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Today: Italy human safari. Ireland president. Gabon Bongos sentence. Libya migrants drown. Somalia pirates. US Epstein. Caribbean US warship. Israel pardon. West Bank settlers. China gay dating apps. Australia bagpipes.
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Today: Italy human safari. Ireland president. Gabon Bongos sentence. Libya migrants drown. Somalia pirates. US Epstein. Caribbean US warship. Israel pardon. West Bank settlers. China gay dating apps. Australia bagpipes.
SEND7 is supported by our amazing listeners like you.
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Contact us at podcast@send7.org or send an audio message at speakpipe.com/send7
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Since 2020, SEND7 (Simple English News Daily in 7 minutes) has been telling the most important world news stories in intermediate English. Every day, listen to the most important stories from every part of the world in slow, clear English. Whether you are an intermediate learner trying to improve your advanced, technical and business English, or if you are a native speaker who just wants to hear a summary of world news as fast as possible, join Stephen Devincenzi, Juliet Martin and Niall Moore every morning. Transcripts, vocabulary lists, worksheets and our weekly world news quiz are available for our amazing supporters at send7.org. Simple English News Daily is the perfect way to start your day, by practising your listening skills and understanding complicated daily news in a simple way. It is also highly valuable for IELTS and TOEFL students. Students, teachers, TEFL teachers, and people with English as a second language, tell us that they use SEND7 because they can learn English through hard topics, but simple grammar. We believe that the best way to improve your spoken English is to immerse yourself in real-life content, such as what our podcast provides. SEND7 covers all news including politics, business, natural events and human rights. Whether it is happening in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas or Oceania, you will hear it on SEND7, and you will understand it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm nilmore. Today is Thursday, the thirteenth of November twenty
twenty five. Today we're starting in Europe. In Italy, prosecutors
(00:23):
have begun an investigation into Italian citizens who allegedly paid
to shoot civilians during the Bosnian War. For four years,
from nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety six, Bosnian SERBD
militias led by Radovan Karajich besieged the city of Sarajevo. Now,
(00:44):
thanks to research by an Italian writer called Ezio Gavazeni,
there is evidence that during the war, wealthy tourists from
Italy and other countries paid Radovan Carrigich and his soldiers
to bring them to Sarajevo and let them shoot at
civilians with sniper rifles from the hills surrounding the city.
(01:09):
Gavazeni says that he has identified some of the Italians
who did this. They will be questioned by Italian prosecutors
in the coming weeks. In Ireland, Catherine Connolly has been
sworn in as the new president. Connolly ran for president
as an independent politician and was elected in a landslide
(01:31):
in her speech, Connolly said that her election shows that
Irish people want an alternative to the ruling centrist political parties.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
We were led to believe that it was too great
a leap, that our ideas were too far out, too left,
at odds with the prevailing narrative. In shared conversations all
over the country, however, it became evident that the dominant
narrative did not reflect or represent people's values and concerns.
(02:05):
Time and time again, people spoke of how it served
to silence, to other, to label, to exclude, and to
stifle critical thinking.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Africa. In Gabon, the wife and son of the former
president Ali Bongo have been sentenced to twenty years in
prison for embezzlement and corruption. Ali Bongo's wife, Sylvia and
son Noureddin are accused of taking control of Gabon when
(02:41):
Ali Bongo suffered a stroke in twenty eighteen. Prosecutors say
they use their position of power to steal money from
the country. Now, after a two day trial, they have
been given prison sentences and Nouradene Bongo has been ordered
to repay two point one billion dollars to the Gabon state.
(03:05):
The former president, Alibongo was removed during a coup in
twenty twenty three led by Brigadier General Bryce Oligui Unguema,
who is now the current president. Off the coast of Libya,
at least forty two migrants are reported to have died
after their rubber boat capsized. Seven people were rescued by
(03:29):
Libyan authorities, having been floating in the water for six days.
Off the coast of Somalia, navies from the European Union
and India have captured a ship used by Somali pirates
to capture other ships sailing in the area. Last week,
(03:49):
Somali pirates used this ship to approach and capture a
petrol tanker called the hellas Aphrodite. The hellas Aphrodite was
raided by Spanish special forces, who freed its crew from
the pirates Americas. In the United States, Democrats in the
(04:12):
House of Representatives have released new emails sent by convicted
pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in which Epstein talks about Donald Trump.
In one email sent in two thousand eleven, Epstein explicitly
mentions that Trump had spent hours at his house with
(04:33):
one of Epstein's victims. A United States aircraft carrier has
arrived in the Caribbean. The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft
carrier is the largest warship in the world. Its arrival
in the Caribbean has raised tensions with Venezuela and Colombia,
(04:53):
who have been speaking out against recent US attacks on
small boats which the US sci are carrying drugs Asia
and Oceania. In Israel, the President Isaac Hertzog has published
a letter sent to him by US President Donald Trump
(05:14):
in which Trump asks Herzog to pardon Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin nettin Yahoo. Nettin Yahoo is under investigation for corruption,
but cannot be prosecuted whilst in office. However, if there
were to be an election and nettin Yahoo were to lose,
(05:36):
he could be prosecuted unless President Hertzog pardons him. In
the West Bank, multiple outlets report that dozens of Israeli
settlers have launched arson attacks against a Palestinian warehouse and
a Bedouin village. According to the UN's Humanitarian Office, last
(06:00):
month in the West Bank saw the highest number of
violent attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in twenty years.
