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    European Union leaders meeting in Brussels say they've agreed a broad action plan with Turkeyto help stem the flow of migrants to Europe. The president of European Commission JeanClaude Juncker says there was now an explicit link being created between progress on stoppingmigrants entering the EU and the acceleration of plans to grant Turkish citizens visa freetravel to the European Union. The European Council president Donald Tusk says concessionshave been necessary in return for Turkey's support. We prefer that well first because we needthat responsible and adequate response from the Turkish side. They are our partners in thecrisis. The more for more principle must supply you have passed. We have your, It is exactsimple. During the day, the Bulgarian president Boyko Borisov abruptly left the EU talks afterreports of violence between guards and refugees on Bulgari's border with Turkey. It was laterconfirmed that a migrant from Afghanistan was shot dead by a guard.

　　Officials in Nigeria say at least 30 people have been killed in an apparent suicide attack at amosque near the city of Maiduguri. Reports say there were at least two big explosions duringprayers. David Bamford has this report. Nigerian media, quoting local twitter, say that manypeople were killed in two explosions during evening prayers at the mosque in the Maidugurisuburb of Mulai. Injured casualties have been ferried to the local hospital. A senior official saidthe blasts were thought to be the result of an attack by suicide bombers. Maiduguri isfrequently targeted by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

　　The former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has given evidence to federalprosecutors denying that he carried out illegal lobbying work after leaving office. The founderof the ruling Workers' Party remains one of Brazil's most popular politicians, but he risksbecoming embroidered in a series of corruption and political crisis that have undermined thegovernment of his successor Dilma Rousseff. Our Brazil correspondent Wyre Davies has thisreport. Although former president Lula hasn't been charged with any criminal offense, he wasasked by federal prosecutors in Brasilia to clarify any really matter found in lobbying for someBrazil's biggest firms after he left office in 2010. In particular, prosecutors probe into detailsabout President Lula's relationship with one of Brazil's biggest construction companiesOdebrecht and preferential loans that received from a state development bank.

　　An opposition Venezuelan politician Manuel Rosales has been arrested six years after fleeingthe country amid corruption allegations. Mr. Rosales, a former presidential candidate, deniesany wrongdoing. World news from the BBC.

　　The Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is making her first visit to the western stateof Rakhine since 2012 when Buddhist attackers drove more than a hundred thousand RohingyaMuslims from their homes. Critics say Ms.Suu Kyi has not spoken up strongly enough for theRohingya over her visit comes ahead of next month general election.

　　The US has been accused of carrying out drone attacks based on fake evidence in whichmost of those killed are not the intended targets. Allegations remained on a website called theIntercept. It said a whistle blower handed over secret military documents about drone strikesin Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia.

　　A senior minister in South Sudan has described the peace deal signed recently with rebels asflexible. His comments follow widespread anger at a unilateral decision by the government toredraw state boundaries. But in a BBC interview,South Sudan's minister of information MichealMakuei said the agreement should not be read rigidly although the government was stillcommitted to peace.

　　Scientists in Britain say it may be possible to prevent schizophrenia by calming the brain'simmune system. Scans have shown that it's hyperactive both in people with schizophrenia andthose at high risk. James Ganligon Ann reports. The brain has its own equivalents of gardenerscalled microglia. They read out infection but also constantly prune the connections in thebrain. A team of UK medical research council scientists found the microglia was too keen inschizophrenia. It's thought the microglia like a gardener too keen with shears, trim the wrongbrain connections. That leads to a brain that is not wired correctly and culminating symptomssuch as hearing voices. The research said the study mount to a real step forward inunderstanding the condition and wanted trial anti-inflammatory drugs to treat and preventschizophrenia.

　　1.inflammatory adj.发炎的

　　例句：If the nail surface is rippled or pitted, this maybe an early sign of psoriasis or inflammatoryarthritis.

　　指甲表面呈现出波纹或者坑坑洼洼，可能是牛皮癣或炎症性关节炎的早期症状。

　　2.schizophrenia n.精神分裂症

　　例句：Schizophrenia is not a "split mind" as is popularly believed.

　　精神分裂症并非人们普遍认为的那样是“分裂的精神”。

　　3.widespread adj.广泛的

　　例句：There is widespread support for the new proposals.

　　新提议获得了广泛的支持。

　　4.allegation n.指责

　　例句：The company has denied the allegations.

　　公司否认了这些指控。

　　5.concession n.妥协

　　例句：The King made major concessions to end the confrontation with his people.

　　为了结束与其臣民的冲突，国王作出了很大的让步。

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