AP 2011-11-10（在线收听） |
1. The United States is 365 days away from the presidential election. Jobs and economy are almost certain to be the top concerns for voters. President Obama will try to convince voters he deserve a second term, while the eventual Republican challenger will argue the president's economic policies have failed. 2. A third women has died after a helicopter crash in New York's east river last month. The medical examiner says 60-year-old Harriet Nicholson died of shortage of Oxygen to the brain. Nicholson was one of four passengers on the sightseeing chopper that crashed just after take-off.
3. Guatemalans have elected a retired general and former intelligence director Otto Perez Molina as the new president. Molina head of the conservative Patriotic Party won an easy and early victory Sunday. And Nicaragua president and one-time Sandinista revolutionary Daniel Ortega was headed for reelection.
4. Millions of Muslims continue their annual hajj pilgrimage in Mecca. To complete their rituals, pilgrims must throw 21 pebbles at each of three 82-foot pillars that represent Satan in a symbolic rejection of temptation. Some 2.5 million people were expected to take part in the five-day event that started Saturday. |
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