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 French president Francois Holland is calling the coordinated¹ attacks on Paris claimed by the IS or hash an act of war. France will be pitilessly concerning the barbarity of the hash and use all its means in the framework of law. Holland heard through a CNN interpreter. The Paris public prosecutor² says 7 attackers are dead and an American is among at least 129 people dead. NPR's PK has more from Paris. Public prosecutor Fran?ois Molins says the heavy death roll could still rise as dozens of the more than 350 wounded are in intense care. The prosecutors³ says the attackers were almost certainly coordinated with three teams using identical vehicles, ammunition⁴ and explosive belts. Two of the vehicles used were registered in Belgium by a man who was detained at the Belgium board along with two other men. Their residences near Brussels are being searched. Not all the evidences uncovered by investigators⁵ has been released in order to preserve the integrity of the investigation⁶. The French president has declared a state of emergency and three days of national mourning. PK, NPR news, Paris.

The Pentagon says a US airstrike may have killed a senior leader of the IS in Libya. The military says Abu Nabil was a Iraqi national and a longtime Al-Qaeda operative. In the statement, the Pentagon says it's the first US airstrike against an IS leader in Libya and says it would degrade the extremist's ability to recruit new members, establish bases in Libya and plan attacks on the US.

Kurdish fighters in Northern Iraq say they found a mass grave in an area recently retaken from the IS. IS had overrun Sinjar more than a year ago killing⁷ and capturing hundreds of its Yazidi residents. NPR's EF reports the bodies found in the mass grave were mostly those of women. A fighter from the minority Yazidi sect⁸ named HA tells NPR his men were moving into a Yazidi village south the town of Sinjar after this week's advances against IS. They saw the mass grave because the rains had washed away a thin layer of earth on top of it. They did not disturb the grave much but so decomposed⁹ bodies with long hair. A villager who escaped that massacre¹⁰ said that the grave held about 75 elderly women and that there were two more mass graves in the area. Yazidi fighters are leaving the graves untouched, hoping they will be properly documented and IS's actions declared a genocide. EF, NPR news, Sinjar.

The Israeli military says it has demolished¹¹ four homes in the West Banks belonging to Palestinians who carried out deadly attacks. It says three of the attackers killed an Israeli couple in front of their children and Israeli military says the other homes were that of Palestinian who killed an Israeli on his way home from a basketball game. This is NPR.

Russia says it has reached an agreement with the International Olympics Committee that could allow Russian athletes to compete next summer in Rio de Janeiro. From Moscow, NPR's KF reports the deal follows accusations¹² of state-sponsered doping. Russia's Athletics¹³ Federation¹⁴ was suspended because of a sport doping scandal. That means that Russia's track and field athletes will not be allowed to compete in any international events until the federation is reinstated. Those international events could include this summer's olympics game in Brazil. The head of Russia's Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov has been put in charge of reforming the Athletics Federation, its Anti-doping Agency and its National Drug-testing Lab. IOC president Thomas Bach says he is confident Russia can make the needed reforms in time to compete this summer. KF, NPR news, Moscow.

And another tragedy in France today. A train that was being tested on a new high speed line from Paris to Strasbourg derailed near the German border. At least ten people were killed. Authorities say it burst into flames, spit apart and plunged¹⁵ into a canal. Officials say the derailment was due to excessive speed and appears to be an accident. Two major rock bands are canceling concerts in Paris after last night's attacks including one at a concert hall. U2 had Sold-out Houses this weekend. The Foo Fighters are cutting short their European tour. I'm BC, NPR news in Washington.

1 coordinated   

adj.协调的

参考例句：

• The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
• The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

2 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

3 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

4 ammunition   

n.军火，弹药

参考例句：

• A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
• They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。

5 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

7 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

8 sect   

n.派别，宗教，学派，派系

参考例句：

• When he was sixteen he joined a religious sect.他16岁的时候加入了一个宗教教派。
• Each religious sect in the town had its own church.该城每一个宗教教派都有自己的教堂。

9 decomposed   

已分解的，已腐烂的

参考例句：

• A liquid is decomposed when an electric current passes through it. 当电流通过时，液体就分解。
• Water can be resolved [decomposed] into hydrogen and oxygen. 水可分解为氢和氧。

10 massacre   

n.残杀，大屠杀；v.残杀，集体屠杀

参考例句：

• There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
• If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！

11 demolished   

v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 )；推翻；拆毁（尤指大建筑物）；吃光

参考例句：

• The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
• They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来，为了不让拆除他们的房子，他们一直在进行最后的努力。

12 accusations   

n.指责( accusation的名词复数 )；指控；控告；（被告发、控告的）罪名

参考例句：

• There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
• He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。

13 athletics   

n.运动，体育，田径运动

参考例句：

• When I was at school I was always hopeless at athletics.我上学的时候体育十分糟糕。
• Our team tied with theirs in athletics.在田径比赛中，我们队与他们队旗鼓相当。

14 federation   

n.同盟，联邦，联合，联盟，联合会

参考例句：

• It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
• Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。

15 plunged   

v.颠簸( plunge的过去式和过去分词 )；暴跌；骤降；突降

参考例句：

• The train derailed and plunged into the river. 火车脱轨栽进了河里。
• She lost her balance and plunged 100 feet to her death. 她没有站稳，从100英尺的高处跌下摔死了。