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1. Civil rights leaders are calling for the creation of a citizens review board in North Charleston, South Carolina. NAACP leaders say they want the board to look into complaints of police brutality¹. The demand's come after a video surfaced of a white police officer shooting an unarmed black man.

2. An Associated Press investigation² found nearly 300 people have breached³ security outside major US airports in the past ten years. San Francisco International Airport responded to the * report, a spokesperson saying permanent security is very important.

3. Hackers⁴ claiming allegiance to the Islamic State militants⁵ sabotaged⁶ a French TV network. They took over the French News network, website and social media account.

4. Godzilla has surfaced in Tokyo. The mythical⁷ monster was appointed special resident and tourism ambassador for a Tokyo neighborhood. A towering statue of beast's head was unveiled on Thursday.

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1 brutality
n.野蛮的行为，残忍，野蛮
参考例句：
The brutality of the crime has appalled the public. 罪行之残暴使公众大为震惊。 a general who was infamous for his brutality 因残忍而恶名昭彰的将军

2 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。

3 breached
攻破( breach的现在分词 )；破坏，违反
参考例句：
These commitments have already been breached. 这些承诺已遭背弃。 Our tanks have breached the enemy defences. 我方坦克车突破了敌人的防线。

4 hackers
n.计算机迷( hacker的名词复数 )；私自存取或篡改电脑资料者，电脑“黑客”
参考例句：
They think of viruses that infect an organization from the outside.They envision hackers breaking into their information vaults. 他们考虑来自外部的感染公司的病毒，他们设想黑客侵入到信息宝库中。来自《简明英汉词典》 Arranging a meeting with the hackers took weeks againoff-again email exchanges. 通过几星期电子邮件往来安排见面，他们最终同意了。来自互联网

5 militants
激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
参考例句：
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。

6 sabotaged
阴谋破坏（某事物）( sabotage的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
The main pipeline supplying water was sabotaged by rebels. 供水主管道被叛乱分子蓄意破坏了。 They had no competition because competitors found their trucks burned and sabotaged. 他们之所以没有竞争对象，那是因为竞争对象老是发现自己的卡车遭火烧或被破坏。来自教父部分

7 mythical
adj.神话的；虚构的；想像的
参考例句：
Undeniably,he is a man of mythical status.不可否认，他是一个神话般的人物。 Their wealth is merely mythical.他们的财富完全是虚构的。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2015-4-13