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Italian police say the smugglers who abandoned a cargo¹ ship full of migrants in open waters earned about 3 million dollars from their operation. The ship was found drifting in the Mediterranean² on Thursday, with more than 350 people on board, many from Syria. James Reynolds reports.

Italian police are piecing together details of the smugglers' operation. The police chief of the Cosenza province Luigi Liguori says that each migrant paid between 4 to 8 thousand dollars to board the ship, meaning that the smugglers took in around three million dollars. Officers say that the smugglers wore hoods³ and lock the migrants in the ship's hold before apparently⁴ abandoning ship on a life boat. The smuggler's new technique appears to be simple and effective: point a cargo ship towards Italy and let the coast guard pick it up.

French riot police has been called in to end violent confrontations⁵ between about 200 African and Afghan migrants in the port of Calais. Seven men were injured in the clashes. More from Hugh Scholfiled in Paris.

Iron bars, planks⁶, sticks and stones were used as the two groups of migrants fought each other into this out of the morning in the area known as Junes just about Calais port. Social workers say tensions have been growing recent days especially between Afghans and migrants from different counties in Africa. Often these tensions result in skirmishes in food lines, but on this occasion the situation deteriorated⁷. Another factor adding to their frustration⁸ is that over the new year there have been fewer lorries passing through Calais to Britain, and therefore fewer opportunities for migrants to steal on board.

The Indonesian authorities say a bad weather has prevented them from sending divers⁹ to the bottom of the Java sea to confirm the presence of wreckage¹⁰ from an Air Asia plane. Officials released sonar pictures of several large objects have located but want to get visual confirmation¹¹. A spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Jakarta Alexander Shilin said they'd send expert divers as well as specialist equipment to assist the search off the coast of Southern Borneo.

Among the members of our team, there are 22 deep water divers, and all of them are excellent specialists, having vast experience in conducting such search of small items on the bottom of the sea. The plane disappeared on Sunday when 162 people were on board.30 bodies have been recovered.

Masked gunmen in northern Libya have kidnapped 13 Egyptian Coptic Christians¹². Eyewitnesses¹³ in the Libyan city of Sirte say suspected Islamist militants¹⁴ went to the Egyptian's residential¹⁵ compound late at night, asked to see their identity papers. Once the gunmen have separated Christians from Muslim workers, they reportedly handcuffed the Christians-thought -to-be men and drove away with them. The kidnapping is the latest in a series of attacks on Egyptian Christians working in Libya.

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The authorities in the Italian port of Brindisi say fierce heat from slow burning blazes is keeping investigators¹⁶ from searching the lower decks of the ferry that caught fire nearly a week ago. The commander of the port said temperature was still very high inside the vehicle decks of the Norman Atlantic, hampering¹⁷ the search for bodies.

Police in the United States say a girl who survived a plane crash which killed the rest of her family has been released from hospital. The seven year old girl had walked more than a kilometre from the wreckage to seek help at a nearby house. The owner of the property told the BBC the girl appeared at his door, disoriented and trembling, and told him that her family had died in a plane crash.

Israeli officials say the government will freeze the monthly transfer of revenue to the Palestinians, a day after they pressed ahead with an application to join the International Criminal Court. The unnamed officials say the Cabinet has decided¹⁸ to block the transfer of 125 million dollars. A Palestinian official described the move as an illegal collective punishment.

Reports from Sri Lanka say government supporters have fired shots at a rally by the main opposition¹⁹ candidate in the next week's presidential election, injuring one person. A private group, the campaign for free and fair elections, known as CAFE, said the election related violence was increasing. Charles Haviland reports.

The election watch dog group CAFE says almost all reported violent incident has been perpetrated by supporters of the incumbent²⁰ president Mahinda Rajapaksa against those of his rival Maithripala Sirisena. On Friday, a pro-government gang threw stones at an opposition campaign meeting, injuring more than ten people. There have been other types of mouth practice too. State run television has produced at least 2 guests suspected to be bogus, professing²¹ to be close relatives of women allegedly seduced²² by Mr Sirisena. He denies the allegations.

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意大利警方称，在公海放弃一艘装满移民货船的走私者从这次买卖中赚了大约300万美元，周四这艘船被发现漂流在地中海上，船上有350多人，很多来自叙利亚。詹姆斯·雷诺兹报道。

意大利警方在逐渐弄清楚走私者的行动，科森扎省警察局长路易吉说，每位移民花了4000到8000美元才能登船，这意味着走私者共收取大约300万美元。警方说走私者蒙着面罩，将移民锁在船上，然后乘着救生船弃船而走。走私者的新伎俩似乎简单有效：乘坐到意大利的货船，然后让海岸警卫队将货船拖上来。

法国防暴警察被派到加来港口解决200多名非洲和阿富汗移民之间的暴力对峙，已有7人在冲突中受伤。休·斯科菲尔德在巴黎报道。

在加来港口，从早上起这两群移民就开始用铁条、木板、棍子和石头搏斗起来。社会工作者称最近几天来局势很紧张，尤其是阿富汗和非洲各个国家的移民之间。通常会在就餐排队时发生小摩擦，但这次局面很糟糕，导致这一局面的另一个因素是，新的一年经由加来到英国的卡车数量减少，因此这些移民到卡车上行窃的机会就少了。

印尼当局称，由于天气糟糕，无法派遣潜水员到爪哇海海底确认亚航飞机残骸的存在。官方公布了已经定位到的几个大型物体的声呐图片，但表示希望得到视觉上的证实。俄罗斯驻雅加达使馆发言人亚历山大·希林说已经派出专业潜水员和专业设备去帮助在婆罗洲海域进行搜查。

