Chinese premier vows to boost ties with Brunei
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is now on a visit to Brunei after attending a series of East Asian summit meetings in Indonesia.
The Chinese premier has met with Bruneian Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, calling for tighter ties between the two countries.
He has also met with the students from the University of Brunei Darussalam.
China and Brunei have been diplomatically linked since 1991.

China eyes 90 pct coverage of HIV/AIDS interventions among high-risk population
Chinese vice Premier Li Keqiang is now vowing to increase HIV/AIDS coverage in this country's high-risk groups to 90 percent in the next five years.
Li Keqiang is also promising that all hospitals above county level, on top of village clinics in high-prevalence regions, will be able to conduct HIV/AIDS counseling and testing.
Li is also promising to provide more assistance to people living with HIV and AIDS by trying to root out discrimination.

Mariano Rajoy's Popular Party wins general elections in Spain
Mariano Rajoy is now set to become Spain's next Prime Minister.
Rajoy's Popular Party has taken a commanding 186-seats in Spain's 350 seat parliament, giving his party a majority.
Garnering around 44.5-percent of the vote, the center-right Popular Party has handed a stunning defeat to the former ruling Socialist Party, which only managed to secure 110-seats in parliament.
Rajoy is now set to take the reigns of a nation which is struggling to keep its head above water amid the European debt crisis.
Rajoy's conservatives are also going to be tasked to try to fight Spain's rampant unemployement.
Some 5-million people in Spain don't have a job at the moment.

Violent protest in Cairo ahead of next week's elections
The death toll from two days of violent clashes in Egypt now stands at 10.
Close to a thousand others have been hurt in the unrest.
The protests broke out in Cairo over the weekend, as demonstrators took to the streets against the ruling military council.
The protesters say they fear Egypt's military rulers are trying to retain their grip on power as they oversee a transition to civilian rule.
"There is only one demand, and we will not leave until it's met. And that is the transfer of power from military to civilian rule. We do not want military rule any longer."
The massive protests come a week ahead of the country's planned parliamentary elections.

Saif will be tried in Libya, Libya's interim government
Libya's interim government says Saif al-Islam will not be handed over to the International Criminal Court.
Instead, Libyan Justice Minister Mohammed Al Elagi says the now-captured son of former leader Muammar Gaddafi will receive a fair trial in Libya.
ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo is however still set to visit Libya to request Saif al-Islam's extradition to the Hague.
Ocampo says national governments maintain the first right to try their own citizens for war crimes, but says his goal is to ensure a 'fair trial'.

Arab League rejects Syrian demand to change its peace plan
The Arab League is rejecting a demand by Syria to change its plan to send a monitoring team to the country.
The Arab League has given Syria until this Saturday to end the violence and to pave the way for a 500-strong observer team.
However, the Syrian government says the plan compromises its sovereignty.
Muallem says that while his country does accept the Arab League plan, they still want minor amendments to safeguard Syrian sovereignty.

12 people injured in cinema blast in Karachi of Pakistan
At least a dozen people have been sent to hospital, after a bombing in a movie theatre in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi.
The bomb went off Sunday night, injuring people nearby the blast, and sending theatre-goers panicking.
Local authorities in Karachi say more people would have been hurt, had the bomb not gone off during an intermission in the film.
So far there has been no claim of responsibility for the attack.
And while al-Qaeda attacks do take place from time to time in Karachi, the city is also a hot-bed of organized crime in Pakistan.

14 killed, 50 injured in fire in Indian capital
At least 14 people are dead, following a massive fire at a community center in the Indian capital, New Delhi.
50 others have been hurt in the blaze, which broke out at the community center Sunday evening, which was playing host to a congregation of trans-sexuals and eunuchs.
Reports are suggesting that the death toll could rise.
Local police in Delhi say they beleive the fire was started by an electrical short in the kitchen.

Germany to compensate families of neo-Nazi killing victims
Germany is now set to compensate the families of the victims of an alleged neo-Nazi cell that is accused of killing 10 people over the last decade.
The country also plans to hold a national memorial service for the dead.
Police in Germany have already charged a woman, and have another one in custody in connection with the case.
The resurgent neo-Nazi clan is accused of murdering 9 foreigners in Germany, as well as a police officer.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has described the neo-Nazi cell as a national disgrace.

12人在巴基斯坦卡拉奇電影院爆炸中受傷
在巴基斯坦南部港口城市卡拉奇電影院發(fā)生爆炸后，至少有12人被送到醫(yī)院。
爆炸發(fā)生在本周日晚上，爆炸附近致使人員受傷，觀眾感到恐慌。
地方當(dāng)局表示如果炸彈要是不在電影放映間歇爆炸，更多人會(huì)受傷。
到目前為止,還沒(méi)有人聲稱對(duì)此次襲擊事件負(fù)責(zé)。
雖然基地組織襲擊確實(shí)在巴基斯坦卡拉奇的曾有發(fā)生，該城市在巴基斯也是有名的犯罪城市。

詞語(yǔ)解釋：

1. injure v. 受傷
2. bomb n. 炸彈
3. intermission n. 間歇，中斷