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2010-04-01 BBCBBC News with Marian MarshallThe International Criminal Court has authorized its prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo to investigate the violence that followed Kenyas last general election. Mr Moreno-Ocampo said the decision meant there would be no impunity for the perpetrators. Kenyas Justice Minister Mutula Kilonzo welcomed the move.They certainly very very warmly welcomed this decision partly because it also impacts on the suspects themselves. A lot of them are been having nightmare. Some of them are getting thinner and those are not sleeping. And then there are the victims. They are thrilling ICC comes and they are demanding justice.The ethnic and tribal clashes which were allegedly inflamed by politicians left about 1,300 people dead.The main opposition candidate in Sudans first multi-party presidential election for nearly 25 years, Yassir Arman, says he is withdrawing. Mr Arman was standing for the SPLM, the southern former rebels. President Omar al-Bashir says he will cancel a promised referendum on independence for southern Sudan if the SPLM boycotts the poll. From Khartoum, James Copnall reports.The Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement has withdrawn its candidate Yassir Arman from the presidential election, saying it would not be free and fair. Mr Arman made the announcement himself. He also said the party would not contest polls in Darfur. However, the SPLM will contest the general election in other regions of the country and also the elections in the semi-autonomous south. The northern opposition parties would decide on Thursday if they too will boycott some or all of the polls. Both they and the SPLM believe the electoral process has been rigged in favor of President Omar al-Bashirs National Congress Party.President Obama has announced plans to open large areas of the Americas offshore waters to oil and gas extraction. Hes ending a long-standing ban on drilling along the Atlantic coast in parts of the Gulf of Mexico and off northern Alaska. From Washington, here is Paul Adams.The president said this is not a free for all but part of a broader strategy with energy security at its core. To underline the point, he made his announcement in front of a fighter jet that flies on a mixture of biofuels. Anticipating criticism from environmental campaigners, he said he wanted to move the American economy away from fossil fuels and foreign oil towards home-grown fuels and clean energy. He noted that certain areas notably Alaskas Bristol Bay would still be protected.The United States and the European Union have pledged 2.7 billion dollars in an aid for Haiti at a donors conference for reconstruction after the earthquake in January. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told a meeting at the UN headquarters in New York that the aim was a sweeping exercise in nation-building. The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that if Haiti failed to recover from the earthquake, its social and security problems could spread over its borders. The UN is seeking nearly four billion dollars for Haiti.World News from the BBCA man arrested over a fatal attack on American consular staff in Mexico earlier this month has said drug traffickers were targeting a Texas jail guard. The guard was the husband of an official from the US consulate in the border city of Ciudad Juarez. He was killed along with a member of the consular staff and her husband who were traveling in another car. Mexican officials said the suspect had confessed to being a lookout for the gang.A rebel Chechen leader says his group was responsible for the suicide bombings on the Moscow metro on Monday which killed almost 40 people. The claim from Doku Umarov came on an Islamist website but theres been