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Lazio captain arrested over match-fixing
Associated
Press, Cremona, Italy | Mon, 05/28/2012 7:19 PM
Italian authorities arrested Lazio captain Stefano Mauri and
more than a dozen others Monday as part of a wide-ranging investigation into
match-fixing in football.Police also swept through the Italy national team training site near Florence as part of the operation.
The Italian football federation said Mauri was one of 14 people arrested and later announced that Zenit St. Petersburg defender Domenico Criscito would not be in Italy's European Championship squad after it emerged the player was being investigated.
Two police cars arrived at the national team's training site at around 6:25am local time (0425 GMT) and left more than two hours later. Criscito's house in Genoa was also searched.
Criscito had been in Italy coach Cesare Prandelli's provisional 32-man squad for Euro 2012, but was left out of the final 23-man group.
The coach of Italian champion Juventus, Antonio Conte, was also placed under investigation for alleged wrongdoing while he was coach of Siena and his house in Turin was searched.
"Conte's reaction is that of someone who's completely innocent and strongly determined to prove his total innocence," Conte's lawyer, Antonio De Rencis, said.
Siena president Massimo Mezzaroma has also been placed under investigation.
"The searches are connected to what's happening with Siena," said Cremona prosecutor Roberto Di Martino. "There are seven, eight games being looked at and there have been statements that make us think they were manipulated. The searches involved players, coaches and directors of the club, including Conte and Mezzaroma.
"We shouldn't place too much emphasis on the blitz at Coverciano, it is a problem that concerns only Criscito and not other players in the national team at the moment," Di Martino said, before the squad was announced.
"Also we shouldn't place too much emphasis on this anyway, the notification of an impending investigation is a tool we have, but not a guilty judgment. There's been no action taken against Criscito traveling, he can play at the Euros easily."
Criscito, who did not take part in Italy's training session, has reportedly asked to be heard by the authorities as soon as possible.
Action has been taken against 19 people, 11 of whom are footballers or former footballers — 14 have been arrested, three have been placed under house arrest and two others are to present themselves to authorities. Five of the arrests were made in Hungary.
"It's devastating news," former Italy and current Ireland coach Giovanni Trapattoni said. "If the authorities are acting it's because there's something there."
Mauri has been accused of sporting fraud. Most of the footballers accused now play in Serie B or lower leagues, although one, Omar Milanetto, spent five years at Genoa before joining Padova in 2011.
Numerous others have had their houses searched, including Chievo Verona's Sergio Pellissier.
More than 50 people have now been arrested in Italy in the past year as part of the probe started by judicial authorities in Cremona.
Former Atalanta captain Cristiano Doni was banned from football for three and a half years last summer, and former Lazio captain Giuseppe Signori was also arrested.
Serie A clubs Atalanta, Novara and Siena were among the 22 Italian teams notified at the beginning of this month that they are being investigated by sports authorities.
Prosecutors in Cremona have detailed an extensive match-fixing ring stretching as far as Singapore and South America that was allegedly in operation for more than 10 years.
"It will be impossible to go right to the end with this because my office is not equipped to do so," Di Martino said. "If people wanted, we could go on forever but there's very few personnel.
"It will be impossible to go ahead with this for a long time."
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1. Action has been taken
against 19 people, 11 of whom are footballers or former footballers — 14 have
been arrested, three have been placed under house arrest and two others are to
present themselves to authorities. Tindakan diambil terhadap 19 orang, 11 di
antaranya adalah pemain atau
mantan pemain sepakbola - 14 telah ditangkap, tiga telah ditempatkan
dalam tahanan rumah dan dua lainnya
adalah untuk menampilkan diri kepada pihak berwenang. (Present Perfect Tense)
2. Mauri has been accused of
sporting fraud. Most of the footballers accused now play in Serie B or lower
leagues, although one, Omar Milanetto, spent five years at Genoa before joining
Padova in 2011. Mauri telah dituduh
olahraga penipuan. Sebagian besar pemain dituduh
sekarang bermain di
Serie B atau liga yang lebih rendah, meskipun satu, Omar Milanetto, menghabiskan lima tahun di Genoa sebelum bergabung Padova pada tahun 2011. (Present Perfect
Tense)
3. The searches are
connected to what's happening with Siena," said Cremona prosecutor Roberto
Di Martino. Pencarian yang terhubung ke
apa yang terjadi dengan Siena, "kata jaksa Cremona
Roberto Di Martino.(Simple Present
Tense)
4.
