澳大利亚外交部说，能够对麦凯提供的帮助实在有限，因为游客是受他们当时所在的国家管辖的。

The Department of Foreign Affairs has said it is limited in what it can do to help Mr McKay, as travellers were bound by the laws of the countries they visited.

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老挝外交部说，对录像的初步评估是，这位60岁的活动人士可能“因为私人冲突或者经济纠纷被劫持”。

The Lao Foreign Affairs Ministry says a preliminary assessment of the footage suggests the 60-year-old activist may have been "kidnapped because of a personal conflict or conflict in business."

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另外，英国外交部说，中国把52个来访的英国学生隔离了，在四个因疑似猪流感住院之后，根据英国广播公司报道。

Separately, Britain's Foreign Office said that China placed 52 visiting British students in quarantine after four of the group were hospitalized with suspected swine flu, according to the BBC.

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