2008年12月20日星期六

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Iraqi judge orders Baath party plot suspects freed (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 03:04 AM CST

Police hold Iraqi national flags during their graduation ceremony at al-Furat Iraqi Police Training Center in Baghdad, December 2, 2008. (Saad Shalash/Reuters)AP - An Iraqi judge ordered nearly two dozen officials freed after determining there was no evidence that they conspired to bring back Saddam Hussein's banned Baath party, Iraq's interior minister said.


Israeli strike kills Gaza militant (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 02:58 AM CST

Palestinian photographer Issam Rimawi reacts as he is hit by a tear gas canister fired by Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Friday, Dec. 19, 2008.  Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - An Israeli air strike Saturday against a Gaza rocket squad killed a Palestinian militant, the first death since Hamas militants formally declared an end to a six-month truce with Israel.


History, dissent cloud Pakistan's Mumbai reaction (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 09:30 PM CST

Supporters of Pakistani religious charity organization Jamaat-ud-Dawa rally against restrictions and crackdowns on their organization, Friday, Dec. 19, 2008, in Lahore, Pakistan. Dozens of protesters rallied against the United Nations for branding the Pakistani charity that runs their schools a terrorist front. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)AP - The black-and-white flag of Jamaat-ud-Dawa still flutters over a relief camp for survivors of an earthquake that hit a remote corner of Pakistan in October.


Former German terrorist released after 26 years (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 01:54 PM CST

Leading member of the German terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF) Christian Klar is led by a police officer to a Stuttgart court on March 23, 1983. Klar and Brigitte Mohnhaupt, another leading member of the RAF, were sentenced to five terms of life in prison plus 15 years by a court in Stuttgart for the 1977 killings of Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback, banker Juergen Ponto and industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer. The lawyer of former leftist terrorist says on Friday Dec. 19, 2008 Christian Klar has been released from prison. (AP Photo)AP - Throughout the 1970s, the Red Army Faction was the scourge of capitalist West Germany and Christian Klar one of its most notorious leaders — the force behind a murder spree that included the slayings of a federal prosecutor, an industrialist and the chief of a major bank.


Mugabe says 'Zimbabwe is mine,' won't be toppled (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 01:52 PM CST

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe addressing suppporters at ZANU-PF party's annual conference in the northwestern mining town on Bindura. Mugabe declared Friday that AP - President Robert Mugabe declared Friday that "Zimbabwe is mine," saying only Zimbabweans can remove him from power and that no African nation is brave enough to wrest it from him.


Don't destabilize Russia, Putin warns foes (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 12:39 AM CST

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin speaks at the United Russia party congress in Moscow, November 20, 2008. (Alexander Natruskin/Reuters)Reuters - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned Russia's foes on Friday against trying to destabilize a country facing broadening economic crisis, Russian news agencies reported.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,209 (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 07:05 PM CST

Police hold Iraqi national flags during their graduation ceremony at al-Furat Iraqi Police Training Center in Baghdad, December 2, 2008. (Saad Shalash/Reuters)AP - As of Friday, Dec. 20, 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


Mexico plane crash injures officials, reporters (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 11:01 PM CST

In this Nov. 6, 2008 file photo, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, second from left, and his wife, Margarita Zavala, left, stand next to the coffin of his right-hand man, Interior Secretary Juan Camilo Mourino, during a funeral ceremony at the Campo de Marte military field in Mexico City. Mourino, one of Mexico's top pointmen in the war against drug trafficking, died when a government jet crashed Nov. 4 into a Mexico City street, killing five people on the ground and nine people on the plane, including Mourino. Second from right is Maximiliano Cortazar, head of communications of the President's office and at far right is Jordi Herrera, under-Secretary of Energy Department. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo/FILE)AP - An official says a small plane carrying government officials and television reporters crashed in northern Mexico and all five people on board are in serious condition.


UN says Darfur conflict shows no sign of ending (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2008 07:15 PM CST

A Nigerian soldier serving with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) stands in front of a banner at a parade in Nyala, South Darfur in this handout picture July 17, 2008. (Albany Associates/Stuart Price/Handout/Reuters)AP - As the conflict in Darfur enters its sixth year, there is still widespread violence in the region, no sign of a political settlement and millions of civilians living in camps on lifesaving international aid, the U.N.'s peacekeeping chief said Friday.


Pakistanis more gloomy about prospects: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 02:59 AM CST

Paramilitary soldiers guard the President House during Asif Ali Zardari's oath-taking ceremony in Islamabad in this September 9, 2008 file photo. Pakistanis are becoming increasingly pessimistic about prospects for their country and for themselves, a U.S.-based group that promotes democracy found in a poll. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)Reuters - Pakistanis are becoming increasingly pessimistic about prospects for their country and for themselves, a U.S.-based group that promotes democracy found in a poll.


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