CNN 新闻 100 篇
CNN News Item 1 政治：美国因安全问题关闭在也门的大使馆宴会礼仪 The U.S. government clos its embassy in the Middle Eastern country of Yemen, and that is becau of curity concerns. One official says that a group called al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula might be planning an attack against the facility. That same group said it was behind an attempted plot to t off an explosive onboard a plane heading to Detroit, Michigan. That took place on Christmas day. The suspect allegedly brought the explosives on the plane in his underwear. The plan failed when the device he tried to u didn’t detonate correctly. Some people have asked how the suspect made it past curity. One U.S. official says it’s becau of human error. President Obama has promid that everyone involved in the attack will be held accountable for it. But some critics argue that the president’s respon to the situation hasn’t been fast enough, hasn’t been aggressive enough.
萨陶
CNN News Item 2 政治：印度石油工人结束三天的罢工 It’s back to work for Indian gov
ernment oil workers after a three-day strike that crippled Indian commerce. Some 45,000 oil workers walked off the job after the government refud their demands for higher pay. The labor standoff ended after days of inten government pressure, including threats of job loss and even arrest to strikers. Meantime, talks with a cond group of nationwide strikers may soon be underway. The Indo-Asian News-Service says India’s transport minister is ready to discuss demands from truckers. Many across India have parked their rigs, calling for reduction in diel and tyre prices.
CNN News Item 3 政治：备受争议的安全港法案修正案获得通过 Lawmakers in Nebraska have approved a big change to the state’s controversial safe haven law. Under the new measure, children older than 30 days can not be dropped off at state hospitals. 35 children, many of them, preteens or even teenagers, have been abandoned in hospitals since the original law took effect in July. State lawmakers say it was intended to prevent newborns from being dumped in trash bins or even wor. The new law is expected to go into effect at midnight.
教研总结
CNN News Item 4 政治：欧美担心伊朗建国会发生暴乱 The nation of Iran marking a milestone later on this week. On Thursday, the country will celebrate the anniversary of when it became an Islamic republic. This goes back to 1979, when supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini, a religious leader, overthrew the country’s government. Khomeini became the supreme leader of Iran, and the nation officially became an Islamic state. The United States and the European Union are worried about potential violence during Thursday’s celebrations. U.S. and European Union are urging the Middle Eastern nation to “end its abus against its own people.” Iranian leaders have denied any accusations that the government has abud citizens.
CNN News Item 5 政治：伊拉克全国选举投票结束 Iraqis put democracy into action today in elections held across the country. The polls have clod and a vote-counting has begun. Voters went to 6,000 polling stations to pick from among 14,000 candidates including 4,000 women. Security is very tight though, voters were arched before they entered the polls. The borders with Iran and Syria were
个人自我鉴定aled and a curfew has been put into place. Now even the United Nations was involved in monitoring tho elections.
美女大图CNN News Item 6 政治：伊朗前总统将参加六月份总统竞选 Iranian media reports former President Mohammad Khatami has announced he will run in the June presidential elections. Today’s announcement ends weeks of speculation. Khatami is considered a reformist and overwhelmingly won the presidency in 1997 but he couldn’t bring about religious and democratic freedoms becau of strong opposition from the country’s religious establishment. Khatami was succeeded by current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad four years ago.
CNN News Item 7 政治：奥巴马行程社会的本质 Meanwhile U.S. President Barack Obama is taking crisis talks to an international level. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is traveling to the United States on Monday to push for global solutions to the economic crisis. He will be the first E.U. leader to meet the new president in Washington and Mr. Obama will meet the remaining E.U. leaders at a special summ小兔姐姐
it in Prague in April. That will be his first trip to Europe since taking office. Also on that trip, the G20 summit on the economic crisis and a NATO meeting.
CNN News Item 8 政治：英国航空公司机舱服务员罢工计划 Strike is off, the judge says plans for a walkout by a British Airway’s Cabin Crew cannot happen. As we reported yesterday, this strike which would have last through the holidays could have effected a million pasngers’ holiday travel plans. But the judge has blocked it from happening. Now the airline says it hopes the Cabin Crews Labor Union would take some time to think about its next steps. The union reprentatives say this dispute is not over and unless the two sides can come to a solution, they could vote to strike again, but after Christmas.
CNN News Item 9 政治：泰国内乱 Heading overas to Thailand where grenade attacks in the capital city of Bangkok have killed at least three people. A Thai official said the grenades came from an area where people who were protesting the government were gathered together. The protesters say they are not responsible. T
hey have been fighting with police for a while here you can e them throwing rocks and other things at police. They support the country’s former prime minister and they want the current leader to leave office. After the recent attacks, Thailand’s prime minister called an emergency meeting to figure out how to deal with the situation.
