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The Egyptian police have fired teargas at a crowd of protestors at Tahrir Square in the heart of Cairo. The demonstrators are angry at a court decision to drop all charges against the country's ex-president Hosni Mubarak in connection with the killing of hundreds of people during the Arab Spring Uprising. Orla Guerin reports from Cairo.

Within hours, anger of the verdict produced a reaction on the streets. In a rare and risky act of defiance, crowds gathered close to Tahrir Square, birthplace of the 2011 revolution. It was a relatively small protest, but hugely symbolic. Both liberals and Islamists called for freedom. For some, it felt briefly like an echo of the revolution. The security forces moved in after a few hours, causing mayhem with tear gas. We heard the crackle of live ammunition in the night air. The former president remains in detention on account of a conviction for embezzlement.

There's been a flareup in the fight for control of the Syrian city of Kobani. Islamic State militants, using a vehicle packed with explosives and driven by a suicide bomber, attacked a Kurdish position on the nearby border with Turkey. Jim Muir has been monitoring the event from Beirut.

It's believed to be the first time that clashes have hit the area immediately adjacent to the border, where a Kurdish position was targeted by an IS suicide vehicle bomb at dawn. In subsequent clashes there and on the southwest side of Kobani, a monitoring group said there were at least 3 more suicide attacks. As the clashes intensified, reports said Islamic State brought up tanks to join the fighting. While Americans rode allies’ jets, carried out 2 strikes on IS positions in the eastern part of town.

2 people, including at least one foreign national have been killed in the Afghan capital Kabul after militants attacked a guesthouse in the west of the city. The security forces say 6 other people who had been taken hostage were rescued. It's believed they were all working for a foreign aid organization. Richard Galpin reports from Kabul.

A group of Taliban's suicide bombers attacked the compounds near the Afghan parliaments on Saturday evening local time. People in the area said they heard explosions and sustained gunfire. One of the militants blew himself up, while officials say the security forces shot dead the others after gun battle lasting hours. 2 bodies were found inside the building, one of them was an Afghan, the other a foreigner. It's not yet known what organization they were working for.

The governor of Kano state in Nigeria has given an official casualty figure for Friday's attack on Kano central mosque, saying 100 people were killed, 135 wounded. In the statement, President Goodluck Jonathan vowed to find those responsible for the assault. World news from the BBC.

New figures on the Ebola outbreak released by the World Health Organization showed that nearly 7,000 people have now died of the disease, mostly in West Africa. It's a jump of more than 1,000 deaths since the last WHO update 4 days ago.

Taiwan's president, Ma Ying-jeou, has apologized for his party's poor performance in local elections. They were seen as a referendum on his poor China policies. The Nationalist Party lost control of towns and cities across Taiwan, leading to the resignation of the island's premier, Jiang Yi-huah. Cindy Su reports from Taipei.

The premier said the election results reflected people's dissatisfaction with the government and therefore he should resign to take responsibility. In the past few years, the governing Nationalist Party had focused on reducing tensions with China and building closer economic ties. It has argued more economic and trade deals were needed to help Taiwan's economy grow. Some people now fear the opposition party DPP's victory could help it win the 2016 presidential race. And if it won, it would change the course of China-Taiwan relations.

The Arab League’s endorsed a plan to ask the United Nations to set a deadline for an end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. This came after the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, told the gathering of the league that he intends to call on the UN Security Council to support his demand for an Israeli withdraw within 2 years. He said the state of this cause is unsustainable, especially at a time when the Israelis continued to build settlements in occupied territory. However it's thought that the Americans would almost certainly vetoed Mr. Abbas's deadline, proposal at the UN.

Pope Francis is meeting the patriarch of the Orthodox Church by XX on the second leg of the 3-day visit to Turkey. The XX patriarch, who was a spiritual leader of the world's 300 million orthodox Christians, welcomed the pope.

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詞匯解析

tender

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

adj.溫柔的；脆弱的；敏感的；親切的；嫩的；痛的

v.提出；投標

n.投標；照管人；補給船；煤水車

參考例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

She is always tender and soft-spoken.

她總是那么溫柔,輕聲細語。

用作動詞 (v.)

I'll tender my resignation.

我要提出辭職。

用作名詞 (n.)

His tender for building a mansion has been accepted.

他承辦大廈筑的投標被接受了。

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hollow

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

adj.空的；空洞的；凹陷的；虛偽的；(聲音)沉悶的

n.山谷；洞；窟窿

vt.挖空

vi.形成空洞

adv.完全地；徹底

參考例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

She could hear nothing but the hollow echo of his steps.

除了他的腳步的低沉回音，她什么聲音都聽不到。

用作名詞 (n.)

I crawled under the house and crept into a dark hollow of a brick chimney.

我爬到屋子底下，鉆進了磚煙囪的黑窟窿里。

用作及物動詞 (vt.)

The Indians used to hollow out a log to make a canoe.

印第安人過去常挖空圓木制成獨木舟。

用作副詞 (adv.)

I played Max at chess yesterday and beat him hollow.

昨天我跟麥克斯下棋，殺得他一敗涂地。

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restraint

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

n.克制；抑制；束縛

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

The police appealed to the crowd for restraint.

警方呼吁群眾保持克制。

He is a man always speaking with restraint.

他是個說話拘謹?shù)娜恕?/span>

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security

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

n.安全；保證；證券；債券；抵押；防護措施

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

I'll undertake for your security.

我將保證你的安全。

The value of a derivative is based on another security.

金融衍生工具的價值以另一種債券為基準。

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hence

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

adv.因此；從此以后

參考例句

用作副詞 (adv.)

It is very late; hence you must go to bed.

時間已經很晚了，因此你必須睡覺去。

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legislation

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

n.法律；法規(guī)；立法

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

The government will introduce legislation to restrict the sale of firearms.

政府將制定法規(guī)限制槍支出售。

The conservationists will not take kindly to the legislation.

自然資源保護論者對這項立法不會做出善意的反應。

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noticeable

難度：2星擴展詞匯，屬常用10000詞

英漢解釋

adj.顯而易見的；顯著的；值得注意的

參考例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

The scar on her forehead is hardly noticeable.

她額頭上的傷疤不太明顯。

The specialists did not uncover any noticeable deviations from the norm.

?？漆t(yī)師并未發(fā)現(xiàn)任何值得注意的異狀。

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