Former Atalanta captain Cristiano Doni was banned
from football for three and a half years last summer, and former Lazio captain
Giuseppe Signori was also arrested. Mantan kapten Atalanta Cristiano Doni
dilarang dari sepakbola selama tiga setengah tahun musim
panas lalu, dan mantan kapten
Lazio Giuseppe Signori
juga ditangkap.(Simple Past Tense)
NATO raid rescues 4 aid workers in Afghanistan
Associated
Press, Afghanistan | Sat, 06/02/2012 4:56 PM
ATO forces
swooped in by helicopter before dawn Saturday to rescue two female foreign aid
workers and their two Afghan colleagues who were held by militants for nearly
two weeks in a cave in northern Afghanistan.
British
Prime Minister David Cameron hailed the "breathtaking" operation,
which he approved Friday afternoon after becoming increasingly concerned about
the safety of the hostages, one of whom, 28-year-old Helen Johnston, was
British.
Johnston was
kidnapped along with Moragwe Oirere, a Kenyan, and the two Afghans on May 22 in
Badakhshan province. The four work for Medair, a humanitarian non-governmental
organization based near Lausanne, Switzerland.
The rescue
operation was carried out by British troops in cooperation with other NATO and
Afghan forces, Cameron told reporters outside 10 Downing Street in London. He
said it was "extraordinarily difficult" to decide to go ahead with
the operation, which involved a "long route march" without being
discovered.
"It was
an extraordinarily brave, breathtaking even, operation that our troops had to
carry out," said Cameron. "We will never be able to publish their
names but the whole country should know we have an extraordinary group of
people who work for us who do amazingly brave things."
All four hostages were rescued
safely, no British troops were injured and a number of Taliban militants and
kidnappers were killed, said Cameron.
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5.
All four hostages were rescued safely, no British
troops were injured and a number of Taliban militants and kidnappers were
killed, said Cameron. Keempat sandera berhasil diselamatkan dengan aman,
tidak ada tentara Inggris terluka
dan sejumlah militan Taliban dan penculik tewas,
kata Cameron. (Simple Past Tense)
China prepares for Greek eurozone crisis exit
Lan Lan,
Chen Jia and Oswald Chen, Asia News Network ( China Daily ), Beijing,
China/Hong Kong | Tue, 06/05/2012 9:43 AM
The Chinese
government is drafting plans to address the potential consequences of a Greek
exit from the eurozone as leading Chinese economists warned that such a
scenario could plunge the global economy into a new recession.
"The
government is working on plans for the worst-case scenario of Greece leaving
the eurozone later this year," Wang Haifeng, director of international economics
at the Institute for International Economic Research, under the National
Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), told China Daily.
"A plan is being drafted to
cushion the possible effect on the exchange rate, capital flow, as well as its
influence on trade," said another senior economist, who requested
anonymity.
The
ministries of finance and commerce are involved in working on the plan, sources
said.
Greeks go to
the polls on June 17 amid growing concern about the country's possible exit
from the eurozone.
"How
this entire issue develops will have a direct effect on China and its
economy," said an official of the Ministry of Commerce, who also declined
to be identified.
But the
Chinese economy is strong enough to handle any such emergency in the eurozone,
Zhang Yansheng, secretary-general of the academic committee of the NDRC, said.
"Even
if the worst-case scenario happens and Greece leaves the single currency bloc,
the economy will be controllable.
"It
would be unwise to overact," he said, adding a massive stimulus package,
similar to the one in 2008, was not necessary.
The lessons
China drew from the previous financial crisis, following the collapse of Lehman
Brothers, was to prioritise shifting the economic structure, he said.
After that
crisis, the western regions of China saw greater investment and achieved faster
growth than the central and eastern regions, he said.
Wang Jun, a
senior economist with the China Centre for International Economic Exchanges, a
government think tank, said there is no need for China to worry about the
consequences of Greece exiting, as the exposure is narrow.
Greece only
accounts for a small slice of bilateral trade between China and Europe, but the
risks lie in a possible chain reaction, said Song Hong, director of the
Department of International Trade at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Europe would
obviously be affected but it could also drag down the US and Japanese
economies, two other large trading partners of China.
