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The G20 have come up withapackage of plans that add up to tacklethe recession.(20国集团已经提出了一系列计划,增加了应对经济衰退的计划。)Onekeycomponent is an agreement to treble to 750 billion dollars the resourcesavailable to the International Monetary Fund for lending to countries in trouble.(一个关键的协议就是高音7500亿美元提供给国际货币基金组织在危机国家的贷款资源。) They also want a tenfoldincrease in what are called special drawing right which are rather like an IMF currency and which strengthen the foreign exchange reserves of its member countries. (他们还希望增加十倍的所谓的特别提款权,很像一个IMF货币和加强对其成员国的外汇储备。)The G20 also plans closer regulation of financial firms with curbs (限制)onexecutivepay and new oversight of large hedgefunds.the British Prime Minister,Gordon Brown,described the summit as marking a newconsensuson tacklingglobalproblem.(他还计划在G20的高管薪酬和大型对冲基金的英国首相,新的监管限制金融机构监管的戈登布朗,描述了峰会标志着一个新的关于解决全球问题的共识。)
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A senior British army officer has told the Iraq Inquiry in Britain that he urged the government to delay the invasion of Iraq two days before it went ahead. Major General Tim Cross said that in his view post-conflict preparations were not in place. He added that he did not believe the US was solely to blame and that Britain had not taken seriously enough the chllenges that would arise after the invasion.
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