2008年10月10日星期五

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Ex-Finnish president wins 2008 Nobel Peace Prize (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:14 AM CDT

United Nations envoy Martti Ahtisaari gestures during a press conference in U.N headquarters in Kosovo's capital Pristina in this Friday Feb. 2, 2007 file photo. Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari wins 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu, FILE)AP - Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace in places as diverse as East Timor and the Balkans in Europe.

Sources: US nears removing NKorea from terror list (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:03 AM CDT

This Aug. 13, 2002 file photo is a satellite image provided by Space Imaging Asia of the Yongbyon Nuclear Center, located north of Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea announced Thursday Oct. 6, 2008 that it is preparing to restart the facility that produced its atomic bomb, clearly indicating that it plans to completely pull out of an international deal to end its nuclear program. North Korea told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was stopping the process of disabling its main nuclear site and barring international inspectors from the Yongbyon facility, the agency said. (AP Photo/Space Imaging Asia, File)AP - The Bush administration is nearing a decision to remove North Korea from a terrorism blacklist and may do so as early as Friday in a bid to salvage faltering nuclear disarmament talks, The Associated Press has learned.

Aide says Dalai Lama's surgery ends successfully (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 02:00 AM CDT

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, prepares to shake hands with an unidentified person at the Gaggal Airport in Dharamsala, India, Monday, Oct. 6, 2008 as he leaves for New Delhi. The Dalai Lama will undergo a second medical checkup in as many months while he recovers from exhaustion, a spokesman for the Tibetan spiritual leader said Monday.( AP Photo)AP - Surgeons successfully removed a gallstone from the Dalai Lama on Friday, just days after doctors had cleared the Tibetan spiritual leader during a medical checkup, a spokesman said.

Pakistan investigates alleged US missile strike (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 02:26 AM CDT

An injured man of the bombing in Dir region is brought to a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan for a treatment on Thursday, Oct 9, 2008. Bombings targeting police killed 10 people and wounded 14 in Pakistan's volatile northwest and the capital on Thursday — vivid reminders of the challenge facing the U.S.- allied country as its lawmakers pursue a national consensus on battling terrorism. (AP Photo / Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Pakistani intelligence agents Friday were investigating the identities of up to eight foreigners believed killed in a suspected U.S. missile strike close to the Afghan border.

Thousands of al-Sadr supporters mourn lawmaker (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:01 AM CDT

Relatives mourn for Iraqi lawmaker Saleh al-Auqaeili , loyal to anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, outside his home in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Officials say Thursday's explosion occurred as Saleh al-Auqaeili's car passed about 200 yards (meters) away from an Iraqi army checkpoint in a heavily secured area near Baghdad's main Shiite district of Sadr City. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Thousands of supporters of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr marched through eastern Baghdad on Friday to mourn the killing of a Sadrist lawmaker and hear a statement from the anti-U.S. cleric blaming occupation and terrorism for the loss.

On crisis, Europe to US: 'I told you so' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 03:00 AM CDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The economic image of the United States as a high-rolling tycoon at a Vegas casino, willing to gamble and reap rewards, has always stood in stark contrast to that of the European bean counter.

2 missing Americans detained in Syria (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2008 03:39 PM CDT

Undated photo of missing American journalist Taylor Luck released Wednesday, Oct. 8. 2008 by the Jordan Times newspaper where he worked as a freelancer reporter, in Amman, Jordan. The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon said two Americans journalists are missing in Lebanon and is appealing for information on their whereabouts. An embassy statement Wednesday says Holli Chmela, 27, and Taylor Luck, 23, have not been heard from since Oct. 1 when they reportedly left Beirut en route to the northern port city of Tripoli. Lebanese security officials told The Associated Press they are searching for the two. The pair arrived in Lebanon on Sept. 29 from Amman, Jordan for a vacation and told a friend on Oct. 1 that they were traveling from Beirut to Tripoli that day.(AP Photo/Jordan Times/HO)AP - Two American journalists whose disappearance prompted a U.S. Embassy alert and a wide search turned up in Syrian custody Thursday after being detained while trying to sneak into the country with smugglers, Syrian officials said.

Hurricane Norbert weakens slightly; Odile grows (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 01:55 AM CDT

Map shows the projected path of Hurricane Norbert; 1c x 4 inches; 46.5 mm x 101.6 mmAP - Hurricane Norbert weakened to Category 1 storm Thursday as it headed toward Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula but was still expected to be a hurricane when it hits land over the weekend.

Mugabe, Tsvangirai set for new round of talks: report (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:01 AM CDT

Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai addresses a news conference at his residence in Harare October 9, 2008. (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)Reuters - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's party said he would meet opposition leaders Friday, a day after his main rival Morgan Tsvangirai declared a deadlock in talks and urged the intervention of a mediator.

Second lawsuit filed in tainted milk scandal (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 04:12 AM CDT

A Chinese couple buy yogurt at a supermarket in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. More than 10,000 children remain hospitalized after being sickened in China's tainted milk scandal, officials said, as the government released its first rules on allowable levels of the chemical blamed in the ailments. (AP Photo)AP - A second lawsuit has been filed against a Chinese dairy company at the heart of the tainted milk crisis, an attorney said Friday, as more than 10,000 children remained hospitalized after drinking milk powder laced with an industrial chemical.

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