A、South Africa has spent quite some time in questioning the drugs’ efficacy and safety. B、The nation is finally embracing all ap

An Islamic militant website said yesterday it would soon release video clips showing the capture of seven American soldiers, who went missing in Iraq in mid-May.
    Four bodies of the soldiers were later found in Iraq’s Euphrates River, but the other three remain missing. A family friend of one of the missing soldiers said the US military has briefed the soldier’s father about the video, which does not show if the men are alive.
    The Washington-based SITE Institute said it had obtained the 10-minute, 41-second video that shows the planning stages and kidnapping operation as well as footage from after the attack that was shown on the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera.
    The latest audit of national accounts has revealed that the Malawi government in the 2003/4 financial year overdrew 3 billion kwacha (over 21 million US dollars) from both the consolidated advances and deposit accounts, Nation Online of Malawi reported Saturday.
    Gomani, who released the 2004 audit of national accounts to parliament last month, said Monday that the government is only allowed to use 450 million kwacha (about 32 million dollars) from the consolidated advances account but ended up overdrawing 350 million (about 2.5 million dollars).
    Acting auditor-general Lantone Gomani described the overdrawal as a breach of statutory provisions.
    More than 1,300 people from around the world, including more than 600 business elites including the wealthiest in the world, have confirmed they will attend the annual Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), to be held from April 20 to 22, a government official in the host province said Sunday.
    "This far outnumbers last year’s 850 participants," said Liu Jin, a foreign affairs official in China’s southernmost island province of Hainan.
    He said more than 200 senior government officials from around the world, including at least 40 ministerial-level officials, have confirmed they’ll participate in this year’s forum at Boao, a tropical seaside town in Hainan, which is the permanent home of the conference.
    A suicide bombing killed four Afghan personnel of a US security company in Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan on Sunday, a local police officer Mohammad Asaf said.
    A bomber driving a motorbike blew himself up on a highway in Spin Boldak district when a vehicle of the US Protection and Investigations (USPI) was passing, Asaf said.
    Three guards and one driver of the USPI, which is a private US security company, were killed in the blast, he added. No one has claimed responsibility, but Taliban militants have frequently carried out similar attacks.
    AIDS researchers from around the world gathered in South Africa yesterday, amid tentative signs the nation is finally embracing mainstream approaches to fighting the epidemic.
    Hopes of a shift in South Africa’s attitude to a disease affecting nearly 12 percent of its 47 million people have been building since the government in March unveiled a revamped AIDS strategy, including an expanded rollout of life-saving drugs.
    Anti-retroviral (ARV) medications are credited with drastically reducing AIDS deaths and are now widely accepted as the frontline treatment for HIV/AIDS.
    But the South African government was a late and reluctant convert to the ARV camp—experts say it wasted years and lives questioning the drugs’ efficacy and safety, and soliciting the views of dissident scientists who opposed their use.
6. How many American soldiers were captured according to an Islamic militant website?
7. How much money is the Malawi government allowed to use from the consolidated advances account?
8. Which of the following statements is true about Boao Forum for Asia?
9. Which party is likely to be responsible for the suicide bombing in southern Afghanistan?
10. Which of the following statements demonstrates a shift in South Africa’s attitude to AIDS?