2009年2月10日星期二

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Asia stocks fall amid skepticism over US bank plan (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 01:35 AM CST

A man watches a screen showing stock prices at a brokerage firm in Hong Kong Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009. Asian stock markets dropped Wednesday, following a steep sell-off on Wall Street overnight, as investors reacted with skepticism to the U.S. government's latest plan to rescue the ailing financial industry. The Hang Seng Index ended the morning session at 442 points lower, or 3.2 percent, at 13,437 points. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - Asian stock markets dropped Wednesday, following a steep sell-off on Wall Street, as investors reacted with skepticism to the U.S. government's latest plan to rescue the ailing financial industry with as much as $2 trillion in funding.

Inconclusive election puts Israel, peace in limbo (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 01:28 AM CST

Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu address supporters at the Likud election headquarters at the convention center in Tel Aviv, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - Inconclusive election results sent Israel into political limbo Wednesday with both Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and hard-line leader Benjamin Netanyahu claiming victory and leaving the kingmaker role to a rising political hawk with an anti-Arab platform.

Suicide bombers attack Kabul (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 01:07 AM CST

File picture shows Afghan policemen on patrol in the outskirts of Kabul. A double suicide attack hit a government office in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, as another bomber was shot dead at the education ministry, police and witnesses said.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AP - Assailants, some wearing suicide vests, attacked the Justice Ministry and another government building in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, causing multiple deaths and forcing people to flee from building windows, officials and witnesses said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Residents return to destroyed homes in Australia (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 01:16 AM CST

Firefighters use a hose to quench embers at a fire at Chum Creek, near Healseville, north east of Melbourne, Australia Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. Officials believe arson may be behind at least some of the more than 400 fires that tore a destructive path across a vast swath of southern Victoria state over the weekend. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - Residents of towns scorched off the map by Australia's worst-ever wildfires on Wednesday returned to their homes for the first time and found scenes of utter devastation.

Analysis: Russia and US face tough negotiations (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 01:06 AM CST

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, background center, heads the meeting on military issues at the Gorki presidential residence outside Moscow on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service)AP - This is a critical year for Russia-U.S. relations, with the former Cold War adversaries trying to resolve conflicts ranging from Washington's plan for interceptor missiles in Europe to Russia's push for military bases in two separatist provinces of Georgia.

Peugeot Citroen announce 343-million-euro net losses 2008 (AFP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 01:14 AM CST

A Peugeot vehicle outside the car-maker's factory in Montbelliard, eastern France. PSA Peugeot Citroen has announced net losses of 343 million euros (US$443 million) for 2008 with chief executive Christian Streiff warning of more losses in 2009.(AFP/File/Sebastien Bozon)AFP - French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen on Wednesday announced net losses of 343 million euros (443 million dollars) for 2008, and chief executive Christian Streiff warned of more losses in 2009.

Netanyahu, Livni declare win in Israeli election (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 11:19 PM CST

Israel's Foreign Minister and Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni, reacts during election night rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, early Wednesday morning Feb. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and hard-line rival Benjamin Netanyahu both claimed victory Tuesday in Israel's parliamentary election, but official results showed a race so close it could be decided by a third candidate — a rising power among the hawks.

Mexican violence leaves 1 soldier, 20 others dead (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 01:29 AM CST

The slain body of a plain clothes police commander lies next to an ambulance in the border city of Ciudad Juarez February 9, 2009. Gunmen pulled over the ambulance to kill the police commander who was being transported to a hospital. The commander was injured during a shootout according to local media. The paramedics were taken to a safe place by police agents after the incident. REUTERS/Alejandro Bringas (MEXICO)AP - A drug gang kidnapped and killed six people near a town in the U.S.-Mexican border region Tuesday, prompting a series of gunbattles with soldiers that left 15 others dead.

Introducing 'Obamarama': Obama Snacks Point (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 01:16 AM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - Readers of this blog will be familiar with election-time Obama-mania in Kenya, but Barack Obama's inauguration hasn't stopped the frenzy to stamp his name on just about anything. To mark this phenomenon, today I'm starting a project: presenting pictures of the unusual, unlikely and just plain odd places that our 44th president's name or likeness appears during the course of my travels.

Australia fires rage, new arson fears (AFP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 01:32 AM CST

The petrol station in Marysville is burnt-out after bushfires destroyed the town, northeast of Melbourne. Police have been investigating fresh arson attacks and looting as survivors returned to towns devastated by wildfires that continued to burn across vast areas.(AFP/William West)AFP - Australian police investigated fresh arson attacks and looting Wednesday as angry survivors pressed for access to towns devastated by wildfires that continue to burn across vast areas.

Turtle's shell melts in Australia's fires (AP)

Posted: 11 Feb 2009 01:47 AM CST

Local CFA firefighter David Tree shares his water with an injured Australian Koala at Mirboo North after wildfires swept through the region on Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. Suspicions that the worst wildfires ever to strike Australia were deliberately set led police to declare crime scenes Monday in towns incinerated by blazes, while investigators moving into the charred landscape discovered more bodies. The death toll stood at 181.(AP Photo/Mark Pardew)AP - One turtle's shell melted and fused to its body. A baby wallaby's ears were fried to a crisp. And birds scorched by Australia's worst-ever wildfires plummeted from the sky.

