2015年4月1日 星期三

week4-復航空難-Tran Asia, crash, Taipei

TransAsia Airways Flight Crashes in Taipei River

AIRLINES & AIRPORTS | BARRY KAUFMAN | FEBRUARY 04, 2015
TransAsia Airways flight GE235 has crashed into the Keelung River in Taipei, according to the Associated Press. Dramatic dashcam video of the crash, which has since gone viral, shows the ATR 72 Propjet veering sharply onto its side and catching its wing on a highway before crashing.
The flight originated at 11:53 a.m. at Sunghshan Airport in downtown Taipei. Bound for the Kinmen Islands, the plane began issuing mayday signals to the control tower shortly after takeoff and crashed within four minutes.
Speaking at a news conference, TransAsia director Peter Chen touched on one of the most bewildering aspects of this crash, namely how new the ATR 72 Propjet is. “Actually this aircraft in the accident was the newest model. It hadn’t been used for even a year,” he said.
Stranger still, this is the second such plane to crash in a year. The other was also operated by TransAsia. It crashed in July, killing 48.
Rescue efforts were still underway as of this writing, with Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration confirming 23 dead, 15 rescued with injuries and 20 still missing.

http://www.travelpulse.com/news/airlines/transasia-airways-flight-crashes-in-taipei-river.html

Structure of the Lead：
WHO-TransAsia Airways flight GE235
WHEN- 11:53 a.m. 
WHAT- the plane began issuing mayday signals to the control tower shortly after takeoff and crashed within four minutes.
WHY-not given
WHERE-Keelung River in Taipei
HOW-23 dead, 15 rescued with injuries and 20 still missing.
Keywords：
1. veering:改變方向
2. bewildering:令人困惑的
3. Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration:台灣民航局


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2015年3月11日 星期三

week3-法國巴黎漫畫雜誌社遭恐攻-Paris, magazine, Charlie Hebdo, attack

Danish newspaper to print Charlie Hebdo cartoons on Islam

COPENHAGEN Wed Jan 7, 2015 4:50pm EST
(Reuters) - The Danish newspaper Berlingske has republished cartoons on Islamic themes from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, as part of its coverage of the attack which killed 12 people in Paris on Wednesday.
The Thursday print edition of Berlingske, available online on Wednesday night, showed several past front pages from the French magazine. Among them was one depicting the Prophet Mohammad and another about sharia law.
Such images provoked angry reactions from some Muslims when originally published by Charlie Hebdo, and footage of the Wednesday killings at the magazine's offices showed gunmen shouting "we have avenged the Prophet Mohammad".
Berlingske's Editor in Chief Lisbeth Knudsen said her newspaper's action in republishing the cartoons was not a protest.
"We will print them as documentation of what kind of a magazine it was that has been hit by this terrible event," Knudsen told news agency BNB.
The managing editor of Corriere della Sera, Italy's leading newspaper, said in a video editorial on Wednesday that his daily would also republish Charlie Hebdo's cartoons.
When another Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, in 2005 published 12 cartoons by various artists, most of which depicted the Prophet Mohammad, it sparked a wave of protests across the Muslim world in which at least 50 died.
The media group JP/Politikens Hus, which controls Jyllands-Posten, stepped up security after the attack in Paris on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Ole Mikkelsen; editing by Andrew Roche)
Structure of the Lead：
WHO-The Danish newspaper Berlingske
WHEN-Wednesday
WHAT- Republish cartoons on Islamic themes
WHY-not given
WHERE-Paris
HOW- not given
Keywords：
1. satirical:諷刺
2. depicting:描繪
3. provoked:引發
4. avenged:復仇

