AP美联社一分钟新闻(2009-10-12)
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2009年(十)月
1. President Barack Obama says "Don't ask, don't tell" is coming to an end. Obama promised to change the policy on gays in the military during a speech to the Human Rights Campaign last night but he didn't offer a timetable.
2. Dozens of hostages have been freed but 19 people are dead in a Pakistani hostage drama. Militants 1 have seized the Pakistani army's headquarter for nearly a day before commandos raided the facility.
3. New video shows a shootout erupting at a Toledo, Ohio bar Thursday following a drug deal. Five suspects have yet to be identified.
4. The Catholic Church has five new saints. The saints were canonized in a Vatican ceremony this morning by Pope Benedict. One new saint was a Belgian priest who worked with leprosy patients on an isolated 2 Hawaiian island.
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。