国际货币基金组织总裁拉加德表示,解决全球经济问题所需进行的工作现在只进行了一半。人们非常担心欧洲债务问题会威胁到全球经济健康,这种担忧非常严重,她说,国际货币基金组织已经做好准备帮助任何有需要的成员国。希腊已经接受了IMF的救助。如果混乱持续下去,其他国家可能也需要援助。在华盛顿召开会议的部长们希望他们他们在这里采取的措施可以使其他国家不再需要救助。
The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has announced that the current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin should run for president in 2012. Mr Putin proposed that Mr Medvedev should become the prime minister. The announcements at the congress of the ruling United Russia party came after months of speculation.
俄罗斯总统梅德韦杰夫宣布,现任总理普京应该在2012年竞选总统。而普京提议梅德韦杰夫应该担任总理。经过几个月的猜测之后,总统在执政党统一俄罗斯党会议上宣布了该提议。
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BBC世界新闻。
One week after an earthquake hit northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet, many remote Indian villages are still cut off. Continuing rain is triggering fresh landslides and hampering the rescue effort. Here's Jill McGivering of our South Asia desk.
印度东北部,尼泊尔和西藏遭遇地震袭击一周之后,印度许多偏远的村庄仍然被切断。持续的降雨引发了新的山体滑坡,阻碍了救援工作。南亚记者Jill McGivering报道。