September 2, 2016, 8:43 AM
BERLIN -- The father of a 3-year-old boy whose lifeless body photographed on a Turkish beach drew the world’s attention to the plight of refugees says little has changed in the year since.
Abdullah Kurdi, a Syrian who now lives in Iraq, lost not only 3-year-old Aylan but also son Galip, 5, and wife Rihan, 35, one year ago Friday.
Kurdi was quoted by Germany’s Bild newspaper as saying this week that he’s glad the photo of his son’s body was published to “make clear to people what is happening” but he’s upset that more hasn’t been done for refugees since.
“Politicians said after the death of my family: never again!” he said. “Everyone allegedly wanted to do something after the photos that had so moved them. But what is happening now? The dying goes on and nobody’s doing anything.”
Kurdi urged others contemplating the journey that he undertook with his family to rethink their plans.
“I’d like to say to the refugees in the refugee camps that they shouldn’t make this journey,” he said. “The danger is too great. It’s not worth it.”
But as CBS News correspondent Holly Williams reported on Wednesday, they are still coming. By the middle of this week alone, around 10,000 migrants had been rescued off the coast of Libya -- many escaping war and poverty in Africa.
Abdullah Kurdi’s sister, Tima Kurdi, posted this week on her Facebook page that “we must never forget the price for freedom.”
“Please keep (Aylan) and all those who died for the chance of freedom from the shackles of war in our daily prayers,” she wrote.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/aylan-kurdi-migrant-refugee-crisis-dying-goes-on-year-after-syrian-boy-beach/
Structure of the Lead:
WHO- Abdullah Kurdi
WHEN- not given
WHAT- urged other refugees rethinking their plan about dangerous journey
WHY- his son was dead on a sea shore on the journey and was photographed, which shocked many people around the world
WHERE- not given
HOW- not given
Keywords:
1. lifeless- 無生命的
2. contemplate- 深思
3. undertake- 保證/承擔
4. correspondent- 一致的/通訊記者
5. migrant- 移民
6. shackle- 枷鎖
2016年12月1日 星期四
Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud dead
November 20, 2015
By Greg Botelho, Margot Haddad and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
Paris, France (CNN)The ringleader behind the Paris attacks is dead, killed during a dramatic raid that shook a neighborhood and collapsed an entire floor of an apartment building. But French authorities say their work is far from finished.
Six days after a coordinated string of shootings and bombings killed 129 people in the French capital, at least one suspect is still on the run. A series of raids in Belgium and a search of a home on the outskirts of Paris on Thursday were the latest signs of investigators' efforts to piece together -- and take down -- the network of terrorists behind the attacks before they can strike again.
And authorities say the threat from ISIS, which claimed responsibility for the attacks and threatened more worldwide, remains real.
"We just now have to be ready for anything, any kind of an attack. ... Although we know that the mastermind of the attacks of Paris has been killed, the risk is still very high," Paris Deputy Mayor Patrick Klugman told CNN's "Erin Burnett: OutFront" on Thursday.
French officials said the raid Wednesday at an apartment building in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis was a significant step. On Thursday, they confirmed they'd identified the body of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the Paris attacks, found in the rubble of the apartment.
Official sources in France have also identified a woman who blew herself up during the raid: 26-year-old Hasna Ait Boulahcen, a relative of Abaaoud.
Investigators haven't revealed much about the suicide bomber. Friends of her family in their hometown of Aulnay-sous-Bois, on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, said she had lived there until recently. Residents in the area told CNN authorities had taken her mother and brother into custody. And the Paris prosecutor's office told CNN that police were searching the mother's home.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Abaaoud "played a decisive role" in the Paris attacks and played a part in four of six terror attacks foiled since spring, with one alleged jihadist claiming Abaaoud had trained him personally.
Wednesday wasn't the first time authorities had tried to take Abaaoud down. Western intelligence agencies reportedly tried to target Abaaoud in the months prior to the Paris attacks, without success.
A key question now: Are other top ISIS operatives who may have worked with Abaaoud on the Paris plot still on the loose?
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/19/world/paris-attacks/index.html
Structure of the Lead:
WHO- Abdelhamid Abaaoud
WHEN- not given
WHAT- a ringleader of Paris terrior attacks was dead
WHY- he was the mastermind of the Paris terrior attacks
WHERE- at an apartment building in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis
HOW- the apartment collapsed and he died
Keywords:
1. raid- 突襲
2. coordinate- 使一致
3. outskirts- 郊區
4. mastermind- 策畫者
5. suburb- 郊區
6. ringleader- 頭目/元凶
7. rubble- 瓦礫
8. custody- 監禁
9. prosecutor- 起訴人
10. allege- 宣稱
By Greg Botelho, Margot Haddad and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
Paris, France (CNN)The ringleader behind the Paris attacks is dead, killed during a dramatic raid that shook a neighborhood and collapsed an entire floor of an apartment building. But French authorities say their work is far from finished.
