英语新闻:APNews 美联社新闻
2015-06-08
This is AP News Minute.
1. Former Texas Rick Perry has entered the Republican (presidential) race in a re-do of his failed 2012 bid. His entry brings the number of major candidates vying for the GOP prize to 11 so far.
2. Delaware residents (gathered) at the state capitol to pay their respects to former attorney general Beau Biden. Beau Biden lay in honor in the Senate chamber (following) a procession from Wilmington to Dover. Biden, eldest son of vice president Joe Biden, died of brain cancer Saturday at age 46.
3. Pro-Russia separatist fighters were being treated in a (hospital )at rebel-held area of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine following heavy fighting against Ukrainin troops. A major battle erupted on the western edge of the main (separatist) stronghold a day earlier, the most severe in months.
4. A bear cub is making its way back home to the wild after being badly burned in a Washington wildfire last year. The two-and-half-old cub Cinder was found by (rescue) team burned and missing claws in the largest wildfire in Washington State's history.