2009年3月20日星期五

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Iran brushes aside new Obama video message (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 01:31 PM PDT

Iranian Sama Dancer, Behzad Hajir, right, performs the mystical Sufi whirling, a traditional trancelike meditation, called Sama, as an unidentified musician performs, in a ceremony commemorating Iranian New Year, Nowruz, at the Tehran University, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, March 14, 2009. Unlike other countries in the Middle East, Iran follows the Persian solar year, which begins on the first day of spring. This March 21, Iran begins the year 1388. Along with Iranians, Kurds and people in parts of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan celebrate Nowruz, which is a Persian word for New Year. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - The Iranian government brushed aside a Persian New Year's message Friday from President Barack Obama offering to resolve years of hostility, saying it wants concrete change from Washington before it's ready to enter a dialogue.

Iraqi budget woes force security hiring freeze (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 12:20 PM PDT

A U.S. Navy boat approaches a British war ship in the waterway that borders Iran in Umm Qasr in southern Iraq, Monday, March 16, 2009. Iraq's budget woes have forced the security forces to put recruiting plans on hold even as the U.S. and British militaries move forward with plans to relinquish more responsibilities for protecting the nation's vital infrastructure and waterways. That has left the fledgling Iraqi navy with more than 60 percent of its slots unfilled less than two months before it is due to take over one of two oil terminals floating in a disputed waterway that borders Iran. (AP Photo/Kim Gamel)AP - The drop in oil prices has forced Iraq's military and police to put recruiting on hold even as the U.S. hands over more responsibility for protecting the country.

Detained reporters drawn to NKorean refugee story (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 11:05 AM PDT

These undated photo show two American journalists Laura Ling, rigtht, and Euna Lee. Ling and Lee were detained by North Korean soldiers while on a reporting trip earlier in the week near the country's border with China, South Korean news reports said Thursday, March 19, 2009.(AP Photo/Yonhap)AP - Tales about life on the run from repressive North Korea — women who end up at the mercy of human traffickers, children who grow up in hiding — drew the team of American reporters to the Chinese-North Korean border.

Pope condemns sexual violence against women (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 02:19 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI greets a group of Pygmies from Cameroon's Baka tribe as he leaves the Vatican embassy on his way to the Angola, in Yaounde, Cameroon, Friday, March 20, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI is in Africa for a seven-day visit that will take him to Cameroon and Angola.(AP Photo/Osservatore Romano)AP - Pope Benedict XVI, welcomed to this sweltering capital Friday by the biggest crowds of his African pilgrimage, condemned sexual violence against women in Africa and chided those countries on the continent that have approved abortion.

2 US Navy vessels collide in Strait of Hormuz (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 12:15 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by the U.S. Navy, the Port-side bow of the Los Angeles class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine USS Hartford (SSN 768) is seen anchored off the US Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Md. The U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet says two of its vessels — a submarine, the USS Hartford and an amphibious ship, the USS New Orleans collided in the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and the Arabian peninsula early Friday, March 20, 2009. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Don S. Montgomery)AP - Two U.S. Navy vessels — a nuclear-powered submarine and an amphibious ship — collided before dawn Friday in the mouth of the Persian Gulf, one of the world's most important sea passages for oil supplies.

Google removes street images over privacy complaints (AFP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 03:33 PM PDT

US software giant Google said Friday it had removed several images from its Street View software, which allows web surfers to view parts of 25 British cities, after users raised privacy concerns.(Google)AFP - US software giant Google said Friday it had removed several images from its Street View software, which allows web surfers to view parts of 25 British cities, after users raised privacy concerns.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,260 (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 04:07 PM PDT

An Iraqi police commando inspects the site where a roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in Baghdad on March 13, 2009. A bomb exploded killing a policeman and seriously wounding two more on Friday evening in southern Iraq, a security officer said.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)AP - As of Friday, March 20, 2009, at least 4,260 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Jury clears PR ex-governor in corruption trial (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 05:09 PM PDT

Former Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila, left, leaves the U.S. Federal Courthouse, accompanied by his wife Luisa Gandara, during a recess in his corruption trial in San Juan, Friday, March 20, 2009. The jury began deciding Friday whether to convict Acevedo Vila and one of his top advisers of nine charges including fraud and money laundering. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - A jury found Puerto Rico's former governor not guilty Friday on all nine counts including conspiracy, money laundering and lying to the FBI, concluding his monthlong corruption trial.

Prosecutor slams Sudan's president over aid groups (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 04:51 PM PDT

Sudanese refugees line up for water while an UNAMID truck, unseen, which is carrying water donated to the camp, unloads at the Zamzam refugee camp, outside the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Sudan Thursday, March 19, 2009. Tens of thousands newly displaced Sudanese arrived at the overcrowded refugee camp of Zamzam in the last several weeks. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - The Sudanese president's decision to expel 13 foreign aid groups from Darfur shows the International Criminal Court is right to pursue him on war crimes charges in the region, the court's chief prosecutor said Friday.

NKorea restores military hot line with South (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 05:24 PM PDT

North Korean soldiers guard the banks of the Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong March 20, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer (NORTH KOREA MILITARY POLITICS) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINAAP - North Korea restored its military communications hot line with South Korea and said it would reopen a border crossing, officials said Saturday.

Reports: Woman gave birth, left baby on plane (AP)

Posted: 20 Mar 2009 08:46 AM PDT

AP - A woman who secretly gave birth on a flight from Samoa to New Zealand may face criminal charges, police said Friday, as they investigated reports she abandoned her baby alive in the plane's bathroom.

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