2009年2月19日星期四

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Lieberman endorses Netanyahu for Israeli premier (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 04:28 PM CST

In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, Israel's Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters at the Likud election headquarters at the convention center in Tel Aviv. Far-right politician Avigdor Lieberman endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu for Israeli prime minister on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009, all but guaranteeing that the U.S.-educated hawk will be the country's next leader. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)AP - Benjamin Netanyahu won the endorsement Thursday of an anti-Arab politician who emerged from Israel's election as a kingmaker, virtually ensuring that the hawkish, U.S.-educated politician will once again become prime minister.

Argentina orders Holocaust-denying bishop out (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 05:13 PM CST

British-born Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Williamson is seen at Frankfurt airport in this February 28, 2007 file photo. Argentina has given Williamson, who denies the extent of the Holocaust, 10 days to leave the country or else he will be expelled, the Argentine government said on February 19, 2009. Picture taken February 28, 2007. REUTERS/Jens Falk/Files (GERMANY)AP - The traditionalist bishop whose denials of the Holocaust embarrassed the Vatican was ordered Thursday to leave Argentina within 10 days.

Kyrgyz president signs US base closure bill (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 01:05 AM CST

U.S. servicemen board a plane bound for Afghanistan at Manas Air Base near Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek, February 13, 2009. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)AP - Kyrgyzstan's president signed a bill Friday to close a key U.S. air base used as a staging post for military operations in Afghanistan, a step that could impede American plans to send more troops to the Afghan war.

Bomb kills 6 at Shiite funeral in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 01:20 AM CST

US envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke, pictured, said the United States had expressed concern to Pakistan's President Ali Zardari that a deal allowing Sharia law in the volatile Swat valley amounted to a possible capitulation to Taliban militants(AFP/File/Prakash Singh)AP - A bomb tore through a huge funeral procession for a slain Shiite Muslim leader in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding several more, police said.

British reality TV star battles cancer on camera (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 04:32 PM CST

British reality television personality Jade Goody , who is battling cancer, leaves her home in Upshire, England, Thursday Feb. 19, 2009, According to her publicist Max Clifford Goody, who plans to wed on Feb. 22, will have a special pouch concealed in her wedding dress to hold her painkillers.(AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau-pa)AP - A brash British reality show star whose ups and downs captivated the nation is approaching her death the same way she has lived — on television.

French construction group to raise new capital, cut jobs (AFP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 12:47 AM CST

French President Nicolas Sarkozy (2nd-R) visits the Saint-Gobain plasterboard factory in November, north of Paris. Saint Gobain announced Friday it would raise 1.5 billion euros (1.9 billion dollars) in new capital and cut more jobs due to the global financial crisis.(AFP/Pool/File/Remy de la Mauviniere)AFP - French construction group Saint Gobain announced Friday it would raise 1.5 billion euros (1.9 billion dollars) in new capital and cut more jobs due to the global financial crisis.

Official: 5 dead in Ukrainian plane fire in Egypt (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 01:22 AM CST

AP - An official in Egypt's aviation authority says 5 crew members of a Ukrainian cargo aircraft have been killed as fire swept through their plane on the tarmac in the southern city of Luxor.

Mexico: Army will stay, despite recent protests (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 09:39 PM CST

A soldier stands in front of a Mexican flag during Mexican Army Day in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009.(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Mexico's president said Thursday the army will continue to battle the country's drug cartels, despite recent protests asking for the soldiers' withdrawal.

16 charged with palace attack in Equatorial Guinea (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 07:59 PM CST

AP - Sixteen men from neighboring Nigeria were arrested in a mysterious attack on the presidential compound, Equatorial Guinea's government announced Thursday. It said several attackers drowned.

Suicide bomber kills 20, wounds 50 at Pakistan funeral (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 01:30 AM CST

US envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke, pictured, said the United States had expressed concern to Pakistan's President Ali Zardari that a deal allowing Sharia law in the volatile Swat valley amounted to a possible capitulation to Taliban militants(AFP/File/Prakash Singh)Reuters - A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 50 during a funeral procession on Friday for a Shi'ite Muslim gunned down a day earlier in a northwestern Pakistani town, police said.

Australia wants to fast-track fire-safe cigarettes (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2009 01:27 AM CST

AP - Australian officials said Friday they want to fast-track rules making cigarettes less likely to ignite fires as part of the government's response to this month's wildfires that killed at least 209 people.

