2009年4月19日星期日

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Iran president urges full defense for US reporter (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT

US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi poses for a photograph in Tehran in this April 10, 2004 file photo. An Iranian-American journalist detained in Iran since late January 2009 and accused of espionage went on trial this week and a verdict is expected soon, the Iranian judiciary said on April 14, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer/Files (IRAN CONFLICT SOCIETY POLITICS IMAGE OF THE DAY TOP PICTURE)AP - Iran's president said Sunday that an American journalist convicted of spying for the U.S. should be allowed to offer a full defense during her appeal, a day after she was sentenced to eight years in prison.

'Empire of the Sun' author Ballard dies at 78 (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 03:12 PM PDT

AP - Writer J.G. Ballard, best known for the autobiographical novel "Empire Of The Sun," which drew on his childhood detention in a Japanese prison camp in China, died Sunday, his agent said. He was 78.

Boredom, hunger and fear for pirates' hostages (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 07:13 AM PDT

FILE - This Monday April 13, 2009,file photo shows the wives of Filipino sailors, Doris Deseo, left, and Catherine Boretta, right, showing pictures of their husbands Carlo, second from left, and Rodell, second from right, to the Associated Press as they visit the office of a shipping agency in Manila, Philippines on to get updates on negotiations to free their hostage husbands in Somalia. 'The families of hostages are afraid of any rescue attempt because it might put the lives of the hostages in danger,' said Boretta, whose husband Rodell is being held captive by Somali pirates on the MT Stolt Strength for nearly five months now. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Some hostages are little more than skin and bones, their food running out and illnesses setting in as negotiations for their release drag on, angering their volatile captors. Others report less brutal conditions, even being allowed to fish for extra provisions.

Gunmen kidnap 2 aid workers in Somalia (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 11:15 AM PDT

A Somali soldier carries a heavy machine gun as he and other bodyguards protect government officials in Mogadishu. Two foreign aid workers -- one from Belgium and the other from the Netherlands -- have been kidnapped by gunmen in southern Somalia.(AFP/Mustafa Abdi)AP - About 25 masked gunmen armed with machine guns kidnapped two European aid workers in central Somalia on Sunday, aid workers and a witness said.

Tattoos from Auschwitz horror reunite lost inmates (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 10:28 AM PDT

Holocaust survivors Menachem Shulovitz, 80, right, Anshel Szieradzki, 81 center, and Yaakov Zeretzki, 82 display their concentration camp number at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem Sunday, April 19, 2009. As terrified teenagers 65 years ago, Menachem Sholowicz and Anshel Sieradzki stood one ahead of the other in Auschwitz, having serial numbers tattooed on their arms. Sholowicz was B-14594; Sieradzki was B-14595. Zeretzki was B-14597 and his brother, not seen in the picture, was B-14596. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - As terrified teenagers 65 years ago, Menachem Sholowicz and Anshel Sieradzki stood in line together in Auschwitz, having serial numbers tattooed on their arms. Sholowicz was B-14594; Sieradzki was B-14595.

Worst over but no growth until 2010: CBI (AFP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 04:56 PM PDT

Workers wearing casual clothes arrive for work at Canary Wharf in London on April 1, 2009. A major business lobby group predicted Monday that the worst of Britain's recession may be over, but growth would only resume next year, in a forecast just days before ministers unveil a crunch budget.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - A major business lobby group predicted Monday that the worst of Britain's recession may be over, but growth would only resume next year, in a forecast just days before ministers unveil a crunch budget.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,274 (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 04:33 PM PDT

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks to member of the Interior Ministry in Baghdad. Maliki warned on Sunday at a meeting of top security officials that the danger from AP - As of Sunday, April 19, 2009, at least 4,274 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Few turn out in Haiti for delayed Senate election (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 04:47 PM PDT

Electoral workers wait for voters during Senate elections at a polling station in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, April 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Clear-plastic ballot boxes were nearly empty and Port-au-Prince's streets unusually deserted Sunday as few voters turned out for Senate elections in which candidates from a major populist party were not allowed to run.

New Zealand pulls out of UN racism conference (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 04:55 PM PDT

AP - New Zealand's government says the country won't take part in this week's U.N. racism conference out of concern that it could descend into the same chaos as the one in South Africa in 2001.

US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 606 (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 04:36 PM PDT

An Afghan policeman keeps watch as colleagues inspect the site of a suicide attack in March 2009. Afghanistan will increase its 82,000-strong police force by 15,000 officers ahead of the country's presidential election in August, a government minister said Sunday.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AP - As of Sunday, April 19, 2009, at least 606 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.

US asks for elite NZ troops for Afghanistan war (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2009 02:13 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. has formally asked New Zealand to send its elite Special Air Service combat troops back to Afghanistan for a fourth tour of duty, the foreign minister said Sunday.

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