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A Turkish court has given prison sentences to more than 300 military officers for plotting to overthrow the government. Three former commanders from the army, navy and air force were given 20-year sentences for leading the conspiracy . Here is James Reynolds.
The court outside Istanbul did something which would have been unthinkable a decade ago. It found more than 300 military officers guilty of trying to overthrow the government. For years, the Turkish military saw the overthrow of a civilian administration as its right. It got rid of four governments. But the court has now decided that this right is a crime. The judge has found that more than 300 officers tried to organize a plot in 2003 called Sledgehammer.
The American republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has made public his tax records for last year to counter allegations that he pays too little tax. Earlier in the week, Mr. Romney said in a video that nearly half of the country didn't pay income tax. From Washington, here is Paul Adams.
The documents show that in 2011 Mitt Romney and his wife paid almost $2m in tax on an income, mostly from investments, of more than $13.5m. But the candidate's opponents want to know more with some senior Democrats suggesting Mr. Romney sometimes avoided paying tax at all. And so Mr. Romney has also released a summary covering 20 years from 1990. It shows that the couple paid both state and federal tax through out with an average federal rate of 20%.
Thousands of Libyans have staged a rally in the eastern city of Benghazi in support of democracy and against Islamist militias. Protesters urged the Libyan government to ban the militias which refused to give up their weapons since the uprising against Colonel Gaddafi last year. They demanded that the army and police be strengthened and paid tribute to the US ambassador killed last week in the city. A rival demonstration by Islamist militias who have been blamed for the ambassador's death attracted far fewer people.
A day of violent protest across major cities in Pakistan has left at least 19 people dead as thousands demonstrators against an anti-Islamic video made in the United States. In Karachi, police clashed with rioters as they set fire to banks and cinemas. In Islamabad, police fired tear gas to prevent thousands of demonstrators from getting close to the American embassy. At a news conference in Washington, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton again condemned the video. The visiting Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar thanked Mrs. Clinton.
Your condemnation has given a strong message that the United States government not only condemns it but has absolutely no support to such blasphemous videos or content anywhere. I think that is an important message, and that message will go a long way in ending the violence on many streets in the world.
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The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has gone on national television to defend economic reforms unveiled last week. The changes have prompted 6 ministers to resign from his coalition. The government now depends on smaller parties to survive.
The South African police have issued arrest warrant for the controversial politician Julius Malema who is expelled from the governing African National Congress. He is expected to appear in court next week on charges of money laundering , corruption and fraud. Mr. Malema's lawyer Nicqui Galaktiou dismissed the allegations as part of a wider political campaign against him.
Mr. Malema spoke publicly a few days ago. That we had received reliable information from various sources to say that they wanted to silence him, assassinate him or incarcerate him to get rid of him and which subsequently address very high level authorities in South Africa and plans on record that we believe that it is politically motivated.
Rioting has broken out in Conakry, the capital of the West African state of Guinea. Protesters blocked the main bridge and threw up barricades on the main roads. Supporters of President Alpha Conde from the Malinke ethnic group attack rivals from the Peul. There has been tension between the two groups since the 2010 elections.
An Israeli soldier and three militants have been killed in fighting on the border between Israel and Egypt. Israel says the militants opened fire on soldiers guarding construction workers building the latest extension of Israel's border fence.
The US space shuttle Endeavour has been making its last fly bolted to the top of a jumble jet for a series of celebratory fly past over California landmarks. Endeavour took off into clear skies before dipping low at more than 20 sites including Disney land and Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The US space agency Nasa ended its 30-year shuttle programme last year.
