澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2012-07-05
时间：2012-07-24 08:05:14
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Australia and other anti-whaling nations have condemned1 South Korea's proposal to start whaling. South Korea says it plans to follow Japan's lead and start killing2 whales for scientific research. It says it wants to hunt minke whales along its coastline. The opposition's environment spokesman Greg Hunt says the decision is surprising and disappointing.
A group of
asylum3 seekers whose boat got into difficulty off the Indonesian coast are on their way to Christmas Island. One hundred and sixty-two people were on board boat who sent out the
distress4 signal early yesterday. They have been transferred to two Australian
naval5 ships. They're being taken to Christmas Island for health, security and identity checks. It's believed three asylum seekers require medical treatment.
The former head of Britain's Barclays Bank has apologized for the rate rigging scandal that cost him his job. Bob Diamond has been questioned by British MPs for three hours. He described the behavior of those responsible as
reprehensible6. Mr Diamond says he only learned the full extent of the scandal this month and felt
physically7 ill when he read emails from traders accused of rate fixing.
The widow of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has agreed to have his body
exhumed8 to find out if he was poisoned. The Palestinian authority had been considering the move but only if his family agreed. It's been revealed Swiss scientists have found evidence of the radioactive material polonium on his clothes he was wearing when he died in 2004.
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