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The head of the US Senate Intelligence Committeehas accused the CIA of spying on Congress. DianneFeinstein said the CIA had inappropriately searchedthe computers of congressional stuff who wereinvestigating allegations that it had tortured suspects during the Bush administration. SenatorFeinstein said the agency had obstructed¹ the investigation², lied about its activities andelectronically removed files from the Committee's computers. She said it was a serious matter.

“I have grave concerns that the CIA search may well have violated the separation of powersprinciples, embodied³ in the United States constitution. It may have undermined theconstitutional framework, essential to effective congressional oversight⁴.”

The CIA director John Brennan dismissed the allegations, saying they were completely untrue.

“As far as the allegations of, you know, CIA hacked⁵ into you know, senators'computers,nothing can be further from the truth, and we wouldn't do that. I mean, that's justbeyond the scope of reason.”

The BBC Washington correspondent says it's following the revelations by the former CIAemployee Edward Snowden. The affair will do nothing to reassure⁶ Americans about the reachof their intelligence services.

The Malaysian air force says radar⁷ information suggests that a passenger airliner⁸ that wentmissing on Saturday changed course and headed west. The last surveillance contact put theMalaysian Airlines plane somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam. But military sources saytheir radar records show that the plane started to turn around and may have flown rightacross the Malay Peninsula. The aircraft disappeared less than an hour into its flight to Beijing,and an international search effort has so far failed to find any wreckage⁹.

The Turkish President Abdullah Gul has appealed for calm after police clashed with protestersangered by the death of a teenage boy, who was hurt during anti-government demonstrationslast year. Berkin Elvan had been in a coma¹⁰ since he was hit by a teargas canister as he went tobuy bread. Selin Girit reports from Istanbul.

The news of the 15-year-old Berkin Elvan's death was announced earlier this morning. We lostour son, may he rest in peace, wrote his family on Twitter. As the news spread, people startedgathering in front of the hospital where he spent 269 days in a coma. The police showed up,the crowd got angrier, and police intervened with pepper gas. Berkin's story had become asymbol for Gezi Park protesters. He was walking to buy bread when he got hit in the head by ateargas canister.

The Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been ousted¹¹ by parliament after MPs said a tankerladen with oil from a rebel-held port broke through a naval¹³ blockade and escaped to sea. Avote of confidence in Mr. Zeidan was called following reports that the tanker¹² had reachedinternational waters.

World News from the BBC.

Michelle Bachelet has been sworn in as the president of Chile for the second time. In anemotional ceremony, she received the red, white and blue presidential sash from the head ofthe Senate, Isabel Allende, the daughter of the socialist¹⁵ president Salvador Allende, deposed¹⁶ in1973. Our correspondent in Santiago Gideon Long watched the ceremony.

Mrs. Bechelet becomes the first democratically elected Chilean head of state in over half acentury to return to the presidential palace for a second term in office. She'd already made ahistory in 2006, as Chile's first female president. Many Latin American heads of state were atthe ceremony, but there was one notable absentee, Nicholas Maduro, the President ofVenezuela, he'd been due to attend, but cancelled at the last minute. Several of the region'sforeign ministers will take the opportunity to meet in Santiago to discuss Venezuela which hadbeen racked by violence in recent weeks.

Two South African policemen have been arrested after online video footage showed officersstripping and beating an Nigerian man in the street. The film shows police and the securityguards in Cape¹⁴ Town repeatedly punching and kicking the man.

A collection of masks dating back to the dawn of civilization has gone on display in Jerusalem.The stone masks which appear to be modeled on skulls¹⁷ have round holes for eyes, tiny nosesand prominent displays of teeth. The director of the Israel Museum is James Snyder.

“These are indeed the oldest masks in the world. And they are 9,000 years old. And in a waywhat makes them remarkable¹⁸ is that they are all from within about 20 mile radius¹⁹, not farfrom Jerusalem actually where the Judean hills meet the Judean Dessert. ”

1 obstructed   

阻塞( obstruct的过去式和过去分词 )； 堵塞； 阻碍； 阻止

参考例句：

• Tall trees obstructed his view of the road. 有大树挡着，他看不到道路。
• The Irish and Bristol Channels were closed or grievously obstructed. 爱尔兰海峡和布里斯托尔海峡或遭受封锁，或受到了严重阻碍。

2 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

3 embodied   

v.表现( embody的过去式和过去分词 )；象征；包括；包含

参考例句：

• a politician who embodied the hopes of black youth 代表黑人青年希望的政治家
• The heroic deeds of him embodied the glorious tradition of the troops. 他的英雄事迹体现了军队的光荣传统。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 oversight   

n.勘漏，失察，疏忽

参考例句：

• I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。
• Your essay was not marked through an oversight on my part.由于我的疏忽你的文章没有打分。

5 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

6 reassure   

v.使放心，使消除疑虑

参考例句：

• This seemed to reassure him and he continued more confidently.这似乎使他放心一点，于是他更有信心地继续说了下去。
• The airline tried to reassure the customers that the planes were safe.航空公司尽力让乘客相信飞机是安全的。

7 radar   

n.雷达，无线电探测器

参考例句：

• They are following the flight of an aircraft by radar.他们正在用雷达追踪一架飞机的飞行。
• Enemy ships were detected on the radar.敌舰的影像已显现在雷达上。

8 airliner   

n.客机，班机

参考例句：

• The pilot landed the airliner safely.驾驶员使客机安全着陆。
• The passengers were shepherded across the tarmac to the airliner.旅客们被引导走过跑道去上飞机。

9 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

10 coma   

n.昏迷，昏迷状态

参考例句：

• The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
• She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。

11 ousted   

驱逐( oust的过去式和过去分词 )； 革职； 罢黜； 剥夺

参考例句：

• He was ousted as chairman. 他的主席职务被革除了。
• He may be ousted by a military takeover. 他可能在一场军事接管中被赶下台。

12 tanker   

n.油轮

参考例句：

• The tanker took on 200,000 barrels of crude oil.油轮装载了二十万桶原油。
• Heavy seas had pounded the tanker into three parts.汹涌的巨浪把油轮撞成三载。

13 naval   

adj.海军的，军舰的，船的

参考例句：

• He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
• The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。

14 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

15 socialist   

n.社会主义者；adj.社会主义的

参考例句：

• China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
• His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。

16 deposed   

v.罢免( depose的过去式和过去分词 )；（在法庭上）宣誓作证

参考例句：

• The president was deposed in a military coup. 总统在军事政变中被废黜。
• The head of state was deposed by the army. 国家元首被军队罢免了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

17 skulls   

颅骨( skull的名词复数 )； 脑袋； 脑子； 脑瓜

参考例句：

• One of the women's skulls found exceeds in capacity that of the average man of today. 现已发现的女性颅骨中，其中有一个的脑容量超过了今天的普通男子。
• We could make a whole plain white with skulls in the moonlight! 我们便能令月光下的平原变白，遍布白色的骷髅！

18 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

19 radius   

n.半径，半径范围；有效航程，范围，界限

参考例句：

• He has visited every shop within a radius of two miles.周围两英里以内的店铺他都去过。
• We are measuring the radius of the circle.我们正在测量圆的半径。