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土耳其法院將300名陰謀推翻政府的300名軍官判處徒刑,三名曾經的陸、海、空指揮官因領導叛變被判以20年監(jiān)禁。詹姆斯·雷諾茲報道。
伊斯坦布爾城外的這所法庭做的事在10年前是不可思議的,法院發(fā)現(xiàn)300名軍官試圖推翻政府。土耳其軍隊多年來一直將推翻民治政府作為自己的權利,并已經推翻了四個政府。但法院現(xiàn)在認定這種權利有罪,法官發(fā)現(xiàn)300多名軍官2003年試圖策劃名為“大錘”的陰謀。
美國共和黨總統(tǒng)候選人米特·羅姆尼公布去年的納稅記錄,澄清所謂的納稅過少的傳聞。本周早些時候,羅姆尼在一段視頻中說近一半的美國人不交所得稅。保羅·亞當斯在華盛頓報道。
文 件顯示2011年羅姆尼和妻子上交了近200萬的收入稅,主要來自投資,其總收入為超過1350萬美元。但據一些高級民主黨人士稱,羅姆尼有時會逃稅,所 以羅姆尼的對手希望了解更多信息。因此,羅姆尼又公布了從1990年起20年間的納稅概況,顯示這對夫婦以平均20%的聯(lián)邦稅率支付州和聯(lián)邦稅。
數(shù) 千名利比亞人在東部城市班加西舉行集會,支持民主,反對伊斯蘭民兵。自從去年反對卡扎菲上校的起義開始以來,民兵組織一直拒絕上交武器,因此抗議者敦促政 府對民兵頒布禁令。他們要求強化軍隊和警察,并向上周在該市被殺的美國大使表示哀悼。伊斯蘭民兵被指控殺死了大使,他們也舉行了游行表示反對,但吸引的人 很少。
巴基斯坦主要城市發(fā)生一天的暴力抗議,導致至少19人死亡,游行者抗議在美國制作的反伊斯蘭視頻。在卡拉奇,暴亂者燒毀銀行和影院, 他們和警察發(fā)生了沖突。在伊斯坦堡,警察動用催淚彈以阻止數(shù)千游行者接近美國使館。在華盛頓的新聞發(fā)布會上,美國國務卿希拉里·克林頓再次對視頻表示譴 責。來訪的巴基斯坦外長希娜·拉巴尼·哈爾對克林頓表示感謝。
你的譴責強烈傳達了這樣的信息,即美國政府不僅譴責這個視頻,而且絕對不會支持這種褻瀆性的視頻及內容。我想這是很重要的消息,有助于幫助結束世界上各地大街上的暴力活動。
印度總理曼莫漢·辛格在國家電視上捍衛(wèi)上周公布的經濟改革,這些改革導致辛格聯(lián)盟中6名部長辭職,政府現(xiàn)在依靠少數(shù)黨派而勉強支撐。
南非警察隊有爭議的政客馬勒馬發(fā)布逮捕令,馬勒馬已被執(zhí)政的非洲國民大會開除。他面臨洗錢、腐敗和詐騙指控,下周將出庭受審。馬勒馬的律師Nicqui Galaktiou對指控表示否認,稱這是針對馬勒馬的更廣泛政治運動的一部分。
馬勒馬幾天前還做過公開講話,我們收到各種可靠消息,他們想讓馬勒馬閉口,要暗殺他,或讓他坐牢,把他處理掉。南非當局高級官員都知道這些,我們相信這出于政治目的。
西非國家?guī)變葋喪锥伎萍{克里發(fā)生暴亂,抗議者封鎖了一座大橋,在主干道上設置路障。出身馬林凱少數(shù)民族的總統(tǒng)阿爾法·孔戴的支持者們襲擊頗耳人對手。兩派自2010年大選以來緊張局勢就不斷。
一名以色列士兵和三名武裝人員在以色列和埃及邊境的戰(zhàn)斗中身亡,以色列稱武裝人員向守衛(wèi)建筑工人的士兵開槍。這些建筑工人正在建造邊界隔離欄的延伸部分。
美國航天飛機奮進號在加利福尼亞地標性建筑附近做慶祝性飛翔,這是它的最后一次飛行。奮進號在包括迪士尼樂園、舊金山的金門大橋燈20個地點做低空飛翔,然后從藍天降落。美國航天局NASA去年結束了奮進號30年的航天項目。