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The Cuban President Raul Castro says he has accepted an invitation to the summit of the Americas in April in Panama. This could be the first time he meets face to face with President Obama since their two countries agreed to reestablish diplomatic ties early this week.

President Castro told the National Assembly in Havana he was open to discussing a range of issues. But he said Cuba will not give up its socialist principles. "We can't pretend the bi-improving ties with the United States. Cuba will renounce the ideas, for which is full for more than a centry, for which is people shed a lot of blood and has whelmed the biggest risks."

Protestors in Guinea have prevented a medical charity from setting up an Ebola transit center in the south of the country. The police say the group of young people chased away staff working for Medecins Sans Frontiers in the town of Kisidugou. Our Africa editor Mary Harper is following this story.

"Medecins Sans Frontiers wants to set up a transit center so that infected people could be isolated from the rest of the community and quickly moved away to be treated in a proper Ebola treatment center. And angry groups of young people came and insulted MSF. They burned one of their tents, they threatened them. So Medecins Sans Frontiers basicly fled and have not been able to set up this transit center. And the young people were shouting, 'we don't want Ebola, we don't want Ebola!' In other words, they feared that people who actually coming to protect them were coming to infect them with the disease."

The United States has repatriated four Afghan detainees held for more than a decade of the Guantanamo Center in Cuba. Officials say the four men were sent home at the request of Afghanistan's new president Ashraf Ghani, who gave insurances for the men's safty. The BBC's Raginey Fagina is in Washington. "We've got the names of the four men, Sharwa Legan, Guy Ali Goul, Abdullah Garmii and Mohammed Larhier. Now they were sent home to Kabul on a US military plane.

The Pentagon says that their release followed a comprehensive review of their cases and we understand the men have been cleared for relates for some time. And also this included a termination that they will not add security risk back in their homeland of Afghanistan."

The United States has rejected North Korea's proposal for a jointed investigation into a cyber attack which led to Sony Pictures' cancelling the cinema release of a comedy. The film centered on a plot to murder the North Korea leader Kim Jong-un. The National Security spokesman Mark Stroll said the Obama Administration stood by the FBI's accessment that North Korea was behind the attack.

World news from the BBC.

Pakistan has announced to vote execute more militant prisoners in the next few days. Having lifted a moratorium in response to the school massacre in Pesharwa on Tuesday. Two prisoners have already been executed. The government said soldiers are now helping secure prisons to solve any attempts by the Pakistani Taliban to free fellow militants.

French police have shot and killed a man who attacked three officers at a police station in the central city of Tours. One of the victims is said to have been seriously injuried by the knife-wielding assailant. The man's motivation is not known, but some reports say he has shouted "Anla-Ahm-Akabar" who got his grade as he entered the station. Lucy Williams in reports from Paris. "

The young man ran into the suburban police station in the early afternoon and stabbed an officer in the face. He wounded two others before being shot dead. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry told French Television that the dead man had been very determined but that his precise motives were not clear.

Investigators and reporters are being focuing on whether vertical Islam played a role and had launched an inquiry into attempted murder and criminal conspiracy in connection with the terrorist organization. The attacker is believed to have been a French citizen born in Burgundy, and was not listed as an internal security threat. There's some news reports say his brother was known to a expressive desire to travel to Syria."

A retired British couple renovating a dilapidated-out building on their property in southest France have told the BBC of the moment they came across the hidden treasure. Jenny Weten said her husband Gram was clearing rotten moss from the break walls when he put his hands on what felt like a dead rat. It turned out to be a silk purse. When he tugged it free, out spilt 45 gold coins dating from the 1590s. And at that time, Spain was financing a war for a religious supremacy in the area around Castionas, the town where they live.

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词汇解析

response

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

n.反应；回答；响应；答复

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

The tax cuts produced a favourable response from the public.

税额削减受到了公众的欢迎.

I'm sorry; the correct response is B.

不好意思,正确回答应该是B。

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executive

难度：2星扩展词汇，属常用10000词

英汉解释

adj.行政的；决策的；经营的；[计算机]执行指令

n.行政主管；行政部门；决策者

参考例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

He is on the executive committee.

他是该执行委员会委员。

用作名词 (n.)

An executive should be experienced in administration.

一个管理者应有行政管理的经验。

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partial

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

adj.不完全的；部分的；偏袒的；偏爱的

参考例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

The research project was only a partial success.

那个研究课题只取得部分成功。

You will receive some partial credit even you don't finish it.

如果你没作完的话,你还是可以得到部分的分数。

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liver

难度：2星扩展词汇，属常用10000词

英汉解释

n.肝脏；生活的人

参考例句

用作名词 (n.)

The poor man has a serious disease of the liver.

这个可怜的人患有严重的肝玻

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external

难度：4星核心词汇，属常用3000词

英汉解释

adj.外来的；外部的；外面的；表面的

n.外观；外部；外界事物

参考例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

This news program only covers external events.

这一新闻节目只报道国外消息。

用作名词 (n.)

The external features of the building are very attractive.

这座建筑物的外观是很吸引人的。

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strengthen

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

v.加强；变坚固

参考例句

用作动词 (v.)

He has been brought in to strengthen the defence.

已请他来加强后卫力量。

The current strengthened as we moved down the river.

我们顺流而下时，水流更急了。

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weaken

难度：3星常用词汇，属常用6000词

英汉解释

v.使 ... 弱，削弱； 变弱； 弄淡

参考例句

用作动词 (v.)

Hansen says if the Gulf stream were to weaken it could affect marine life.

韩森说，如果湾流太弱，会影响海洋生命。

 

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