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At least 34 people have been killed in a double suicide bombing in the town of Tal-Afar in northern Iraq. The two explosions followed each other in quick succession near a courthouse reportedly used to interrogate terrorist suspects. It's the deadliest attack since US forces pulled out of urban centers at the end of last month.

China says it's back in control of riot-torn Urumqi in the country's west. Thousands of power paramilitary troops are patrolling the streets to prevent further clashes between the Han Chinese and Muslim Uighur Ethnic Groups. But tensions remain high.

In Italy, the G8 leaders have agreed to try to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 80% over the next 40 years. Developing nations will be required to reduce their emissions by a lower 50%.The cuts are designed to limit global warming to no more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels. A formal globe climate change agreement is not expected until the Copenhagen conference in December.

And bodies and wreckage believed to be from a Yemeni Airbus that crashed near the Indian Ocean Island of Comoros last month have washed up 500 kilometers away in Tanzania. The plane's black box flight recorder is still thought to be in the deep water.

And that's ABC world news.

• New Words
• Pronunciation
• Simple Meaning

• succession
•  
• A succession of things of the same kind is a number of them that exist or happen one after the other.

• courthouse
• /ˈkɔːthaʊs/
• A courthouse is a building in which a court of law meets.

• interrogate
•  
• to ask sb a lot of questions over a long period of time, especially in an aggressive way

• back
•  
• to or into the place, condition, situation or activity where sb/sth was before

• riot-torn
•  
• 打砸抢烧

• patrol
• /pəˈtrəʊl/
• to go around an area or a building at regular times to check that it is safe and that there is no trouble

• tension
•  
• a situation in which people do not trust each other, or feel unfriendly towards each other, and which may cause them to attack each other

• emission
•  
• An emission of something such as gas or radiation is the release of it into the atmosphere

• wreckage
• /ˈrekɪdʒ/
• When something such as a plane, car, or building has been destroyed, you can refer to what remains as wreckage or the wreckage.

• airbus
•  
• An Airbus is an aeroplane which is designed to carry a large number of passengers for fairly short distances.

• Iraq
•  
• 伊拉克

• Urumqi
•  
• 乌鲁木齐

• paramilitary troops
•  
• 准军事部队

• The Han Chinese
•  
• 汉族

• Muslim Uighur Ethnic Groups
•  
• 穆斯林维吾尔民族

• Italy
•  
• 意大利

• G8
•  
• 八国集团

• developing nations
•  
• 发展中国家

• global warming
•  
• 全球变暖

• Copenhagen
•  
• 哥本哈根

• Yemeni
•  
• 也门

• Comoros
•  
• 科摩洛

• Tanzania
•  
• 坦桑尼亚

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