Politics this week (2020.06.13) Part.02

Mali said it would investigate the army after men in uniform attacked two villages and killed 43 civilians in Mopti, in the centre of the country.

The British government conceded that plans to return children to school in England were unworkable. After weeks of resistance from teachers and local authorities, barely half of the pupils in primary-year groups that could have gone back have done so. The return of pupils to secondary schools has also been postponed until September.

• concede
  • 承认（某事属实、合乎逻辑等）
• pupil
  • 学生，（尤指）小学生
  • 瞳孔

Spain’s supreme court opened an investigation into a former king, Juan Carlos, over possibly illegal commissions linked to a rail project in Saudi Arabia.

• commission
  • 佣金；回扣
  • （通常为政府管控或调查某事的）委员会

Brazil’s ministry of health removed briefly from its website much of the data it had reported on covid-19. The country’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, says that cumulative totals do not reflect the current situation. The government complied with an order by a justice on the Supreme Court to resume reporting the data.

• briefly
  • for a short time 短暂地，暂时地
• comply
  • 遵从，服从，顺从
  • reply
    • 回答；回应

A recount of votes in Guyana‘s election, held in March, showed that it was won by the opposition People’s Progressive Party, a mainly Indo-Gyanese party. The government of President David Granger, who leads the mainly Afro-Guyanese A Partnership for National Unity, is to challenge the recount in court.

• Guyana
  • 圭亚那🇬🇾

China reached a “positive consensus” with India over border scuffles between their two countries’ forces. India said they had agreed to “peacefully resolve” the matter.

• consensus
  • 一致的意见，共识
• scuffle
  • （短暂而不太激烈的）肢体摩擦，冲突