Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride said Cheney was rushed to the hospital at 3 a.m. Doctors found his EKG, or electrocardiogram, unchanged and determined he was retaining fluid because of medication he was taking for a foot problem.

美联社华盛顿电：发言人透露，美国副总统迪克●切尼因为呼吸不畅周一早些时候被送往华盛顿医院就诊。

切尼的发言人Lea Anne McBride说切尼是在凌晨三点被送往医院的，医生为他做了心电图检查，但没有异常。因此医生断定可能是因为服用了治疗足部疾病的药物而导致呼吸不畅。

The development heightened concerns in the West that Iran was moving toward building atomic weapons.

美联社伊朗德黑兰电：伊朗方面周日对国际原子能机构表示，他们将从明天星期一开始拆除核研究中心的封条，在和平利用原子能方面重新开始研究。

关于伊朗是否会着手建设核武器的担忧在西方世界看来已经日益增长。

The explosion Friday in Minle County in the northwestern province of Gansu killed the president of the county court and a local Communist Party official, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

美联社北京电：一名愤怒的中国农民在法院会议室实行自杀性爆炸，导致他本人在内的5人当场死亡。这是周六的一则报道披露的消息。
    中国官方的新华通讯社说，星期五的爆炸发生在中国西北的甘肃省民乐县，当地人民法院院长和县委一基层官员在爆炸中丧生。

By RAVI NESSMAN
Associated Press Writer

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was rushed back to surgery Friday after a brain scan revealed a rise in pressure on his brain and more internal bleeding, doctors said.

Sharon’s blood pressure also rose and one of his brain lobes expanded slightly, said Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef, the director of Hadassah Hospital, where Sharon is being treated. Sharon’s aides rushed to the hospital to be with him during the surgery, his second in two days

美联社耶路撒冷电：以色列总理沙龙再次被紧急送到手术室。医生说沙龙脑内大规模出血导致颅内血压升高。

沙龙的血压同时升高，已经轻微的扩充到脑垂。Shlomo Mor-Yosef,医生表示，他是沙龙所在救治的Hadassah医院负责人。沙龙的助理紧急赶到手术室外边进行陪护，这也是两天内的第二次。

Witnesses spoke of scores of injured Thursday, although the first toll from the city’s civil defence force carried by the official Saudi Press Agency put the figure at 39.

法新社沙特阿拉伯麦加电：目击者证实，至少15名穆斯林朝圣者在麦加一座建筑物倒塌时丧生，同时还有数十名信徒受重伤。

目击者星期四说，仅仅第一次救援官方公布的伤亡数据就是39人。

TALLMANSVILLE, United States (AFP) – Only one of the 13 US coal miners trapped for 41 hours underground here has survived, the company which owns the mine said, hours after it was announced that 12 men had survived.

“The initial report from the rescue teams from the command center indicated multiple survivors, but that information proved to be a miscommunication,” International Coal Group (ICG) president and chief executive Ben Hatfield told reporters Wednesday.
法新社美国报道：煤矿公司说，在经历了41小时的地下营救之后，（美国西弗吉尼亚州萨戈煤矿）被困的13名矿工中仅有1人生还。数小时后得到证实12名矿工获得生还。
    国际煤矿组织总裁兼首席执行官本还特周三告诉记者：“来自援救指挥中心最初的消息显示有多名矿工获救，但是这个还有待于证实。”（江峡 译）

新华社北京1月3日电：中国国家主席胡锦涛周二到中国军报解放军报社考察，庆祝军报创刊５０周年。

中共中央总书记、中央军委主席胡锦涛在考察时说，报纸要坚持与时俱进，更好的发挥在教育、激励和动员作用，为推进国防和军队现代化建设、实现全面建设小康社会的宏伟目标做出新的贡献。（江峡 译）

Senior members of the ruling Fatah party had urged Abbas to delay the elections, reflecting growing fears that the Islamic group Hamas will deal the movement a stinging blow in the polls.

美联社RAMALLAH西岸电：巴勒斯坦领导人穆罕穆德●阿巴斯周一表示，他有可能推迟1月25日举行的国会议员选举，如果以色列威胁禁止东耶路撒冷的巴勒斯坦人投票。这是阿巴斯第一次对选举延期进行表态。

针对哈马斯集团在多次民调中展示的激烈吹捧所带来的不断增长的威胁，法塔赫内部高层曾经多次向阿巴斯建议推迟选举进行。 （江峡 译）

BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhuanet) — Chinese President Hu Jintao reiterated China’s strong commitment to peaceful development in his New Year Address broadcast Saturday to domestic and overseas audience via state TV and radio stations.

新华社北京12月31日讯：中国国家主席胡锦涛周六重申中国将坚持走和平发展的道路，当天他通过国家广播电视台向国内外听众发表了新年贺词。

    ”Here, I would like to reiterate that China’s development is peaceful development, opening development, cooperative development and harmonious development,” Hu said.

“在这里，我愿重申，中国的发展，是和平的发展、开放的发展、合作的发展、和谐的发展。”胡锦涛说。

    ”The Chinese people will develop ourselves by means of striving for a peaceful international environment, and promote world peace with our own development,” Hu said in the address broadcast by China Radio International, China National Radio and China Central Television.

“中国人民既通过争取和平的国际环境来发展自己，又通过自己的发展来促进世界和平。”胡锦涛在通过中国国际广播电台、中央人民广播电台和中央电视台发表的广播电视讲话中说。

    He said the Chinese people are willing to join with peoples of all nations in the world to promote multilateralism, advance the development of economic globalization toward common prosperity,advocate democracy in international relations, respect the diversity of the world and push for the establishment of a new international political and economic order that is just and rational.

他说中国人民愿同世界各国人民一道促进多边主义，促进经济全球化朝着有利于实现共同繁荣的方向发展，提倡国际关系民主化，尊重世界多样性，推动建立公正合理的国际政治经济新秩序。

    He pledged that China will adhere to its fundamental national policy of opening to the outside world, continue to improve the investment environment and open the market, carry out international cooperation in a wide range of areas and seek to attain mutual benefits and win-win results with all countries in the world.

他承诺中国将坚持对外开放的基本国策，不断优化投资环境、开放市场，广泛开展国际合作，特别是将尽己所能同世界各国实现互利共赢。

    He mentioned in particular that China will do its best to help developing countries accelerate development and help people suffering from war, poverty, illnesses and natural calamities in the world.

他特别提到中国愿意尽自己所能推动发展中国家尽快发展，中国人民愿意帮助世界上依然遭受着战火、贫困、疾病、自然灾害等的煎熬的民众。（江峡  翻译）