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The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States is determined¹ to strengthen its partnerships² and alliances in East Asia. Speaking about her tour of the region next week, Mrs Clinton said Washington was willing to normalize relations with North Korea.

"If North Korea is genuinely prepared to completely and verifiably eliminate their nuclear weapons program, the Obama administration will be willing to normalize bilateral³ relations, replace the peninsula’s long-standing armistice⁴ agreements with a permanent peace treaty and assist in meeting the energy and other economic needs of the North Korean people."

The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai has spoken of a tension between his government and the new American administration. The television channel, Al Jazeera, quoted Mr. Karzai as saying, he’d not spoken to President Obama since he moved into the White House last month. His comments followed reports of dissatisfaction with Mr. Karzai among members of the new administration in Washington.

A spokesman for the Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe says the party’s nominee⁵ for deputy minister of agriculture, Roy Bennett, has been charged with treason. He was arrested just before a new unity⁶ government was sworn in by President Mugabe. The ceremony which took place nearly a year after disputed elections went ahead despite last-minute disagreements over the exact division of posts between Mr. Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party and the former MDC opposition⁷. The BBC is banned from Zimbabwe. But our correspondent Andrew Harding is in Harare.

It’s been a scrappy day here in Zimbabwe. The new unity government has finally been established in a ceremony presided over by a tetchy-looking Robert Mugabe. But it very nearly didn’t happen. At the last moment, Mr. Mugabe tried to add some extra names to the list of ministers, a furious argument delayed the proceedings⁸ for several hours. Eventually the new cabinet was sworn in, half of them from Zanu-PF, half from the rival Movement for Democratic Change. Then came the news that the police had arrested Roy Bennett, a senior MDC official and prospective⁹ deputy minister.

A Canadian educated former diplomat¹⁰ has been chosen as the new prime minister of Somalia. He is Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, who's held various international posts with the United Nations. Correspondents say it’s hoped Mr. Sharmarke can function as a bridge between the Islamists within the interim¹¹ Somali government and the international community. Kevin Mwachiro reports.

The appointment of Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke seems to have ticked all the right boxes. His father was Somalia's first civilian¹² president and is still fondly remembered. He is from the Darod clan¹³, ensuring that the country's three major clans¹⁴ are represented in the country's struggling leadership, and he enjoys widespread support from parliamentarians and Somalis living at home and abroad.

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The US House of Representatives has passed the revised economic stimulus¹⁵ package worth 787 billion dollars requested by President Barack Obama. No Republicans voted for the measure despite President Obama’s calls for bipartisan support. Seven Democrats¹⁶ also voted against. The bill now goes before the Senate where a vote is expected later today.

The Lower House of the German Parliament has approved an economic stimulus package worth about 65 billion dollars. Its approval came on the day that new figures showed the German economy shrank by 2.1% in the final three months of last year, the country’s worst economic performance since reunification in 1990.

A museum director in Turkey has been sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison after being found guilty of stealing precious artefacts from collections in his care. The curator was convicted along with nine members of his staff for the theft of a coin and a golden brooch in the shape of a winged seahorse. Sarah Rainsford reports.

This theft was exposed by an anonymous¹⁷ letter to local officials. The informer claimed that a golden coin and a golden brooch shaped like a winged horse had been stolen from the local museum and replaced with worthless fakes. The brooch was one of the most valuable treasures of King Croesus unearthed¹⁸ by villagers in western Turkey in the 1960s, but dating back to the 7th Century BC. After a long investigation¹⁹, Turkey’s culture ministry²⁰ concluded that the theft was an inside job. And the museum’s director will now serve almost 13 years in prison. The stolen treasures have not been recovered.

The United Nations agency, UNESCO, has announced the creation of the world’s first international human rights center in Argentina. At a signing ceremony in Buenos Aires, the head of UNESCO said the center would be based in a former detention²¹ facility which was used at the time of the country’s military dictatorship.