Willem
Buiter, an economist at Citigroup, agreed that a chain reaction, or contagion,
could hit the global economy.
European GDP
growth may shrink this year into negativity and any Greek exit would dampen
growth prospects for a long time, he said.
In this
scenario, the Chinese economy would be hit, said Liu Shiguo, a researcher at
the Institute of World Economics and Politics under the Chinese Academy of
Social Sciences.
"Definitely,
China's finance market will also encounter a short-term shock."
A Greek exit
could spur sovereign defaults, credit crunches and depreciation of the euro,
leading to an unhealthy yuan appreciation and affect China's trade.
"In
addition, euro assets, which are estimated to account for more than 20 per cent
of China's massive foreign exchange reserves, could shrink," Liu said.
Chinese
banks should supply credit for Chinese companies when European banks are in
trouble, Liu said.
Keeping a
close eye on lending is crucial, said Wang Haifeng under the NDRC.
The Greek
case is a warning for Chinese banks to pay attention to their lending,
especially to local debt platforms.
Buiter said
Greece is likely to start sovereign debt restructuring this year or next. It is
also possible, he said, that the European Union may launch a bank-restructuring
fund to directly inject capital into banks bypassing governments.
Some Chinese
companies have yet to see any impact on their business in Greece. China Ocean
Shipping (Group) Company, the largest State-owned shipping conglomerate in
China, said it had not yet adopted "specific measures" against
Greece's possible exit from the eurozone.
In 2008 the
company signed a 4.2 billion-euro (US$5.3 billion) contract to operate Greece's
Piraeus port, the biggest container port in the country, for up to 35 years.
Hong Kong's
economy could be hit hard by a Greek exit from the eurozone, the region's
financial secretary John Tsang told the city's legislators on Monday.
"Being
a small and open economy, Hong Kong must prepare itself for the challenges
brought about by the rapid deterioration of the macroeconomic environment
globally."
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6.
"A
plan is being drafted to cushion the possible effect on the exchange rate,
capital flow, as well as its influence on trade," said another senior
economist, who requested anonymity. "Rencana sedang disusun untuk meredam efek yang mungkin pada kurs, arus
modal, serta pengaruhnya terhadap perdagangan,"
kata seorang ekonom senior, yang
meminta anonimitas. (Present Continuous Tense)
World dengue vaccine could be ready by 2015
Asia News
Network (The Straits Times), London | Fri, 06/08/2012 11:55 AM
One of the grimmest legacies of the
war in the Pacific is still being fought 70 years on, but a victory over dengue
– the intensely painful “breakbone fever” which the conflict helped spread
around the world – may be in sight.
Paris-based
drug firm Sanofi hopes for positive results in September from a key trial among
4,000 children in Thailand that would set it on course to market a shot in 2015
that would prevent an estimated 100 million cases of dengue infection each
year.
Early tests
of the trial have shown a balanced immune response against all four dengue
types.
“Everything
they've done so far looks very good,” said Duane Gubler of the Duke-NUS
Graduate Medical School.
He expects
that Sanofi's vaccine will show an efficacy rate of at least 75 to 80 percent.
Orin Levine
of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health said the new vaccine is
a potential breakthrough, but warned that its roll-out may not be
straightforward.
The vaccine
needs to be given in three separate doses over the course of a year in order to
counter the threat from the four different types of dengue virus.
Health-care
experts would prefer a single-dose or, at most, a two-dose vaccine for mass
immunization. A simpler regimen would also be better for militaries and
travelers.
In any case,
Sanofi is spending €350 million (US$438 million) on a new vaccine factory near
Lyon, which is already in test production. If the trial data is good, Sanofi
will file for market approval in countries where dengue is endemic like
Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Mexico next year, suggesting a
regulatory green light in 2014 and commercial launch in early 2015.
Dengue spread
to global pandemic proportions during World War II, partly due to the massive
movements of armies through the Pacific theatre. In the past 50 years, there
has been a thirtyfold jump in cases.
The World
Health Organization officially puts infections at 50 million to 100 million a
year, though many experts think this assessment from the 1990s badly
underestimates the disease.
Most
patients survive but dengue is estimated to kill about 20,000 every year, many
of whom are children.
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7.
