美国国防部长奥斯汀出院

This is AP News Minute.

这里是美联社一分钟新闻。

Iowans are heading to the polls today in the state's presidential caucuses.

今天，艾奥瓦州总统党团会议即将开始投票。

Candidates are urging their supporters to brave bone-chilling cold to help carry them through Republicans' leadoff voting contest.

候选人敦促他们的支持者顶着刺骨的寒风帮助他们通过共和党首场总统初选投票。

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the humanitarian situation in Gaza is "beyond words.'

联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯表示，加沙的人道主义局势“无法用语言形容”。

He said life saving relief is not getting to the people at anywhere near the scale needed.

他说，拯救生命的救援物资并没有达到所需的规模。

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been released from the hospital where he was being treated for prostate cancer.

美国国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀因前列腺癌住院接受治疗，目前已经出院。

The 70-year-old had kept his diagnosis secret from senior Biden administration officials for weeks.

这位70岁的部长数周来一直对拜登政府高级官员隐瞒自己的病情。

And lava flows from a volcano in southwestern Iceland are snaking toward nearby houses.

冰岛格林达维克镇的一座火山喷发出的岩浆正流向附近的房屋。

Scientists said the eruption appeared to be dying down, but that it was too soon to declare the danger over.

科学家表示，火山喷发似乎正在消退，但宣布危险结束还为时过早。