【有文稿】0717-全球新闻速览

【有文稿】0717-全球新闻速览

2015-07-17    02'33''

主播: 英语嘚吧嘚

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介绍:
First up, in Asia, Former chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress Wan Li has died at the age of 99 in Beijing. In Pakistan, the army has claimed to have shot down an Indian spy drone for violating territorial boundaries. (TY) Turning to Oceania, New Zealand has finalized its accession to the WTO's Agreement on Government Procurement, and will open contracts to international competition. In Australia, a company criticised for conducting tours of a forest where a serial killer buried his victims has cancelled the tours. (ZCG) Moving on to Africa, Nigeria's government has vowed to shut down an illegal radio station operated by people sympathetic to the breakaway state of Biafra. NGO Global Witness says that European timber companies have helped fund war in the Central African Republic through lucrative deals with militia groups. (BRIAN) And in the Middle East, In Yemen, pro-government militiamen have made further advances against Houthi rebels in the city of Aden. The U.N. envoy for Libya is urging the Islamist-led government to sign a peace deal that would establish a unity government. (ZCG) Looking to Latin America, Cuban President Raul Castro has said his country wants to forge new ties with the U.S., as the two countries move to re-establish diplomatic relations. Brazilian police probing corruption at oil giant Petrobras have launched raids against several politicians, including former president Fernando Collor de Mello(费尔南多•科洛尔•德梅洛). (BRIAN) And in Europe, A German court has convicted a 94-year-old former guard at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz of being an accessory to the murder of at least 300,000 Jews. NATO and its allies will hold their biggest military exercise since 2002, deploying 36,000 personnel across the Mediterranean. (TY) And finally in North America, In the US, taxi booking app Uber has been fined more than 7 million dollars in California for not giving regulators enough information about its service and operations. Mexico has opened up its oil industry to foreign investors for the first time in nearly 80 years, selling off 14 exploration blocks in the Gulf of Mexico. (BRIAN) That's the global headlines Survey.