IOM: One million refugees arrived in Europe in 2015

Half of those who crossed Mediterranean were fleeing Syria, according to International Organization for Migration and UN

 Over one million refugees have arrived in Europe by sea and land this year so far, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.

According to IOM, almost 3,700 refugees died crossing the Mediterranean and 1,005,504 refugees have arrived in Europe by sea and land so far this year.

Some 971,289 people reached Europe by sea via the Mediterranean and 34,215 people reached Europe by land after crossing from Turkey into Bulgaria and Greece by land.

About 816,000 people arrived in Greece by sea and 4,000 people arrived in Greece by land.

Some 219,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean last year.

"Persecution, conflict and poverty have forced an unprecedented one million people to flee to Europe in 2015," the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR and IOM said in a joint statement.

"One-in-every-two of those crossing the Mediterranean this year – half a million people – were Syrians escaping the war in their country. Afghans accounted for 20 per cent and Iraqis for seven per cent," the IOM and UNHCR revealed.

The organizations said 800,000 refugees reached Europe via the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece, accounting for 80 percent of the refugees arriving irregularly in Europe by sea in 2015. 

http://aa.com.tr/en/todays-headlines/iom-one-million-refugees-arrived-in-europe-in-2015/494751

WHAT:Almost 3,700 refugees died crossing the Mediterranean and 1,005,504 refugees have arrived in Europe by sea and land so far this year.
WHEN:2015
WHERE:Europe
WHY:Escaping the war 
WHO:Syria refugees
HOW:by sea and by land 

1.Mediterranean地中海
2.Bulgaria保加利亞
3.Persecution迫害
4.poverty貧窮
5.unprecedented空前的
6.flee逃跑
7.joint聯合
8.Afghans阿富汗人
9.Iraqis伊拉克人
10.Aegean Sea愛琴海

Bangkok bombing: Explosive found in Sukhumvit district after police admit they are not CSI

Thailand's police say they found and deactivated an explosive device in Bangkok on 24 August. Police officials said they found the device after receiving reports of a bomb in the Sukhumvit district of the capital.

"I went to check and found a wide bomb. It was left in the house of a construction worker," said Kamthorn Aucharoen, commander of the police's explosive team, according to Reuters. He added that the device has been deactivated and is to be dismantled.

The investigation into the bombing on 17 August that killed 20 people in the capital earlier this month was showing little progress. Earlier, national police chief Somyot Poompanmoung admitted it was possible that the prime suspect in the attack at the revered Erawan Shrine has already left the country.

Somyot said the manhunt was hampered by faulty security cameras that failed to record the suspect's escape route and complained Thai police lacked the sort of technology seen in crime TV series CSI. "Sometimes there are 20 cameras on the street but only five work. We have to waste time putting the dots together," Somyot told a press conference.

"The footage jumps around from one camera to another, and for the missing parts police have to use their imagination. Have you seen CSI? We don't have that," he said, referring to software used in the crime series to clear blurred CCTV images, adding Thailand has asked other countries for cooperation.

No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing but authorities said the suspect is part of a wider "network" of 10 people. Fingers have been pointed at Uighur militants from north-western china, and Islamists from Indonesia, but no conclusive evidence has so far emerged.

Thai police asked Interpol for help in finding Thailand's most-wanted man, described as a "Caucasian, Arab or mixed race", aged 20 to 30 and about 170cm tall, depicted in a detailed sketch released last week.

Somyot however said police have no clue on the man's whereabouts. "You want the truth? We don't know if the suspect is still in Thailand but I have to assume he still is because we've got no information that he left," he said.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bangkok-bombing-explosive-found-sukhumvit-district-after-police-admit-they-are-not-csi-1516760

WHO: national police chief Somyot Poompanmoung
WHAT: Police officials said they found the device after receiving reports of a bomb in the Sukhumvit district of the capital.
WHERE: Bangkok
WHEN: August 24, 2015
WHY: Somyot said the manhunt was hampered by faulty security cameras that failed to record the suspect's escape route and complained Thai police lacked the sort of technology seen in crime TV series CSI.
HOW: The footage jumps around from one camera to another, and for the missing parts police have to use their imagination.

1.deactivated關閉
2.Reuters路透社
3.dismantled拆除
4. revered尊敬
5. manhunt搜捕
6.hampered阻礙
7.footage鏡頭
8.militants 武裝分子
9.Interpol國際刑警組織
10. depicted描繪

Dengue fever under control in Tainan: CDC

Taipei, Oct. 31 (CNA) The dengue fever outbreak has come under control in the southern Taiwanese city of Tainan, where the disease has been concentrated since the start of May, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said Saturday.

As of Friday, Tainan had reported 81 new cases for this week, but that was 21 fewer than the figure it reported on the same day last week, the CDC said.

The number of accumulated confirmed cases there now stands at 21,688, out of a total of 29,052 cases nationwide, CDC data showed.

