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President Obama says his administration is going to review whether to restore North Korea to its list of state sponsors of terrorism after blaming Pyongyang for a cyber-attack on the U.S. firm, Sony Pictures Entertainment. In an interview with CNN, Mr. Obama said he would implement a suitable response to the hacking.

“I don't think it was an act of war. I think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly, very expensive. We take it very seriously. We'll respond proportionally, as I said. We are gonna be in this environment in this new world where so much is digitalized that both state and non-state actors are going to have the capacity to disrupt our lives in all sorts of ways.”

The Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani has gone to Mount Sinjar to congratulate his fighters on breaking a long siege by the Islamic State group. The offensive by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters was launched last week. Mr. Barzani said the fighters were now intensifying their efforts to recapture the town of Sinjar below the mountain. Jim Muir reports.

“Touring the strategic mountaintop of Sinjar, where his Kurdish Peshmerga forces have now regained control, President Barzani said that recapturing the town of Sinjar was not originally part of the battle plan. But Kurdish troops have penetrated deep into the town, which lies to the south of the mountain. Heavy fighting is going on there, but Mr. Barzani vowed to crush the militants wherever they could be found. The Kurdish advance has broken the IS siege imposed on thousands of minority Yazidis trapped for months on the mountain. Supply convoys are now able to get through.”

Counting is taking place after voting closed in the Tunisian presidential election, seen as the culmination of the country's political transition following the Arab Spring uprising there almost four years ago. National television said early exit polls suggested the 88-year-old Beji Caid Essebsi is expected to win the poll. Turnout was lower than expected, as Naveena Kottoor reports from Tunis.

“It has been a very long election period. We had parliamentary elections here in October and the first round of presidential elections in November. And this was the third election in three months. So I think that explains why we are seeing lower turnout figures than people might have hoped for. Early days yet, but both candidates have given a press conference and have said that they would accept the results. One of them, Beji Caid Essebsi, the 88-year-old, leader of the Nidaa Tounes Party here, has already claimed victory. But I think we should wait until we have official election results.”

Votes have been tallied in Liberia where Senate elections were held on Saturday despite the Ebola outbreak. In the capital Monrovia, the former football star George Weah has taken an early lead against the son of the Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Although strict health precautions were in place, turnout was low due to concerns about Ebola.

World news from the BBC.

The Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan says police have arrested a number of suspects in connection with a recent attack on a school in Peshawar that left more than 140 people dead, nearly all of them children. On Sunday, thousands of Pakistanis visited the army run institution to mourn those killed. The Minister declined to give further details of those arrested. Those suspects have been taken into custody. Cryingly allow me not to divulge either the number or their identities. But quite a few suspects who’ve facilitate us in some day or other. And the interrogation is moving ahead in a very positive manner. Kindly wait for just a few days before we reveal the details, because there are still certain arrests have been made as a reserve of them from all over the country.

There has been widespread condemnation at the killing of two New York police officers who were shot dead in their patrol car on Saturday. The authorities say that before the killings the gunman announced his plans online as retaliation for the death of Eric Garner, a black man who died whey white police officers tried to arrest him for selling untaxed cigarettes. The civil rights campaigner Al Sharpton said police misconduct cannot be tackled by people taking things into their own hands.

One of the best-known entertainers of the German-speaking world Udo Juergens has died at the age of 80, just two weeks after his last concert. Udo's career spanning half a century. The Australian born Juergens sold more than 100 million records.

A court in Argentina has decided to recognize that an orangutan, who's spent the last twenty years in the Buenos Aires Zoo, was a creature who had feelings, and therefore should be allowed to live in greater freedom. In an unprecedented legal case, the court agreed that although the orangutan named Sandra was not human, the habeas corpus writ rate could be extended to her.

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詞匯解析

automobile

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

n.汽車

adj.汽車的

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

There will be an exhibition of the development of automobile industry in our country next week.

下星期將舉辦一個(gè)關(guān)于我國(guó)汽車工業(yè)發(fā)展的展覽。

用作形容詞 (adj.)

The cylinder is an important part for automobile engine.

氣缸套是影響汽車發(fā)動(dòng)機(jī)性能的重要零件。

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mild

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

adj.溫和的；柔和的；寬大的；清淡的

參考例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

The coastal area has very mild winter, but by contrast the central plains become extremely cold.

靠近海岸的地區(qū)有很溫和的冬天,相比而方,靠近中央的平原就變得非常寒冷。

The punishment inflicted on them was too mild.

他們受的懲罰太輕。

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shelter

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

n.避難所；庇護(hù)；庇護(hù)所

v.保護(hù)；隱匿；庇護(hù)

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

The spectators scuttled for shelter when it began to rain.

一下起雨來，觀眾就紛紛找地方躲避。

用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)

This cave served as a hideout for a bearded seal seeking shelter from the harsh Arctic climate.

這個(gè)洞窟被髯海豹用來作為躲避嚴(yán)酷的北極氣候的隱匿之所。

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crack

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

v.破裂；砸開；發(fā)出爆裂聲；撞擊；破解；變嘶??；崩潰；制裁；<非正式>開玩笑

n.裂縫；裂痕；爆裂聲；猛擊；嘗試；俏皮話

adj.訓(xùn)練有素的

參考例句

用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)

The boy's voice is beginning to crack at the age of puberty.

這男孩子的嗓音在發(fā)育期開始變得粗聲粗氣。

用作名詞 (n.)

Red always goofs off, or thinks of a smart crack instead of working.

雷德不好好干，總是吊兒郎當(dāng)，要不就想出些俏皮話來挖苦人。

用作形容詞 (adj.)

She is a crack shot with a rifle.

她是步槍神槍手。

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confusion

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

n.惶惑；混淆；混亂；不確定狀態(tài)

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

Words like"believe" and "receive" are a source of confusion in spelling.

諸如 believe和 receive 這樣的詞在拼寫上容易混淆。

There is some confusion about what the right procedure should be.

對(duì)應(yīng)該采取怎樣的步驟這一點(diǎn)還不太明確。

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comment

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

n.注釋；評(píng)論；閑話

v.評(píng)論；注釋

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

The comment is recorded in the event log.

此注釋將記錄在事件日志中。

用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)

He commented that it was an excellent film.

他評(píng)論這電影很精彩。

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pension

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

n.養(yǎng)老金；退休金；撫恤金；年金；（歐洲等地的）私人小旅店

v.發(fā)退休金

參考例句

用作名詞 (n.)

He's got nothing beyond his state pension.

除了國(guó)家發(fā)的養(yǎng)老金，他一無所有。

用作動(dòng)詞 (v.)

He was pensioned off and replaced with a younger man.

他被迫退休，由一年輕人接替其職務(wù)。

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