美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2015-08-21

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New Jersey¹ senator Bob Menendez annouced his opposition² to the Iran nuclear agreement, becoming the second Democratic senator to oppose the controversial deal. The deal would curb³ Iran's nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.

The United Nations said it plans to contact telecom gaint AT&T about a report that it allowed the US National Security Agency to wiretap all Internet communications at UN headquarters. A UN spokeswoman said US officials had previously⁴ given the UN assuarances that the government was not monitoring any communications when similar allegations arose arose.

Opening statesments began in the trial of a 19-year-old New Hampshire prep school graduate who is charged with raping⁵ a 15-year-old freshman⁶ just days before graduation in 2014. Prosecutors⁷ say a practice of sexual conquest at the school known as the 'senior salute⁸' will be central to the case.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has taken a small submersible craft down to the bottom of the Black Sea. Putin went down 272 feet in a 3-seat submersible  just to see an ancient ship recently discovered off the coast of Crimea.

Matthew Burgoyne, Associated Press with AP News Minute.

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