Happy bombers
North Korean military personnel on January 15 applaud the announcement of a hydrogen bomb test during a rally in Pyongyang, North Korea. — AP
Trial fail
Drug testers fall ill
Paris — Six people are seriously ill after taking part in a medical trial for an unnamed European laboratory to test a new drug, France’s health ministry said on January 15.
The ministry did not say what the medicine was intended to be used for, but said the six patients, one of whom was in a coma, had been in good health until taking the oral medication.
“This test was carried out at a private establishment,” the ministry said in a statement. — Reuters
Grisly discovery
Investigators inspect remains
Mexico City — Mexico’s attorney general says two bodies were found in recent days in the area of southern Guerrero state where 43 students disappeared in September 2014.
Investigators have begun the process of identifying the skeletal remains, General Prosecutor Arely Gomez said on January 14. She added that the remains were found in the area where the students disappeared while hijacking buses in a confrontation with police.
The government said that police, together with a local drug cartel, killed the students and burned them. — AP
Chinese chat
On January 15, Guan You Fei, China’s director general for International Affairs, meets with Yoon Soon-Gu, South Korea’s director general for International Policy of Defense, in Seoul, South Korea. — EPA
Boeing body
Airport staff finds corpse
Paris — The body of a man was found at Paris’ Orly Airport in the landing gear of an Air France plane that had flown in from Brazil, police and airport sources said on January 12.
The corpse was discovered during maintenance operations on the Boeing 777 after flying in to Paris’ main international Charles de Gaulle airport from Sao Paulo two days earlier, a police source said. The body is undergoing examination so it can be identified, an airport source said. — AFP
Seoul survivors
Students remember friends
Seoul — Survivors of South Korea’s Sewol ferry disaster, carrying 250 roses representing their friends who died, graduated from their high school on January 12 at an emotional, low-key ceremony.
The Sewol was carrying 476 people when it sank off the southwestern island of Jindo in April 2014, with the loss of 304 lives. Of those who died, 250 were students from the same high school in Ansan, near Seoul.
The 75 survivors who graduated wore yellow ribbons of remembrance. — AFP
Right-wing riot
Racists rampage in Germany
Berlin — More than 200 masked right-wing supporters, carrying signs with racist overtones, went on a rampage in the eastern city of Leipzig, throwing fireworks, breaking windows and vandalising buildings, police said on January 12.
As roughly 2,000 anti-Muslim protesters marched peacefully in the city centre, police said a separate group of 211 people set off fireworks, erected barricades and vandalised property.
The police put the right-wingers in a bus which was then attacked by left-wing supporters. — Reuters
EASY NEWS FOR M1-3
Cambodia calamity
Five killed in crash
Two trucks crashed. It happed on January 12 in Kampong Speu province in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. One of the trucks carried garment workers. Five people were killed. 65 others were injured. — AP
Exercises
1. Where is Orly Airport located?
a. In Tokyo.
b. In Geneva.
c. In Paris.
2. The Sewol was carrying 467 people when it sank off the southwestern island of Jindo in April 2014. True or false?
3. What does MRTA stand for?
Vocabulary
- coma (n): a deep unconscious state, usually lasting a long time and caused by serious illness or injury
skeletal (adj): connected with the bones of a person or an animal
garment (n): a piece of clothing
overtone (n): an attitude or an emotion that is suggested and is not expressed in a direct way
