Amanda Knox, the American student who was acquitted two years ago of murdering her British flatmate in Italy has said it's painful that Italy's Highest Criminal Court has ordered a retrial. Miss. Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were originally jailed for killing Meredith Kercher in 2007 but their conviction was then overturned on appeal.
两年前被控在意大利谋杀英国室友的美国学生Amanda Knox先是被判无罪,现在意大利最高法院下令对此案进行复审,阿曼达·诺克斯说这让她很痛苦。Knox和其前男友Raffaele Sollecito2007年因谋杀克尔彻被囚,但其罪名在上诉后被推翻。
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President Obama has appointed the first female head of the Secret Service after a scandal last year in which employees were accused of hiring prostitutes ahead of a presidential visit to Colombia. Julia Pierson has been with the agency which looks after the president's personal security for about three decades. She replaces Mark Sullivan who resigned last month after apologizing for the scandal.
去年美国特勤局员工被控在总统访问哥伦比亚之前招妓,现在总统奥巴马任命特勤局首位女性局长。茱莉亚·皮尔森在这个负责总统安全的机构工作近三十年,她接替上月为丑闻道歉并辞职的Mark Sullivan。
The United States says it takes the latest threat by North Korea to strike U.S. bases in the Pacific very seriously. A Pentagon spokesman George Little said that Washington was ready to respond to any contingency and urged North Korea to stop making threats. He said the behavior of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was predictable and damaging to its own interests.