One
of the grimmest legacies of the war in the Pacific is still being fought 70
years on, but a victory over dengue – the intensely painful “breakbone fever”
which the conflict helped spread around the world – may be in sight. Salah satu warisan grimmest perang di Pasifik masih
berjuang 70 tahun, tapi kemenangan atas berdarah - yang sangat menyakitkan
"breakbone demam" yang konflik
membantu menyebarkan seluruh dunia -
mungkin terlihat. (Present
Continuous Tense)
Russia:
We won't back a foreign force in Syria
(CNN) -- After days of international shuttling on what to
do with the troubling situation in Syria, Russia's foreign minister said
Saturday his country will never agree to foreign intervention.Despite warnings
of Syria spiraling into a civil war, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
said at a televised briefing in Moscow there was no alternative other than
implementing Special Envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan, despite its failures.
"The situation
looks more and more grim," Lavrov said. "For the first time since the
beginning of this crisis we see the question of foreign intervention. And our
position remains unchanged. We will never agree to sanction the use of force in
the U.N. Security Council."
He
called foreign intervention a "dangerous game" and said it would have
serious consequences in the entire region. He also blamed the recent violence,
which has included horrific reported massacres in Houla and Qubeir, in part to
opposition groups being supported by other nations.Russia, along with China and
four Central Asian nations, has signed a joint declaration rejecting armed
intervention in Syria and reiterating support for Annan's peace plan.Russia and
China -- both Security Council members -- have also blocked proposed United
Nations efforts to punish President Bashar al-Assad's regime with sanctions.
Lavrov suggested an
international conference on Syria to work out a way to make the peace plan
stick. That conference, he said, should include Iran and not focus on regime
change in Syria."If the Syrians agree [on Assad's departure] between each
other, we will only be happy to support such a solution," Lavrov said.
"But we believe it is unacceptable to impose the conditions for such a
dialogue from outside."
Lavrov's
comments came on a day when intense fighting flared across Syria and after many
hours of international discussions this week on how to get the failing peace
plan back on track.At least 96 people, including many women and children, were
killed Saturday, said the opposition Local Coordination Committees of Syria.Many
of the reported deaths were in Daraa, a southern city near the Jordanian border
that the opposition group said was raided and shelled starting Friday night."Several doctors have been
detained to prevent them from aiding the wounded amid a state of panic among residents due to the abuses
regime forces are committing against the people there," the group said.A
doctor in the besieged city of Al Qusayr, near the Lebanese border, said he has
to keep moving his makeshift hospital to prevent attack. Journalist Robert King
documented the chaos in the hospital on video as medical staff rushed to save
lives.King said he has seen snipers targeting children.
The city of Homs came
under heavy bombardment Saturday. Regime forces stormed one neighborhood amid
intense gunfire and shelled a mosque and church, the Local Coordination
Committees said.
At
least 26 people died in Homs, including the mayor of the Khalidiya
neighborhood, according to the group. It said another 26 people died in Idlib.Another
opposition group, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,
reported a total of 17 government forces were killed in clashes with rebels
across the country.CNN cannot independently confirm reports of casualties or
violence as the Syrian government has restricted access by international
journalists.In another sign of escalating attacks, rebels battled government
forces in the heart of Damascus on Friday, sparking fierce explosions in a rare
and bold move for the fighters, video purportedly from the scene showed.
Meanwhile,
the Syrian government said an "armed terrorist group" was behind an
attack on a power station in a Damascus neighborhood Friday. Firefighters
extinguished the fire and crews are working to restore electricity to affected
areas.The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that the bodies of
57 policemen and soldiers -- many of them officers -- were transported from
military hospitals in several cities to funerals in hometowns.
International leaders accuse al-Assad of
failing to comply with a peace plan brokered by Annan, a special envoy on Syria for the United Nations and the
Arab League.
Annan, who
has been meeting with U.N. officials, is trying to salvage the peace plan to
end the 15-month anti-government uprising.
As part of
the plan, U.N. observers have been in Syria to monitor whether both sides are
abiding by the agreement.
8. International leaders accuse al-Assad of
failing to comply with a peace plan brokered by
Annan. Pemimpin internasional menuduh al-Assad dari melanggar rencana
perdamaian yang ditengahi oleh Annan. (simple present tense)
