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Senator Jacqui Lambie has resigned from the parliament after revealing she's entitled to British citizenship. In an emotional address to the senate, Ms Lambie says she hasn't slept in days fearing the advice from British authorities which arrived this morning. Her father was born in Scotland but thought his father had renounced the family's citizenship when they moved to Australia.

澳大利亚参议员杰基·兰比在被曝光她持有英国国籍后从议会辞职。兰比在参议院发表了充满情感的讲话，她说她已经几天没睡觉了，因为她对英国有关部门的回复感到担心，她于今天早上收到了回复。她的父亲在苏格兰出生，但是她父亲以为在他们搬到澳大利亚之后，他的父亲已经宣布放弃家人的英国国籍。

The former New South Wales premier Kristina Keneally is making a political comeback as she takes on Liberal John Alexander in the Bennelong by-election. The Labor candidate believes she has a good chance despite Mr Alexander holding the Sydney seat by almost ten per cent. The vote will be held on the sixteenth of December.

前新南威尔士州州长克里斯蒂娜·肯纳莉将重返政坛，她将在班尼朗地区议员席位补选中挑战自由党代表约翰·亚力山大。工党候选人肯纳莉认为她有机会，虽然亚历山大在悉尼拥有近10%的支持率。补选投票将在12月16日举行。

Iran says rescue efforts have ended after a powerful earthquake struck the northern border with Iraq. More than four hundred people have been killed and another four thousand injured, when the seven point one magnitude quake hit. Most of the dead are from an Iranian Kurdish town where the only hospital has been badly damaged.

伊朗与伊拉克北部边界发生强震，伊朗表示目前救援工作已经结束。这场7.1级大地震造成400余人死亡，另有4000人受伤。大部分遇难者来自伊朗一座库尔德小镇，当地唯一的一家医院在地震中严重毁损。

Soccer heavyweight Italy has failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1958. The Italians drew nil-all with Sweden in the second leg qualifier in Milan, after losing the first leg one-nil. Italy has won the World Cup four times while Sweden is yet to win the tournament.

足球强国意大利自1958年以来首次无缘世界杯。意大利队在米兰进行的世界杯预选赛第二回合比赛中以0比0与瑞典队战平，而在此前的第一回合比赛中意大利以0比1输给瑞典队。意大利曾赢得过四次世界杯冠军，而瑞典还没有获得过世界杯冠军。