The White House Chief of Staff, x, has accused parts of the media in the United States of trying to delegitimise the presidency of Donald Trump. Mr. x's comment came after news outlets rejected claims by Donald Trump that more than a million people had attended his inauguration on Friday. Live footage and aerial photographs showed no such crowds.

delegitimise：[,diːlɪ'dʒɪtɪ,maɪz]

使无效

使失去法律效力

取消……的合法地位

aerial：['eərɪəl]

adj. 空中的，航空的；空气的；空想的

n. [电讯] 天线

The Israeli authorities have approved the construction of 566 homes for settlers in occupied East Jerusalem. In the past hour, the White House has said it's in the early stages of discussions on moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, in a possible break with long-established policy.

Egyptian prosecutors say they've agreed to allow Italian and German experts to retrieve CCTV footage related to the murder of an Italian man. x disappeared a year ago. His body was found with signs of torture.

retrieve：[rɪ'triːv]

vt. [计] 检索；恢复；重新得到

vi. 找回猎物

n. [计] 检索；恢复，取回

Polls have closed in the French centre-left primary election, with results expected late on Sunday. The top two will go through to a run-off. But opinion polls suggest all of them will do badly in the presidential election in April.

West African soldiers have entered the outskirts of the Gambian capital, x, as part of an operation to allow the new president, x, to take up office. Mr. x's predecessor, x, left the country in the early hours of Sunday.

Police in Mexico have found seven decapitated bodies inside an abandoned taxi in the western seaside resort of x. Local officials say they found on the car's windscreen a message signed by one of Mexico's most powerful criminal organisations.

decapitate：[dɪ'kæpɪteɪt]

vt. 斩首；解雇；使无效

The Chinese government says it's ordered the closure of more than 100 golf courses, since launching a nationwide campaign in 2011 to tackle illegal expansion in the sector. They continue to be built to meet growing demand, despite a ban being in force.