2008年11月13日星期四

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Afghan bombing kills 21, including US soldier (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 04:11 AM CST

U.S. soldiers walk by a damaged vehicle, foreground, used in a suicide attack in Batti Kot district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov.  13, 2008. A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy passing through a crowded market in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, killing at least 20 civilians and a U.S. soldier and wounding an additional 74 civilians, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - A suicide bomber targeting a passing U.S. military convoy blew up his car near a crowded market in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, killing at least 21 people, including an American soldier, officials said.


Police: Gunmen kidnap Iranian diplomat in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 02:03 AM CST

Pakistani police officers hold their weapons as they stand guard att the site where U.S. citizen Stephen Vance was killed in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. Gunmen shot and killed the American aid worker as he traveled to work Wednesday in northwestern Pakistan, the latest in a spate of attacks on foreigners in the militancy-wracked country. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - Gunmen kidnapped an Iranian diplomat after killing his guard Thursday in Peshawar, a day after an American aid worker was shot dead in the city in Pakistan's volatile northwest.


New barrage of rockets further tests shaky truce (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 12:20 AM CST

Palestinian refugees wait to receive food cards at a UN Relief and Works Agency food distribution center, in the Gaza City Shati refugee camp, November 12. Basic supplies were to be sent into Gaza on Thursday following UN warnings that food deliveries to 750,000 people would be suspended unless Israel eases its total closure of the impoverished territory.(AFP/Mohammed Abed)AP - Israel says Palestinian militants have fired a new barrage of rockets and mortars from Gaza.


Who to kill? Colombia army picks soldier's brother (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 02:00 AM CST

Soldier Luis Esteban Montes, 24, poses in uniform in Rionegro, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008.  According to Montes, in April 2007 some of his comrades from the Antelope Company of the 31st Rifle Batallion, 11th Brigade, 7th Division, where he was serving, killed his half brother to register him as a rebel slain in combat.  Five of Montes' fellow soldiers now face a criminal probe in his brother's death, joining some 480 soldiers under investigation for about 1,000 extrajudicial killings during the presidency of President Alvaro Uribe.  (AP Photo/Mauricio Builes, Revista Semana)AP - The soldiers in Antelope Company's Third Platoon hadn't registered a guerrilla kill in months. And without results, they feared they wouldn't be let off base for Mother's Day.


Taiwan's jailed former president on hunger strike (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 02:09 AM CST

Former Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, left, walks into the detention center in Taipei county, Taiwan,  early Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008. A Taiwanese court ordered Chen detained on corruption charges Wednesday, an ignominious ruling for a man who won acclaim for standing up to China with pro-independence policies. (AP Photo)AP - Jailed former Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian has begun a hunger strike to protest his arrest and highlight his claim that he is being persecuted by his successors, his lawyer said Thursday.


German economy falls into recession (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 04:11 AM CST

AP - The German economy, Europe's biggest, tipped into recession in the third quarter as weakening exports fueled a bigger-than-expected fall in national output, government figures showed Thursday.

Iraq: UN envoy condemns killing of Christian women (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 04:06 AM CST

Shukuria Nenus grieves for her husband, Akram Gorgis, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. The man was one of 23 people killed in a string of bombings that rocked Baghdad for the third consecutive day on Thursday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The main United Nations envoy in Iraq has condemned the killing of two Christian sisters in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.


US experts believe Mexico plane crash was accident (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2008 09:57 PM CST

Fernando Gomez Mont gives his first news conference as Mexico's new Interior Secretary in Mexico City, Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. Gomez Mont replaces Juan Camilo Mourino, who was killed last week when his airplane crashed in Mexico City.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - U.S. investigators have found no evidence of foul play in a mysterious plane crash that killed Mexico's second-most powerful official, the American ambassador said Wednesday.


Somali Islamist militia seizes town near capital (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 03:35 AM CST

AP - Residents say Islamic fighters have seized the town of Elasha, just 11 miles (18 kilometers) southwest of the Somali capital.

UN concerned about harsh prison terms in Myanmar (AP)

Posted: 13 Nov 2008 04:13 AM CST

AP - The United Nations expressed concern Thursday over long prison terms given to more than 30 democracy activists in military-run Myanmar earlier this week.

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