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The trial has begun at the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague of three Croatian generals. Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac, are charged with responsibility for the murder and mistreatment of Serbs during the war in Croatia 13 years ago. The three generals deny the charges. The prosecutor Alan Tieger told the court many other senior figures from that time were implicated.
The three men were not alone. Foremost among their co-participants in this joint effort to force Serbs in Krajina was president Franjo Tudjman, the president of the Republic of Croatia and the supreme commander of its armed forces, as well as other high-ranking officials.

British MPs say they fear that many children who've been taken out of school are being forced to marry against their will. A parliamentary committee is being studying the results of an investigation into children (mostly of Pakistani and Bangladesh origin) whose names have disappeared from British school registers. He said he thought this was often because the children's families deem them to become too westernized. Shazia Qayum told the BBC she felt ignored by the authorities in Britain, when, as a teenager, her parents tried to force her to marry.
My parents have arranged my marriage in Pakistan. And because I disagreed to that marriage I was kept prisoner in my own home at the age of 15. I wasn't allowed to attend and finish my education. Unfortunately no one from the authorities, no one from the Education Welfare, no one from the social services, no one asked the question where I was. I felt invisible.

The BBC has launched its new Arabic television station. The managing director of the BBC World Service Nigel Chapman said television has become the main media for news in the Arab world and that the launch was an essential step for the BBC. Sebastian Archer watched the station go on air.
That's the Venturer presenter xxx welcoming viewers of BBC's much-awaited New Venture Arabic TV. The station's first bulletin led with the latest bomb attack in Pakistan. BBC Arabic TV will from now on be broadcasting for 12 hours a day with a budge of some 40 millions a year. The BBC is hoping that the channel will fill a need in the Arab world for more impartial news presentation. But it's entering a crowded market and some analysts wondered if the BBC might have left the move a little too late.

The head of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet has expressed concern over the continued rise of the euro which has hit a record high against the dollar. Mr. Trichet told a meeting of central bankers in Switzerland that disorderly currency movements were undesirable for economic growth. The fall in the value of the dollar has helped to push up the price of oil to record levels.

The authorities in Nigeria say they found a large stockpile of weapons and a private oil pipeline belonging to a militant leader in the oil-rich Niger Delta region. A Nigeria military spokesman said the underground pipeline led from the oil refinery in Port Harcourt to the home of Tom Ateke, the leader of the Niger Delta Vigilantes.

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be charged with ...
deny the charge(s)
be implicated in sth = to be involved in a crime; to be responsible for sth bad:
Senior officials were implicated in the scandal.
Foremost among ... was sb.
the supreme commander of ...

take sb. out of school => whose name have disappeared from school registers
against one's will
an investigation into ...
people of ...(eg. Chinese) origin
be kept prisoner
the Education Welfare Service
be (not) allowed to do sth.

be an essential step for ...
watch the station go on air
lead with ... (eg. Instead, the bulletin led with a report on how the foreign media had covered the military ideas of the current leader, Kim Jong-il.)
broadcast for 12 hours a day
with a budget of ...
fill a need in the ...(eg. Arab/broadband/young child's) world for ...
news presenter => (impartial/partial) news presentation
enter a crowded market
leave the move (a little) too late

express concern over(/about) ...
hit a record high against ...
the(/a) fall in the value of the dollar
push up ...(eg. state spending) to record levels

a large stockpile of
the(/an) oil refinery
... lead from ... to ...