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Egypt’s army chief and defence minister, FieldMarshal Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, has announced thathe’s resigned from the military so that he can runin the presidential elections expected next month.Still wearing his military uniform, he said his mission was to restore Egypt and warned thatthe country was threatened by terrorists. From Cairo, Orla Guerin.

In a televised address to the nation, the army chief announced his farewell to arms. AbdulFattah al-Sisi said he was giving up his uniform after 44 years to take on a new and difficultmission. One problem he won’t have is winning. Sisi enjoys huge support and so far has noserious rivals. Supporters see him as a strong leader who can bring stability after years ofturmoil. To critics he’s a military hardliner, who has presided over a brutal¹ crackdown ondissent.

President Obama has used a speech in Brussels to champion the right of Ukrainians to decidetheir own future in further warning to Russia over its annexation² of Crimea. He said the UnitedStates and Europe had no interest in controlling Ukraine, which is not in Nato, and would notreact militarily to Russia’s actions. But with time, Mr Obama said, Russians would realise theycannot achieve security and prosperity through brute³ force.

“We believe the world has benefited when Russia chooses to cooperate on the basis of mutualinterests and mutual⁴ respect. So America and the world and Europe has an interest in a strongand responsible Russia, not a weak one. We want the Russian people to live in security,prosperity and dignity like everyone else, proud of their own history. But that does not meanthat Russia can run roughshod over its neighbours.”

Earlier Mr Obama and European Union leaders said that the EU had to reduce its dependencyon Russian oil and gas. He held out the prospect⁵ of exporting shale⁶ gas to Europe if aprospective trade agreement between the two powers were signed. But he added that Europeshould not rely on US gas.

A son-in-law of Osama bin⁷ Laden⁸ has been found guilty of conspiring⁹ to kill American citizensfollowing the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. Nick Bryant has been following thecase in New York.

Suleiman Abu Ghaith is the most senior al-Qaeda figure to face trial in a civilian¹⁰ court onAmerican soil. In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks the Kuwait-born cleric acted asthe group’s mouthpiece using video tapes and impassioned rhetoric¹¹ to recruit new Jihadistfighters. During his three-week trial, which took place in a Manhattan courthouse close to thesite of the World Trade Center, the jury were shown frames from a video of him meeting binLaden in the immediate¹² aftermath of the September 11th attacks.

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Malaysia says a French satellite has located a debris¹³ field in the southern Indian Oceancontaining more than 120 objects that could be from the missing airliner¹⁴. The country’s actingtransport minister described the new images as the most credible¹⁵ lead so far. The debris is inroughly the same area as objects spotted¹⁶ by satellites from China and Australia.

A court in Turkey has ordered the country’s ban on Twitter to be lifted. The country’stelecommunications authority allows 30 days to restore access to the microblogging site orappeal against the ruling. The Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan imposed the ban last weekafter Turkish users posted corruption¹⁷ allegations about him. The restrictions¹⁸ were widelyflouted and criticised by among others the Turkish President Abdullah Gul.

The national emergency agency in Nigeria says three million people have affected¹⁹ by theongoing insurgency²⁰ by the Islamist militant²¹ group Boko Haram. The agency says those peopleare in need of humanitarian²² assistance. It also says that about 250,000 people have beendisplaced by the crisis in the north-east of the country.

Captain Jerry Roberts, the last of the British codebreakers to help decipher communicationsbetween Adolf Hitler and his top generals during the Second World War, has died at the age of93. Gordon Corera reports.

Jerry Roberts joined Bletchley Park as a German linguist²³ and was assigned to a team called theTestery named after its head Ralph Tester. Their target was not the well-known Enigma²⁴ systemwhich carried military communications, but something even more challenging—a systemknown as Tunny, which carried the messages of Hitler’s top generals and even the Fuehrerhimself. When decades later General Roberts could finally talk about his work, he took greatdelight in recalling how he’d personally been able to read Hitler’s own messages—in some casesbefore the intended recipient²⁵.

1 brutal   

adj.残忍的，野蛮的，不讲理的

参考例句：

• She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
• They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。

2 annexation   

n.吞并，合并

参考例句：

• He mentioned the Japanese annexation of Korea in 1910 .他提及1910年日本对朝鲜的吞并。
• I regard the question of annexation as belonging exclusively to the United States and Texas.我认为合并的问题，完全属于德克萨斯和美国之间的事。

3 brute   

n.野兽，兽性

参考例句：

• The aggressor troops are not many degrees removed from the brute.侵略军简直象一群野兽。
• That dog is a dangerous brute.It bites people.那条狗是危险的畜牲，它咬人。

4 mutual   

adj.相互的，彼此的；共同的，共有的

参考例句：

• We must pull together for mutual interest.我们必须为相互的利益而通力合作。
• Mutual interests tied us together.相互的利害关系把我们联系在一起。

5 prospect   

n.前景，前途；景色，视野

参考例句：

• This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
• The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。

6 shale   

n.页岩，泥板岩

参考例句：

• We can extract oil from shale.我们可以从页岩中提取石油。
• Most of the rock in this mountain is shale.这座山上大部分的岩石都是页岩。

7 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。

8 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

9 conspiring   

密谋( conspire的现在分词 )； 搞阴谋； （事件等）巧合； 共同导致

参考例句：

• They were accused of conspiring against the king. 他们被指控阴谋反对国王。
• John Brown and his associates were tried for conspiring to overthrow the slave states. 约翰·布朗和他的合伙者们由于密谋推翻实行奴隶制度的美国各州而被审讯。

10 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。

11 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

12 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

13 debris   

n.瓦砾堆，废墟，碎片

参考例句：

• After the bombing there was a lot of debris everywhere.轰炸之后到处瓦砾成堆。
• Bacteria sticks to food debris in the teeth,causing decay.细菌附着在牙缝中的食物残渣上，导致蛀牙。

14 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。

15 credible   

adj.可信任的，可靠的

参考例句：

• The news report is hardly credible.这则新闻报道令人难以置信。
• Is there a credible alternative to the nuclear deterrent?是否有可以取代核威慑力量的可靠办法？

16 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

17 corruption   

n.腐败，堕落，贪污

参考例句：

• The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
• The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。

18 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

19 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

20 insurgency   

n.起义；暴动；叛变

参考例句：

• And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国，动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。 来自互联网
• Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。 来自互联网

21 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

22 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

23 linguist   

n.语言学家；精通数种外国语言者

参考例句：

• I used to be a linguist till I become a writer.过去我是个语言学家，后来成了作家。
• Professor Cui has a high reputation as a linguist.崔教授作为语言学家名声很高。

24 enigma   

n.谜，谜一样的人或事

参考例句：

• I've known him for many years,but he remains something of an enigma to me.我与他相识多年，他仍然难以捉摸。
• Even after all the testimonies,the murder remained a enigma.即使听完了所有的证词，这件谋杀案仍然是一个谜。

25 recipient   

a.接受的,感受性强的 n.接受者,感受者,容器

参考例句：

• Please check that you have a valid email certificate for each recipient. 请检查是否对每个接收者都有有效的电子邮件证书。
• Colombia is the biggest U . S aid recipient in Latin America. 哥伦比亚是美国在拉丁美洲最大的援助对象。