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