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美國洩密者愛德華·斯諾登曝光的秘密檔表明美國監控過世界35位元領導人的電話。英國《衛報》出版的備忘錄稱，在美國另一政府部門官員給出200多個官員的關鍵號碼後，美國國安局就開始監控電話。無論是美國現任還是以往的官員，包括前國務卿馬德琳·奧爾布賴特都稱，國家之間相互監控是常有之事。約翰尼·戴蒙德在華盛頓報導。
週四，馬德琳·奧爾布賴特在華盛頓說，這並不是稀罕事，國家之間是相互刺探情報的，她說不只是美國在刺探別國。奧爾布賴特於1993年到1997年擔任美國駐聯合國大使，她說法國大使明確向她表示，他們曾聽過她與協力廠商的電話對話。她說這是竊聽。
早些時候，德國總理安吉拉·默克爾說朋友之間相互刺探是不對的。她是在抵達歐洲峰會發表這番言論的，此前據說美國情報局一直在竊聽她的電話。默克爾說現在需要修復兩個盟國之間的信任。
既然談到美國國安局，我已多次向美國總統表示，朋友之間相互刺探是不可接受的。我這麼做是為了德國人民的利益，不僅是與我有關，還與全體德國公民有關。
推特稱希望在11月上市時籌資15億美元，這家社交媒體將只出售10%以上的股份，有評估稱這樣該公司的價值將超過100億美元。
美國稱擔心西非海岸海盜事件會增多，此前有兩名美國公民被從供油船上綁架走。美國海運公司所有的C-Retriever號週三遭受襲擊，其船長和首席工程師遭綁架。威爾·羅斯報導。
國際海事局記錄今年幾內亞灣發生了40多起襲擊案，有132名船員遭綁架。這些團夥通常針對油船，目的是盜取貨物，然後釋放遭綁架者。最近的襲擊案發生時，尼日利亞海岸正進行反海盜演習，涉及英國、西班牙、荷蘭和尼日利亞軍隊。尚不清楚是否這些海軍會進行干預。
埃塞俄比亞國家新聞機構稱政府已暫時禁止公民出國求職。外事部稱無數的埃塞俄比亞人因非法人口走私失去性命，或經歷了無數創傷。據悉該國希望維護公民的幸福。
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最新公佈的研究表明，事實證明，為全世界無數愛滋病患者尋求治癒方法可能比科學家料想的更困難。一項為期三年的研究發現，愛滋病毒潛伏池的大小是之前料想的60倍大。專家稱這就解釋了為何一旦感染病人停止服用抗逆轉錄病毒藥物，愛滋病毒就會再度回來。
新的基因研究表明，DNA中數千個小片段能決定人與人之間面部的差異。這個發表在《科學》雜誌上的研究稱，少量的基因物質會影響人發育和老化過程中面部形狀的改變。研究者之一Axel Visel博士說這些發現能幫助探明面部出生缺陷的病因。
許多這樣的開關也影響著面部的主要缺陷，在病人有這些缺陷的一些情況中，我們知道是怎麼回事，因為一些基因發生了突變。但我們懷疑在另外一些情況下，潛在原因是一些開關發生了突變。
聯合國成員國提供了200多個建議，稱中國需要改善其人權紀錄。建議中位於最前面的是要求中國確保言論自由、保護出版自由和放鬆對互聯網的控制。中國強調了在教育上的進步，以及對公民獲得醫療手段的改善。
塞拉里昂法院指控《獨立觀察報》的兩名編輯以煽動性誹謗罪，因為他們發表了一篇將總統柯洛馬比作老鼠的文章。言論自由組織稱西非國家政府最近多次試圖威脅媒體。
BBC News with Jerry Smit.
Classified documents leaked by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden suggested the United States has monitored the telephones of 35 world leaders. A memo published by the Guardian newspaper in Britain suggested the US National Security Agency began monitoring calls after being given more than 200 key phone numbers by an official from another American government department. Current and former officials in the US, including the former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, have also said that is routine for countries to spy on each other. Jonny Dymond in Washington has more.
This is not a surprise to people, said Madeleine Albright in Washington on Thursday, Countries spy on each other. And she said it wasn't just America listening to everyone else. Ms.Albright was US ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997. She said that the French ambassador there had made it clear to her that they had listened in to a phone conversation she had had with a third party. They had, she said, an intercept.
Earlier, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that spying among friends is not done. She was speaking as she arrived at a European summit after it emerged that the US intelligence agencies have been intercepting her mobile calls. Ms. Merkel said trust between the two allies now needed to be resorted.
Since we talked about the NSA, I've repeatedly told the American President that spying between friends is unacceptable. I'm doing this in the interest of German people. This is not just about me, but it's about all German citizens.
Twitter has said it expects to raise around $1.5bn in its stock market launch expected to take place in November. Just over 10% of the social media company will be sold. In an evaluation that will make the company worth more than $10bn.
The United States says it's concerned about the rise in piracy of the coast of West Africa after two American citizens were kidnapped from an oil supply ship. The C-Retriever owned by US Maritime Transport Company was attacked on Wednesday and its captain and chief engineer were kidnapped. Will Ross reports.
The International Maritime Bureau has recorded more than 40 attacks in the Gulf of Guinea this year with 132 crew taken hostage. The gangs usually target the oil vessel to steal a cargo and then set free the captives. This latest attack happened as an antipiracy training exercise was taking place off Nigeria’s coast involving British, Spanish, Dutch and Nigerian forces. It's not clear if any of those visiting navies are going to intervene.
The state news agency in Ethiopia says the government has temporarily banned its citizens from traveling abroad to look for work. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said countless Ethiopians have lost their lives or undergone untold traumas because of illegal human trafficking. It said it wanted to safeguard their well-being.
World News from the BBC.
Newly published research has shown that finding a cure for the millions of people around the world who have Aids is likely to be even more difficult than scientist had feared. A 3-year-study has found that the size of the dormant reservoir of HIV, the virus that can lead to Aids, is up to sixty times larger than previously thought. Experts say the finding explain why HIV usually makes a rapid comeback if an infected person stops taking antiretroviral drugs.
New genetic research suggested thousands of small segments of DNA determine how one person's face can look so different from another's. The study published in the Journal Science said the small amount of genetic material influence how the shape of a human face would alter as it developed and aged. One of the researchers, Doctor Axel Visel said their findings could help establish how facial birth defects arise.
Many of these switches probably also play a role in major malformations of the face. In some of these cases where you have patients with these malformations, we know what's going on because there are mutations in certain genes. But we suspect that there are also many cases where the underlying cause is a mutation in some of these switches.
The United Nations member states have made more than 200 recommendations it says are needed for China to improve its human rights record. Top of the list are calls for Beijing to guarantee freedom of expression, safeguard press freedom and ease its control over the Internet. China has stresses its advance in education and improved access to health care for its citizens.
A court in Sierra Leone has charged two editors at the Independent Observer newspaper with seditious libel after they published an article comparing the President Ernest Bai Koroma to a rat. Press freedom groups say the government of the West African country has recently made a number of attempts to intimidate the media.
