AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-02-21

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1.Mayors come to the White House where President Barack Obama says his 787-billion-dollar economic package will help struggling cities, but Washington and cities have a responsibility to spend the money wisely.

2.A global search is on for the billions of dollars investors¹ entrusted² to Allen Stanford. Authorities tracked down the Texas billionaire in Virginia, serving him with a criminal complaint accusing him of committing an 8-billion-dollar fraud.

3.The leader of the Likud Party in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has six weeks to form the country's next government. He came in second in recent parliamentary elections. Netanyahu wants centrist rivals to join him in a unity³ coalition⁴.

4.In Australia, a zoo in Sydney is welcoming the birth of two meerkats pups, the first to be born here in nine years. Zanzibar and Nairobi are now four weeks old and eating worms. Meerkats are native to a desert region in southern Africa.

WORDS IN THE NEWS

1.serve with: phrase

to give a subpoena requiring the appearance in court to give testimony to somebody