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1. Attorney general Eric Holder¹ has asked the Justice Department to arrange for a federal medical examiner to autopsy² the body of Michael Brown, given what Holder says are the extraordinary circumstances of the case. Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American man was shot and killed by a white Ferguson Missouri police officer a week ago.

2. Residents of Liberia say the response to the Ebola outbreak is too slow. They’re growing angry because the body of a dead man who may have had the gruesome disease was lying in the streets of the capital Monrovia for two days.

3. Thousands of young Catholics welcomed pope Francis as he arrived Sunday to a 15th-century fortress³ in South Korea. He gave an open-air mass on the final day of the Asian Youth Day festival southwest of Seoul.

4. And a nurse in Peru has turned her two-storey house into a sanctuary⁴ for old and sick cats. She’s treating 175 cats with ailments⁵ from leukemia to kidney failure to gallstones.

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1 holder
n.持有者，占有者；(台，架等)支持物
参考例句：
The holder of the office of chairman is reponsible for arranging meetings.担任主席职位的人负责安排会议。 That runner is the holder of the world record for the hundred-yard dash.那位运动员是一百码赛跑世界纪录的保持者。

2 autopsy
n.尸体解剖；尸检
参考例句：
They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。 A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。

3 fortress
n.堡垒，防御工事
参考例句：
They made an attempt on a fortress.他们试图夺取这一要塞。 The soldier scaled the wall of the fortress by turret.士兵通过塔车攀登上了要塞的城墙。

4 sanctuary
n.圣所，圣堂，寺庙；禁猎区，保护区
参考例句：
There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.医院后面有一个政治难民的避难所。 Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.大多数国家拒绝对劫机者提供庇护。

5 ailments
疾病（尤指慢性病），不适( ailment的名词复数 )
参考例句：
His ailments include a mild heart attack and arthritis. 他患有轻度心脏病和关节炎。 He hospitalizes patients for minor ailments. 他把只有小病的患者也送进医院。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-08-20