2009年10月4日星期日

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8 US troops killed in fierce Afghan fighting (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 02:31 PM PDT

A U.S. Marine, left, with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion 5th Marines walks in a joint patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers, in Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight U.S. soldiers and capturing more than 20 Afghan security troops in the deadliest assault against U.S. forces in more than a year, military officials said Sunday.


Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa dies aged 74 (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:39 AM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2007 file photo, Argentina's famed folk singer Mercedes Sosa performs in concert at Ruminahui Coliseum in in Quito, Ecuador. Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the 'voice of Latin America' whose music inspired opponents of South America's brutal military regimes and led to her forced exile in Europe, died Sunday Oct. 4, 2009, her family said. She was 74. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa, File)AP - Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the "voice of Latin America" whose music inspired opponents of South America's brutal military regimes and led to her forced exile in Europe, died Sunday, her family said. She was 74.


Abbas faces uproar over deferred war crimes vote (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 11:58 AM PDT

Palestinians from Hamas burn an Israeli flag during a protest against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, at Marty's Square in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009.  Abbas faced growing outrage among Palestinians Sunday over his decision to withdraw support for a U.N. report that alleged Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in last winter's Gaza war. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)AP - Engulfed by domestic outrage, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rushed Sunday to limit the fallout from his decision to suspend efforts to have Israeli officials prosecuted for war crimes over last winter's military offensive in Gaza.


Socialists trounce conservatives in Greek election (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 04:04 PM PDT

Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis casts his ballot at a polling station in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki during general elections on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. Greeks were casting cast ballots Sunday in a snap general election likely to produce a change in government, as voters angered by scandals and a foundering economy were expected to reject the conservatives in favor of the opposition Socialists. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)AP - Greece's Socialists trounced the governing conservatives in a landslide election Sunday, with voters angered by scandals and a faltering economy ousting Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis halfway through his second term.


Head of UN nuclear watchdog sees Iran cooperation (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 12:01 PM PDT

Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, left, speaks with the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, during their joint press conference in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog on Sunday described a 'shifting of gears' in the controversy over Iran's nuclear program and said inspectors would visit the country's new uranium processing site Oct. 25. ElBaradei spoke in Tehran following talks with Iranian officials over the recently revealed facility that has caused consternation around to world over the extent and purpose of Iran's nuclear program.  (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - The visiting head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog set Oct. 25 as the date for his inspectors to check Iran's newly revealed uranium enrichment site and struck an upbeat note Sunday, saying Tehran's confrontation with the West is shifting gears to more cooperation and transparency.


Injunction by Twitter: A Blogger Makes History Trying to Unmask His Impostor (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 10:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Someone has been sending tweets pretending to be a British Conservative blogger. To force his imposter to stop, Donal Blaney achieved a legal first: a tweetinjunction

Arsenal hit Rovers for six (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 05:44 PM PDT

Arsenal's Dutch Robin van Persie (R) vies with Blackburn Rovers Pascal Chimbonda during a Premier League match at the Emirates Stadium in London, on October 4. Arsenal routed Blackburn 6-2(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal are capable of mounting a sustained challenge for the Premier League title this season after his side routed Blackburn 6-2 at the Emirates Stadium.


Mubarak urges Israel to resume peace talks (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 01:47 PM PDT

AP - Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak urged Israel to resume peace talks with the Palestinians where they broke off more than a year ago, warning that the peace process "can't take another failure."

Anti-Jewish statements raise concern on Honduras (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 05:06 PM PDT

Soldiers stand on guard near the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. The factions fighting for control of Honduras have begun talking days before a meeting that many hope will end a political crisis sparked by Central America's first coup in more than a decade. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - A Jewish civil rights organization is expressing alarm over conspiracy theories claiming Jews and Israel aided the ouster of the Honduran president and attempts to dislodge him from his refuge in the Brazilian Embassy.


Egypt's 'white gold' cotton losing its lustre (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 04:47 PM PDT

An Egyptian farmer collects the cotton harvest at a farm in al-Massara village near the Nile delta city of Mansura, 130 kms north of Cairo in September 2009. Egyptian cotton production is in decline, having this year reached its lowest in 100 years.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)AFP - Ahmed Mansur, like many farmers, has long thrived on Egypt's famed "white gold" cotton; but with prices uncertain and production costs soaring he is more and more inclined to go "green."


US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 774 (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 05:28 PM PDT

AP - As of Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009, at least 774 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EDT.

Ford Canada labor talks aim to cut $16/hour gap (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 03:03 PM PDT

Reuters - Labor costs at Ford Motor Co are about $16 an hour higher in Canada than in the United States, the Canadian Auto Workers confirmed on Friday, but union said it needs guarantees on production levels before it agrees to concessions to level the field.

Samoans prepare to bury tsunami victims (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 04:14 AM PDT

Men scavenge items strewn about at Lalomanu village on Samoa's southeast coast Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, after a deadly tsunami rolled through several South Pacific island nations on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - Mourning islanders of American Samoa were set to hold a national prayer service Sunday for victims of the tsunami that obliterated villages on the shores of the South Pacific and left at least 176 dead.


Afghans criticize UN's strong hand in their election (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Before their country's fraud-riddled election in August, some Afghans complained it was the international community that would decide the result. With the United Nations having fired a top diplomat for urging a tougher stand against vote-rigging, a move made public Wednesday, they say they now have proof.

How a 'Miracle' Biofuel Plant Ruined Kenyan Farmers (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Oct 2009 10:25 PM PDT

Time.com - After receiving promises of riches from the government, farmers in a Kenyanvillage turned over hundreds of acres of precious farmland to a plant calledjatropha, used to make biofuel. Then their crops failed. The farmers are nowdemanding answers

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