BBC News:中国要求获得马航飞机失踪具体信息
The Chinese government has demanded to see the satellite data that led Malaysia to concludethat the missing Malaysia Airlines' flight had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean. Chinesedeputy foreign minister asked Malaysia's ambassador to China to provide detailed evidence.Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak said earlier on Monday that satellite data showed theaircraft had ended its journey in the remote seas west of Australia.
This is a remote location, far from any possible landing site. It is therefore with deep sadnessand regret that I must inform you that according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in thesouthern Indian Ocean.
But some relatives of the Chinese passengers said they were sceptical of Malaysia's conclusionsas the plane had not been found yet. Most of the people onboard were Chinese. Wan Yonglei'sparents were aboard the plane when it vanished from radar screens more than 2 weeks ago.
For me now, it's disaster until now. All the information, they just confused all the family.Surely we already don't trust the Malaysia.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the G8 summit in Russia in June has beencanceled following its annexation of Crimea. Speaking at a G7 meeting in the Hague, she saidthat while the political environment was lacking, the G8 did not exist either. The Prime MinisterDavid Cameron had a similar view.
We should be clear there is not gonna be a G8 summit this year in Russia. That's absolutelyclear. We'll be meeting tonight, the 7 other countries of the G8 to determine the way forward,but frankly, it is Russia that needs to change course.
Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said it would be no great tragedy if Russia was expelledfrom the G8. Mr. Lavrov who is in the Hague for a nuclear security summit has met hisUkrainian counterpart Andriy Deshchytsia on the sidelines.
The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has denounced death sentences given to more than 500 ofits supporters as politically motivated. A Brotherhood spokesman told the BBC that the armychief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has used the judiciary as a tool against the banned organization.There has been widespread condemnation of the sentences which were delivered during onlythe second session of the trial of Brotherhood supporters charged with killing a policeman anddestroying property last year. The US has expressed its deep concern.
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A jury in New York has convicted 5 former employees of the disgraced financier Bernard Madofffor conspiracy to defraud. They were found guilty of defrauding clients, securities fraud andfalsification of books and records. The 5 helped Madoff cover up the true nature of what'sthought to be the biggest financial fraud in US history which lost investors more than 17 billiondollars. It's the first related case to reach trial since Madoff was jailed back in 2009.
There are fears that an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus may have spread into Liberia fromneighboring Guinea after 5 patients died in Monrovia. The Liberian health minister said they wereinvestigating the exact cause of the deaths. The BBC's global health correspondent TulipMazumdar reports.
An emergency response is underway by the country's ministry of health to control theoutbreak. Since the end of January, the virus has killed around 60% of people infected. There isno known cure or vaccine for the virus, so the focus is on stopping more people catching it.It's highly contagious and spreads through close contact with infected people and animals.Symptoms include fever, vomiting, diarrhea and internal and external bleeding. Emergencyisolation units have been set up in the affected areas.
Officials in the United States are continuing their search for victims of the massive landslidethat hit a small village in Washington state on Saturday. They say there are 108 reports ofpeople missing or unaccounted for. Officials said many of the reports could refer to the samepeople. So far, 8 bodies have been recovered. Heather Graf is a reporter for King 5 News, alocal TV station. She says the situation is incredibly difficult for the rescue crew.
They have been out there all night. They have been on there much of this morning, and in thelast half hour, they have been pulled from the scene temporarily because they were worriedthat the ground is going to start moving again.
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