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Clinton hammers home Obama message in Asia (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 12:29 AM CST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prior to their meeting at the palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham on Thursday relentlessly hammered home the Obama administration's message that America is under new management and ready to listen and engage the world.

China warns Tibet clergy against demonstrations (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 12:53 AM CST

AP - A Communist Party official in Tibet has warned Buddhist clergy against political activity in the run-up to the first anniversary of last year's massive anti-government protests.

Australia's child survivors struggle to cope (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 04:08 PM CST

Nine-year-old Phillip Watt shows his drawings of recent wildfires that ripped through his community at the Buxton Primary School in Buxton, north of Melbourne, Australia Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009.He remembers what he saw on that day when his town, his house, his beloved bicycle were destroyed in Australia's deadliest wildfires. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - The crayon colors on the page were bright — orange, red, sunny yellow. But the drawings were as dark as the blackened remains of the landscape near the tiny Australian schoolhouse.

UN accused of failing to protect Congo civilians (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 03:14 PM CST

U.N. humanitarian aid chief John Holmes, center,visits the pediatric ward of a hospital in Dorouma, Congo, near the border with Sudan, on Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. Holmes vowed Monday to do everything he could to protect people in eastern Congo from the 'diabolical attacks' by rebels that have killed hundreds of residents since late December.(AP Photo/T.J. Kirkpatrick, Pool)AP - Early in the morning the warnings came: Rebels notorious for vicious attacks on civilians were advancing on this eastern Congolese town of thatched roof huts along the winding Kibali River.

Zimbabwe to pay soldiers, teachers in US dollars (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 12:48 PM CST

Demonstrators protest outside the court in Harare, Zimbabwe Wednesday Feb. 18, 2009 and call for the release of political prisoners being held by the ruling ZANU-PF party. Even as a new coalition government took its first steps, members of the Movement for Democratic Change party said efforts were being undermined by a terrorism case against one of their own. A judge on Wednesday judge ordered Roy Bennett, the MDC's nominee for deputy agriculture minister in the unity government jailed at least another two weeks pending trial on terrorism charges. Bennett has already been jailed a week, and the Movement for Democratic Change's leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called Bennett's arrest an attempt by factions in President Robert Mugabe's party to derail the country's unity government. (AP Photo)AP - Zimbabwe tried to combat the world's highest inflation by widening the use of foreign currency Wednesday — the first act of a coalition government that gave the longtime opposition control of much economic policy.

Testimony continues in soldier's court-martial (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:21 AM CST

AP - The court-martial of a U.S. soldier accused of taking part in the execution-style killings of four Iraqi prisoners continued Thursday with more witnesses to be called to the stand.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,245 (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 07:19 PM CST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waves as she takes a tour in a slum in Jakarta February 19, 2009. Clinton's visit to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, highlights President Barack Obama's desire to forge a better U.S. relationship with the Muslim world, where many of the policies of former president George W. Bush's administration, including the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, were deeply unpopular. REUTERS/Bay Ismoyo/Pool (INDONESIA)AP - As of Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009, at least 4,245 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Death threats against police appear in border city (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 09:28 PM CST

A body is seen at the crime scene where it was found in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009. Violence still continues in Ciudad Juarez, where police found several bodies apparently killed in separate incidents. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - Police were on alert Wednesday after several signs appeared across this violent border city warning that more officers would be killed unless the police chief resigns, a day after the second-in-command and three other officers were slain.

Rape, war, climate to top UN chief's African tour (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 08:01 PM CST

AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will embark on a wide-ranging African tour next week in a bid to shore up Congo's struggling peacekeeping mission, show support for victims of war in Congo and Rwanda and press for progress on climate change.

U.S. seeks to improve image in Muslim Indonesia (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:31 AM CST

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) waves she takes a tour in a slum in Jakarta February 19, 2009. (Bay Ismoyo/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made small talk on a popular music TV show and toured U.S.-funded aid projects on Thursday as she tried to improve America's image in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Remains of boy, five, found in Australian crocodile (AFP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 03:52 AM CST

A small town in northern Queensland is flooded after torrential rain. The remains of a missing five-year-old boy have been found in the stomach of a crocodile caught after floods ravaged northern Australia, police said Tuesday.(AFP/HO/Herbert River Express/File/Brooke Baskin)AFP - The remains of a missing five-year-old boy have been found in the stomach of acrocodile caught after floods ravaged northern Australia, police have said.

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