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Glossary²²:

scrappy: If you describe something as scrappy, you disapprove²³ of it because it seems to be badly planned or untidy.

tetchy: If you say that someone is tetchy, you mean they are bad-tempered²⁴ and likely to get angry suddenly without an obvious reason.

furious:Someone who is furious is extremely angry.

prospective: You use prospective to describe someone who wants to be the thing mentioned or who is likely to be the thing mentioned. =would-be

artefacts:An artefact is an ornament²⁵, tool, or other object that is made by a human being, especially one that is historically or culturally interesting.

brooch:胸针

signing ceremony: 签字仪式

美国国务卿希拉里声称美国决定加强与东亚的伙伴和同盟关系。谈到她下周对该地区的旅行，希拉里说华盛顿愿与朝鲜实现关系正常化。

“如果朝鲜确实准备、真正完全地消除核武器，奥巴马政府将愿使双边关系正常化，用永久性和平协议取代朝鲜半岛的停火协议，并为朝鲜提供能源及其他经济援助。”

阿富汗总统哈米德.卡尔扎伊谈到了他的政府和美国新政府之间的紧张局面，半岛电视台引用卡尔扎伊先生的话，自从奥巴马总统上月入主白宫，他还不曾与之谈过话。他是基于华盛顿新政府委员们对卡尔扎伊先生的不满而做出评论的。

津巴布韦民主变革运动一名发言人说，该党的候选人农业副部长Roy Bennett被指控为叛国罪，在新联合政府成立前被总统穆加贝逮捕。宣誓仪式在上次有争议的选举发生的一年之后照常进行，尽管在最后关头还存在着对于穆加贝的爱国阵线和前“争取民主变革运动”反对者如何精确分配职位问题上的争议。津巴布韦禁止BBC报道，但我们的记者Andrew Harding是在哈拉雷。

津巴布韦生机勃勃，新的联合政府最终在倔强的穆加贝主持的仪式下成立了。但是它差点失败。在最后关头，穆加贝试图在部长名单上加一些其他的名字，异常激烈的反对使这一过程推迟了几个小时。最终新内阁宣布成立，半数来自爱国阵线，半数来自反对派民主变革运动党。随后的新闻说警察逮捕了Roy Bennett，他是民主变革运动高级官员及未来的副部长。

一位受到过良好教育的加拿大前外交家被选担任索马里的新总理，他就是沙马克，他在联合国历任多个国际职位，记者说沙马克被期望能够在协调索马里临时政府和国际社会关系中发挥桥梁作用。

对沙马克的任命似乎是一项正确的选择，他的父亲是索马里的第一位平民总统，并仍为人们所怀念。他来自达鲁德家族，使这个国家三个主要的家族在奋斗中领导该国，他得到了国会议员和国内外的索马里人的支持。

美国众议院通过了修订后的由奥巴马总统提出的总额为7870亿美元的一揽子经济刺激计划，尽管奥巴马呼吁两党人士支持，但是没有共和党人为之投票。七个民主党人也投了反对票，该法案目前到了参议院并期待今天随后会有一个支持票。

德国下议院通过了一项金额为650亿美元的一揽子经济刺激计划。方案通过时，新数据显示去年的最后三个月德国经济紧缩了2.1%，这是自1990年重新统一后该国经济运行的最差点。

土耳其的一名博物馆馆长因偷窃他所管理的珍贵手工收藏品而被判将近13年徒刑，该馆长被指控和9名博物馆工作人员一起偷窃一枚金币和一个金质有翼海马造型的胸针。

该盗窃案因一封发给当地官员的匿名信而浮出水面，告发者声称一枚金币和一个金质有翼海马造型的胸针在当地博物馆被盗，并被代以毫无价值的仿造品。这枚胸针是Croesus国王最珍贵的宝物之一，于20世纪60年代被土耳其西部的村民发掘，可以追溯到公元前7世纪。经过长期的调查，土耳其文化部断定这是“内贼”作为。目前这名博物馆馆长已服刑近13年，而被盗的宝物仍未被找到。