我们的团队中有22名深水潜水员，每个人都是出色的专业人士，在海底搜索小物体方面有着丰富的经验。这架飞机周日失联时机上有162人，目前已找到30具尸体。

在利比亚北部，蒙面武装歹徒绑架了13名埃及科普特基督徒。利比亚苏尔特市的目击者称，嫌疑穆斯林武装分子深夜来到埃及这个居民区，要求看居民们的身份证。一旦武装歹徒将基督徒和穆斯林工人分开后，他们将把认为是基督徒的男子双手绑起，并赶走他们。这次绑架案是在利比亚工人的埃及基督徒遭遇的最近几次袭击案中的最近一次。

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意大利布林迪西港口当局称，缓慢燃烧大火制造的炽热使得调查员无法到一周前失火渡轮下面的甲板上去做搜查。港口指挥官说“诺曼大西洋”号渡轮甲板内部温度仍很高，无法进行尸体的搜查工作。

美国警方称在坠机事件中幸存的女孩已经出院，她的家人都已在事故中遇难。这名7岁女孩从飞机残骸所在地点走了一公里多，在附近一所房屋获救。这座房屋的主人告诉BBC，这名女孩出现在他的门前，她分不清方向，浑身发抖，告诉他自己的家人在坠机事故中遇难。

以色列官方称政府将暂停每月向巴勒斯坦转账税收，就在一天前，巴勒斯坦申请加入国际刑事法庭。未透露姓名的官员称内阁已决定冻结1.25亿美元的转账，巴勒斯坦官员称此举是非法的集体性惩罚。

来自斯里兰卡的报道称，政府支持者对一名即将参加下周总统选举的主要候选人举行的集会开枪，导致一人受伤。“自由公正选举”(CAFE)私人组织称与选举相关的暴力活动在增加。查尔斯·哈维兰德报道。

选举观察组织CAFE称几乎所有报道的暴力事件都是现任总统马欣达·拉贾帕克萨的支持者为对付其对手迈特里帕拉·西里塞纳先生所为。周五，一个亲政府团伙向在野党会议投掷石块，导致10多人受伤。同时也有口水战，国家电视台捏造了至少两名被怀疑是虚假的嘉宾，这两人自称是被西里塞纳勾引女子的亲属。西里塞纳否认这些指控。

1 cargo   

n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物

参考例句：

• The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
• A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。

2 Mediterranean   

adj.地中海的；地中海沿岸的

参考例句：

• The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
• Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。

3 hoods   

n.兜帽( hood的名词复数 )；头巾；（汽车、童车等的）折合式车篷；汽车发动机罩v.兜帽( hood的第三人称单数 )；头巾；（汽车、童车等的）折合式车篷；汽车发动机罩

参考例句：

• Michael looked at the four hoods sitting in the kitchen. 迈克尔瞅了瞅坐在厨房里的四条汉子。 来自教父部分
• Eskimos wear hoods to keep their heads warm. 爱斯基摩人戴兜帽使头暖和。 来自辞典例句

4 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

5 confrontations   

n.对抗，对抗的事物( confrontation的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• At times, this potential has escalated into actual confrontations. 有时，这一矛盾升级为实际的对抗。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
• These confrontations and uncertainties were bing played out for the first time on a global scale. 所有这一切对抗和不稳定，第一次在全球范围内得到充分的表演。 来自辞典例句

6 planks   

（厚）木板( plank的名词复数 )； 政纲条目，政策要点

参考例句：

• The house was built solidly of rough wooden planks. 这房子是用粗木板牢固地建造的。
• We sawed the log into planks. 我们把木头锯成了木板。

7 deteriorated   

恶化，变坏( deteriorate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化，不久便去世了。
• His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化，日甚一日。

8 frustration   

n.挫折，失败，失效，落空

参考例句：

• He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
• He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。

9 divers   

adj.不同的；种种的

参考例句：

• He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
• Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。

10 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

11 confirmation   

n.证实，确认，批准

参考例句：

• We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
• We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前，我们需要书面确认。

12 Christians   

n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
• His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。

13 eyewitnesses   

目击者( eyewitness的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The examination of all the eyewitnesses took a week. 对所有证人的质询用了一周的时间。
• Several eyewitnesses testified that they saw the officers hit Miller in the face. 几位目击证人证明他们看见那几个警官打了米勒的脸。

14 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

15 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。

16 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

17 hampering   

妨碍，束缚，限制( hamper的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• So fraud on cows and development aid is seriously hampering growth. 因此在牛问题上和发展补助上的诈骗严重阻碍了发展。
• Short-termism, carbon-trading, disputing the science-are hampering the implementation of direct economically-led objectives. 短效主义，出售二氧化碳，进行科学辩论，这些都不利于实现以经济为主导的直接目标。

18 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

19 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。

20 incumbent   

adj.成为责任的，有义务的；现任的，在职的

参考例句：

• He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.他以压倒多数票击败了现任州长。
• It is incumbent upon you to warn them.你有责任警告他们。

21 professing   

声称( profess的现在分词 )； 宣称； 公开表明； 信奉

参考例句：

• But( which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. 只要有善行。这才与自称是敬神的女人相宜。
• Professing Christianity, he had little compassion in his make-up. 他号称信奉基督教，却没有什么慈悲心肠。

22 seduced   

诱奸( seduce的过去式和过去分词 )； 勾引； 诱使堕落； 使入迷

参考例句：

• The promise of huge profits seduced him into parting with his money. 高额利润的许诺诱使他把钱出了手。
• His doctrines have seduced many into error. 他的学说把许多人诱入歧途。