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Institution : Chu Hai College of Higher Education
Department : English
Class : Media English
Lecturer : Ms Orr
Student name : Francis Chu Chi Fung
Student number : 201212234H
Assignment : Summary of news on Nov 24
Due date : Nov 28, 2013
News 1
Obama: Iran nuclear deal limits ability
to create nuclear weapons (CNN)A historic deal was struck early Sunday between Iran and six world
powers over Tehran's nuclear program that freezes the country's nuclear
development program in exchange for lifting some sanction while a
more formal agreement is worked out.
The agreement -- described as an "initial, six-month" deal -- includes
"substantial limitations that will help prevent Iran from creating a
nuclear weapon," U.S. President Barack Obama said in a nationally
televised address.
For years, Iran and Western powers have left negotiating tables in
disagreement, frustration and at times open animosity.
But the diplomatic tone changed with the transfer of power after Iran's
election this year, which saw President Hassan Rouhani replace
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Whereas former President Ahmadinejad lambasted the West over the
economic sanctions crippling Irans economy, President Rouhani has
struck up a more conciliatory tone and made the lifting sanctions against
his country a priority.
Most world powers believe that Iran could not realistically build a usable
bomb in less than a year
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News 2
Baltimore jail officers accused oftaking bribes, bringing drugs to gang
members (CNN)A large group of Baltimore corrections officers and members of a
notorious prison gang have been working together to peddle drugs,
phones and sex inside the city's jail, prosecutors say. However, an
indictment released this week is another shot, prosecutors say, inputting an end to it.
"Correctional officers were in bed with BGF inmates," said U.S. Attorney
Rod Rosenstein.
Rosenstein seemed to mean that literally and figuratively, court
documents show. According to one indictment, alleged gang member
Tavon White had a sexual relationship with four jail guards while he was
incarcerated.
He impregnated all four of them and they all helped him smuggle items
in prison, according to the indictment.
Some inmates who weren't part of the gang had to pay protection
money -- or more accurately, their relatives on the outside did --
authorities claim.
The investigation first came to light in April with the announcement of
the first round of arrests. In all, 44 people have been indicted on federal
charges. Twenty seven of them are Baltimore correctional officers.
News 3
Syria conflict: Children 'targeted by snipers' (BBC)
More than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war in nearly three
years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says.
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Summary executions and torture have also been used against children as
young as one, the London-based Oxford Research Group think tank says.
Of the 11,420 victims aged 17 and under, 389 were killed by sniper fire.
Some 764 were summarily executed, and more than 100 - including
infants - were tortured, the report says.
Boys outnumbered girls among the dead by around two to one. Boys
aged 13 to 17 were most likely to be victims of targeted killings, the
report says.
The highest number of child deaths occurred in the governorate of
Aleppo, where 2,223 were reported killed.
News 4
China establishes 'air-defence zone' over East Chi
Sea (BBC)
China has demarcated an "air-defence identification zone" over an
area of the East China Sea, covering islands that are also claimed
by Japan.
China's defence ministry said aircraft entering the zone must obey its
rules or face "emergency defensive measures".
The islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, are a
source of rising tension between the countries.
Japan lodged a strong protest over what it said was an "escalation".
"Setting up such airspace unilaterally escalates the situations
surrounding Senkaku islands and has danger of leading to an unexpected
situation," Japan's foreign ministry said in a statement.
Taiwan, which also claims the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, expressed regret
at the move and promised that the military would take measure to
protect national security.
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News 5
Coalition minister wants to give land to
young to build own homes (The
Guardian)Young people who cannot afford to buy somewhere to live should be
handed plots of state-owned land so they can build homes of their own,
the planning minister, Nick Boles, has suggested.
The idea is in the development stage of coalition policy and Boles isgiving it extra impetus, declaring that young Britons want "the
opportunity to get on and help themselves".
Housebuilding remains at very low levels even though there has been an
upturn in the past three months. The coalition is acutely aware that it
needs to find a way to assure the so-called Generation Rent that, if they
want, they will be able to purchase or custom-build a home of their own.
The government has so far set aside 12 plots for self-build on public land,
Official statistics this week showed housing starts over the past 12
months increased by 16% on the year before, rising from 101,280 to
117,110.
The 32,230 homes on which construction started between July and
September this year represent the fastest rate of house-building since
2008.
News 6
California split as professor in murder
trial of her alleged rapist is jailed (The
Guardian)A psychology professor has been locked up on suspicion of facilitating
the gruesome murder 18 years ago of a man who allegedly raped her as
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a studentprompting campaigners across Europe and the US to rally to
her defence. She strongly denies the charges.
Norma Patricia Esparza, 39, was taken into custody in Orange
County,California, last week and charged with a count of specialcircumstances murder. Prosecutors say Esparza, who is an assistant
professor of psychology and counselling at Webster University in Geneva,
set in motion the kidnapping, beating and killing of Gonzalo Ramirez,
who was murdered with a meat cleaver in 1995.
Police arrested her at Boston airport last year when she returned to the
US for an academic conference, apparently unaware that detectives had
revived the investigation into a cold case.
One weekend in March 1995, Esparza, then 20 and in her second year atcollege, allegedly met Ramirez, 24, at the El Cortez nightclub in Santa
Ana. The next day, over breakfast, he offered to drive her and a friend
back to Pomona.
Once they got to her college dorm room, Esparza later said, he raped her.
She went to a college nurse who gave her a contraceptive pill, but
Esparza did not notify the police.
According to Esparza, She instead told an ex-boyfriend, Gianni AnthonyVan, about the assault and he became enraged. A few weeks after the
alleged rape, she identified Ramirez in a bar. Leaving Esparza behind,
Van and three friends, Shannon Gries, Kody Tran and Diane Tran,
allegedly tailed their quarry, crashed his truck and abducted him when
he got out.
He was beaten, hacked with a meat cleaver and hung from the ceiling of
a transmission shop owned by Kody Tran. Esparza saw the body before it
was dumped on the side of Sand Canyon Road in Santa Ana.
After her arrest last year she was freed on $300,000 bail. After rejecting
the plea deal offered by prosecutors, they then argued that she was a
flight risk.
Her co-defendants Van, 44, Gries, 42, and Diane Tran, 45 deny the
charges and are also being held without bail. Kody Tran died in a
shootout with police last year. The trial is expected to start in January.
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