However, the endemic continues unabated in neighboring Kaohsiung city, where 227 new cases were reported as of Friday this week, an increase of 77 cases from the same day last week, according to the agency.

The CDC added that while 129 patients had died from the mosquito-borne disease in Taiwan, 28 remain under intensive care units and 26,693 have recovered. 

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201510310006.aspx

WHAT: dengue fever

WHERE: Tainan

WHEN: the start of May

WHY: There are more Mosquitoes then before therefore cause such a big disaster.

WHO: people in Tainan

HOW: 129 patients had died from the mosquito-borne disease in Taiwan, 28 remain under intensive care units and 26,693 have recovered.

1. dengue fever登革熱

2. accumulated累積

3. confirmed確認的

4. endemic流行病

5. unabated不減

6. intensive care units重症監護病房

Week3: US Supreme Court rules gay marriage is legal nationwide

The US Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the United States.

It means the 14 states with bans on same-sex marriage will no longer be able to enforce them.

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the plaintiffs asked "for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."

The ruling brings to an end more than a decade of bitter legal battles.

Same-sex couples in several affected states including Georgia, Michigan, Ohio and Texas rushed to wed on Friday.

However officials in other states, including Mississippi and Louisiana, said marriages had to wait until procedural issues were addressed.

President Barack Obama said the ruling was a "victory for America".

"When all Americans are treated as equal, we are all more free " he said.

However, Christian conservatives condemned the decision.

Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called it "an out-of-control act of unconstitutional, judicial tyranny".

And Kellie Fiedorek, a lawyer for an anti-gay marriage advocacy group, said the decision "ignored the voices of thousands of Americans".

Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, a state where marriages licences will now be issued to same-sex couples, said the justices "have imposed on the entire country their personal views on an issue that the Constitution and the Court's previous decisions reserve to the people of the states".

At the scene - Paul Blake, BBC News

Loud cheers erupted outside the court after the ruling was announced, and there were tears, hugs, and cheers of "USA USA USA!".

A sea of rainbow flags overwhelmed the few anti-gay marriage activists who reacted in disbelief, and the demonstration seemed to turn into a street party.

A tour bus drove past honking as hundreds cheered the decision.

One of the demonstrators, Jordan Monaghan, called his mother from his mobile phone amid the celebrations.

"Hey mom, I'm at the Supreme Court. Your son can have a husband now," Mr Monaghan said.

Minutes after the ruling, couples in one of the states that had a ban, Georgia, lined up in hope of being wed.

In Texas, Yasmin Menchaca and her partner Catherine Andrews told the BBC that they are "trying to round up our parents" in order to get married on Friday.

The two have been together for six years, and had attempted to marry in Washington state - but decided to wait because of the financial burden of flying their parents across the country.

On social media, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton merely tweeted the word "proud" and the White House changed its Twitter avatar into the rainbow colours.

The case considered by the court concerned Jim Obergefell, an Ohio resident who was not recognised as the legal widower of his late husband, John Arthur.

"It's my hope that gay marriage will soon be a thing of the past, and from this day forward it will simply be 'marriage,'" an emotional Mr Obergefell said outside the court.

The first state to allow same-sex marriage was Massachusetts, which granted the right in 2004.

In recent years, a wave of legal rulings and a dramatic shift in public opinion have expanded gay marriage in the US.

In 2012, the high court struck down a federal anti same-sex marriage law.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33290341

Structure of the Lead：

WHAT:  same-sex marriage is a legal right across the United States

WHEN: June 2015

WHERE: United States

WHY: Same-sex couples want same-sex marriage is within the law

WHO:The US Supreme Court and

HOW: A sea of rainbow flags overwhelmed the few anti-gay marriage activists who reacted in disbelief, and the demonstration seemed to turn into a street party.

Keywords：

1.plaintiffs原告

2.dignity尊嚴

3 conservatives保守派

4 unconstitutional違憲

5 tyranny暴政

6 advocacy擁護

7  impose強加

8  overwhelm壓倒

9 avatar頭像

10 federal聯邦

Week2: Taipei girl, 8, dies a day after her throat was slit by school prowler

An eight-year-old Taipei girl has died almost a day after her throat was slashed by an intruder to her school, the island's Central News Agency reported.

Kung Chung-an, 29, allegedly entered the Taipei Municipal Beitou District Wenhua Elementary School without permission on Friday and followed the girl to a restroom, where he slashed her throat twice with a fruit knife.

The girl, surnamed Liu, was found in a pool of blood. She was rushed to Taipei Veterans General Hospital, where she was briefly resuscitated. But after sustaining severe damage to her trachea and carotid arteries, she died 19 hours later.

Kung gave himself in to police and provided statements regarding the crime. However, police said Kung refused to cooperate during further interrogation, and told his interrogators that he killed the girl because he heard voices inside his head.

