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Brother-in-law of Prince Charles dies
查爾斯王子妻弟意外辭世
Mark Shand, brother-in-law of Britain's Prince Charles, died in a New York Hospital on Wednesday. The 62-year-old was the younger brother of Camilla Parker Bowles, the Prince's second wife. He suffered serious head injuries in a fall following a charity event. Police found him allegedly lying on the ground outside the Grammercy Park Hotel's Rose Bar. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital but pronounced dead when he got there. Shand, a travel writer, established the Elephant Family charity in 2002 to save the Asian elephant from extinction. His award-winning 1996 book, 'Queen of the Elephants', was made into a documentary film.
周三，英國王子查爾斯的妻弟馬克·尚德在紐約一家醫院去世。62歲的尚德是查爾斯王子第二任妻子卡米拉的弟弟。他參加一項慈善活動時不慎摔倒，頭部重傷。警方發現他躺在格拉梅西公園酒店玫瑰酒吧外的地面上。他被送往貝爾維尤醫院， 隨后醫生宣布已經死亡。尚德是一位旅行作家，他于2002年創建了“大象之家”慈善機構，拯救亞洲大象免于滅絕。他的1996年獲獎作品《大象皇后》被收入紀錄片。
Palestinian unity pact upsets U.S.
美國對巴勒斯坦統一條約失望
The announcement of a unity pact between Islamist Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in West Bank has caused shock waves. The deal after years of internal bickering is being welcomed by some, condemned by others. Hamas is classed as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the United States, and the European Union. The U.S. is warning it could severely complicate peace efforts with Israel.
加沙地帶伊斯蘭分子哈馬斯和西岸巴勒斯坦解放運動宣布的統一條約引發了巨大沖擊。經過幾年的內部爭吵后出爐的協議受到一些人的歡迎，也受到另一些人的譴責。哈馬斯被以色列，美國和歐盟列為恐怖分子。美國警告稱，該協議將使與以色列的和平進程更加復雜化。
(SOUNDBITE)(English) STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN JEN PSAKI SAYING: "Any Palestinian government must unambiguously and explicitly commit to non-violence, recognition of the state of Israel, an acceptance to previous agreements and obligations between the parties. This announcement, the timing, was troubling and we were certainly disappointed in the announcement."
國務院發言人珍妮佛·帕莎其：“任何巴勒斯坦政府必須明確遵守非暴力原則，認可以色列國，接受以前各方達成的協議和義務。該宣告和時間安排非常令人不滿，我們當然對此感到失望。”
The Palestinian announcement led Israel to cancel a session of U.S. -brokered talks on Wednesday. The talks, aimed at ending the decades-old conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and establishing a Palestinian state in the West Bank, are due to end on April 29.
巴勒斯坦的宣告導致以色列取消了由美國促成的定于周三舉行的會談。該會談旨在結束以色列和巴勒斯坦之間長達幾十年的沖突，在西岸建立巴勒斯坦國。會談將于4月29日結束。
US-Russia war of words on Ukraine
美國俄羅斯就烏克蘭問題展開論戰
The first contingent of U.S. troops has arrived in Poland for joint military drills. The paratroops from the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade will be joined by another 450 over the coming days. In nearby Ukraine pro-Russian separatists holding the city of Slaviansk said they were bracing for an attack by Ukrainian forces. On Thursday there were signs of Ukrainian troops digging in to new positions a few kilometres away. In a further twist Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a tv interview that the U.S. was behind events in Ukraine.
美國軍隊第一個小分隊抵達波蘭參加聯合軍事演習。未來幾天將有另外450人加入美國陸軍第173空降戰斗旅傘兵部隊的行列。在附近，控制著Slaviansk的烏克蘭親俄分裂主義者表示，他們遭遇了烏克蘭軍隊的襲擊。周四，有跡象表明烏克蘭軍隊深入幾千米外的新據點。俄羅斯外長拉夫羅夫在一個電視采訪節目中表示，美國在幕后操縱著烏克蘭的形勢。
(SOUNDBITE)(English) RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV SAYING: "When you get daily phone calls from John Kerry telling you 'you must, you must, you must' and when you understand how many thousand kilometres the United States is away from Ukraine, and then you would see how agitated they are about seeing their sponsored people not really delivering on the things which are obvious, then you cannot avoid the impression that they are running the show very much, very much."
俄羅斯外長拉夫羅夫表示：“當你每天接到約翰·克里的電話，告訴你‘必須，必須，必須’怎樣的時候，當你理解美國距離烏克蘭千萬里的時候，你會看到他們對烏克蘭民眾的自發行為多么爭論不休，然后，你不可避免地就會覺得他們在極力推動事態發展。”
The U.S. State Department's response was swift and scathing.
美國國務院迅速而嚴厲地作出了反應。
(SOUNDBITE)(English) JEN PSAKI, U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN, SAYING: "I think many of the claims he made in his interview are ludicrous and they are not based in face on what's happening on the ground. The actions of the Ukrainian government are a legitimate response by authorities to react to the illegal armed seizure of buildings in a few towns in eastern Ukraine."
美國國務院女發言人珍妮佛·帕莎其：“我認為他在采訪中的許多言論都非常荒唐可笑，他們并沒有依據當地的情況。烏克蘭政府的行為是合法的，是對烏克蘭東部幾棟建筑被非法武裝分子占領作出的反應。”
Pro-Russian separatists holding Ukraine towns and public buildings were expected to disarm and leave under an international deal to calm tensions. Ukraine's government says it's launching what it called a renewed anti-terrorist operation if the separatists don't comply.
根據試圖緩解緊張形勢的國際協議，占領烏克蘭城鎮和公共建筑的親俄分裂份子應該解除武裝，離開這些地方。烏克蘭政府表示，如果分裂分子不遵守的話，他們將發起新一輪的反恐行動。
