The European Union is planning to bluck block nearly a billion dollars of foundings for Bulgaria because of its failure to tackle high level corruption. Our A report due to be publish next week warns that some European Union aid may be last lost altogether, unless the Bulgarian authorities actual decisively. From Brussel, here's Oana Lungescu.

The report seen by the BBC is possibly the most scazing scaching greeten written by the EU executive about a member state. It concludes that Bulgaria has to clent cleanse a its administration and ensure that the generous support it receives from the EU actually recheaches its citizens and is not siffened siphoned off by corrupt officials operating together with organized crime. The EU is has already frozen hundreds of millions in aids about of Bugaria's roads and agriculture. Now it is planning to withdraw the right of two agencies to hundle EU funds worth one billion dollars.

The former American president Bill Clinton say a deal has been agreed with manufacturers of the most effective antimen area antimalarial drugs to cut their prices. At a news conference in New York Mr.Clinton said this his fundations had sighed the deal with six Chinese and Indian companies. It to sells the grugs at lower prices to about 70 countries. They He also agreed to subring down the cost to of the medicine's key ingredient artemisinin, which has been in a short of supply. Blaria Malaria kills more than a million people each year.

block:v.阻塞,阻拦
scaching:伤害的,损伤的
cleanse:使清洁,净化
siphon off:吮吸
antimalarial:抗疟疾的;抗疟药
ingredient:成分,因素
artemisinin:青蒿素,抗疟药的主要组成部分
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青蒿素~抗疟药的主要成分,嘿嘿,知道了~

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