Six days after a coordinated string of shootings and bombings killed 129 people in the French capital, at least one suspect is still on the run. A series of raids in Belgium and a search of a home on the outskirts of Paris on Thursday were the latest signs of investigators' efforts to piece together -- and take down -- the network of terrorists behind the attacks before they can strike again.
And authorities say the threat from ISIS, which claimed responsibility for the attacks and threatened more worldwide, remains real.
"We just now have to be ready for anything, any kind of an attack. ... Although we know that the mastermind of the attacks of Paris has been killed, the risk is still very high," Paris Deputy Mayor Patrick Klugman told CNN's "Erin Burnett: OutFront" on Thursday.
French officials said the raid Wednesday at an apartment building in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis was a significant step. On Thursday, they confirmed they'd identified the body of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the Paris attacks, found in the rubble of the apartment.
Official sources in France have also identified a woman who blew herself up during the raid: 26-year-old Hasna Ait Boulahcen, a relative of Abaaoud.
Investigators haven't revealed much about the suicide bomber. Friends of her family in their hometown of Aulnay-sous-Bois, on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, said she had lived there until recently. Residents in the area told CNN authorities had taken her mother and brother into custody. And the Paris prosecutor's office told CNN that police were searching the mother's home.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Abaaoud "played a decisive role" in the Paris attacks and played a part in four of six terror attacks foiled since spring, with one alleged jihadist claiming Abaaoud had trained him personally.
Wednesday wasn't the first time authorities had tried to take Abaaoud down. Western intelligence agencies reportedly tried to target Abaaoud in the months prior to the Paris attacks, without success.
A key question now: Are other top ISIS operatives who may have worked with Abaaoud on the Paris plot still on the loose?
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/19/world/paris-attacks/index.html
Structure of the Lead:
WHO- Abdelhamid Abaaoud
WHEN- not given
WHAT- a ringleader of Paris terrior attacks was dead
WHY- he was the mastermind of the Paris terrior attacks
WHERE- at an apartment building in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis
HOW- the apartment collapsed and he died
Keywords:
1. raid- 突襲
2. coordinate- 使一致
3. outskirts- 郊區
4. mastermind- 策畫者
5. suburb- 郊區
6. ringleader- 頭目/元凶
7. rubble- 瓦礫
8. custody- 監禁
9. prosecutor- 起訴人
10. allege- 宣稱
2016年10月24日 星期一
Malala Yousafzai recounts moment she was shot in the head by Taliban
By Ben Bryant
10:24 am BST 13 Oct 2013
Malala Yousafzai has recounted the moment she was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen.
Yousafzai, who was nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, said that she could not remember the exact moment she was shot but that her friends and classmates had helped her piece together what had happened.
She told The Andrew Marr Show: "Our streets and our roads, on the roadside there are a lot of men all around, just a few women in burkas covering their faces.
"But on that day there was no one except two or three men. The two or three men were the Taliban.
"Those two boys stopped the van and told the driver that we want to see our sister at the back. One was talking to the driver and one came at the back.
"The one who came at the back, he was young, he was not old. He had a gun here [gestures to hip]
"He was that much near to me as you are. Then He said, 'Who is Malala?' All the girls were terrified. Some of the girls think he might be a journalist. They were not expecting, because we never thought it would happen
"When he said who is Malala all the girls looked at me because you don't know what is happening.
"My friend told me, 'You just squeezed my hand, you just forced my hand.'"
"Then she said he shot you. He fired three bullets.
Yousafzai described her hometown in the Swat valley in Pakistan as a "paradise" until the Taliban arrived
She said: "The Talibanisation started in 2004 and then it was developing day by day.
"It started just by talking about Islam and its teaching.
"But then later on when we used to have the summons they were saying that the girls should not go to school. They were against the going of the girls to market. They were against the women's rights
"They were killing people for just tiny issues."
She added: "I spoke for education and it means that I'm speaking against the Taliban because speaking for education means you are speaking against the Taliban because they are against education.
"My father says that education is neither eastern nor western. Education is for everyone. The people of Pakistan have supported me."
Yousafzai added that she felt Pakistan has been broadly supportive of her crusade for women's education.
She said: "On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of I am Malala. They did not say I am the Taliban. They support me and they are encouraging me to move forward and continue my campaign for girls' education."
She also said that the Taliban had sullied Islam by linking it to terrorism.
She said: "The name of Islam and the name of Taliban [ ...] has been misused and abused by the Taliban. It does not mean that all Pakistani and all Muslims are the terrorists. Only the small group of people is terrorists."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10375633/Malala-Yousafzai-recounts-moment-she-was-shot-in-the-head-by-Taliban.html
Structure of the Lead:
WHO-Malala Yousafzai
WHEN-2013
WHAT-She recounts the moment when she was shot by Taliban
WHY-She spoke for education and it means that she was speaking against the Taliban
WHERE-not given
HOW-not given
Keywords:
1. recount: 詳述
2. assassination: 暗殺
3. burkas: 布爾卡 (穆斯林女性的衣服)
4. squeeze: 此為緊握，另有擠壓之意
5. summons: 傳票
6. crusade: 聖戰
7. sully: 玷汙
8. misuse: 誤用
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