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French prosecutors¹ are investigating alleged² child sexual abuse by French soldiers serving in the Central African Republic. The defense³ ministry⁴ said it would be demanding the harshest possible sentences against any soldiers found guilty. The original allegations werecontained in an internal UN report which hasn't been published but has been seen by Paula Donovan, who is co-director of the NGO AIDS-Free World.“This is actually a series of sex interviews with young boys ranging in age from 8 to 15 all recounting cases where they were in desperate need of food and they approached soldiers asking whether or not they could beg some food and they were told that they could get food and a little bit of cash in some cases in exchange for sexual favours.”

Reports from the Germany say the national intelligence agency the BND spied on European nations for years on behalf of the US national security agency. Germany's interior minister Thomas de Maizière called for the intelligence service report to be presented to a parliamentary committee adding the sooner, the better. Mike Sanders reports.

Spying on your friends, that's really not on, so said the German chancellor⁵ Angela Merkel when she found out that the US national security agency had listened in on her mobile phone. Now, a leaked report suggests that Germany's own agency the BND spied on French and European targets at the behest of the NSA. It also monitored the European firms on Washington's behalf to check that they weren't breaking trade embargoes⁶ against countries such as Iran.

California's governor Jerry Brown has issued an executive order to cut the state's greenhouse gas emissions⁷ to 40% below 1990 levels within 15 years. A statement said the decision was the most aggressive benchmark enacted⁸ by any government in North America to reduce dangerous carbon emissions. Governor Brown said the measure was one that must be reached for this generation and others to come.

There is growing frustration⁹ in Nepal at the pace of relief efforts after Saturday's devastating¹⁰ earthquake. In the ruined capital Kathmandu, riot police intervened to control crowds of bus passengers trying to leave the city. The government says aid is starting to reach remote communities. Kent Page, from UNICEF said agencies were working around the clock.“We've been getting in tents out, shelters out, water purification, tablets out, buckets just so people can collect water and keep clean. We are tankering clean safe drinking water to affected¹¹ communities. And we are doing that not only in Kathmandu but obviously in the other districts that are affected outside of the capital.”

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Police and heavily armed national guardsmen are patrolling the streets of Baltimore as demonstrators prepared to march through the US city ahead of a second night of curfew. Authorities say the curfew was largely respected on Tuesday night although police made 35 arrests.

The US central bank the Federal Reserve has downgraded its economic forecasts and kept its key interest rate unchanged. The announcement follows the release of the latest economic data which showed that the growth in the United States slowed almost to a halt in the first 3 months of the year.

There's been a strong European reaction to a statement by the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban seeking to open the debate on reintroducing the death penalty. The European commission said abolishing capital punishment was a condition of EU membership. From Budapest,Nick Thorpe sent this report.

Viktor Orban made his remarks on the eve of the funeral of a 21-year-old woman brutally¹² murdered by a man in the tobacconist shop where she worked in the western Hungarian town of Kaposvar last week. His request for Hungary to keep the issue of the death penalty on the agenda provoked the Council of Europe Commissioner¹³ for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks to expressed his concern over the Hungarian government's approach to human rights in general.

International health officials have announced that German measles¹⁴ or Rubella has been eliminated from North and South America. Carissa Etienne from the World Health Organisation¹⁵ said there had been no endemic cases of the disease for 5 years. The last infections were in Argentina and Brazil.

More than 50 American Airlines flights have been delayed over the past 2 days because of a glitch¹⁶ in an App used by their pilots. The airline said its pilots were having to delete and reinstall navigation map software on the Ipads they all use. In some instances the plane had to return to the gate so that pilot could access a WIFI connection to fix the problem.

1 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

2 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

3 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

4 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

5 chancellor   

n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长

参考例句：

• They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
• He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。

6 embargoes   

贸易禁运令，禁运( embargo的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Britain, France and the United States refused to lift their embargoes. 英、法和美国都拒绝取消禁运。
• Its public position is that it abides by all UN arms embargoes. 其公开立场是，他们遵守所有联合国的武器禁运命令。

7 emissions   

排放物( emission的名词复数 )； 散发物（尤指气体）

参考例句：

• Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
• Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。

8 enacted   

制定（法律），通过（法案）( enact的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• legislation enacted by parliament 由议会通过的法律
• Outside in the little lobby another scene was begin enacted. 外面的小休息室里又是另一番景象。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

9 frustration   

n.挫折，失败，失效，落空

参考例句：

• He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
• He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。

10 devastating   

adj.毁灭性的，令人震惊的，强有力的

参考例句：

• It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
• Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。

11 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

12 brutally   

adv.残忍地，野蛮地，冷酷无情地

参考例句：

• The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
• A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。

13 commissioner   

n.（政府厅、局、处等部门）专员，长官，委员

参考例句：

• The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
• He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。

14 measles   

n.麻疹，风疹，包虫病，痧子

参考例句：

• The doctor is quite definite about Tom having measles.医生十分肯定汤姆得了麻疹。
• The doctor told her to watch out for symptoms of measles.医生叫她注意麻疹出现的症状。

15 organisation   

n.组织，安排，团体，有机休

参考例句：

• The method of his organisation work is worth commending.他的组织工作的方法值得称道。
• His application for membership of the organisation was rejected.他想要加入该组织的申请遭到了拒绝。

16 glitch   

n.干扰；误操作，小故障

参考例句：

• There is a glitch in the computer program somewhere.这个计算机程序中的某个部分有点小问题。
• It could just be a random glitch that can be solved by restarting the machine.可能只是一个小故障，重新启动主机就能解决了。