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2015年3月4日 星期三

week2-塔利班血洗軍校-Taliban, Pakistan, Peshawar school, kill/attack

Pakistan military signs death warrants for six

BY KATHARINE HOURELD
ISLAMABAD Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:32pm EST
(Reuters) - The Pakistani military said on Thursday its Chief of Army Staff had signed death warrants for six "hard core terrorists" following a deadly Taliban attack on a school that killed 132 children earlier this week.
It was unclear if the men had been accused of involvement in the school attack or of other crimes. It was also unclear whether they were in custody or had been convicted in absentia.
"COAS today has signed death warrants of 6 hard core terrorists (pending execution) convicted by Field General Court Martial (FGCM), in accordance with law," the military said in an emailed statement. 
A military spokesman did not return calls seeking details.
The Pakistan government put an unofficial moratorium on executions in 2008. Since then, only one person has been executed, a soldier convicted by a military court of murdering a fellow officer.
But calls for the swift reinstatement of the death penalty have grown since the attack on a military-run high school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday. Nine staff and 132 children were killed.
The Pakistani Taliban said the attack was revenge for a military operation that they said had harmed their own families.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said executions would resume but did not say when. Around 8,000 people are on death row in Pakistan, where the court systems are notoriously slow and unreliable.
(Reporting by Katharine Houreld; editing by Andrew Roche)
Structure of the Lead：
WHO-The Pakistani military
WHEN-Thursday
WHAT-sign death warrants for six terrorists
WHY-Taliban attack on a school that killed 132 children
WHERE-not given
HOW-not given

Keywords：
1.death warrant:死刑執行令
2.absentia:缺席
3.moratorium:暫停
4.reinstatement:恢復
5.notoriously:出了名的
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2015年2月25日 星期三

week1-美種族衝突-Eric Garner, NYPD, I can’t breathe, chokehold

Man, allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes, dies after chokehold by NYC police

BY CURTIS SKINNER
NEW YORK Fri Jul 18, 2014 3:11pm EDT
(Reuters) - A man, described as an asthmatic father of six, died after New York police tackled him in front of a beauty parlor and put him in a chokehold on suspicion of selling untaxed cigarettes.
The New York Police Department said that Eric Garner, 43, was selling bootleg cigarettes in front of a Staten Island hair salon on Thursday, and suffered a heart attack when officers attempted to take him into custody.
He weighed 350 pounds (158.757 kg) and measured 6 feet 3 inches (1.9 meters) in May, his most recent of 31 arrests - some of which were for selling untaxed smokes, police said on Friday.
His wife told the New York Daily News that he was asthmatic, diabetic and suffered from sleep apnea.
In a 3-minute video clip of the incident that was published online by the newspaper, Garner denies selling anything. He says he was minding his own business moments after having stopped a street fight between others. The source of the video couldn't immediately be confirmed.
The video recording shows that as officers surrounded him, Garner asks that they not touch him, but at least four officers tackle him to the ground and pile on top of him.
One officer puts him in a chokehold and pushes his face into the pavement, the recording shows.
"I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe," Garner says in the video.
By the end of the clip, Garner is seen motionless on the sidewalk. Police scramble to push a gathering crowd away from Garner, and one officer assures onlookers that Garner was alright.
Mayor Bill de Blasio promised a full investigation into the death that would be led by the Staten Island District Attorney, in coordination with the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau.
"We have a responsibility to keep every New Yorker safe, and that includes when individuals are in custody of the NYPD. That is a responsibility that Police Commissioner Bratton and I take very seriously," de Blasio said in a statement.
The mayor and police commissioner will hold a news conference on the incident later on Friday.
The family of Garner, who has six children, will join Reverend Al Sharpton and his National Action Network on Saturday to demand a full investigation into the death, the network said in a statement.
(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Bernadette Baum)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/18/us-usa-new-york-chokehold-idUSKBN0FN2D020140718

Structure of the Lead：
WHO-Eric Garner
WHEN-Thursday
WHAT-New York police tackled him
WHY-selling untaxed cigarettes
WHERE-in front of a Staten Island hair salon
HOW-dies after chokehold by NYC police
Keywords：
1. allegedly:據稱
2. chokehold:鎖喉
3. asthmatic:氣喘
4. bootleg:私售
5. apnea:窒息

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