美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-10-24
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2014(十)月
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The White House confirmed that Jeffery Fowle, one of 3 Americans being held in North Korea has been released and is heading home. U.S. officials say Sweden had helped facilitate his release from Pyongyang.
Oscar Pistorius has begun serving a 5-year sentence for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius could end up serving just 10 months before being subject to home confinement 1.
A neighbor says the Canadian man accused of hitting 2 Canadian soldiers with his car yesterday near Montreal had become increasingly radicalized. One of the soldiers died. Martin Rouleau was shot by police following a car chase and later died.
And a Pennsylvinia convenience store clerk just won a wound-be robber to bug 2 off. Police say the clerk sprayed a woman wearing a mask with bug spray until she flew out of the store.
I’m Matt Friedman, The Associated Press with AP News Minute.
1 confinement
n.幽禁，拘留，监禁；分娩；限制，局限
- He spent eleven years in solitary confinement.他度过了11年的单独监禁。
- The date for my wife's confinement was approaching closer and closer.妻子分娩的日子越来越近了。