2009年2月13日星期五

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Suspected US missile kills 20 in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 01:02 AM CST

A protest rally against the US missile strike in Pakistan's tribal areas. At least 20 suspected Islamic militants were killed in a suspected US missile strike on a Taliban hideout in a Pakistani tribal region on Saturday, a senior security official told AFP(AFP/File/Banaras Khan)AP - A suspected U.S. missile strike by a drone aircraft flattened a militant hide-out in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing 20 local and foreign insurgents, intelligence officials said.

Kidnappers threaten American abducted in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:50 PM CST

This is an image from mobile phone footage released by Online Photos Friday Feb. 13 2009, purportedly showing John Solecki, a seized American U.N. worker. The kidnappers have threatened to kill Solecki within 72 hours unless more than 100 prisoners are released. The threat was contained in a letter delivered with a grainy video of the hostage to a Pakistani news agency on Friday. Solecki appears blindfolded in the short clip and appeals to the world body to act quickly to secure his release. (AP Photo/Online Photos via APTN) ** NO SALES NO ARCHIVE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT IMAGE FROM VIDEO RELEASED BY ONLINE PHOTOS.AP - Kidnappers threatened on Friday to kill an American employee of the United Nations within 72 hours and issued a grainy video of the blindfolded captive saying he was "sick and in trouble." A letter accompanying the video delivered to a Pakistani news agency said the hostage, John Solecki, would be killed unless authorities released 141 women it said were being held in Pakistan.

Iraqis find mass grave north of Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 01:09 AM CST

A Shi'ite woman cries after a bomb attack targeted pilgrims in Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, February 13, 2009. A female suicide bomber killed 32 people and wounded 84 others south of Baghdad on Friday when she blew herself up on a major Shi'ite religious pilgrimage route, police said. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ)AP - An Iraqi police official says a mass grave has been found in a former Sunni insurgent stronghold north of Baghdad.

Clinton urges NKorea against 'provocative' actions (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:22 PM CST

US Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the Asia Society, Friday, Feb. 13, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, making her first major policy speech, urged North Korea Friday not to take any "provocative" actions that could undermine peace efforts. Amid press reports that North Korea might be preparing a long-range missile test, Clinton pledged to hold the communist regime to its commitments to give up its nuclear programs in return for international aid and political concessions.

Drug giant pledges cheap medicine for the poor: report (AFP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 12:31 AM CST

The head of British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline has said in a British newspaper he would cut prices for medication in developing countries and share knowledge of patented treatments.(AFP/HO/GLAXOSMITHKLINE/File)AFP - The head of drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said in a newspaper Saturday he would cut prices for medication in developing countries and share knowledge of patented treatments.

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

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST

A man, who was injured in a bomb attack that targeted Shi'ite pilgrims during the Arbain ceremony, lies in a bed at a hospital in Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, February 14, 2009. A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a crowd of Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims on Friday, killing 39 people and wounding 69 others during one of the holiest events of the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, police said. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ)AP - As of Friday, Feb. 13, 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.

Wife of Ecuadorean dragged by NY van wants justice (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:47 PM CST

AP - The wife of the Ecuadorean man hit by a car, trapped under a van and dragged for nearly 20 miles through New York City is demanding justice for her husband's death.

Key human rights advocate dies in U.S. plane crash (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 05:15 PM CST

Reuters - A prominent human rights advocate who documented genocide in Rwanda was among the victims of Thursday's commuter plane crash near Buffalo, associates said on Friday.

Twenty dead in suspected US missile strike: Pakistani official (AFP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 01:15 AM CST

A protest rally against the US missile strike in Pakistan's tribal areas. At least 20 suspected Islamic militants were killed in a suspected US missile strike on a Taliban hideout in a Pakistani tribal region on Saturday, a senior security official told AFP(AFP/File/Banaras Khan)AFP - A suspected US missile strike Saturday killed at least 20 militants including two foreign Al-Qaeda operatives in a Pakistani tribal area near the Afghan border, security officials said.

Residents return to fire-destroyed town (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 10:29 PM CST

In this Feb. 7, 2009 file photo, a fire truck moves away from out of control flames from a bushfire in the Bunyip Sate Forest near the township of Tonimbuk, 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of Melbourne, Australia. In the aftermath of the most lethal wildfires in Australia's history, officials are again considering whether enough is being done to reduce the risk through controlled burns. (AP Photo/FILE)AP - Residents of the town worst-hit by Australia's wildfire disaster made a brief and emotional return there on Saturday but were not allowed to stay because the entire village is being treated as an arson crime scene.

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Suspect charged in deadly Australian fire (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 12:10 AM CST

Burnt-out vehicles on a property in the town of Chum Creek, near Healesville, Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. Police arrested a suspect today in connection to one of the deadly wildfires in southern Australia that killed more than 180 people and left about 7,000 homeless. (AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill)AP - Authorities charged a man Friday with lighting one of Australia's deadly wildfires and whisked him into protective custody amid national fury that arsonists may be to blame in the blazes that left more than 180 people dead.

