澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-06-21

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New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras has been sworn in as the country's fourth prime minister in eight months. He will lead a three party coalition⁵ and he is now asking the Greek people for unity⁶ and trust. Mr. Samaras is promising⁷ to re-negotiate its parts of the international bailout deal. 

Crowds are again gathering⁸ in Cairo as the Muslim Brotherhood⁹ predicts Egypt's military council could stay in power for years. Egypt's election committee has delayed announcing the poll results. Ousted¹⁰ president Hosni Mubarak remains¹¹ in a critical condition in hospital. 

World leaders have kicked off a three-day Earth Summit in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. The Rio-Plus-20 conference brings together almost 200 U.N. members. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has opened the summit warning the world is running out of time to fix various environmental problems. 

And first time novelist Anna Funder has taken out Australia's most prestigious¹² literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. Her book All That I Am tells the story of an elderly Sydney woman and her role in the anti-Hitler resistance movement before World War II. Anna Funder has also attacked the Queensland premier¹³ for scrapping¹⁴ that state's literary awards. 

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