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World
    2015-12-30  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    1. SpaceX conducts return-to-flight launch

    SpaceX sent a Falcon rocket* soaring toward orbit on the night of December 21 with 11 small satellites, its first mission since an accident last summer. Then in an even more astounding feat*, it landed the 15-story leftover booster* back on Earth safely.

    It was the first time an unmanned rocket returned to land vertically* at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the United States, and represented a tremendous* success for SpaceX. The company led by billionaire Elon Musk is striving for reusability to drive launch costs down and open up space to more people.

    2. Iraqi troops to drive IS from Ramadi

    Government forces expected to dislodge* Islamic State militants from the western Iraqi city of Ramadi within days, state television said on December 23, citing army chief of staff Lt. General Othman al-Ghanemi.

    If Ramadi is captured, it will be the second major city after Tikrit to be retaken from Islamic State in Iraq. It would provide a major psychological boost to Iraqi security forces after the militant group seized a third of Iraq, a major OPEC oil producer and U.S ally, last year. “In the coming days will be announced the good news of the complete liberation of Ramadi,” Iraqia TV cited the officer as saying.

    3. Russian tycoon wanted

    Russia has issued an international arrest warrant* for Mikhail Khodorkovsky on suspicion of ordering a contract killing*, investigators said on December 23, prompting the former oil tycoon to declare the Kremlin had gone mad.

    Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, was pardoned* by Putin in 2013 and freed after a decade in jail on fraud charges he says were politically motivated. He accused Putin in November of leading Russia into a 1970s Soviet-style period of stagnation* that could eventually trigger the country’s collapse.

    4. Myanmar asks Thailand for review

    Myanmar’s army chief has called on Thailand to review the sentencing of two countrymen to death for murdering a pair of British backpackers* after a controversial trial that sparked protests.

    General Min Aung Hlaing, head of the country’s influential military, has asked Thailand for a “review of the evidence” against the two men, the state-run Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Sunday.

    5. S. Korea, Japan settle deal on sex slaves

    The foreign ministers of South Korea and Japan said on Monday they had reached a deal meant to resolve a decades-long impasse* over Korean women forced into Japanese military-run brothels* during World War II, a potentially dramatic breakthrough* between the Northeast Asian neighbors and rivals.

    The deal, which included an apology from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and a 1 billion yen (US$8.3 million) aid fund from Tokyo for the elderly former sex slaves, could reverse decades of animosity and mistrust between the thriving democracies, trade partners and staunch U.S. allies. The issue of former Korean sex slaves, euphemistically* known as “comfort women,” has been the biggest source of friction in ties between Seoul and Tokyo.

    6. US storm death toll rises to 43

    Texas reeled* from rare December tornados on Monday, as days of storms battering a vast region stretching from the southwestern United States to Canada claimed at least 43 lives.

    Hundreds of flights across the area have been canceled, and with portions of major highways flooded or snowed under, the storm system is wreaking* holiday travel havoc* for millions of Americans. The National Weather Service is warning of blizzards, freezing rain and flash floods in the next days, all part of a powerful storm system fueled by unseasonably warm air that began in the deep south on December 23.(SD-Agencies)

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