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2018-12-17来源:和谐英语

BBC news with Ally Macue.

The UN-brokered cease fire in Yemen's main port of Hodeida that came to effect on Friday has been broken. Fighting erupted on the city's outskirts. Residents said they could hear shelling and gun fire. The Saudi-backed government and the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels had reached the truce after a week of talks in Sweden.

The military in Nigeria has accused the United Nation's Children’s Agency of training and deploying spies for Islamist militants, and suspended UNICEF operations in the northeast. The suspension has surprised the agency which told the BBC it would verify the statement.

President Trump's former lawyer says the US leader knew he was wrong toward payments to keep 2 women silent about the alleged affairs with him. Mr. Trump had denied asking Michael Cohen who has been sentence to jail to break the law.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has accused Ukraine of persecuting believers. These comments come ahead of a meeting to create an independent Ukrainian church, a plan that has infuriated President Putin.

The United Nations has launched an emergency appeal to help house and feed around 3.5 million Venezuelan refugees who fled their country's severe economic crisis. The UN says it's the first plan of its kind in the Americas.

Prosecutors in Spain have accused the Columbian pop star Shakira of tax evasion, alleging that she owes more than 16 million dollars. They argued she was living in Spain for 2 years while listing her official residence elsewhere. Shakira denies evading tax.

The college campus in the Indian city of Madras has set up separate entrances and wash basins for students eating vegetarian and non-vegetarian food in the canteen. Some students have reportedly called the move untouchability.

And the BBC's African Footballer of the Year award has gone to Liverpool's Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah. It's the second year in the row that he's won.

BBC news.