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Police in Colombia have arrested a man they say is the main link between a Colombian drug gang and one of the most powerful Mexican drug cartels.
Police accused the man known as The Condor of shipping cocaine for the Colombian Comba drug gang to Mexico, from where the powerful Sinaloa cartel would
distribute
it to the United States.
A Norwegian, Christian Eide, has
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ed the record for skiing to the South Pole unaided by more than two weeks. He travelled from Hercules Inlet to the pole, a distance of 1,130km, pulling a sleigh with supplies in 24 days. The previous record was set by an American in 2008.
And that's the BBC News.
扎因·阿比丁·本·阿里(Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali) 宣布,他不会寻求在2014年竞选连任。过去20多年,这位总统的权利一直是不可挑战的。但是由于反对失业和生活水平下降的示威活动升级,并且蔓延至突尼斯首都,总统宣布了该决定。我们的中东编辑Magdi Abdelhadi报道。
在危机接近一个月前开始以来的第三次电视讲话中,本·阿里总统做出重大的政治让步,包括承诺三年之后不再竞选连任。这也是全国各地抗议活动的数千名抗议者的关键要求。本·阿里还表示已下令安全力量停止用实弹射击示威者。他承诺对政治体系进行改革,允许媒体自由运营。