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Colombia's second largest rebel group, the ELN has freed a Canadian hostage seized seven months ago. The Vice President of a Toronto-based mining company Gernot Wober was handed over to the international committee of the Red Cross at an undisclosed location in the north of the country. Mr. Wober was taken hostage by the left-wing rebels in January alongside five other workers who were released shortly after. The Colombian government has said that the ELN would only be allowed to take part in peace talks if they release all their hostages.
哥伦比亚第二大叛军组织ELN,释放了7个月前被绑架的加拿大人质。总部设在多伦多的矿业公司副总裁被交给国际红十字会。Wober在一月份和另外5名员工被该左翼叛军绑架。哥伦比亚政府称和ELN进行和谈的唯一条件就是他们要释放所有的人质。
The Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned the killings by the Taliban of 12 Afghan civilians while he held two days of talks in Pakistan with the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Karen Allen reports on Mr. Karzai's comments.
阿富汗总统Hamid Karzai谴责塔利班杀害12名阿富汗平民的暴力行为,当时他正在巴基斯坦与总理Nawaz Sharif举行为期两天的会晤。Karen Allen报道Karzai的评论。
He's condemned attacks in Herat, in the west of the country, and also attacks in the east of the country. And he basically said that there were some countries that wanted to keep Afghanistan underdeveloped now, that was a fairly, clearly pointed dig at neighboring Pakistan which Afghanistan has long accused of having links to the insurgency here in Afghanistan. Interesting because it comes just as he was leaving two-day talks in Islamabad, of course, he's been meeting Nawaz Sharif, the new Prime Minister in Pakistan.