A governor of the Turkish city of Istanbul says the suspect has confessed to carrying out the New Year’s Eve night club attack, which killed 39 people. 34 year-old Abdulkadir Masharipov, an Uzbek national, was arrested in Istanbul last night after a nationwide manhunt. Photographs showed him looking blooded and bruised. The governor said Masharipov was trained in Afghanistan and entered Turkey illegally a year ago.
土耳其城市伊斯坦布尔市长表示,嫌疑人承认实施了新年前夜夜总会袭击,杀害了39人。昨晚,经过全国搜捕后34岁的乌兹别克斯坦公民阿卜杜勒•卡迪尔•马沙里波夫(Abdulkadir Masharipov)在伊斯坦布尔落网。照片上的他看上去布满血和伤痕。市长表示,马沙里波夫曾在阿富汗接受训练,一年前非法进入土耳其。
The British Prime Minister Teresa May will give a long-awaited speech in a few hours setting out a strategy for Brexit. In it she is expected to signal that she wants a full break from the European Union rather than a deal that leaves Britain half in, half out.
几个小时后,英国首相特雷莎•梅(Teresa May)将发表等待已久的关于英国退出欧盟的讲话。在讲话中,她将表明完全脱离欧盟,而不是达成一半脱离一半保留的协议。
The European Parliament is electing a new president to replace Germany center-left Martin Schulz. The choice is more hotly contested than usual as a coalition of Europe’s main parties who had sought to keep Eurosceptics out of power has broken down.
欧洲议会选举出新的主席来代替德国中左翼舒尔茨(MartinSchulz)。这次人选的竞争比以往更加激烈,因为寻求让欧元怀疑论者远离权力中心的主要政党联盟解体。
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said he hopes the incoming US administration will attend peace talks in Syria due in Kazakhstan next week. He believed that cooperation with Washington under Donald Trump would be more effective than it was under President Obama.
俄罗斯外长拉夫罗夫表示,他希望即将上任的美国政府将参加下周在哈萨克斯坦举行的叙利亚和平对话。他相信,在唐纳德•特朗普的领导下,与华盛顿的合作将比奥巴马总统时期更加有效。
President Xi Jinping will today become the first Chinese leader to address the annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos. He’s likely to make clear his objections to Donald Trump’s commitment to defend American industry against Chinese exports.
今天,习近平主席将成为首位在瑞士达沃斯度假村召开的一年一度的世界经济论坛上讲话的首位中国领导人。他可能会明确反对唐纳德•特朗普要求美国工业抵制中国出口的承诺。
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