UN Security Council to Vote on New North Korea Sanctions

UN Security Council to Vote on New North Korea Sanctions
The United Nations Security Council is set to vote Wednesday on new sanctions against North Korea aimed at cutting off funding for its nuclear and ballistic missile(弹道导弹) programs.
The session is expected to include remarks from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who rarely attends council votes.
Previous Security Council resolutions have demanded North Korea abandon its nuclear weapons program and not conduct any nuclear tests or launches of ballistic missiles. But North Korea has repeatedly defied the world body during the past decade, including with its latest nuclear test in September.
The new sanctions would include capping North Korea's coal exports, which a U.S. official said would amount to cutting the country's single largest source of external revenue by 60 percent, or as much as $700 million per year.
There would also be a ban on exports of certain metals such as copper, nickel, silver and zinc that bring North Korea more than $100 million a year.
Some 11 North Korean officials and 10 entities involved in the nuclear and ballistic missile programs would be added to the list of those designated for travel bans and asset freezes.
The measure also targets imported luxury goods favored by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other officials, banning carpets and tapestries(挂毯） worth more than $500 and fine china and porcelain tableware(瓷餐具） valued at more than $100.
The U.S. and South Korea joined with China, Russia, Japan and North Korea in six-party talks aimed at curbing the North Korean nuclear weapons program in exchange for aid, but those negotiations broke down in 2009.

sanction:  an official order, such as the stopping of trade, that is taken against a country in order to make it obey international law: 
cap verb: `to put a limit on the amount of money that can be charged or spent in connection with a particular activity: 
revenue: `the income that a government or company receives regularly: 
entity: `something that exists apart from other things, having its own independent existence: 
designated:  to choose someone officially to do a particular job: 
curb: ` to control or limit something that is not wanted:

Dormitory Fire Kills 12 in Turkey
A fire at a school in southern Turkey has killed 12, including 11 teenage girls, and injured 22 others.
The fire broke out in a girls dormitory late Tuesday in the southern province of Adana. The cause of the fire was unknown, and it was not clear how many of the injured were children.
Adana Governor Mahmut Demirtas told the state-run Anadolu agency some of the injured students were affected by the smoke and some of them had been hurt trying to escape from the burning building.
Turkish television showed flames rising from a multiple-story building and firefighters battling the blaze.
Turkish government officials said Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, National Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz and others were headed to Adana.

headed adj: going in a particular direction: