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VOA news for Tuesday, December 4th, 2018

VOA news. I'm Christopher Cruise reporting. Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan says President Trump has asked for his country's help in securing a peace agreement평화 협정 in Afghanistan. He said Monday he received a letter from Trump to inform him that the U.S. special representative특사 for Afghanistan reconciliation화해, 중재, 조정 is traveling to Pakistan this week for further negotiations.

The casket손궤, 작은 상자(보석·귀중품을 넣음),관(棺) of former President George H.W. Bush now lies in the U.S. Capitol워싱턴 국회의사당. He will lie in state안치되어 있다 there beginning tonight and into Wednesday. Mr. Bush died late Friday in Texas at the age of 94. Associated Press correspondent Sagar Meghani reports. The former president's remains유해, 유골; 시체 will travel here from his beloved Houston, where Barbara Kenny was among those remembering him at the church George H.W. and Barbara Bush attended. "Just a very caring배려하는, 보살피는 man who was always willing to help others.” His body will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda starting this evening where the public's invited to celebrate찬양하다, 기리다 his life. "A life of honor, a life of honesty." Colin Powell who was his top military adviser최고 군사 고문 telling ABC's "This Week" President Bush was a patriot in war and peace.

The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State has targeted and killed a senior leader of the group in Syria who was linked to the murder of an American citizen. A Pentagon펜타곤(5각형의 미국 국방부 건물); 미국 국방부[군부] spokesman told the Voice of America Monday that coalition forces다국적군 killed Abu al-Umarayn and several other Islamic State members during a precision strike정밀 타격 on Sunday in the Badiyah [district] Desert. The terrorist was directly involved with executing several IS prisoners. IS controls just one percent of the territory it once held in Iraq and Syria. The U.S.-led coalition is still working with local partners to push the group out of its last stronghold본거지, 근거지, 중심지. This is VOA news.

President Trump boasted자랑하다, 뽐내다 Monday of his "very strong and personal relationship" with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He declared a new U.S.-China trade deal would immediately allow American farmers to sell more of their products to Beijing. Stock markets in Asia and Europe jumped sharply급격히, 급히 after the two reached an agreement. U.S. stock indicesindex의 복수(stock index 주가 지수) also opened sharply higher in New York at the start of a new work week.

The U.S. Holocaust Museum 홀로코스트 기념관 in Washington D.C. said Monday it has found what it calls "compelling(이유 등이) 설득력 있는; (증거 등이) 강력한 evidence of genocide대량 살육, 집단 학살" in Myanmar against the Muslim Rohingya minority. It called on the United States government and international governments to hold the Burmese military accountable (해명 등을 할) 책임이 있는. Hungary's Central European University founded by the billionaire George Soros announced Monday it had been "forced" out of the country. The head of the university in a statement called the action an "arbitrary임의의, 자유 재량의 eviction축출, 쫓아냄.” The university had been set up건립하다, 설립하다 in 1991. It's been in legal limbo불확실한 상태 for more than a year since Hungary changed higher education laws regulating foreign universities.

The Vatican renewing재차[거듭] 강조하다  a call for a two-state solution to the conflict in the Middle East. Associated Press correspondent Walter Ratliff reports. Following a visit by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, the Vatican has reaffirmed다시 단언[긍정, 시인]하다, 재확인하다. its longstanding오래 계속된 call for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Abbas met with Pope Francis and the Vatican foreign minister. The Vatican said the talks focused on efforts to reactivate재가동하다, 재개하다 the peace process and renew a commitment공약, 서약, 약속 from the international community. It was the first visit by Abbas since the U.S. transferred its embassy대사관; 대사관저. and recognized공인[승인]하다 Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

I'm Walter Ratliff. The U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is warning that the world is "in deep trouble with climate change.” He spoke Monday at the opening of two weeks of climate talks기후 변화 회담 in Poland. He said it's "the most important gathering on climate change since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.” Signatories가맹국, 조약국 to the agreement pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions and limit the rise in global temperatures to less than two degrees Celsius by 2030.

Three new crew members arrived Monday at the International Space Station. They'll begin a six-and-a-half-month mission at the orbiting laboratory우주정거장 실험실. NASA astronaut Anne McClain, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency우주국 and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos blasted off in a Soyuz MS-11 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They arrived at the International Space Station about six hours later.

You can find more on these and other late breaking and developing stories, from around the world, around the clock, at voanews.com and on the VOA news mobile app. I'm Christopher Cruise, VOA news.

 

 

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