澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-05-21（在线收听） |
Australia and Afghanistan have just signed a strategic partnership from the sideline of the NATO Summit in Chicago. Prime Minister Julia Gillard says the 250-million-dollar agreement covers aid, development and trade. She says she hopes the summit will agree that Afghanistan take control of its own security by mid 2013. Meanwhile the Defense Minister Stephen Spencer says there are no Australian casualties after a suicide attack in Afghanistan. NATO says two soldiers and two children were killed in the attack on a convoy of Uruzgan province. It happened near a marketplace in a town of Tirin Kot.
The federal MP Craig Thomson will make his long-awaited statement to Parliament later today. He is expected to deny misusing the union money when he was heading the Health Service Union. Mr. Thomson says he was set up by other union officials but he is not clear if he will use parliamentary privilege to name those people.
A boat loaded with asylum seekers is being transferred to Christmas Island after they were intercepted off the North West coast of western Australia. It is understood 175 people are on board, making it one of the largest arrivals in the last two years.
And a death toll from a powerful earthquake in northern Italy has now risen to six. More than 50 others were injured. The tremor hit the town of Bologna and it threats from Venice all the way to Milan.
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