Gaza militants fire rockets into Israel (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 12:22 AM CST

Israeli students sit next to a protest in Tel-Aviv in January 2009, calling for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Gaza militants in 2006. Hamas has accepted an Egyptian-brokered 18-month truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip which Egypt will announce in 48 hours, state news agency MENA quoted a senior Hamas official as saying on Thursday.(AFP/File/Yehuda Raizner)AP - The Israeli military says Gaza militants have launched two rockets into Israel, violating an informal cease-fire.

Crash of US, Russian satellites a threat in space (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:44 PM CST

This image provided by the European Space Agency shows and artist impression of catalogued objects in low-Earth orbit viewed over the Equator. Scientists are keeping a close eye on orbital debris created when two communications satellites — one American, the other Russian — smashed into each other hundreds of miles above Siberia Tuesday Feb. 10, 2009. The collision was the first high-speed impact between two intact spacecraft, NASA officials said. The debris field shown in this image is an artist's impression based on actual data but not shown in their actual size or density. (AP Photo/ESA)AP - U.S. and Russian officials traded shots Thursday over who was to blame for a huge satellite collision this week that spewed speeding clouds of debris into space, threatening other unmanned spacecraft in nearby orbits.

Pope tells Jewish leaders he will visit Israel (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 05:01 PM CST

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, center, delivers his message on occasion of an audience with about 60 American Jewish leaders, at the Vatican, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. Benedict XVI said Thursday any minimization of the Holocaust was unacceptable, especially for a priest, as he met with Jewish leaders in hopes of ending the rancor over a bishop who denied 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis. The German-born Benedict also confirmed that he planned to visit Israel in May, in what would be the second official visit by a pope. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Pope Benedict XVI told American Jewish leaders Thursday that he plans to visit Israel in May, coupling the long-awaited announcement with his strongest condemnation of Holocaust denial.

Congo town mounts own defense against rebels (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 04:20 PM CST

Lavie Balengba, 20, holds up his homemade gun as vigilantes gather in the streets of Bangadi, about 40 km (25 miles) from Congo's border with Sudan, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009. In this remote northeastern corner of Congo nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) from the capital, the residents of Bangadi have successfully driven off two attacks by the Ugandan rebels who have killed at least 900 people since Christmas.(AP Photo/T.J. Kirkpatrick)AP - Rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army sent torture victims — including a man whose back was sliced with a machete — to warn the people of this Congolese town they would be next.

Steelmaker ThyssenKrupp 1Q net profit falls 63 pct (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:43 AM CST

AP - ThyssenKrupp AG, Germany's largest steelmaker, said Friday the company posted a large loss in the fiscal first quarter and that it would cut jobs as the world economic crisis caused a sharp fall in demand for steel.

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

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 07:36 PM CST

U.S. Army Spct. Veona Lobado (L) and sister Nancy Lobado-Hale are reunited at a ceremony welcoming U.S. Army soldiers returning from duty in Iraq at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colorado February 12, 2009. About 280 soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division returned following their 15-month deployment to Iraq. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES)AP - As of Thursday, Feb. 12, 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.

Court: Mexican police abusive in retaking town (AP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 09:02 PM CST

AP - Mexico's Supreme Court says that police committed serious abuses when trying to retake control of rebellious town outside the capital three years ago.

Tsvangirai to swear in Zimbabwe's cabinet (AFP)

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 11:48 PM CST

New Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) sits at the State House in Harare. Tsvangirai was set to swear in a new cabinet Friday, bringing his party into a fragile union with long-time adversary, President Robert Mugabe.(AFP/Jekesai Njikizana)AFP - Zimbabwe's new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was set to swear in a new cabinet Friday, bringing his party into a fragile union with long-time adversary, President Robert Mugabe.

Time extended for questioning Mumbai attacks gunman: police (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:41 AM CST

In this photograph released in December 2008, arrested gunman Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman - also known as Kasab - is seen lying on a bed at an undisclosed location in Mumbai. An Indian court on Friday granted police extra time to hold and question Kasab, a senior officer said.(AFP/HO/File/AFP)AFP - An Indian court on Friday granted police extra time to hold and question the lone surviving gunman captured during the deadly attacks on Mumbai, a senior officer said.

Rudd under fire a year after apology to Aborigines (AFP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 01:22 AM CST

Aboriginal youths in the north of Western Australia. A year after making a historic apology to Aboriginal people for centuries of injustice, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd came under fire Friday for failing to improve their lives(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - A year after making a historic apology to Aboriginal people for centuries of injustice, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd came under fire Friday for failing to improve their lives.

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