联合国教科文组织宣布世界第一个国际人权中心在阿根廷成立，在布宜诺斯艾利斯的签字仪式上，联合国教科文组织领导人说，该中心将在一个前拘留设施的旧址上建立，该拘留设施曾用于该国的军事独裁时代。

 

1 determined   

adj.坚定的；有决心的

参考例句：

• I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
• He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。

2 partnerships   

n.伙伴关系( partnership的名词复数 )；合伙人身份；合作关系

参考例句：

• Partnerships suffer another major disadvantage: decision-making is shared. 合伙企业的另一主要缺点是决定要由大家来作。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• It involved selling off limited partnerships. 它涉及到售出有限的合伙权。 来自辞典例句

3 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

4 armistice   

n.休战，停战协定

参考例句：

• The two nations signed an armistice.两国签署了停火协议。
• The Italian armistice is nothing but a clumsy trap.意大利的停战不过是一个笨拙的陷阱。

5 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

6 unity   

n.团结，联合，统一；和睦，协调

参考例句：

• When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结，并非一团和气。
• We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前，我们必须加强团结。

7 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

8 proceedings   

n.进程，过程，议程；诉讼(程序)；公报

参考例句：

• He was released on bail pending committal proceedings. 他交保获释正在候审。
• to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼

9 prospective   

adj.预期的，未来的，前瞻性的

参考例句：

• The story should act as a warning to other prospective buyers.这篇报道应该对其他潜在的购买者起到警示作用。
• They have all these great activities for prospective freshmen.这会举办各种各样的活动来招待未来的新人。

10 diplomat   

n.外交官，外交家；能交际的人，圆滑的人

参考例句：

• The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话，紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
• He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。

11 interim   

adj.暂时的，临时的；n.间歇，过渡期间

参考例句：

• The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
• It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。

12 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。

13 clan   

n.氏族，部落，宗族，家族，宗派

参考例句：

• She ranks as my junior in the clan.她的辈分比我小。
• The Chinese Christians,therefore,practically excommunicate themselves from their own clan.所以，中国的基督徒简直是被逐出了自己的家族了。

14 clans   

宗族( clan的名词复数 )； 氏族； 庞大的家族； 宗派

参考例句：

• There are many clans in European countries. 欧洲国家有很多党派。
• The women were the great power among the clans [gentes], as everywhere else. 妇女在克兰〈氏族〉里，乃至一般在任何地方，都有很大的势力。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源

15 stimulus   

n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物

参考例句：

• Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
• Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。

16 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

17 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

18 unearthed   

出土的（考古）

参考例句：

• Many unearthed cultural relics are set forth in the exhibition hall. 展览馆里陈列着许多出土文物。
• Some utensils were in a state of decay when they were unearthed. 有些器皿在出土时已经残破。

19 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

20 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。

21 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

22 glossary   

n.注释词表；术语汇编

参考例句：

• The text is supplemented by an adequate glossary.正文附有一个详细的词汇表。
• For convenience,we have also provided a glossary in an appendix.为了方便，我们在附录中也提供了术语表。

23 disapprove   

v.不赞成，不同意，不批准

参考例句：

• I quite disapprove of his behaviour.我很不赞同他的行为。
• She wants to train for the theatre but her parents disapprove.她想训练自己做戏剧演员，但她的父母不赞成。

24 bad-tempered   

adj.脾气坏的

参考例句：

• He grew more and more bad-tempered as the afternoon wore on.随着下午一点点地过去，他的脾气也越来越坏。
• I know he's often bad-tempered but really,you know,he's got a heart of gold.我知道他经常发脾气，但是，要知道，其实他心肠很好。

25 ornament   

v.装饰，美化；n.装饰，装饰物

参考例句：

• The flowers were put on the table for ornament.花放在桌子上做装饰用。
• She wears a crystal ornament on her chest.她的前胸戴了一个水晶饰品。