美联社新闻一分钟 2007-06-25（在线收听） |
| 1. An Ohio medical examiner has ruled that the body found yesterday in a wooded area is that of Jessie Davis, a pregnant mother who disappeared about ten days ago. Davis's boyfriend Bobby Cutts Junior has been arrested and will be arraigned Monday on two counts of murder. 2. The man known as "Chemical Ali" after a 1980s crackdown killed 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq has been sentenced by a Baghdad judge to death by hanging. Ali Hassan al-Majid is Saddam Hussein's cousin. 3. After a decade of waiting in the wings, Treasury Secretary Gordon Brown has replaced British Prime Minister Tony Blair as leader of the governing Labor Party. A handover comes just days before Brown will take over as Britain's new Prime Minister. 4. Call it a giant kiss-off. Thousands of people lock lips during the Glastonbury music festival in England to try to break the world record for simultaneous mass kissing. We don't know yet if they succeeded. WORDS IN THE NEWS 1. arraign: [transitive] law to make someone come to court to hear what their crime is 2. wait in the wings: ready to do something or be used when the time is right 3. treasury: a government department that controls the money that the country collects and spends |
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