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1.Pakistan condemns a deadly attack in which a purported CIA airstrike unsucessfully targets al Qaeda’s No.2 man in a border village.
2.In Iraq, a court official says the chief judge in Saddam Hussein's trial has submitted his resignation, no immediate word on if it's been accepted.
3.Denouncing the West, Iran's hardline leader says the International Community has no legal basis to restrict his country's right to nuclear research.
4.This weekend's presidential runoff in Chile pits a socialist hoping to become the country's first female president against a multimillionaire business man.
5.And shoppers in Cairo snap up a veiled Muslim doll built as an alternative to Barbie.The doll's creators say she is single with no plans to marry.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. pit
4 pit pits pitting pitted
If two opposing things or people are pitted against one another, they are in conflict.
You will be pitted against two, three, or four people who are every bit as good as you are.
This was one man pitted against the universe.
VB: usu passive
2. snap up
snap up snaps up; snapping up; snapped up
If you snap something up, you buy it quickly because it is cheap or is just what you want.
Every time we get a new delivery of Donna's clothes, there is a queue of people waiting to snap them up.
One eagle-eyed collector snapped up a pair of Schiaparelli earrings for just s6.
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