Paris Police Arrest Three Over Terror Attacks: Officials

by REUTERS

French police arrested two men and a woman Tuesday in connection with last month's terrorist massacre in Paris and the attacks in the city in January, judiciary officials said.

One of the two men detained in Villiers-sur-Marne, to the east of Paris, is deemed a "peripheral" suspect over the Nov. 13 atrocity, judiciary sources told Reuters.

The woman and the other man arrested are suspected of supplying weapons to Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman and then four other people at a kosher store in January, the sources said.

The January attack took place on the heels of another in which two Islamist militants killed 12 people at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which became a target after publishing mocking cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

France remains on top security alert since the Nov. 13 attack - the deadliest on French soil since World War Two. At least eight gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people at cafes, a concert hall and near the Stade de France national sports stadium.

Seven assailants died in that attack and an eighth in police raids days later, but police are still searching for another chief suspect, Salah Abdeslam, who vanished after escaping to Belgium from Paris.

Separately, a teacher who claimed to have been stabbed by a man on Monday acting in the name of ISIS was hospitalized after admitting to police that he had invented the story, prosecutors said.

ISIS, which claimed responsibility for the Nov. 13 attacks, has stated that teachers in France's secular state-schooling system should be killed for promoting what it called the evils of secular life, music and drawing. 

 http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-terror-attacks/paris-police-arrest-three-over-terror-attacks-judicial-sources-n480281

WHO-two men and a woman
WHEN-DEC 15 2015, 10:28 AM 
WHAT-  French police arrested two men and a woman Tuesday in connection with last month's terrorist massacre in Paris and the attacks in the city in January
WHY- not given
WHERE-French

HOW-not given

Keywords:

1. detain (v) 拘留
2. deem (v) 認為
3. peripheral (n) 外圍設備
4. judiciary (adj) 司法
5. heel (n) 腳跟
6. satirical (adj) 諷刺
7. separately (adv) 分別
8. stab (v) 刺
9. secular (adj) 世俗

Biggest online shopping day nets $20b plus

Published: 7:02 pm, Thursday, 12 November 2015

E-commerce giant Alibaba says Chinese and international consumers spent more than $US14 billion ($A20 billion) in the world's biggest online shopping day, as it sought to soothe worries over China's slowing economy.

The November 11 "Singles Day", which fell on Wednesday, has evolved into the globe's biggest online shopping festival since Alibaba began using the date in 2009 to promote sales through its platforms.

The $US14.3 billion worth of merchandise volume this year smashed through last year's tally of $US9.3 billion, according to figures from Alibaba.

"This day demonstrates the power of domestic China consumption and the Chinese consumer's strong demand for international products," Alibaba chief executive officer Daniel Zhang said in a statement.

The total was more than double the $US6.6 billion recorded last year in online buying during the peak US retail period, the five days from the Thanksgiving holiday to the following Monday, according to Internet analytics firm comScore.

Alibaba's New York-listed stock has been hammered by worries over the Chinese economy, serving as a proxy for slowing growth. It closed down 1.94 per cent at $US79.85 on Wednesday despite the shopping festival.

http://www.skynews.com.au/business/business/world/2015/11/12/biggest-online-shopping-day-nets--20b-plus.html

WHO-Alibaba
WHEN-11 November 2015
WHAT-  Chinese and international consumers spent more than $US14 billion ($A20 billion) in the world's biggest online shopping day
WHY- not given
WHERE-China
HOW-not given

Keywords:

1. soothe (V) 緩和
2. platform (N) 平台
3. merchandise (N) 商品
4. smash (V) 粉碎
5. executive (N) 行政人員
6. hammer (V) 錘
7. proxy (N)代理

Zimbabwe Will Not Charge U.S. Dentist Who Killed Cecil the Lion

Cecil the lion was killed in July

Zimbabwe’s government has announced that it will not charge the American dentist who killed Cecil the lion over the summer, because the dentist, Walter Palmer, was legally authorized to conduct the hunt.

“We approached the police and then the Prosecutor General, and it turned out that Palmer came to Zimbabwe because

all the papers were in order,” Environment Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri said, according to Reuters.

Palmer killed Cecil, a locally beloved lion that mostly lived on a preserve, in July after his hunting party lured the animal out of its protected home, according to conservationists. The killing sparked international outrage, and the media attention forced Palmer to temporarily close his Minnesota dental practice.

“I had no idea that the lion I took was a known, local favorite, was collared and part of a study until the end of the hunt,” Palmer said shortly after news broke of Cecil’s death. “I relied on the expertise of my local professional guides to ensure a legal hunt.”

Palmer could not immediately be reached for comment on Monday.


WHO-Walter Palmer
WHEN-July
WHAT- will not charge the American dentist who killed Cecil the lion over the summer
WHY- because the dentist, Walter Palmer, was legally authorized to conduct the hunt.
WHERE-Zimbabwe
HOW-not given

Keywords:

1. announce (V) 宣布
2. authorize (V) 授權
3. lure (V) 誘捕
4. conservationist (N) 自然環境保護主義者
5. spark (V) 觸發
6. outrage (N) 憤怒
7. temporarily (adv) 暫時地
8. expertise (N) 專門知識
9. rely (v) 信賴

South Korean man first MERS-related death since July

A South Korean man died of complications from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Sunday, in the first death linked to the virus in the country for more than three months.

