美联社新闻一分钟 2005-10-02

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1 Three bombings rip through restaurants crowded with foreign tourists on the Indonesian resort of Bali,killing¹ at least 25 people and wounding scores. The blasts come nearly 3 years to the day that bombings by an Al-Qaeda linked terror group killed 202 people.

2 Indonesian President Susilo Yudhoyono called the blast a "terrorist act" and warned that more attacks were possible.Yudhoyono said that he had received information that militants² were planning an attack in the nation's capital.

3 An improvised³ explosive device exploded near a civillian car in Fallujah on Saturday, killing one man and injuring two others. Violence has escalated⁵ in Baghdad, and other Iraqi provinces, two weeks ahead of the referendum on the country's new constitution on October 15th.

4.Venezuela removed Central Bank reserves once held as U.S. Treasury⁶ bonds and moved the funds to Europe and other countries. President Hugo Chavez said Venezuela changed their reserves because of threats from the US government.

5 A fire at a Russian navy ammunition⁷ depot⁸ caused artillery⁹ shells to explode, forcing the evacuation of thousands in a remote eastern region on Saturday. Some four thousand residents from five towns in Kamchatka Province were forced to leave their homes.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1.rip: vi.To subject to vehement¹⁰ attack

2.resort: n. 1)A place frequented by people for relaxation¹¹ or recreation: a ski resort.
2)A customary or frequent going or gathering¹²: a popular place of resort.

3.improvised: a. Spoken, performed, or composed with little or no preparation or forethought

4.escalate⁴: vi. To increase, enlarge, or intensify¹³: escalated the hostilities¹⁴ in the Persian Gulf¹⁵.

5.ammunition: n. 1)Projectiles, such as bullets and shot, together with their fuses and primers, that can be fired from guns or otherwise propelled.
2)Nuclear, biological, chemical, or explosive material, such as rockets or grenades, that are used as weapons.
3)An object used as a missile in offense¹⁶ or defense¹⁷: Rocks were my only ammunition against the bear.

6.depot: n. A storage installation for military equipment and supplies

7.artillery: n.The branch of an army that specializes in the use of such weapons.