美国国家电台 NPR 2012-11-13

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“He is a tragic³ gam>guy to what is really a great career. I hope he and his family can get this together.” 

 

Meanwhile, officials say that despite the fact that he is no longer at the helm of the CIA, there is still a chance that Petraeus will be called to testify before Congress about the deadly attack on the US consulate⁴ in Benghazi, Libya.

 

New Jersey⁵ Governor Chris Christy says gasoline rationing⁶ in 12 counties will end early tomorrow. He says the supplies are back and long lines at gas stations are gone, but in Long Island, New York, tens of thousands are still without power and many are homeless. A long [bet] resident [Amy Cetron Dobo] lost her home. She says FEMA has given her family housing money, but it’s not enough. 

 

With tighten⁷ red/res money for too much because there is no place to live. And/As everybody has been displaced for there is no hotels anywhere around, there is no apartments or houses or very few and far between to rent. 

 

The storm has less>left () 67,000 customers of the Long Island power authority in the dark. 

 

There is turmoil⁸ in the [Upper Ashulonds] of the BBC. Larry Miller⁹ reports two senior executives there are out of the picture pending¹⁰ a review.

 

BBC News director Helen Boden and her deputy Steve M/Richel were asked to step aside during an internal investigation¹¹ into how the broadcaster handle(d) claims of sex abuse relating to the late TV star Jimmy Salvel. Boden and Michel were in place when the BBC [spike>is back] in the investigation into Savel who was alleged¹² to have abused hundreds of underage teens during his decades at the BBC. Lawmaker Philip Davis, 

 

The news departments in the crisis, [as] the whole of the BBC, is they really leads to together [av] together quickly. 

 

There is also criticism of the 700,000 payoff to [George Aan or so] who resigned after just 54 days as the BBC’s director general. The prime minister says [that’s are] to justified¹³. For NPR News, I’m Larry Miller in London.

 

Most of Venice has been swapped¹⁴ by heavy rain and high seas. The lagoon¹⁵ city’s high tide mark hit its sixth highest level over the past 150 years of record keeping. The same storm that’s swept Venice has also [retabic] in Tuscany, where hundreds have had to leave their homes.

 

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 14 points, the NASDAQ up one. This is NPR.

 

The investigation continues into a house explosion in Indian Naples this weekend. That left two people dead and dozens of homes uninhabitable. Several may have to be demolished¹⁶. Authorities have been working with utility companies in the search for answers. Fire officials do not yet determine the cause.

 

West African efforts are building in the battle against the al-Qaeda linked Islamist hardliners with a special focus on the north of Mali. NPR’s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton reports diplomacy¹⁷ and dialogue are still being pursued, but regional leaders have not ruled out military intervention¹⁸ in a bid to end the partition.

 

The West Africa bloc¹⁹ ECOWAS says it must dismantle²⁰ by force if necessary transnational criminal and terrorists networks that have occupied northern Mali since a coup²¹ in March. Tens of thousands of people have left the region. Jihadists have imposed strictest Islamic law and destroyed secret tombs in historic cities including Timbuktu. Talks continue with some rebel representatives, but plans for a possible military deployment²² to northern Mali are taking shape. West African leaders have until the end of the month to present a credible²³ strategy to the UN Security Council about ending the duel²⁴ crisis in Mali. Ofeibea Quist-Arcton, NPR News, Dakar.

 

Officials have now called the results in a House race in a new Congressional District in the Phoenix²⁵ area. Arizona voters have chosen Democrat²⁶ [Kear Sten Cinima] over Republican rival [Vernant Parker]. Cinima becomes the first openly bi-sexual member of Congress. 

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