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The Burmese authorities say nearly 4000 people are confirmed dead following Saturday's cyclone, but
that the total number could be much higher. Daniel Griffith reports from neighbouring Thailand.
The
full-scale of this disaster is only now
coming to light days after the cyclone hit Burma. The country's state media says that nearly 4000 people were killed by the cyclone. Another 3000 are thought to be still missing. State television is also reporting that as many as 10,000 people may have died in the city of Bogalay. Those reports have not been independently confirmed. The United Nations says that hundred of thousands of people are now homeless with no clean drinking water. Rescue workers have still to reach more remote districts that are
cut out from the outside world.
At least two people have been killed after Somali Government troops opened fire to try to
hold food riots that have broken out in the capital Mogadishu. Tens of thousands
took to the streets after traders refused to accept the local currency,
demanding payment in dollars instead. Here's our Africa editor Martin Plaut.
Anger swept across Mogadishu when traders began refusing to accept the Somali shilling. Government troops
intervened,
firing into the crowd. Protesters, including women and children, smashed the windscreens of buses and cars. Shops closed
for fear of being looted. The traders' demand for payment in dollars came after the printing of vast quantities of the local currency
on illegal presses, severely
devaluing the Somali shilling. The United Nations reports that soaring food prices had already forced more than 1/3 of all Somalis to
rely on outside assistance to feed their families.
Iran has said it'll not hold a new round of talks with the Americans about security in Iraq, as long as U.S. forces continue their attacks on Iraqi Shia militiamen. Tehran and Washington have held three rounds of such talks in the past year.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry says further discussions in the current circumstances will
be of no use. American and Iraqi government forces have been involved
in fierce fighting in recent weeks with militiamen loyal to the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Hundreds of people have been killed
in fighting, which began in Basra and quickly spread to other Shia areas, including the Sadr City district of Baghdad. The United States accuses Iran of
backing the militia. The Iranians deny that and
for their part say it's the American military presence in Iraq, which is
the main cause of instability.
A bomb attack on a checkpoint
in the Chechen capital, Grozny, has killed at least five policemen. A police spokesman said the device packed with nails and bolts exploded late on Sunday. The police
fatalities were part of a
squad, helping
tighten security in Grozny before the
inauguration on Wednesday of the new Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.
posted @ 2008-05-08 23:06
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朝日歌壇でよくお見受けする大阪の長尾幹也さんに先日、次の作があった。
お見受けする：自谦语，指说话人所见。
歌の心境が他人事（ひとごと）ではない向きも多かっただろう。
长尾干这首歌所表达的心情大概有不少人都有同感吧。
向き：
- 持有某种观念、看法的人。例如：反対の～もあるが/虽然也有反对的人
- 倾向。例如：理想主義に走る～がある
类似的句子：公式理由は「高熱」だったが、業界ではそうは捉えない向きも多かった。
念を押すまでもなかった「暗黙の信頼」が、ここでも揺れた。
念を押す：惯用语。向对方反复确认。
posted @ 2008-05-08 13:36
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