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Ségolene Royal candidata PS Ségolene Royal||| Ségolene Royal candidate PS

23.11.2006, klo 16.00

Ségolene Royal a partibus socialistarum (PS) candidata ad comitia praesidentialia, in Francia mense Aprili futura, officialiter creata est, cum haud dubiam ab aemulis victoriam reportavit. ||||||||elections||||in the month|||||||not|||rivals|| Ségolene Royal was officially created by the Socialist Party (PS) candidate for the upcoming presidential elections in France in April, after winning a clear victory over her rivals.

Ex suffragiis datis plus sexaginta centesimas (60,2) accepit, cum Dominique Strauss-Kahn viginti (20,83) et Laurent Fabius duodeviginti (18,54) centesimas obtinerent. He received more than sixty percent (60.2) of the votes cast, while Dominique Strauss-Kahn got twenty (20.83) and Laurent Fabius eighteen (18.54) percent.

Ségolene Royal est prima femina, quae occasionem habet, ut praesidens rei publicae Francorum fiat. Ségolene Royal is the first woman who has the opportunity to become the president of the French Republic.

Candidatus partium dextrarum nondum est creatus, sed verisimiliter erit Nicolas Sarkozy, quocum Royal de praesidentatu ex aequo certare putatur. ||of the right (parties)|||||likely|||||||||equal|| The candidate of the right-wing parties has not yet been created, but it will probably be Nicolas Sarkozy, with whom Royal is expected to compete equally for the presidency.

(Tuomo Pekkanen)

Invasio calamitosa A disastrous invasion

23.11.2006, klo 15.59

Tony Blair, primus minister Britanniae, in colloquio interrogatorio a canali televisifico Al-Jazeera transmisso concessit bellum anno bis millesimo tertio Iraquiae illatum esse calamitosum. |||||||||||||||||||||||calamitous Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister, admitted in an interview broadcast by the Al-Jazeera television channel that the 2013 war on Iraq was disastrous.

Iam antea etiam Margareta Hodge, ministra commercii Britannorum, dixerat consilium in Iraquiam proficiscendi magnum errorem fuisse. ||||||||had said||||of departing||| Even earlier, Margaret Hodge, the British trade minister, had said that the decision to go to Iraq was a big mistake.

(Tuomo Pekkanen)

Bellum triginta annorum The Thirty Years' War

23.11.2006, klo 15.45

Institutum Britannicum, cui nomen  est Oxford Research Group, censet bellum in Iraquia et Afganistania plus triginta annos durare posse. ||||||||considers|||||||||| The British Institute, whose name is the Oxford Research Group, believes that the war in Iraq and Afghanistan could last more than thirty years.

Mutationes in USA politicas parum ponderis ad conflictus Iraquiae et Afganistaniae habituras esse. Changes||||little|of weight||||||will have| Political changes in the USA will have little bearing on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Copias petrolei Sinus Persici tantum valere, ut Americani consilium ex Iraquia abeundi capere non possint. ||||only|to be worth||||||of leaving||| The oil reserves of the Persian Gulf are so strong that the Americans cannot take the decision to withdraw from Iraq.

(Tuomo Pekkanen)

Speculator  venenatus The spy was poisoned

23.11.2006, klo 15.43

Alexander Litvinenko, pristinus speculator Russus, qui sex annis ante in Britanniam transierat, in caupona Londiniensi Kalendis Novembribus venenatus est, cum in caedem redactricis Anna Politkovskaja inquireretur. ||former|||||||||had crossed||inn||||poisoned|||||||| Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy who had defected to Britain six years earlier, was poisoned in a London restaurant on November 10 as he was being investigated for the murder of editor Anna Politkovskaja.

Adhuc in nosocomio curatur. ||hospital| He is still being treated in the hospital. Acta diurna Britannica narraverunt eum materiam accepisse, ex quo appareret redactricem ab hominibus servitii securitatis Russiae (FSB) interfectam esse. ||||||||||the editor|||||||killed| The British newspaper reported that he had received material from which it appeared that the editor had been killed by men from the Russian Security Service (FSB).

(Tuomo Pekkanen)

Francia fumificationem in locis publicis vetat France prohibits smoking in public places

23.11.2006, klo 15.42

Administratio Franciae legem accepit, quae fumificationem tabaci in locis publicis vetat. |||||fumigation of|||||forbids

Illa lex mense Februario vigere incipiet et ad omnia spatia interiora pertinebit, in quibus homines laborant aut quae populo sunt aperta. |||||||||||it will pertain|||||||||open That law will come into effect in February and will apply to all indoor spaces where people work or that are open to the public.

Deverticula nocturna, cauponae, thermopolia tempus transitionis unius anni habebunt, quo spatia hermetica, aeri non pervia, fumificatoribus aedificent. Divergences||inns|||||||||||||fumificators| Nightclubs, restaurants, coffee shops will have a transition period of one year, during which they will build hermetic spaces, not accessible to the air, for fumigators.

Moderatores locorum publicorum, si nova lege vigente fumificationem permittere voluerint, spatia fumificatoribus apta parare debebunt, ex quibus fumus in alias aedificii partes non vagatur. ||||||in force||||spaces||||they must|||||||||wanders The managers of public places, if they want to allow smoking under the new law in force, will have to prepare spaces suitable for smokers, from which the smoke does not spread to other parts of the building.

Ex computationibus statisticis apparet quina millena hominum in Francia quotannis morbis ex fumificatione passiva ortis mortem obire. ||||five||||||||||||to die From statistical calculations it appears that thousands of people in France die every year from diseases arising from passive smoking.

(Tuomo Pekkanen)