Kung is an alumni of the Wenhua Elementary School, though his motivations for assaulting Liu are unclear. Police believe the attack was not random.

Kung showed no remorse for his actions, police said.

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je said a task force would be set up to review school security and establish a system to monitor potentially dangerous people.

Last May, 21-year-old university student Cheng Chieh killed four Taipei subway passengers injured 24 others with a 30cm fruit knife. The attacker told police he wanted to do something "big" and "shocking" since his childhood.

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1813324/taipei-girl-8-dies-day-after-her-throat-was-slit-school-prowler

Structure of the Lead：

Who: Kung Chung and an eight-year-old Taipei girl

When:2015-05-29

What:A Taipei girl dies after her throat was slit

Where;Taipei Municipal Beitou District Wenhua Elementary School

Why: He killed the girl because he heard voices inside his head.

How:Kung Chung followed the girl to a restroom, where he slashed her throat twice with a fruit knife.

Keywords：

1.slashed割傷

2.Intruder入侵者

3. surnamed姓

4.briefly短暫地

5.resuscitated復甦

6.sustaining持續的

7.trachea氣管

8.carotid arteries頸動脈

9.interrogation質問

10.remorse悔恨

Week1: Apache scandal-involved Army officers suspended from duties

Taipei, Oct. 2 (CNA) Three Army officers will be suspended from their duties for their involvement in a scandal earlier this year in which civilians were brought onto a military base for an unauthorized tour of Taiwan's most advanced attack helicopters, according to a decision by the judiciary on Friday.

The decision was made by the Judicial Yuan's Public Functionary Disciplinary Sanction Commission, which is in charge of handling cases of misconduct by civil servants.

Those suspended were: Lt. Col. Lao Nai-cheng (勞乃成), a former deputy battalion commander of the 601st Aviation Brigade at the Army Aviation Special Force Command; Maj. Gen. Chien Tsung-yuan (簡聰淵), head of the 601st Aviation Brigade; and Tao Kuo-chen (陶國禎), head of the brigade's personnel affairs division.

Lao will be suspended from duties for two years, while Chien and Tao will be suspended for six months each, according to the resolution adopted by the Commission.

During their suspension period, the trio will not have the status of an active Army personnel, nor will they be paid. They will also be prohibited from taking any public sector jobs, defense officials said.

The punishment will not be enforced until the resolution is delivered to the Ministry of National Defense in accordance with administration procedures. That is expected to happen in just a matter of days.

The duty suspension, however, may not be the only consequence Lao will face, apart from his having been suspended from flying an Apache AH-64E helicopter.

Also on Friday, the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office overruled a decision by a district prosecutors' office to not indict Lao and another 14 suspects for allegedly violating the Criminal Code of the Armed Forces articles that bans the leaking of military secrets.

The high prosecutors office sent the case back to the Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office, ordering the latter to launch a new investigation.

On March 29, Lao brought a group of people, including television hostess Janet Lee (李蒨蓉) and her family and friends from Taiwan's high society, to see the U.S.-manufactured Apaches at his base in Taoyuan's Longtan, without approval from his superiors.

Some members of the group boarded an Apache and took photos of the chopper.

The case came to light after Lee posted four photos of the Army base tour on her Facebook page, including one of her in the chopper's cockpit, drawing severe public criticism of loose security in Taiwan's military.

It later came to light that a month earlier on Feb. 22, Lao had also brought a group of 10 friends and relatives to the Apache hangar and had sneaked his Apache helmet out of the base to show friends at a private party.

A total of 15 suspects, including those who went on the tours, were named in the scandal.

However, last month district prosecutors decided not to charge all of the suspects, citing the defense ministry's explanation that the 601 brigade base is not a key military fortress.

The definition consequently makes the photos the suspects took at the Apache hanger they visited and the Apache helmet not considered military secrets, the district prosecutors office said.

The agency then delivered the ruling to the high prosecutors office for review.

But the high prosecutors office said that the charges based on which district prosecutors conducted their probe into the case are covered by a special law that is under the jurisdiction of the high prosecutors office, instead of the lower level authority.

Therefore, the district prosecutors' decision was not acceptable because it is based on the wrong legal regulations, the high prosecutors office said.

Senior prosecutors said that the Taoyuan District Prosecutors Office must either change the charges or forward the case to the higher authority for handling. 

http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201510020027.aspx

What: Apache scandal
When: 2015/2/29
Where: Taoyuan's Longtan
Why: It is based on the wrong legal regulations
Who: Janet Lee
How:Lao Nai-cheng brought a group of people to see the U.S.-manufactured Apaches

Key words:
1.judiciary司法的
2.misconduct處理不當
3.deputy代理的
4.battalion軍隊
5.trio三個一組
6.accordance給予
7.prosecutors檢察官
8.indict控告
9.allegedly據說
10.chopper直升機
11.cockpit座艙