Hourly News 每日新闻 2013-11-03

 China confident of sustainable economic growth

Chinese President Xi Jinping says China is confident of a sustainable and healthy economic growth and it will further the reform and opening up drive.

He made the remarks as he met with a group of foreign members of the 21st Century Council in Beijing, where the global think-tank is holding a conference from Friday to Sunday focusing on the world's second largest economy. 

Xi Jinping said China will firmly continue pushing ahead with the drive of reform and opening up. 

He said China will stick to the path of peaceful development and will never seek hegemony.

 

Japan, Russia hold "two-plus-two" meeting, but at variance¹

Japan and Russia have held their first joint² defense³ and foreign ministers' meeting in Tokyo and agreed to boost security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific.

The foreign ministers of both countries said the meeting helped build trust.

But the Russian side also expressed concern over Japan's participation⁴ in the United States' global missile defense system.

Japan and Russia are at odds⁵ on a series of islands north off Japan's Hokkaido.

Because of the dispute the two countries have never signed a treaty to mark the end of World War Two.

 

Brazil and Germany draft anti-spy resolution at UN

Germany and Brazil have asked the UN General Assembly to adopt a draft resolution calling for the right to privacy in the digital age.

The draft calls for an end to excessive electronic surveillance, noting that the illegal collection of personal data "constitutes a highly intrusive⁶ act".

Brazil and Germany have both been angered by allegations of large-scale US surveillance.

The draft resolution, which does not name individual countries, will be debated by a General Assembly committee focusing on human rights and voted on later this month.

France confirms two French journalists killed in Mali

The French Foreign Ministry⁷ has confirmed two French journalists were kidnapped and killed on Saturday in Kidal in northern Mali. 

It says the bodies of the two journalists, both working for the radio station RFI, have been found.

They were taken by armed gunmen in Kidal earlier on Saturday.

 

1,550 flights, over 167,000 passengers affected⁸ by LAX shooting

A total of 1,550 flights with an estimated over 167 thousand passengers were affected by the shooting at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) Friday.

An airport spokeswoman told media that of those flights, 724 were scheduled arrivals with an estimated over 67 thousand passengers while 826 were departures with an estimated over 99 thousand passengers on board. What's more, 86 flights scheduled to arrive at LAX were diverted to other airports. 

Paul Anthony Ciancia, a 23-year-old white male, walked into Terminal 3 of LAX at Friday morning, pulled out an assault rifle and started shooting. He killed a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer and injured six others before being shot by police and taken into custody⁹. 

There's still one victim in critical condition.

Car bomb explosion kills 10 near Damascus

Ten people were killed and many others wounded on Saturday in a car explosion in the countryside of the Syrian capital of Damascus.

SANA says the car was detonated while some "terrorists" were booby- trapping it in the town of Yabrud near Damascus. All of the "terrorists" were killed as the blast also left property losses in residential¹⁰ buildings and shops.

Pakistan summons U.S. ambassador over drone strikes

Pakistan Saturday summoned U.S. ambassador to the Foreign Ministry and lodged¹¹ a formal protest over the drone strike which killed the Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud.

A Foreign Ministry statement says the latest drone strike will have a negative impact on the government's initiative to undertake a dialogue with the Pakistan Taliban. 

The statement says Pakistan has made its position clear to the U.S. ambassador that drone strikes constituted a violation¹² of Pakistan's sovereignty and violative of international humanitarian¹³ laws.

Meanwhile, Pakstani media say Khan Syed alias¹⁴ Khalid Sajna has been appointed the new chief of Pakistan Taliban.

7 dead in coal mine gas outburst

Seven miners have died after a coal and gas outburst at a colliery in southwest China's Guizhou Province early Saturday morning.

The accident happened when 50 miners were working underground at Huangshuiba Coal Mine in Yumo Township of Jinsha County, according to the county government. 

The cause of the accident is under investigation¹⁵.

 

Three detained over flight bomb hoax¹⁶

Three suspects have been detained for fabricating terror information that caused flight delays in China in the past week.

Police say the suspects are allegedly responsible for three bomb hoax cases, two in Changsha city and one in Fuzhou.

The suspects confessed that they did it either because of life disputes or playing a practical joke.

1 variance   

n.矛盾，不同

参考例句：

• The question of woman suffrage sets them at variance. 妇女参政的问题使他们发生争执。
• It is unnatural for brothers to be at variance. 兄弟之间不睦是不近人情的。

2 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

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 participation   

n.参与，参加，分享

参考例句：

• Some of the magic tricks called for audience participation.有些魔术要求有观众的参与。
• The scheme aims to encourage increased participation in sporting activities.这个方案旨在鼓励大众更多地参与体育活动。

5 odds   

n.让步，机率，可能性，比率；胜败优劣之别

参考例句：

• The odds are 5 to 1 that she will win.她获胜的机会是五比一。
• Do you know the odds of winning the lottery once?你知道赢得一次彩票的几率多大吗？

6 intrusive   

adj.打搅的；侵扰的

参考例句：

• The cameras were not an intrusive presence.那些摄像机的存在并不令人反感。
• Staffs are courteous but never intrusive.员工谦恭有礼却从不让人感到唐突。

7 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。

8 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。

9 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

10 residential   

adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的

参考例句：

• The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
• The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。

11 lodged   

v.存放( lodge的过去式和过去分词 )；暂住；埋入；（权利、权威等）归属

参考例句：

• The certificate will have to be lodged at the registry. 证书必须存放在登记处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Our neighbours lodged a complaint against us with the police. 我们的邻居向警方控告我们。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 violation   

n.违反(行为)，违背(行为)，侵犯

参考例句：

• He roared that was a violation of the rules.他大声说，那是违反规则的。
• He was fined 200 dollars for violation of traffic regulation.他因违反交通规则被罚款200美元。

13 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

14 alias   

n.化名；别名；adv.又名

参考例句：

• His real name was Johnson,but he often went by the alias of Smith.他的真名是约翰逊，但是他常常用化名史密斯。
• You can replace this automatically generated alias with a more meaningful one.可用更有意义的名称替换这一自动生成的别名。

15 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。

16 hoax   

v.欺骗，哄骗，愚弄；n.愚弄人，恶作剧

参考例句：

• They were the victims of a cruel hoax.他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。
• They hoax him out of his money.他们骗去他的钱。