美联社新闻一分钟 2007-05-21

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1. A gunman in Idaho killed two people including a police officer before police found the shooter dead himself. The gunman started shooting at a courthouse in Moscow, Idaho late Saturday. Two others were also wounded.

2. Seven U.S. soldiers and an interpreter have been killed by bombs in Iraq. Six of the soldiers died when a roadside bomb exploded in western Baghdad.

3. Gun battles between militants² and security forces in Lebanon have left at least 39 people dead. The fighting began when troops raided a militant¹-occupied apartment building in Tripoli. The militant group has suspected links to al-Qaeda.

4. Filmmaker Michael Moore says he will fight a U.S. Treasury³ Department investigation⁴ into his trip to Cuba. Moore traveled to Cuba to film scenes for "Sicko", a movie about the U.S. health care system. The Treasury Department is looking into whether Moore's trip broke the U.S. embargo⁵ on the communist country.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1. courthouse: n-count
A courthouse is a building in which a court of law meets.

2. raid: verb
When soldiers raid a place, they make a sudden armed attack against it, with the aim of causing damage rather than occupying any of the enemy's land.

3. fight: verb
If you fight something unpleasant, you try in a determined⁶ way to prevent it or stop it happening.

4. embargo: n-count
If one country or group of countries imposes an embargo against another, it forbids trade with that country