美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2015-4-28
时间：2018-12-15 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2015(四)月
英语课
1. President Barack Obama says he takes full responsibility for a counterterrorism operation that inadvertently killed an American and an Italian hostage held by al-Qaeda. The president says the men were killed during a mission that targeted a compound on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
2. The Senate has confirmed Loretta Lynch as the next US Attorney General. The vote comes five months after Lynch was nominated by President Obama. Lynch becomes the nation's first black female attorney general.
3. Funerals were held in Malta Thursday for 24 of the several hundreds of migrants who died on Sunday after the boat that was carrying them capsized. The funerals came as EU leaders craft a plan to save more lives in the Mediterranean 1.
4. And a White House welcome for the Super Bowl Champ - the New England Patriots 2. The Patriots won their fourth Super Bowl Championship in Arizona over Seattle Seahawks.
1 Mediterranean
adj.地中海的；地中海沿岸的
- The houses are Mediterranean in character.这些房子都属地中海风格。
- Gibraltar is the key to the Mediterranean.直布罗陀是地中海的要冲。