Making world news, the United States has identified the soldier kidnapped in Afghanistan. The Taliban released a video footage of the 23-year-old Private Bowe Bergdahl yesterday. He went missing from his base in the eastern Afghanistan on June 30th. In the video, Private Bowe Bergdahl calls for US troops to be sent home.
Iran has released the last British embassy worker arrested in the aftermath of the disputed presidential election. Hossein Rassam was released on bail. He was one of the nine embassy employees detained during the political protests. He's charged with inciting unrest after the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Honduras interim government says ousted President Manuel Zelaya can return to the country, but only to go on trial for treason not to reclaim power as he has proclaimed. The new regime has leveled 18 charges against Zelaya including high treason. Authorities have threatened to arrest him if he returns from Nicaragua, but say he will be allowed to exercise his judicial rights.
A Mauritania's military leader has been declared winner of the country's presidential elections. General Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz seized power in a military coup last year. The opposition says the outcome was prefabricated.
And that's ABC world news.
- New Words
- Pronunciation
- Simple Meaning
- footage
- Footage of a particular event is a film of it or the part of a film which shows this event
- aftermath
- The aftermath of an important event, especially a harmful one, is the situation that results from it.
- dispute
- When people dispute something, they fight for control or ownership of it. You can also say that one group of people dispute something with another group.
- presidential election
- 总统选举
- bail
- /beɪl/
- Bail is permission for an arrested person to be released after bail has been paid.
- detain
- When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
- unrest
- If there is unrest in a particular place or society, people are expressing anger and dissatisfaction about something, often by demonstrating or rioting.
- Treason
- Treason is the crime of betraying your country, for example by helping its enemies or by trying to remove its government using violence.
- regime
- /reɪˈʒiːm/
- If you refer to a government or system of running a country as a regime, you are critical of it because you think it is not democratic and uses unacceptable methods.
- level
- If an accusation or criticism is levelled at someone, they are accused of doing wrong or they are criticized for something they have done.
- Treason
- Treason is the crime of betraying your country, for example by helping its enemies or by trying to remove its government using violence.
- judicial rights
- 司法权
- prefabricate
- [ˈpriːˈfæbrikeit]
- 人工制造
- Nicaragua
- 尼加拉瓜