In China, two of the country's most popular gay dating
apps Blued and Finker have been removed from the Apple
and Android app stores. Though homosexuality is legal in China,
(06:25):
there have been accusations of repression. In recent years. LGBT
groups have been forced to close, and in twenty twenty,
the Shanghai Pride Parade was suspended indefinitely. And in Australia,
in the city of Melbourne, a new world record has
(06:49):
been set for the largest number of people playing the
bagpipes together. Three hundred and seventy four bagpipe players came
together to play the song it It's a Long Way
to the Top by Australian rock band ac DC. And
that is your world news in seven minutes. If you
(07:09):
enjoy this podcast, please tell your friends to find Simple
English News Daily in their podcast app. I'm niall more.
Tomorrow you will be with Stephen Devinchenzi. Have a great day.
Good morning. This is send seven World News in seven minutes.
I'm nilmore. Today is Thursday, the thirteenth of November twenty
twenty five. Today we're starting in Europe. In Italy, prosecutors
(00:23):
have begun an investigation into Italian citizens who allegedly paid
to shoot civilians during the Bosnian War. For four years,
from nineteen ninety two to nineteen ninety six, Bosnian SERBD
militias led by Radovan Karajich besieged the city of Sarajevo. Now,
(00:44):
thanks to research by an Italian writer called Ezio Gavazeni,
there is evidence that during the war, wealthy tourists from
Italy and other countries paid Radovan Carrigich and his soldiers
to bring them to Sarajevo and let them shoot at
civilians with sniper rifles from the hills surrounding the city.
(01:09):
Gavazeni says that he has identified some of the Italians
who did this. They will be questioned by Italian prosecutors
in the coming weeks. In Ireland, Catherine Connolly has been
sworn in as the new president. Connolly ran for president
as an independent politician and was elected in a landslide
(01:31):
in her speech, Connolly said that her election shows that
Irish people want an alternative to the ruling centrist political parties.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
We were led to believe that it was too great
a leap, that our ideas were too far out, too left,
at odds with the prevailing narrative. In shared conversations all
over the country, however, it became evident that the dominant
narrative did not reflect or represent people's values and concerns.
(02:05):
Time and time again, people spoke of how it served
to silence, to other, to label, to exclude, and to
stifle critical thinking.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Africa. In Gabon, the wife and son of the former
president Ali Bongo have been sentenced to twenty years in
prison for embezzlement and corruption. Ali Bongo's wife, Sylvia and
son Noureddin are accused of taking control of Gabon when
(02:41):
Ali Bongo suffered a stroke in twenty eighteen. Prosecutors say
they use their position of power to steal money from
the country. Now, after a two day trial, they have
been given prison sentences and Nouradene Bongo has been ordered
to repay two point one billion dollars to the Gabon state.
(03:05):
The former president, Alibongo was removed during a coup in
twenty twenty three led by Brigadier General Bryce Oligui Unguema,
who is now the current president. Off the coast of Libya,
at least forty two migrants are reported to have died
after their rubber boat capsized. Seven people were rescued by
(03:29):
Libyan authorities, having been floating in the water for six days.
Off the coast of Somalia, navies from the European Union
and India have captured a ship used by Somali pirates
to capture other ships sailing in the area. Last week,
(03:49):
Somali pirates used this ship to approach and capture a
petrol tanker called the hellas Aphrodite. The hellas Aphrodite was
raided by Spanish special forces, who freed its crew from
the pirates Americas. In the United States, Democrats in the
(04:12):
House of Representatives have released new emails sent by convicted
pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in which Epstein talks about Donald Trump.
In one email sent in two thousand eleven, Epstein explicitly
mentions that Trump had spent hours at his house with
(04:33):
one of Epstein's victims. A United States aircraft carrier has
arrived in the Caribbean. The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft
carrier is the largest warship in the world. Its arrival
in the Caribbean has raised tensions with Venezuela and Colombia,
(04:53):
who have been speaking out against recent US attacks on
small boats which the US sci are carrying drugs Asia
and Oceania. In Israel, the President Isaac Hertzog has published
a letter sent to him by US President Donald Trump
(05:14):
in which Trump asks Herzog to pardon Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin nettin Yahoo. Nettin Yahoo is under investigation for corruption,
but cannot be prosecuted whilst in office. However, if there
were to be an election and nettin Yahoo were to lose,
(05:36):
he could be prosecuted unless President Hertzog pardons him. In
the West Bank, multiple outlets report that dozens of Israeli
settlers have launched arson attacks against a Palestinian warehouse and
a Bedouin village. According to the UN's Humanitarian Office, last
(06:00):
month in the West Bank saw the highest number of
violent attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in twenty years.
In China, two of the country's most popular gay dating
apps Blued and Finker have been removed from the Apple
and Android app stores. Though homosexuality is legal in China,
(06:25):
there have been accusations of repression. In recent years. LGBT
groups have been forced to close, and in twenty twenty,
the Shanghai Pride Parade was suspended indefinitely. And in Australia,
in the city of Melbourne, a new world record has
(06:49):
been set for the largest number of people playing the
bagpipes together. Three hundred and seventy four bagpipe players came
together to play the song it It's a Long Way
to the Top by Australian rock band ac DC. And
that is your world news in seven minutes. If you
(07:09):
enjoy this podcast, please tell your friends to find Simple
English News Daily in their podcast app. I'm niall more.
Tomorrow you will be with Stephen Devinchenzi. Have a great day.
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