2008年12月21日星期日

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Deposed Mauritanian president taken from his home (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 12:09 AM CST

Mauritania's President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi is seen during a visit to Japan, in this Friday May 30, 2008 file photo. Security forces early Sunday Dec. 21, 2008 forcibly removed Mauritania's recently deposed president from the village where he had been under house arrest, his daughter said. A police official confirmed that police were given orders to take ousted President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi into custody and drive him to his home in the African country's capital, Nouakchott, where he will be freed. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)AP - Security forces early Sunday forcibly removed Mauritania's recently deposed president from the village where he had been under house arrest, his daughter said.

2 1/2 tons of marijuana found in Afghan school (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 11:55 PM CST

Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm., speaks during a press conference at a U.S base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008. The top U.S. military officer says that up to 30,000 extra American troops could be sent to Afghanistan next year. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - Afghan and coalition troops found and destroyed 2.5 tons of marijuana in an abandoned school in southern Afghanistan, while coalition troops killed four militants elsewhere in the south, officials said Sunday.

Gaza militants launch more rockets into Israel (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:27 AM CST

An Israeli D9 bulldozer patrols along the border with the northern Gaza Strip near Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Decemeber 19. A senior Israeli defence official said on Sunday that a military clash in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip was unavoidable as militants again targeted southern Israel with rockets.(AFP/File/Jack Guez)AP - Barrages of rockets fired from Gaza hit Israeli towns Sunday and the Israeli air force responded with a missile strike as violence surged after the expiration of a shaky truce.

Report: 60 Sri Lankan soldiers killed in fighting (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:53 AM CST

Sri Lankan soldiers guard a government office in the northern town of Vavuniya on December 18 as trucks loaded with relief supplies leave for a rebel-held area in the north of the island. Tamil Tiger rebels mounted counter-attacks against government troops and killed at least 60 soldiers besieging their political headquarters, the guerrillas said Sunday.(AFP/File)AP - Tamil Tiger rebels killed 60 Sri Lankan troops advancing toward their de facto capital, a pro-rebel report said, but the government denied Sunday that many soldiers had died.

Australia lifts restrictions on ex-Gitmo detainee (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 01:14 AM CST

In this December 29, 2007, file photo, former Guantanamo terror prisoner David Hicks is escorted to reception before walking out of the Yatala high security prison in the southern city of Adelaide, Australia. Hicks on Sunday December 21, 2008, became a completely free man for the first time in seven years when the final restrictions stemming from terrorism allegations ended. (AP Photo/Rob Hutchison, FILE)AP - Authorities on Sunday lifted the last remaining restrictions on an Australian man who spent more than five years as an inmate at Guantanamo Bay and admitted to supporting terrorism.

Chinese internet porn sensation detained by police (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 12:23 AM CST

Reuters - A Chinese woman who became an online sensation after posting a homemade pornographic film of herself on the internet has been detained in Shanghai, according to state media.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,210 (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 07:25 PM CST

Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses British troops at Basra Air Station in Southern Iraq during his one day visit December 17, 2008. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool/Reuters)AP - As of Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008, at least 4,210 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Aging Castro still rules 50 years after revolution (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 08:24 PM CST

This Jan. 2, 2007 overhead view shows the Miramar section of Havana, Cuba. The Cuban revolution triumphed on Jan. 1, 1959 after dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country and Fidel Castro and his band of rebels descended from the island's eastern mountains, where they waged a guerrilla war against government troops. Cuba will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the revolution on Jan. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)AP - In the palace of a fallen dictator, the grade-school kids in their red Communist Pioneer bandanas are getting their mandatory introduction to the glories of the revolution. Clattering from one display case to the next, they gaze wide-eyed at an antique gun, a fighter's bloodied shirt, the engine of a downed U.S. spy plane.

Mali govt says 20 killed in attack on army outpost (AP)

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 04:03 PM CST

AP - Suspected Tuareg rebels attacked an army outpost in the country's remote north early Saturday, setting off a battle in which 20 people were killed, the Ministry of Defense said.

Mumbai hostage hotels re-open (AFP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 02:54 AM CST

A municipal worker cleans the area around the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai on December 17. Two luxury hotels that were stormed by Islamist militants will re-open in Mumbai on Sunday, less than a month after devastating attacks that rocked India's financial and entertainment capital.(AFP/Sajjad Hussain)AFP - Two luxury hotels that were stormed by Islamist militants have re-opened in Mumbai, less than a month after devastating attacks that rocked India's financial and entertainment capital.

Australia aims to halve homelessness by 2020: PM (AFP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2008 12:11 AM CST

A homeless woman is seen camping outside a Sydney office block. The Australian government has announced that it aims to halve homelessness and provide accommodation to all those sleeping rough by 2020.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - The Australian government has announced that it aims to halve homelessness and provide accommodation to all those sleeping rough by 2020.

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