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1. Insurgents in Iraq attacked 2 more diplomats, one Arab and another Muslim, just days after gunmen seized Egypt's top envoy to Baghdad.
2. Natalee Holloway's mother asks Aruba not to let 2 brothers set free in the case of the missing Alabama teen to leave the island.
3. Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof condemns protest violence in Scotland, urging world leaders of the G8 summit to deliver an aid for Africa.
4. In India, a suicide blast in a gunbattle at a Hindu shrine complex, the center of Hindu Muslim strife, leaves all 6 attackers dead.
5. And, political and sports superstars make a final frenzied pitch as Olympic officials prepared to choose the host city for the 2012 Games.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1.deliver:v.to take goods, letters, packages etc to a particular place or person.
2.complex:n.a group of buildings, or a large building with many parts, used for a particular purpose.
eg.The town has one of the best leisure complexes in the country.
3.strife:n.trouble between two or more people or groups.
eg.Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife, corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.
4.frenzied:adj.frenzied activity is fast and uncontrolled, usually because it is done by someone feeling very anxious or excited.
eg:Many of the deals struck in this frenzied atmosphere are sure to go sour eventually, sending more companies to the brink.
5.pitch:n.a strong level of feeling about something or a high level of an activity or a quality.
eg.The controversy reached such a pitch (=become so strong) that the paper devoted a whole page to it.
6.host:n.a country, city, or organization that provides the necessary space, equipment etc for a special event. |