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The French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve says three women have been detained on suspicion of planning imminent¹ terror attacks after a car packed with gas canisters was found in central Paris. He said the women had been radicalized.

Brazilian police said they want to speak to the president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, in connection with an alleged² illegal ticketing scheme during last month's Rio Games. The police say he's being treated as a witness not a suspect.

More than 70 Syrian aid agencies have accused UN organizations of allowing themselves to be manipulated by president Bashar al-Assad's government. They are demanding an investigation³ into the extent of the government's influence over the Damascus-based UN network.

Reports say a senior commander of one of the most powerful Islamist rebel groups in Syria has been killed in an airstrike. The Jabhat Fateh al-Sham group, previously⁴ known as the Nusra Front, said the commander was killed in Aleppo.

The Pentagon has revealed that US forces in Afghanistan carried out a failed attempt to rescue two hostages last months. The spokesman said a number of hostile forces were killed, but the hostages were not at the location.

50 people are spending the night stranded⁵ inside cable cars at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters over the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps. More than 100 people were initially⁶ trapped, but 60 have been evacuated⁷ by helicopter.

A study into the genetic⁸ make-up of giraffes has discovered there are four distinct species. DNA⁹ analyses in Namibia found the four groups have not crossbred for million of years and therefore evolved into distinct species.

The Ethiopian athlete Feyisa Lilesa has arrived in the United States, weeks after he made a gesture against his government as he crossed the line to win silver in the men's marathon at last month's Olympics. After his gesture made headlines, Feyisa, an ethnic¹⁰ Oromo, said he will prefer to seek asylum¹¹ in the US as he feared being killed or imprisoned¹² if he returned to Ethiopia.

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法国内政部长卡泽纳夫(Bernard Cazeneuve)表示，巴黎中部发现了一辆装满汽油罐的汽车后，三名女子由于计划迫在眉睫的恐怖袭击而被拘留。他表示，这些女子已被激进化。

巴西警方表示，他们希望与国际奥委会主席托马斯·巴赫(Thomas Bach)对话，了解上月里约奥运会期间非法出售门票案件。警方表示，巴赫将作为证人，而不是嫌疑人。

70多家叙利亚救助机构指控联合国组织被总统阿萨德政府操纵。他们要求调查政府对位于大马士革的联合国机构的影响程度。

报道称，叙利亚最有权势的伊斯兰叛军组织之一的高级指挥官在空袭中被击毙。征服叙利亚阵线(Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham，原名为努斯拉阵线Nusra Front)称其指挥官在阿勒颇遇难。

五角大楼披露，美国驻阿富汗力量上月解救两名人质的行动失败。发言人表示，他们击毙了几名敌对分子，但是人质并不在该地点。

50人整晚被困在阿尔卑斯山勃朗峰海拔3000多米高空的缆车内。最初有100多人被困，但是60人已经被直升飞机疏散。

对长颈鹿基因组成进行的研究发现共有四种不同的品种。在纳米比亚进行的DNA分析发现，这四个品种过去数百年没有杂交，因此进化成不同的品种。

埃塞俄比亚运动员利莱萨(Feyisa Lilesa)抵达美国。几周前，他在上月的里约奥运会男子马拉松比赛中穿越终点线摘得银牌时做出反对国家的手势。他的手势登上头条之后，身为奥罗莫人的利莱萨宣称他希望前往美国寻求收容，因为他担心回到埃塞俄比亚之后会被杀害或监禁。

1 imminent   

adj.即将发生的，临近的，逼近的

参考例句：

• The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
• The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。

2 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

3 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。

4 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

5 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

6 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

7 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

8 genetic   

adj.遗传的，遗传学的

参考例句：

• It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
• Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。

9 DNA   

(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸

参考例句：

• DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
• Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。

10 ethnic   

adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的

参考例句：

• This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏，这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
• The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。

11 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

12 imprisoned   

下狱，监禁( imprison的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was imprisoned for two concurrent terms of 30 months and 18 months. 他被判处30个月和18个月的监禁，合并执行。
• They were imprisoned for possession of drugs. 他们因拥有毒品而被监禁。