EU provides 150meuros to alleviate food crisis in Africa MOZAMBIQUE (莫桑比克) (August 10 — AP): The European Union (欧盟) will have committed almost 150 million euros (欧元) in emergency food assistance by September to southern African countries to help stave off (拖延) a famine (饥荒) in the region, officials said Saturday. 48 die in fighting KINSHASA (金沙萨) (August 9 — Reuters): At least 48 people, most of them women and children who were hacked (砍) to death, have been killed in fighting in northeastern Congo (刚果) involving rebels, tribal militias and the Ugandan army. Blast kills 25 in Afghan cityAFGHANISTAN (August 9 — AP): A powerful explosion ripped through an Afghan construction firm building in the eastern city of Jalalabad, killing 25 people and injuring 80 others, government television reported. Federal weapons, computers go missingWASHINGTON (August 6 — USA Today): At least 775 weapons and 400 laptop computers (笔记本电脑) were reported lost or stolen from five agencies overseen by the Justice Department during a recent three-year period, according to an audit released Monday. Mexico bus crashes MEXICO (August 6 —AP): The brakes (刹车) apparently failed on a 26-year-old bus before it plowed through a highway toll booth and slammed into a concrete wall in western Mexico, killing at least 33 people — 10 of them children — headed for a re-enactment of the Last Supper. About 20 people were injured.