2009年9月13日星期日

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Official: Dozens of Taliban killed after U.S. deaths (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 01:37 PM PDT

German soldiers stand guard during a visit by ISAF officials to patients wounded during a NATO airstrike in Afghanistan's Kunduz province on September 4, 2009. Thirty Afghan civilians and 69 Taliban were killed in a NATO air strike on fuel trucks hijacked by militants in northern Kunduz early this month, a government-appointed investigator told AFP Sunday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - About 50 Taliban militants died in a battle in western Afghanistan after an insurgent ambush killed three U.S. troops, an Afghan official said Sunday.


Italy grapples with priest sex abuse accusations (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 09:16 AM PDT

This June 29, 2009 photo shows Carlo De Gresti, spokesman of the Antonio Provolo Institute in Verona, Italy. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)AP - It happened night after night, the deaf man said, sometimes in the priest's bedroom, sometimes in the bathroom, even in the confessional.


Pakistan outsources part of terror war to militia (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 09:38 AM PDT

In this photo taken on Monday, Sept. 7, 2009, a Taliban fighter belonging to a pro-government faction looks to the camera at their headquarters in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 7, 2009. The pro-government Taliban faction is supported by the government as both share a common enemy, the Taliban militants serving under the replacement of their chief Baitullah Mehshud, killed during a CIA missile strike last month. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - They wear their hair and beards long, Taliban style, and support attacks on U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. Yet the fighters are tolerated and — many believe — backed by Pakistan because they share a common enemy: the country's most deadly terror network.


Thousands pay respects to Cuban revolutionary hero (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 04:12 PM PDT

Cuba's Gen. Defense Minister Julio Casas Regueiro, right, and Cuba's Interior Minister Abelardo Colome Ibarra, left, take part in a honor guard next to an image of Cuba's Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque, center, during a funeral ceremony in Havana, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. Almeida Bosque, 82, a comrade-in-arms of Fidel Castro since the start of his guerrilla struggle more than a half-century ago, died of a heart attack on Friday Sept. 11, 2009, Cuba's government said. (AP Photo/Prensa Latina, Ismael Francisco)AP - Tens of thousands of Cubans lined up Sunday to pay their respects to Juan Almeida Bosque, a vice president and hero of the country's 1959 revolution whose death at the age of 82 further thinned the ranks of this communist-run country's old-guard leaders.


6 Hong Kong workers die in elevator shaft fall (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 11:58 AM PDT

The International Commerce Center, center, is seen in Hong Kong Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. A group of construction workers plunged down an elevator shaft of Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper Sunday, and at least three were killed, police said. The accident happened in the afternoon as they were working on the International Commerce Center, a soaring business tower in Hong Kong's Kowloon area that will be 118 stories and one of the world's tallest buildings once completed next year.  (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - A construction platform inside an elevator shaft collapsed Sunday, sending six workers falling about 20 stories to their deaths inside a Hong Kong skyscraper, officials said.


The Killings of Five Reporters Return To Haunt Australia - and Indonesia (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 03:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Australia's Federal Police decide to open a war crimes investigation into the deaths of the so-called Balibo Five in a remote East Timorese village 34 years ago. Did a new movie push them to act now?

Ex-BoE member astounded U.S. govt didn't save Lehman (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 05:05 PM PDT

Deputy Governor of the Bank of England John Gieve delivers his speech at the London School of Economics in London February 19, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew ParsonsReuters - The former deputy Governor of the Bank of England said he was "astounded" the U.S. government let Lehman Brothers go under, and that the bank's collapse marked a clear moment when people lost confidence in the markets.


Israel: Differences with US over peace talks (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 01:40 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen at a weekly cabinet meeting in his office, in Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. The Israeli leader is set to head to Cairo later Sunday, before meeting with U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell on Monday.  Netanyahu says there are still differences with the U.S. on the conditions necessary to resume peacemaking with the Palestinians.  (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking before a key meeting with the White House Mideast envoy, said Sunday that differences remain with the U.S. over resuming peacemaking with the Palestinians.


54 US-bound migrants detained at Costa Rican coast (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 05:19 PM PDT

Undocumented African migrants listen to instructions from a Costa Rican immigration official upon their arrival at a detention center in San Jose, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009. Around 54 African migrants who were heading for the United States, were detained when their boat arrived on Costa Rica's coast Saturday. (Photo/Kent Gilbert)AP - Costa Rican authorities detained 54 U.S.-bound migrants from Africa and Nepal after their boat arrived on the Central American country's coast, officials said Sunday.


AU soldiers mistake camels for Somali rebel attack (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 12:00 PM PDT

Reuters - African Union soldiers shot dead 11 camels in the Somali capital on Saturday night, mistaking the galloping animals for an insurgent attack, residents said.

Germany ponders Afghanistan exit strategy (AP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 02:50 PM PDT

AP - Germany's foreign minister on Sunday advocated laying the foundations by 2013 for an eventual withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Canada's NDP leader says election is not inevitable (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 04:24 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada can avoid an election if Prime Minister Stephen Harper works with the opposition to resolve differences on employment insurance and other issues dividing Parliament, the leader of the New Democrats said on Sunday.

Australia intercepts boat with 65 asylum seekers (AFP)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 12:25 AM PDT

A group of Royal Australian Navy personnel on a sea patrol. The Australian navy has intercepted a suspected people-smuggling boat carrying 65 asylum seekers, officials said, the second vessel stopped in 24 hours off the country's northwest coast.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - The Australian navy has intercepted a suspected people-smuggling boat carrying 65 asylum seekers, officials said, the second such vessel stopped in 24 hours off the country's northwest coast.


Terror group builds big base under Pakistani officials' noses (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 12:21 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAHAWALPUR, Pakistan — A Pakistani terrorist group that's allied with al Qaida and sends jihadists to Afghanistan to fight U.S. and government troops is building a huge new base in full view of the authorities in Pakistan's most heavily populated province, locals and officials told McClatchy.

Obama's Tough Choice on Iran (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Sep 2009 03:00 PM PDT

A map locating known nuclear sites inside Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said Tehran is ready to talk with world powers on global issues but will not negotiate over its right to nuclear technology.(AFP/Graphic)Time.com - Nuclear diplomacy looks unlikely to yield the results sought by the U.S. any time soon, but escalating sanctions may make the prospects for a peaceful solution even more remote


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