英语论文网

One of the Republican party candidates for the US presidential nomination, Rick Santorum, says he will drop out of the race, making Mitt Romney the most likely challenger for President Obama in November. Mr Santorum made the announcement in his home state of Pennsylvania with his family at his side. Peter Bowes reports from Washington.

Rick Santorum was barely known around America when he launched his presidential campaign a year ago. The Republican from Pennsylvania positioned himself as the only true conservative in the race. He attacked his opponent and the front-runner Mitt Romney for being out of touch with the needs of ordinary people. But Rick Santorum, who rose quickly in the polls, could not sustain his initial popularity. In suspending his campaign, he said he would continue to fight for, as he put it, American greatness and the defeat of Barack Obama.

Sudan says its largest oil field Heglig is under the control of the South Sudanese military. South Sudan has acknowledged that its military has advanced to the oil field, but both sides deny starting the fighting. James Copnall is in Khartoum.

Colonel Khalid Sawarmi admitted the Sudanese army had been defeated outside Heglig and had retreated to the north. He said his men had not started the battle. A spokesman for South Sudan's armed forces acknowledged his troops advanced to Heglig, but stopped short of claiming control of the oil fields. Colonel Philip Aguer told the BBC his troops were responding to air and ground attacks by the Sudanese armed forces. Heglig is generally considered to be part of Sudan, but South Sudan disputes this.

State media in China says one of the Communist Party's former rising stars, the politician Bo Xilai, has been stripped of all his key posts, and his wife Gu Kailai is suspected of involvement in the murder of a British businessman, Neil Heywood. Both have been in detention since Mr Bo was dismissed last month as Communist Party chief in the southwestern city of Chongqing. Michael Bristow is in Beijing.

China's state-run news agency Xinhua says that there was a conflict over what it describes as "economic interests" had intensified. Mr Heywood died in the city of Chongqing last November. The death was initially not treated as suspicious, but Xinhua says the Chinese police re-opened the investigation. Mr Heywood was good friends with Bo Xilai, one of China's leading politicians who until recently was in charge of Chongqing.

The international envoy Kofi Annan says Syria has failed to send any signal of peace, and told the UN Security Council its army is continuing rolling military operations against civilian targets despite its promise to stop. In a letter to the council, Mr Annan said Syria must implement significant and visible change if a ceasefire is to be implemented before Thursday's deadline.

World News from the BBC

The Prime Minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, has called on Bahrain to release a jailed human rights campaigner who's been refusing food for two months. Mrs Thorning-Schmidt told journalists in Copenhagen that Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who has Danish citizenship, was now in a very critical condition. Earlier, the Bahraini authorities said Mr al-Khawaja was in good health.

本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。