CNN 2011-12-08
时间：2012-01-11 07:36:01
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Leaders in Europe are trying to prevent another debt crisis with the new money plan. This is needed because some European countries are spending much more money than they’re taking in. They’re running on huge debts. And because they are using the same currency, the euro, if one of the these governments goes under, it could hurt all their economies, the U.S. economy and others worldwide. Here are two the major players, German Chancellor1 Angela Merkel getting out of the car here, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. These two leaders represent the two largest economies in Europe, they believe their new plan will prevent another debt crisis and stabilize2 the Europe’s economies. But it still has to be ratified3 by most members of the Europe Union, and what’s unknown is if it will be and if it will work.
Well geography is playing a part in the latest disagreement between the U.S. and Iran. These two countries are not friendly, and Iran claims it recently shut down the U.S. drone, an unmanned aircraft used by the military to gather information. Iran says the drone is flying over its air space, the U.S. says its drones don’t fly over Iranian air space, Barbra Star explains how else geography factors in and why this is bad news for U.S. intelligence if Iran is telling the truth.
Iranian authority say they shut down a highly classified U.S. unmanned spy plane over its territory along its eastern border with Afghanistan. Iran says the drone they shut down is an RQ170, now that’s of the most secret drones in the U.S. military and intelligence
arsenal4, a stealth drone, they can fly largely undetected
gathering5 intelligence and targeting information. So far the U.S. using the NATO alliance against Afghanistan to issue a statement that it’s only saying, quote, “the UVA to which the Iranians are referring may be a U.S. unarmed reconnaissance aircraft that had been flying a mission over western Afghanistan last week. The operators of the UAV lost control of the aircraft and that had been working to determine its status.” That according to the statement, now U.S. officials tell CNN the fly crew operating the drone did report a loss of flight controls before the drone went down, but they are not saying it was shut down and they are not saying it’s RQ-170. The key question now is shut down or not. Do the Iranians have their hands on classified intelligence technology, if the Iranians do the U.S knows it’s not getting any of that back. Barbra Star CNN, Washington.
See if you can ID me? I’m a country located in southeastern Asia, just north of Malaysia. I’ve been on news recently for months of historic flooding. My largest city is also my capital, Bangkok. I’m Thailand, home to the world’s longest Serving
Monarch6.
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