no other confirmation. The statement said thered be more attacks on Russian cities. In a new attack, two suicide bombers in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan have killed at least 12 people including several police.British and Canadian scientists say they have identified a potential treatment for sleeping sickness which kills about 50,000 people a year in Africa. The scientists at the University of Dundee in Scotland were funded to research diseases neglected by major pharmaceutical companies One of them, Professor Mike Ferguson told the BBC the drug works by disabling a human enzyme essential to the parasite which causes sleeping sickness.What this discovery means is that we have identified a way of killing the parasite very very specifically. We developed, if you like, a magic bullet that goes right to one of the main organs of the parasite and kills it very very effectively. The prototype drug that we have at the moment appears to be extremely safe.The lawyer for a Lebanese man sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft has appealed for international help to save him. Ali Hussein Sabat hosts a satellite television show in which he predicts the future and gives advice to the audience. He was arrested on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in 2008. His lawyer says she has been told Mr Sabat is due to be executed this week.BBC News 1.authorize vt.授权, 批准; 委托 例句：The government authorized an irrigation project. 政府批准了一项灌溉工程。2.impunity n.无罪,相安无事,不受惩罚例句：You cannot do this with impunity. 你不可能做这事而不受罚。 3.thrilling adj.令人兴奋的;毛骨悚然的 例句：This stadium has seen many thrilling football matches. 这个体育场举行过许多场扣人心弦的足球比赛。4.inflame vt.激怒,点火,使发炎5.boycott vt.抵制; 拒绝参加 例句：Theyre boycotting the shop because the people there are on strike. 他们抵制那家商店, 因为那里的店员在罢工。6.rig v.用不正当手段)操纵, 垄断 例句：They complained that the election had been rigged. 他们投诉这次选举被人操纵。 7.extraction n.取出,拔出;开采;提炼 例句：strategic industries such as the extraction of oil and natural gas 石油和天然气开采等战略性产业8.notably adv.显而易见地;明显地 例句：Many students were absent, notably the monitor. 许多学生缺席，特别是连班长也没来。9.confess vt.vi.承认, 供认（错误或罪行） 例句：The criminal soon confessed. 罪犯很快就供认了。10.lookout n.警戒, 注意 11.execute vt.将处死，处决，处以极刑 例句：A month or two later they executed the king. 一两个月以后他们处死了国王。 1.Mr Arman was standing for the SPLM, the southern former rebels. stand for代表, 表示 例句：UN stands for the United Nations. UN是联合国的缩写。 Dictatorship stands for the denial of individual freedom. 独裁意味着否定个人自由。2.Both they and the SPLM believe the electoral process has been rigged in favor of President Omar al-Bashirs National Congress Party.in favor of赞成.;支持.;有利于. 例句：All in favor of this proposition will please say“Aye”. 请所有赞成这项提议的人讲一声“赞成”。3.The lawyer for a Lebanese man sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft has appealed for international help to save him. appeal for呼吁 例句：He appealed for his parents forgiveness. 他恳求他的双亲宽恕他。4.His lawyer says she has been told Mr Sabat is due to be executed this week.due to预定例句：It s due to arrive at 12:10.国际刑事法庭授权其检控官Luis Moreno-Ocampo对肯尼亚上次大选过后发生的暴力事件进行调查。Moreno-Ocampo表示，该决定意味着对行凶之人绝不姑息。肯尼亚司法部长Mutula Kilonzo也对此举表示欢迎。“他们当然非常非常热烈地欢迎这个决定，部分原因是，该决定也会对嫌疑人本身产生影响。许多人都生活在噩梦中，许多人越来越脆弱，难以入眠。然后就是受害者。他们为国际刑事法庭的到来非常激动，他们要求彰显正义。”由政治家煽动的种族和部落冲突造成大约1,300人死亡。苏丹举行接近25年来首次多党总统选举，主要反对派候选人Yassir Arman宣布退出。Arman代表南方前叛军人民解放运动(SPLM)参选。苏丹总统巴希尔表示，如果人民解放运动(SPLM)抵制投票，他将取消此前承诺的针对南苏丹独立进行全民公决。喀土穆， James Copnall报道。苏丹人民解放运动从总统选举中撤出其候选人Yassir Arman，称选举不会做到自由平等。Arman亲自宣布了该决定。他还表示，他们的政党不会在达尔富尔地区拉选票。然而，苏丹人民解放运动会在其他地区，以及半自治的南部参与大选的竞争。北方反对党派也会在周四决定他们是否抵制部分或全部投票。他们和SPLM都相信，选举过程被总统巴希尔的国民大会党操纵。奥巴马总统宣布了开放美国大面积滨外水域进行石油和天然气勘测的计划。他终止了在墨西哥湾和阿拉斯加北部大西洋海岸开采的长期禁令。华盛顿，Paul Adams报道。奥巴马总统表示，这并不是全面解禁，而是在部分地区的边境战略，其核心是能源安全。为了强调这一点，他在使用混合生物燃料的战斗机前宣布了该计划。预料到会受到环境保护者的批评，他表示，希望将美国经济对石化燃料和外国石油的依赖转移到国内生产的燃料和清洁能源方面。他指出，这些地区，尤其是阿拉斯加布里斯托尔湾仍然可以受到保护。在捐赠会议上，美国和欧