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BBC News with Mike Cooper.
Pressure has increased on the Indian government over reports that it failed to act on warnings of the deadly attacks in Mumbai including information that the attackers would arrive by boat. About 180 people were killed in the coordinated1 strikes. The Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told an all-party meeting in Delhi that the government plans to set up a new federal anti-terror agency, and that measures had been initiated2 to improve maritime3 and air security. He said it was important to remain united against the enemies of India.
We should work together in the interest of the country at this critical juncture4, we should build a consensus5 on what needs to be done, to strengthen the ability of our system to meet these threats. The terrorists and enemies of our nation must know that their actions unite rather than divide us.
The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he wants to amend6 the constitution to allow him to stand for another 7-year term in office. Speaking at a televised ceremony, Mr. Chavez said he hoped to remain in power until 2021.
I gave the Venezuela United Socialist7 Party, and the Venezuelan people, my authorization8 to begin the debate, and take the steps necessary, to obtain that constitutional amendment9 and re-election of the president.
Mr. Chavez was reelected in December 2006, but last year he lost a referendum that would have allowed him to seek re-election indefinitely.
The Nigerian city of Jos is calm after two days of clashes between the Christian10 and Muslim communities that left hundreds dead. Nigerian troops and police have been patrolling the streets, and more than 500 arrests have been made. Witnesses say bodies are piled in hospitals waiting to be buried. From Lagos, here's our correspondent Alex Last.
In Jos the violence appears to be over, time now to count the cost of two days of ethnic11 and sectarian clashes, homes destroyed, mosques12 and churches burned. At least 200 were killed, say officials, but many say the real figure is far higher. On the streets, soldiers and police enforced a curfew in the worst hit neighborhoods. It all began on Friday morning with accusations13 that a key local election had been rigged, an election which exacerbated14 old ethnic and sectarian divisions in an area with a history of communal15 violence.
The authorities in the Mexican city of Tijuana, say they've found the decapitated bodies of nine people in what's believed to be gang-related violence. A spokesman for the regional attorney's office said the bodies were found alongside their heads on wasteland near a factory. He said 350 people have been killed since September in Tijuana which is on a key transit16 route for illegal drugs into the United States.
World News from the BBC.
Iran and Iraq have exchanged the remains17 of soldiers killed during a war they fought in the 1980s. At a special ceremony, the coffins18 of 200 Iraqis and 41 Iranians wrapped in their countries' flags were handed over at a border crossing near Basra in southern Iraq. The war claimed the lives of around one million men. This is the first such exchange since 2003.
A senior member of the governing Labor19 Party here in Britain says police procedures may have to be reviewed after the arrest of an opposition20 MP last week, which has caused a political row. Harriet Harman said big constitutional principals were at stake, and that while MPs were not above the law, they must be able to get on with their jobs without unwarranted interference.
The speaker might well want to review the processes by which authorization is given to search the Palace of Westminster. There was also the question of the search of his home, and I think his constituency office, I am not completely clear. And therefore we've got to be sure that whilst MPs are not above the law, that actually they are able to get on with their job without unwarranted interference by the law.
The arrested man, the Conservatives' immigration spokesman, Damian Green, was questioned for nine hours by police investigating leaks of government information.
Early indications from the Romanian general election put the opposition party, the leftist Social Democrats21, in the lead. Exit polls predicted that they'd won 36 percent of the vote, which would not be enough to govern alone. The exit polls put the governing National Liberal Party in third place. It's the first general election since Romania joined the European Union last year.
The space shuttle Endeavor has landed safely at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, after the planned landing in Florida had to be changed because of bad weather. The seven astronauts on board have completed the mission repairing the International Space Station which has also been expanded to accommodate more astronauts.
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maritime
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juncture
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consensus
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| n.(意见等的)一致，一致同意，共识 | |
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amend
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socialist
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amendment
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ethnic
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mosques
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accusations
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communal
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transit
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remains
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coffins
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labor
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opposition
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democrats
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