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Republican senator Ted¹ Cruzplans to announce his 2016 presidential candidacy on Monday. His announcementwould make him the first White House hopeful to officially enter the race.

Hundreds of advisers² from theUS military are in the process of training and giving advice to Iraqi armedforces battling the Islamic State militants³. Around 100 US trainers areinvolved in training Iraqi soldiers at the military camp.

The remains⁴ of King Richard thethird were on display in England after being found under a parking lot. Aproper burial will be held later this week, 500 years after the English king’sdeath.

And tough times for one of Australia’scutest critters, officials in Victoria revealed between 2012 and 2013, the stategovernment carried out a cull⁵ of nearly 700 koalas. A population boom led towidespread food shortages of koalas.

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1 ted
vt.翻晒，撒，撒开
参考例句：
The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。 She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

2 advisers
顾问，劝告者( adviser的名词复数 )；（指导大学新生学科问题等的）指导教授
参考例句：
a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员 She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。

3 militants
激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。 Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

4 remains
n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹
参考例句：
He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。 The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

5 cull
v.拣选；剔除；n.拣出的东西；剔除
参考例句：
It is usually good practice to cull the poorest prior to field planting.通常在实践上的好方法是在出圃栽植前挑出最弱的苗木。 Laura was passing around photographs she'd culled from the albums at home.劳拉正在分发她从家里相册中挑选出的相片。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2015-3-25