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Israeli voters cast ballots in general election (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 12:27 AM CST

Israelis walk next to an election campaign billboard showing Israel's Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Foreign Minister and Kadima party leader Tzipi Livni in Tel Aviv Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. General elections in Israel are scheduled for Feb. 10, 2009, and pre-election polls show Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu with a lead over Foreign Minister and Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni as Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak and his Labor Party appear to have fallen behind Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Voters braved poor weather in Jerusalem and other parts of Israel Tuesday to cast their ballots in a general election pitting conservative former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.

French president arrives on first trip to Iraq (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 01:09 AM CST

US soldiers keep watch on a group of Iraqi men for questioning in Mosul, in 2007. Four American soldiers and an interpreter were killed in a suicide car bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, in the deadliest attack since last May, the US military said.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived Tuesday in Baghdad on his first trip to Iraq — a major step in his efforts to rebuild ties with Iraq and end any lingering U.S.-French animosity over the 2003 Iraq invasion.

Italian woman in right-to-die debate dies (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 10:31 PM CST

Worshippers kneel in prayer inside the Basilica of San Nicolo' in Lecco, northern Italy, after the announcement of the death of Eluana Englaro, a woman in vegetative state for 17 years, Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. Englaro, a woman at the heart of a right-to-die debate that convulsed Italy died in a clinic in Udine, northern Italy, Monday, just as lawmakers in Rome began debating a bill designed to keep her alive, the family said. (AP Photo/Stefano Cardini)AP - A 38-year-old woman who ignited a fierce right-to-die debate that convulsed Italy and dragged in the Vatican died Monday just as lawmakers in Parliament rushed to pass a bill designed to keep her alive. Eluana Englaro had been in a vegetative state since she was in a car accident 17 years ago. She died Monday night at the Udine clinic where she had been for the past week, said family attorney Vittorio Angiolini.

Asia stocks sink as investors eye US stimulus plan (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 11:28 PM CST

Trader Frank Cannarozzo phones in trades on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, February 2, 2009. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)AP - Asian stock markets sank in erratic trade Tuesday as investors waited to see how the U.S. will boost its economy with a massive stimulus package and reshape its program to bail out banks.

Australia fire death toll passes 170 (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 01:13 AM CST

Police inspect a farm house destroyed by wildfires in Whittlesea, Australia, Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. The deadliest wildfires in Australia's history burned people in their homes and cars and wiped out entire towns, officials discovered Monday as they reached farther into the fire zone. Suspicions that the worst wildfires ever to strike Australia were deliberately set led police to declare crime scenes Monday in towns incinerated by blazes, while investigators moving into the charred landscape discovered more bodies. The death toll stood at 130.(AP Photo/Trevor Pinder, POOL)AP - Authorities searching for answers to the carnage from Australia's worst-ever wildfires said Tuesday they would rethink policies allowing residents to decide for themselves whether to evacuate their homes.

CORRECTED: France's Sarkozy flies into Iraq (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 01:23 AM CST

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech during the signing of an agreement with French car makers at the Elysee Palace in Paris, February 9, 2009. (Michel Euler/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in Baghdad Tuesday on the first visit to Iraq by a French head of state since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, which Paris strongly opposed.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,243 (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 07:36 PM CST

Army Spc. Cliff Cornell, 28, smokes in his hotel room on Monday, Feb. 9, 2009 in Savannah, Ga., after traveling three days by bus from Canada to turn himself in to the Army. Cornell plans to turn himself in to military police Tuesday at nearby Fort Stewart, where he'll likely face criminal charges for abandoning his unit before it deployed to Iraq in January 2005. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)AP - As of Monday, Feb. 9, 2009, at least 4,243 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Buena Vista Social Club bassist Lopez dead at 76 (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 09:59 PM CST

Orlando Cachaito Lopez performs in Havana, in this Aug. 11, 2000, file photo. Lopez, one of Cuba's best-known bass players and a founding member of the Buena Vista Social Club, died Monday, Feb. 9, 2009, of complications from recent prostate surgery, fellow musicians said. He was 76. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)AP - Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, considered the "heartbeat" of Cuba's legendary Buena Vista Social Club for his internationally acclaimed bass playing, died Monday of complications from prostate surgery, fellow musicians said. He was 76.

Guinea coup leader refuses on vote date (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 08:24 PM CST

Junta leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara arrives for meetings at Camp Alpha Yaya Diallo military camp in Conakry, in 2008. Guinea's military regime, which seized power in December after the death of longtime president Lansana Conte,has issued orders for elections to be prepared for the last quarter of this year.(AFP/File/Seyllou)AP - The leader of Guinea's recent coup refused Monday to provide a timeline on the African nation's elections, despite an earlier promise to hold a vote yet this year.

About 200 stranded dolphins rescued in Manila Bay (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 01:28 AM CST

AP - At least 200 melon-head dolphins flocked to shallow waters of Manila Bay on Tuesday, prompting a massive rescue by hundreds of volunteers and fishermen who used their boats and hands to drive them back to deep seas.

Australian wildfire survivors recall ordeal (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2009 01:00 AM CST

A distraught family is reunited at a meeting point for displaced people at Whittlesea, north of Melbourne. Australian firefighters fought Tuesday to save communities from wildfires that have claimed 173 lives and left a trail of charred bodies in blackened homes and twisted car wrecks.(AFP/William West)AFP - "I knew people were dying around us, I knew," said Annette Smit, describing the firestorm in Australia that destroyed her home and almost cost her life.

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