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1. Iraqi forces launched a broad offensive on the west side of Mosul early Sunday morning. Footage shot by the Associated Press shows Iraqi helicopters firing rockets, and armed vehicles advancing.

2. Vice¹ president Mike Pence was welcomed by the Belgian prime minister Sunday as he began his two-day visit to Belgium. His stop is part of his first oversea trip as vice president. Pence is slated² to meet leaders of the European union and NATO on Monday.

3. Authorities say a pilot was injured after a small plane crash in New Jersey³. City officials say the pilot was alert and talking after rescuers removed him from the wreckage⁴.

4. NASA's historic moonshot pad is back in business. A space X Falcon⁵ rocket blasted off Sunday morning from the launch complex. It was visible for just seconds, before docking into clouds on its way to the international space station.

Krysta Fauria, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.

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1 vice
n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的
参考例句：
He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。 They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

2 slated
用石板瓦盖( slate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句：
Yuki is working up an in-home phonics program slated for Thursdays, and I'm drilling her on English conversation at dinnertime. Yuki每周四还有一次家庭语音课。我在晚餐时训练她的英语口语。 Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. 布罗姆菲尔德被提名为美国农业部长。

3 jersey
n.运动衫
参考例句：
He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。 They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

4 wreckage
n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏
参考例句：
They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。 New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

5 falcon
n.隼，猎鹰
参考例句：
The falcon was twice his size with pouted feathers.鹰张开羽毛比两只鹰还大。 The boys went hunting with their falcon.男孩子们带着猎鹰出去打猎了。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2017-02-21