AP美联社一分钟新闻(2009-10-12)(在线收听

1. President Barack Obama says "Don't ask, don't tell" is coming to an end. Obama promised to change the policy on gays in the military during a speech to the Human Rights Campaign last night but he didn't offer a timetable.

2. Dozens of hostages have been freed but 19 people are dead in a Pakistani hostage drama. Militants have seized the Pakistani army's headquarter for nearly a day before commandos raided the facility.

3. New video shows a shootout erupting at a Toledo, Ohio bar Thursday following a drug deal. Five suspects have yet to be identified.

4. The Catholic Church has five new saints. The saints were canonized in a Vatican ceremony this morning by Pope Benedict. One new saint was a Belgian priest who worked with leprosy patients on an isolated Hawaiian island.

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