Синхронный перевод. Гоголь О.В. - 5 стр.

      7. to support smb for re-election                                        could take up to two years, the UN-backed body responsible said on
      8. to provide security                                                   Wednesday.
      9. a polling station
                                                                                     Section 6. Vocabulary Notes:
       Section 6                                                                     1. to fulfill (political) criteria
       • Turkey declared it had fulfilled all the political criteria for             2. a refugee camp
membership talks with the European Union.                                            3. to undermine peace moves
       • An Israeli air strike on a northern Gaza refugee camp killed at             4. to take over peacekeeping
least three Palestinian militants.                                                   5. a cut in funding (for)
       • Israel's government approved on Wednesday the next stage of                 6. clashes (between)
a vast barrier it is building in the West Bank, despite international criti-         7. a civilian
cism that it cuts deep into Palestinian territory and undermines peace               8. to disarm fighters
moves.                                                                               9. a UN-backed body
       • A day after the last US troops left Liberia, West African forces
traded their camouflage helmets Wednesday for the blue ones of the                    Section 7
United Nations as the world body took over peacekeeping in the trou-                  • Muslim leaders winding up a summit grumbled over a United
bled country.                                                                  Nations resolution on Iraq while criticizing a US vote to impose trade
       • A small plane crashed and burst into flames in northeastern           sanctions on Baghdad's neighbor Syria.
Australia on Wednesday, killing three children and their parents, avia-               • Three American soldiers were killed and seven were wounded
tion authorities said.                                                         in a midnight clash at a Shiite Muslim headquarters in this shrine city.
       • Thousands of abandoned and abused young people who have               Witnesses said at least eight Iraqis also died in the fighting.
turned to prostitution in the streets of Colombia's capital may never                 • Malaysia, faced with angry criticism from the United States
receive help from child care workers because of a government cut in            and Europe, apologized for «any misunderstanding» over assertions by
funding for outreach programs.                                                 Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad that Jews rule the world.
       • Clashes flared between rebels and loyalist forces in Liberia's               • The leaders of Canada's two rival right-wing parties said they
capital on Wednesday, leaving three civilians dead just hours after the        had agreed in principle to join forces to challenge the ruling Liberal
United Nations took command of West African peacekeepers.                      Party in an election expected next year.
       • Israeli soldiers captured a leader of the Islamic Jihad militant             • Three US military police and two Iraqi policemen were killed
group on Wednesday in a raid at a refugee camp near the West Bank              when rooftop attackers fired on their patrol in the Shi'ite Muslim holy
city of Jenin where he was hiding under a car, witnesses said.                 city of Kerbala.
       • Britain's Tony Blair, in the roughest patch of his premiership,              • Buoyed by a diplomatic coup on Iraq at the United Nations,
gave his restive Labor Party a choice: stick with him and stay in power        President Bush arrived in Tokyo to start a six-day sweep through Asia
or return to the dark days of opposition.                                      that will be dominated by issues of security, counter-terrorism and
                                                                               trade.
      • An ambitious plan to disarm about 100,000 fighters from Af-                   • The US Congress was poised to approve an $87 billion emer-
ghanistan's unruly regional militias is likely to start this month, but        gency spending bill for Iraq after the Senate defied President Bush and
                                                                               voted to convert a part of the package to loans.
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