奥巴马阿灵顿公墓参加退伍军人纪念日活动
·奥巴马在阿灵顿国家公墓参加退伍军人纪念日活动。
·奥巴马召开国家安全会议决定是否向阿富汗增兵。
·联合国儿童基金会报告发展中世界有将近2亿名五岁以下的儿童长期营养不良。
·乌兹别克人权活动家Bakhtiyar Hamrayev称由于帮助BBC调查乌兹别克棉花企业雇佣童工事件而遭到殴打。
·微软对一部分用户禁用X-box在线游戏服务，以惩罚他们违反使用协议安装芯片或其他设备来使用盗版游戏。
·尼日利亚人权组织要求非洲统治者为他们在奴隶买卖这段历史中扮演的角色道歉。
Egypt has welcomed the jail sentence given by a German court to a man who murdered a pregnant Egyptian woman. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hossam Zaki, said the life sentence, which he noted was the maximum punishment on the German law serve justice and was a warning to those motivated by hate. Yolanda Knell in Cairo has more.
There were alerts on states television as the news of the verdict broke, this trial has been extensively covered in the Egyptian media and many Egyptian journalists traveled to Dresden to follow proceedings. Members of Marwa Sherbini's family and Egyptian lawyers were also in court. The fatal stabbing of Mrs Sherbini in a court house in front of her 3-year-old son and the subsequence accidental shooting of her husband by a German guard shocked Egyptians. And there was outrage at what was seen as the slow response of the German authorities to deal with claims of Islam phobia and offer their condolences. 200，000，000
On the day that many countries have been remembering their war dead, President Barack Obama has marked Veterans Day by reflecting on how America's treated its soldier from previous wars. Mr. Obama was speaking after laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns at the Arlington National Cemetery.
Our Vietnam veterans served with great honor. They often came home greeted not gratitude or support but condemnation and neglect. That something that will never happen again. And to those who were serving in far from places today, when your tour ends, when you see our flag, when you touch our soil, you will be home in America that is forever here for you just as you've been there for us. That's my promise, our nation's promise to you.
Later on Wednesday, Mr Obama's holding what could be his last meeting with his national security team before deciding on troop numbers for Afghanistan. The White House says four options are being considered and the senior administration source says these all involve sending more troops.
The United Nations Children's Agency UNICEF says near two hundred million children under the age of five living in the developing world are stunted as a result of malnutrition. UNICEF warns that these children are likely to have a life time of health problems. Madlin Morris reports.
More than 90% of children living in the developing world who have stunted growth living Asia and Africa, according to UNICEF. There have been some improvements over the last 20 years. In 1990, nearly half of Asia's children were stunted, that's now being cut to under a third. But in African countries, one in every three children has stunted growth, little change from two decades ago. Under nutrition makes children more susceptible to potentially deadly illnesses like pneumonia and diarrhea and can impede brain development too, making learning and working as an adult more difficult.
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An Uzbek human rights activist says he's been beaten up after helping BBC investigate the use of child labor in Uzbekistan's cotton industry. Bakhtiyar Hamrayev says he was attacked by unidentified people within hours of the story appearing on the BBC World Service and News Website on Wednesday.
An Israeli judge has said that his country works on two fundamentally different legal enforcement levels depending on whether crimes are committed by Jews or Arabs. The judge, Yuval Shedmi, said, made the comment when dismissing a case against an Arab youth accused of throwing stones at police car. Prosecutors said they wanted the youth to be jailed, but the judge said Israel could not, as he put it, flog Arab ideological felons if it was going to treat that Jewish counterpart more leniently.
The computer giant, Microsoft, has banned thousands of people from its online gaming service. It's accusing them of modifying their game in terminals to play pirated games. Our technology correspondent, Mark Gregory reports.
Microsoft has admitted taking actions against a small percentage of owners of its X-Box games machines. Reports circulating online suggest up to a million people have been affected. Microsoft says they violated their terms of use by installing computer chips and other equipment that allows them to play pirate copies of computer games. As punishment, the company's denying them access to its online gaming service X-Box live. Commentators say this is a pre-Christmas crackdown, designed to deter gamers from acquiring unauthorized games in the most popular buying season.
A human rights organization in Nigeria has called on traditional African rulers to apologize for the role they played in the slave trade. The civil rights congress says it is time for African leaders to copy the United States and Britain who've already said they were sorry.
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