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More than 330 people have died in Cambodia during astampedeat a festival in the capital Phnom Penh. This report from our Cambodia correspondent Guy De Launey.

The Water Festival is usually Phnom Penh's biggest party. Hundreds of thousands of people come in from the rural provinces for three days of boat racing, music and dancing. This time, it's gone terribly wrong. The incident apparently started when a crush on a small island in the river turned into a panic. A stampede onto the bridge connecting the island to the city centre followed. Reports from the scene say that some people jumped from the bridge while others were caught in the crowd. Phnom Penh's limited emergency services have been struggling to take the injured to hospital.

The Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen says he'll call a general election in the new year once the government has passed anausteritybudget and concluded negotiations on a big euro bailout package. He was speaking after a day of political turmoil in Dublin that included a call by a junior partner in the coalition for an early election. Mr Cowen said Ireland's interest would not be served by going to the polls before a budget was approved.

"The government will publish its four-year plan next Wednesday; it will continue the negotiations with the European Union, the ECB and with the IMF; and it will present a budget on 7 December. It is my intention at the conclusion of this budgetary process with theenactmentof the necessary legislation in the new year, then seek adissolutionto enable the people to determine who shouldundertakethe responsibilities of government in the challenging period aheadthereafter."

Prosecutors at the war crimes trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba, the former vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, have said he gave licence to his rebel forces to attack civilians eight years ago. The chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo told the International Criminal Court in The Hague that Mr Bemba failed to stop his troops from using mass rape as a weapon during thesuppressionof a coup in the neighbouring Central African Republic. The defence said he was not responsible for his soldiers' crimes.

Politicians in northern Nigeria have chosen the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan in party primariesahead ofnext year's election. Mr Abubakar, who's from the north, hopes to become the presidential candidate of the governing partyrather thanMr Jonathan, who's a southerner. Caroline Duffield has this report.

It is astunningpolitical comeback for one of the big beasts of Nigerian politics - Atiku Abubakar. He's a deep and intense personality. He was one of the founders of the People's Democratic Party, which has won every election since the end of military rule, and he served as vice president under Olusegun Obasanjo for eight years. But he left the PDP in a fury afterfalling out withObasanjo.

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Environmental activists in Uganda say they'll take legal action to prevent the construction of a golf course in the country's largest and most popular wildlife park. The Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni last week ordered the country's Wildlife Authority to allow a local company to build thefacilityin the Murchison Falls National Park.

The British government has lost a legal bid to force an inquest into the 2005 London bombings to hear secret evidence behind closed doors.The High Court upheld a ruling at the inquest that the families of the 52 people killed in the 7 July suicide attacks should be allowed to hear evidence given by agents from the domestic spy agency MI5.

A team of experts from the European Union has called for immediate action to deal with mounts of uncollected rubbish covering the streets of Naples in southern Italy. From Rome, here is Duncan Kennedy.

There is now nearly 3,000 tonnes of uncollected rubbish on the streets of Naples, Italy's third biggest city. A team of experts from the European Union says it poses a serious risk to health. They say immediate action is needed because Naples was in what they called a grave condition with rats, cockroaches and insects. Residents say a nearby dump is full and battle with riot police, who've been trying to clear access for rubbish trucks.The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to end the crisis, which has been blamed on a combination of underinvestment, poor management and mafia control of some of the dump sites.

Duncan Kennedy

The Mexican government has advised migrants driving home from the United States for the winter holidays to form convoys for their own protection as they pass through Mexico.He said they should also travel only during daylight hours. Mexico's northern border states are experiencing high levels of drug-related violence, making it dangerous to travel on some major highways.

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1.stampede n.(畜群)惊逃,奔逃

例句：Several children were pushed over in the stampede.

有几个小孩在惊慌逃奔中绊倒了。

2.austerity n.(经济的)紧缩; 严格节制消费

例句：War was followed by many years of austerity.

紧随战争的是多年的经济紧缩.

3.enactment n.设定;制定;条例;法令

4.dissolution n.(社团等)解散;(婚约等的)解除

例句：the dissolution of marriage

解除婚姻

the dissolution of Parliament

国会解散

5.undertake vt.担任, 承揽, 从事, 负责; 保证

例句：I want you to undertake all the responsibility.

我要你承担所有的责任。

6.stunning adj.了不起的,出色的,漂亮的；极有魅力的，给人印象深刻的

例句：The audience was awed into silence by her stunning performance.

观众席上鸦雀无声,人们对他出色的表演感到惊叹。

7.thereafter adv.此后; 在那之后;之后;以后

例句：Thereafter they did not speak.

此后他们就不再讲话了。

On the opening day all tickets are a dollar; thereafter, they'll be two dollars.

开张那天票价一元, 以后两元。

8.suppression n.压制;镇压;禁止

例句：The suppression of the revolt took a mere two days.

镇压叛乱只用了两天时间。

9.facility n.设备, 设施

例句：The machine is only servicing facilities.

这部机器只是辅助设备。

1.Politicians in northern Nigeria have chosen the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan in party primaries ahead of next year's election.

ahead of在…之前

例句：She left one day ahead of him.

她是在他离开的前一天离开的。

Ahead of us stretches a forest.

我们前面是一片森林。

2.Mr Abubakar, who's from the north, hopes to become the presidential candidate of the governing party rather than Mr Jonathan, who's a southerner.

rather than而不

例句：They thus increased their annual grain production rather than diminished it.

他们这样增加了而不是减少了粮食年产量。

3.But he left the PDP in a fury after falling out with Obasanjo.

fall out with与某人决裂，争吵

例句：They fall out with each other just before their marriage.

他们就在举行婚礼之前吵了起来。

1.The High Court upheld a ruling at the inquest that the families of the 52 people killed in the 7 July suicide attacks should be allowed to hear evidence given by agents from the domestic spy agency MI5.

这句话的主干是：The High Court upheld a ruling at the inquest。that引导的是ruling的同位语，说明详细内容。be allowed to被允许做某事。

2.The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to end the crisis, which has been blamed on a combination of underinvestment, poor management and mafia control of some of the dump sites.

这句话的主干是前半部分，which引导的是定语从句。

3.The Mexican government has advised migrants driving home from the United States for the winter holidays to form convoys for their own protection as they pass through Mexico.

advise sb to do sth建议某人做某事。

advise的用法

1)用作及物动词时，注意后接动名词 (不能直接跟不定式)或不定式的复合结构：

正：He advised leaving early. 他建议早点出发。

正：He advised us to leave early. 他建议我们早点出发。

误：He advised to leave early.

注意 advise 后接不定式复合结构时的被动语态形式 (不要与上面第一个句型混为一谈)：

He advised us to leave early. (主动式)

→We were advised to leave early. (被动式) (from www.nmet168.com)

2)其后若接 that 从句，通常要用虚拟语气 (should＋v. )：

He advised that we (should) leave early. 他建议我们早点出发。

We advised that he should leave early. 我们建议他早点出发。

He advised that everyone should buy one. 他建议每人买一个。