government building on Tuesday were still missing. Andy Gilligan reports from Baghdad. “Since the mass kidnappings from the Education building two days ago, there has been utter confusion as to how many men were taken and how many of since been released. The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki claimed that most of those abducted are now free. But the Minister for Higher Education Abed Dhiab has told the BBC some of the men may have been tortured and killed. Mr. Dhiab who since stepped down from his Ministerial duties in protest claims to have spoken to some of those who were freed after the raid but refuses to say how many men he thinks have been killed.” The Commander of the Turkish army General Ilker Basbug has said his country has suspended all military ties with France in a dispute over whether the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey last century are amounted to a genocide. General Bashbug said the action had been taken to protest against a bill passed by the French National Assembly last month, which would make it a crime to deny the Armenian genocide. Both France and Turkey are members of the NATO military alliance. Pope Benedict has called a meeting of his top advisers at the Vatican today to discuss a growing number of requests from Catholic priests who want to marry and continue their ministry. One of the cases they’ll be discussing is that of the former head of the Roman Catholic Church in Zambia archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, who was excommunicated last month for attempting to ordain four married priests as bishops. David Willey reports from Rome. “There are about 400,000 Catholic priests worldwide according to Vatican statistics. But another estimated 70,000 former priests have been forced to leave their ministry in order to marry, about 20,000 of them in the United States alone. The average age of priests is well over 60. And in many countries, new recruits to the priesthood inhibited by the celibacy rule are not coming forward insufficient numbers to replace the older generation of Catholic clergy.” 楼主
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