2008年9月27日星期六

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TV: Car bomb kills 17 in Syrian capital (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 03:32 AM CDT

AP - A car packed with explosives detonated on a crowded residential street Saturday, killing 17 people and wounding more than a dozen others, state-run television reported.

Chinese astronauts in final spacewalk countdown (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 03:18 AM CDT

In this video grab taken on Friday, Sept. 26, 2008 by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese taikonaut Zhai Zhigang, who is is expected to carry out the spacewalk on Saturday, prepares a bite on his food in the orbit module of the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft. The spacecraft, which blasted off at 9:10 p.m. Thursday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, has functioned well as planned, Xinhua said. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zha Chunming)AP - Astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft were making final preparations for the country's first-ever spacewalk planned for Saturday afternoon.

Iraq hopes economic crisis won't affect US troops (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 03:06 AM CDT

Iranian technicians work at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facilities, 420 kms south of Tehran in 2007. Russia is against a planned meeting of the six powers negotiating on Iran's nuclear programme, the foreign ministry said in a statement that referred to US attempts to AP - Iraq's foreign minister says "there is a new world now" because of the global financial crisis and he hopes it won't lead to an immediate withdrawal of the 146,000 American troops in his country.

Hospital deaths of 40 newborns shocks Turkey (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 03:15 AM CDT

AP - Outside the Zekai Tahir Burak maternity hospital stands a bronze statue of a mother nursing a baby with an inscription from the Prophet Mohammed: "Paradise lies at the feet of the mother."

28 die in latest northwest Pakistan offensive (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 03:01 AM CDT

Pakistani troops assemble artillery in the troubled Bajour agency, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 26, 2008. Pakistan will bring stability to a restive tribal region bordering Afghanistan within two months, a top general said during an assessment of a major ongoing offensive there against al-Qaida and Taliban militants. Maj. Gen. Tariq Khan told reporters on an army-organized trip to the northwestern Bajur region that troops had killed more than 1,000 militants and wounded 2,000 others since the offensive began in early August. (AP Photo/Aamir Qureshi, Pool)AP - Pakistan's security forces pounded militant positions near strategic areas in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing 25 suspected insurgents in a new round of a military offensive that also left three troops dead, officials said.

Bradford & Bingley may be nationalised: reports (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 03:20 AM CDT

British mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley, which has been hit by a housing downturn and weakness in the wider economy, may be nationalised, according to newspaper reports.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - British mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley, which has been hit by a housing downturn and weakness in the wider economy, may be nationalised, according to newspaper reports.

Militants release 150 kidnapped Afghan laborers (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 02:52 AM CDT

Afghan policemen stand guard in Kabul in July 2008. A suicide bomber blew himself up Friday in a bazaar in Afghanistan close to the border with Pakistan and killed three people, police said.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - Taliban militants on Saturday released the last of approximately 150 Afghan laborers they had abducted for almost a week after suspecting the workers of being Afghan soldiers, officials said.

Ecuador's voters expected to back new constitution (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 03:07 AM CDT

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa speaks at his closing campaign rally in support of proposed changes to the constitution in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. Ecuadoreans will decide on Sept. 28, 2008 whether to approve proposed changes to the constitution which would grant Correa the power to dissolve Congress and run for office through 2017. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)AP - Voters are expected to easily approve this chronically unstable nation's 20th constitution on Sunday, expanding President Rafael Correa's powers and letting the pugnacious leftist run for two more consecutive terms.

Libya says no hostages on its territory (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 07:40 PM CDT

Reuters - The Libyan government rejected a Sudanese statement on Friday that kidnappers holding 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians had taken them from Sudan into Libya.

China waits with bated breath for first space walk (AFP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 03:06 AM CDT

Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng (L) Zhai Zhigang (C) and Liu Boming wave at a press event at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on September 24, 2008. China's three astronauts spent their first day in orbit Friday preparing for a much-anticipated walk outside their craft, as Japan voiced hopes its giant neighbour had peaceful aims in space.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - China's three astronauts prepared Saturday for the nation's first ever space walk as the country waited with bated breath to see if the manoeuvre, deemed highly risky, would be successful.

Illicit drug trade in Australia put at $10 billion: study (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 01:08 AM CDT

Reuters - Up to A$12 billion ($10 billion) in illicit drug money could be flowing out of Australia every year, according to an estimate by the Australian Crime Commission (ACC).

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