美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2013-05-09

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　　1. A funeral director is still trying to find a cemetery¹ to take the body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Officials in Cambridge, Massachusetts denied a request to bury the Boston Marathon suspect in a city-owned cemetery.

 

　　2. A stretch limo that burst into the flames on a San Francisco bridge had an extra passenger. But it’s not clear whether overcrowding was a factor. A newlywed bride and four friends were killed.

 

　　3. The White House says it’s highly likely that the President Bashar Assad’s regime, not the rebel opposition², was behind any chemical weapons use in Syria. A UN panel said yesterday there were indications that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin.

 

　　4. Any day now, parts of the eastern United States will be overrun by noisy cicadas. The creatures with bulging³ red eyes are returning after spending their time a few feet underground since 1996.

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