Синхронный перевод. Гоголь О.В. - 6 стр.

       • The Hague war crimes tribunal on Friday sentenced three for-        speaking against the war in Iraq, banned political sermons, outlawed
mer Bosnian Serb regional officials to up to 17 years' imprisonment for      anti-US rallies.
the «ethnic cleansing» of Muslims and Croats during the 1992–1995                   • A transport helicopter packed with American soldiers crashed
Bosnia war.                                                                  near the main US base in Afghanistan, killing at least five of them and
       • 10.US spy agencies are looking at new technologies that might       wounding seven others.
help them score more successes in tracking individuals, after their long            • Montrealers happily hopped aboard subways and buses Sunday
and, so far, fruitless searches for high-profile fugitives like Osama bin    after a deal was ratified to end a week-long strike that had transit users
Laden and Saddam Hussein.                                                    scrambling and business operators frustrated.
                                                                                    • Congress passed a forest-thinning bill to spend $760 million
      Section 7. Vocabulary Notes:                                           annually to prevent deadly wildfires like those that recently scorched
      1. to wind up a summit                                                 Southern California, despite complaints from environmental groups
      2. to face with criticism                                              that the measure is a giveaway to the timber industry.
      3. rival parties                                                              • State treasurers and pensions funds that help oversee $1 trillion
      4. to challenge the ruling party                                       in assets urged US regulators and business leaders to force corporations
      5. a diplomatic coup                                                   to give investors more information on the financial risks from global
      6. counter-terrorism                                                   climate change.
      7. the Hague war crimes tribunal                                              • A growing percentage of scientists and engineers in the United
      8. to score success                                                    States come from other countries, the National Science Board reported
      9. to track individuals                                                on Wednesday.
     10. high-profile fugitives                                                     • The Miami blue butterfly, a fragile cornflower-hued insect no
                                                                             bigger than a thumbnail, was granted endangered species status on
                                                                             Wednesday by Florida officials.
      Part II (English)                                                             • Snowflake, an extremely rare albino gorilla and the most popu-
      Current Events In Russia And In The World                              lar resident of Barcelona Zoo, died of skin cancer early Monday morn-
                                                                             ing, zoo officials said.
       Work in pairs (small groups ) and translate the following into               • The death of a 350-pound black man who was clubbed by po-
Russian:                                                                     lice in a videotaped beating was caused primarily by the struggle that
       • A fire, possibly caused by an electrical fault, swept through a     ensued after the suspect lunged and swung at the officers.
Moscow dormitory in the early hours of Monday, killing 32 foreign                   • US technology stocks fell sharply late on Wednesday after the
students and injuring 139 others.                                            Nasdaq briefly broke through the 2,000 barrier for the first time in
       • Capitalizing on voter frustration over elusive prosperity, the      more than 22 months as investors took the cue to sell shares at long-
nationalists who led Croatia to independence – and later into isolation –    time highs.
began negotiating with potential partners to form a new government                  • The crisis on the Korean peninsula has been simmering since
after winning parliamentary elections.                                       October 2002, when the United States said Pyongyang had secretly
       • The ruler of this Islamic African republic is doing his utmost to   admitted to an illicit nuclear weapons program, in breach of interna-
be a loyal ally in the war on terrorism: He has jailed Muslim clerics for    tional conventions.

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