美联社新闻一分钟 2005-08-17

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1. In Gaza, extremists pelt¹ Israeli troops with bottles and stones while other settlers begin moving out ahead of the evacuation deadline.

2. A plane carrying vacationers home to the French Caribbean island of Martinique crashes in Venezuela， killing² all 160 people on board.

3. Iraq's Kurdish leaders insist they have no plan to secede³ , an issue that forced a delay in finishing the country’s draft constitution.

4. In Afghanistan, a helicopter carrying NATO peacekeepers crashes in a desert killing 17 Spanish troops and injuring five others.

5. And the Pope faces a major test this week, traveling to his native Germany on his first foreign trip as pontiff for World Youth Day.
WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. pelt
2 pelt pelts⁴ pelting⁵ pelted⁶
If you pelt someone with things, you throw things at them.
Some of the younger men began to pelt one another with snowballs.
Crowds started to pelt police cars with stones.
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2. secede
secede secedes⁷ seceding⁸ seceded⁹
If a region or group secedes from the country or larger group to which it belongs, it formally becomes a separate country or stops being a member of the larger group.
Singapore seceded from the Federation¹⁰ of Malaysia and became an independent sovereign state.
On 20 August 1960 Senegal seceded.
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3. peacekeeper
1 peacekeeper peacekeepers
Peacekeepers are soldiers who are members of a peacekeeping force.
There's been much fear that the United Nations peacekeepers would be under attack in a situation like that.
N-COUNT: usu pl, oft supp N also peace-keeper.

4. pontiff
pontiff pontiffs
The Pontiff is the Pope. (FORMAL)
The Pontiff celebrated¹¹ mass before a crowd of tens of thousands of worshippers in Mexico City.
N-COUNT: usu the N
= Pope