• POSTED: 26 Oct 2015 01:48

SEOUL: A  man died of complications from Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Sunday, in the first death linked to the virus in the country for more than three months.

The 66-year-old man was diagnosed in June after contracting the virus at the Samsung Medical Centre in Seoul - one of the major epicentres of the disease that swept the country between May and July, Seoul's health ministry said.

He was later said to be cured of the disease but had been battling an acute lung ailment that was a complication resulting from the virus.

Seoul had declared the outbreak effectively over at the end of July, but earlier this month a 35-year-old man believed to have been cured of the virus was rediagnosed.

The diagnosis dealt a blow to South Korea's hopes of being declared free of the disease that has infected 186 people in the country, killing 36 of them, since its outbreak in May.

The patient is currently under treatment along with four others who were officially cured from the virus but are suffering from various health setbacks caused by the disease.

The virus is considered a deadlier but less infectious cousin of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed hundreds of people when it appeared in Asia in 2003.

The outbreak took a heavy toll on Asia's fourth-largest economy, stifling consumer spending and devastating the tourist sector.

- AFP/de

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/south-korean-man-first/2217192.html

WHO-A South Korean man

WHEN-since July

WHAT- died of complications from MERS on Sunday, in the first death linked to the virus in the country for more than three months.

WHY- battling an acute lung ailment that was a complication resulting from the virus.

WHERE-South Korean
HOW-not given



Keywords:
complication (n) 併發症
diagnose (v) 診斷
epicentres (n) 震央
battle (v) 戰鬥         
acute (adj) 急性的
ailment (n) 病
ministry (n) 部
stifle (v) 窒息
devastate (v) 蹂躪

CHAMPIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
DAW AUNG SAN SUU KYI (b. 1945)

  Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been a major voice for human rights and freedom in Burma (Myanmar), a country dominated by a military government since 1962. Born in Rangoon and later educated at Oxford University, she became politically active in 1988 when the Burmese junta violently suppressed a mass uprising, killing thousands of civilians. Suu Kyi wrote an open letter to the government asking for the formation of an independent committee to hold democratic elections. Defying a government ban on political gatherings of more than four persons, Suu Kyi spoke to large audiences throughout Burma as secretary-general of the newly formed National League for Democracy (NLD). In 1989 she was placed under house arrest. Despite her detention, the NLD won the election with 82 percent of the parliamentary seats, but the military dictatorship refused to recognize the results. Suu Kyi has remained in prison almost continuously since that time, rejecting the government’s offer of freedom as it would require her to leave Burma. In 2003, she was moved from prison and again placed under house arrest, which has been repeatedly and illegally extended by the junta. She remains a living expression of her people’s determination to gain political and economic freedoms. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, Suu Kyi has called on citizens around the world to “use your liberty to promote ours.”

http://www.humanrights.com/voices-for-human-rights/daw-aung.html

1.committee  (n) 委員會

2.suppress  (v)鎮壓

3.democratic (adj) 民主的

4.parliamentary (adj) 國會的

5.detention (n) 拘留

6.citizen (n) 市民、公民

7.league (n) 聯盟

8.liberty (n) 自由

‘Apache helicopter scandal’ officers to be impeached

By Jason Pan  /  Staff reporter

The Control Yuan has voted to impeach 601st Air Cavalry Brigade Lieutenant Colonel Lao Nai-cheng (勞乃成) and two other officers over security breaches and rule violations in what came to be known as the “Apache helicopter scandal” earlier this year.

A nine-member Control Yuan committee yesterday said that it had voted unanimously to impeach Lao, a pilot-instructor for the US-made AH-64E Apache attack helicopter.

Brigade commander Major General Chien Tsung-yuan (簡聰淵) was impeached after a unanimous vote, while brigade personnel section head Lieutenant Colonel Tao Kuo-chen (陶國禎) was impeached after an 8-1 vote.

Lao took a group of 26 relatives and friends, including a Japanese man and five domestic caregivers who were foreign nationals, on a private tour of a restricted-access base which houses Apache helicopters and other advanced aircraft.

That visit on March 29 led to a firestorm after one visitor, TV personality Janet Lee (李蒨蓉), posted photographs on Facebook that drew widespread public criticism.

The Control Yuan report accused Lao of “wasting” the NT$40 million (US$1.28 million) the government spent to send him to the US for flight training.

“Lao took the nation’s assets as his own private property. He used the Apache helicopter as a social networking tool and took the helicopter helmet as a prop for a private party. During the investigation, Lao continued to lie about his actions and tried to cover them up. He has brought dishonor to the military,” the report said.

Chien was was the first person to breach base security with a tour for his relatives and friends on Feb. 20 this year, the report said, adding that Lao followed Chien’s example.

The investigation said that Tao was in charge of security and access to the base on March 29, but violated registration requirements and other regulations in permitting Lao’s group to bypass security checks.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2015/07/08/2003622542 

WHO-Nai-cheng

WHEN-Feb. 20 this year

WHAT-was impeached

WHY-took a group of 26 relatives and friends, including a Japanese man and five domestic caregivers who were foreign nationals, on a private tour of a restricted-access base which houses Apache helicopters and other advanced aircraft.

WHERE-not given

HOW-not given

Keywords:

1.impeach V.彈劾

2.breach V.衝破

3.scandal N.醜聞

4.committee  N.委員會

5.unanimously Adv.一致

6.domestic Adj. 國內

7.caregiver N.保姆

8.permit  V.許可