English report ------ The biggest news for 2014

1. Ferguson unrest

  A 18-year-old young man,Michael Brown,who is an African-American was shot and killed by a police. However,the grand jury decided to not indict the police officer. And the protests about race relations and inequitable treatment of African-Americans were exploded in Ferguson.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ferguson_unrest

2. Malaysia plane mystery

   Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
There were 227 passengers from 15 countries and 12 crew members on board. This incident is the deadliest aviation incident involving a Boeing 777 plane,but the question that how this plane vanished without a trace is still unanswered.

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3. Rob Ford
  
  Robert Bruce Ford is a Canadian politician and businessperson and is currently a Toronto City Councillor.During his political career, Ford has been the subject of a number of controversies and legal proceedings, including a substance abuse scandal, which was widely reported in the national and international media. But he still refused to resign.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford

4. Jian Ghomeshi

  Jian Ghomeshi is a Canadian writer, musician and former CBC radio broadcaster. He turned a popular radio host into a social pariah because of counts of four sexual assault. And this scandal provoked the discussion about the culture of harassment and sexual violence that women face in all walks of life.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian_Ghomeshi

5. Ukrainian Crisis

  Ukrainian Crisis first started in November 2013 when Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych abandoned an agreement to strengthen ties with the European Union and declared fealty to Moscow instead.Months of violent, bloody protests followed, with protesters in Kyiv opposing pro-Russian forces loyal to Yanukovich. The movement ultimately grew into the Ukrainian revolution, and in February, Yanukovych was impeached.

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6.Missing and murdered aboriginal women

  "As a survivor, I respectfully challenge you all to call for a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women."said  Rinelle Harper, a 16-year-old girl, after she was brutally attacked, sexually assaulted and left for dead at the side of the Assiniboine River in Winnipeg. Since that 16 per cent of all female homicides in Canada are aboriginals, when aboriginal women represent just 4 per cent of the population.

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7. Moncton shooting

  The event were a string of shootings that took place on June 4, 2014, in Moncton, New Brunswick.Three police officers were killed and two were severely injured.

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8. Ebola

  The Ebola epidemic in West Africa began in Guinea in December 2013, and quickly spread in 2014 into one of the most widespread epidemics of its kind in history, infecting several countries and causing thousands of deaths. As the months went by, however, there seemed to be no stopping the spread. And the World Health Organization declared Ebola to be "the most severe acute public health emergency seen in modern times."

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9. ISIS

    In a period of about 18 months, ISIS has supplanted al Qaeda as the most powerful extremist jihadi organization in the world. And yet ISIS is technologically savvy. The group threatened the West using a series of online propaganda videos which showed executions of the aid workers and journalists who had travelled to Syria to spread peace and expose the violence endured.

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10. Ottawa shootings

  A series of shootings occurred on October 22, 2014, in Ottawa, Canada. At the Canadian National War Memorial. Michael Zehaf-Bibeau fatally shot Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a Canadian soldier on ceremonial sentry duty. He then entered the nearby Centre Block parliament building at Parliament Hill, and killed by Kevin Vickers after a shootout with parliament security personnel. It was the most serious security breach at Parliament Hill since the 1966 parliament bombing, and it took place two days after a man used his car to run over two Canadian soldiers in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, killing one.

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