AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-04-18
时间：2019-01-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(四)月
1.Richard Phillips has returned home and balloons and signs welcomed the captain of the ship seized by Somali pirates back to his small Vermont town of Underhill Friday. Phillips was rescued in a daring Navy Seal sniper operation on Easter Sunday.
2.Federal air authorities say one person was onboard the small twin-engine plane when it crashed into a home outside the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, slicing the house down the middle and bursting into flames. Firefighters were able to quickly control the blaze.
3.President Barack Obama has arrived in Trinidad for the 34-nation Summit of the Americas meeting. The weekend gathering 1 of Western Hemisphere Leaders will focus on the same issues Obama has been discussing with Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon: drug violence, global warming, the recession and poverty.
4.Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Tyler Hamilton, whose win at the Athens Games was overshadowed by a blood doping scandal, retired 2 from cycling after testing positive for another banned substance.
- He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
- He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。