2009年5月21日星期四

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3 US soldiers, dozens of Iraqis killed by bombings (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 02:08 PM PDT

Awakening Council member examine the scene of a suicide bombing in Kirkuk, Iraq, Thursday, May 21, 2009. A suicide bomber has killed six U.S. backed Sunni paramilitaries, called Awakening Councils, who were waiting in a line in the northern city of Kirkuk to receive their monthly salaries, a police official said. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)AP - Bombers struck in Baghdad and a northern city Thursday, killing three American soldiers and nearly two dozen Iraqis in a new spasm of violence that has taken at least 66 lives in two days.

New French law on Internet piracy meets skepticism (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 02:13 PM PDT

FILE - This April 3, 2009, file photo shows French first lady Carla Bruni, right,and her husband French President Nicolas Sarkozy arriving at the Kurhaus in Baden-Baden, Germany,for a NATO function. A thousand French Internet users a day could be taken off-line following approval of Sarkozy's pet project -- an unprecedented law to cut the Internet connections of people who repeatedly pirate music and movies. As the husband of the supermodel-turned-pop star and friend to France's most powerful media figures, Sarkozy has long basked in his cozy ties to the entertainment industry, which welcomes the measure. . (AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - A thousand French Internet users a day could be taken off-line following approval of President Nicolas Sarkozy's pet project — an unprecedented law to cut the Internet connections of people who repeatedly pirate music and movies.

Court: Egypt tycoon to hang in slaying of pop diva (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 01:28 PM PDT

Egyptian policemen guard Hisham Talaat Moustafa, a Egyptian real estate mogul and lawmaker, second left, charged with the gruesome murder of the Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim as he leaves a court in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 21, 2009. Prominent Egyptian real estate mogul and lawmaker Moustafa, who is close to President Hosni Mubarak's eldest son Gamal, was found guilty and sentenced to death by an Egyptian court Thursday, for paying former Egyptian police officer Mohsen el-Sukkary, who was also sentenced to death, $2 million to kill Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim in Dubai, in a case that has sparked a media frenzy across the Middle East. (AP Photo/Nasser Nouri)AP - Suzanne Tamim shot to fame in an "American Idol"-style TV show, a green-eyed Lebanese beauty whose pop songs about love's agony mirrored her troubled life.

Critics: Ireland slow to protect its children (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 02:41 PM PDT

John Kelly, of the Survivors of Child Abuse (SOCA) group, right, and Kevin Flannagan brother of Mickey Flannagan, victim of child abuse, shout at members of the government-appointed Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse in state-funded Roman Catholic Church-run institutions, for being turned away from a press conference in Dublin, Ireland,Wednesday, May 20, 2009. A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland's Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades — and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation. Nine years in the making, Wednesday's 2,600-page report sides almost completely with the horrific reports of abuse from former students sent to more than 250 church-run, mostly residential institutions. (AP Photo / Peter Morrison)AP - Child-abuse activists warned Thursday that Ireland failed to learn the lessons from decades of unchecked brutality inside Catholic Church-run schools and still offers poor protection to vulnerable boys and girls.

WHO: Japan and San Marino have longest life expectancy (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 10:21 AM PDT

AP - Girls born in Japan today are likely to live until the year 2095, some with a good chance of seeing the dawn of the next century thanks to the world's longest life expectancy.

French Newspapers Cutting Back on Holidays (Time.com)

Posted: 21 May 2009 04:10 PM PDT

Time.com - One way to lose less money, they figure, is to stoppublishing when French workers get another day off

Qatar acts over Prince Charles' criticism: report (AFP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 05:43 PM PDT

Coldstream Guards are seen on the parade ground for the final time at Chelsea Barracks in London, in December 2007. Prince Charles has triggered a new row over his architectural views by urging Qatar's leaders to rethink a modern design for the barracks' new building.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - The Qatari developer of a landmark London building whose plans have drawn criticism from Prince Charles said Friday he may be willing to compromise on the scheme, the Financial Times reported.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,299 (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 05:08 PM PDT

AP - As of Thursday, May 21, 2009, at least 4,299 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Video shows 53 inmates escaping Mexican prison (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 06:07 PM PDT

Soldiers patrol outside Cieneguillas state prison in c, Mexico, Saturday, May 16, 2009. An armed gang freed more than 50 inmates from the prison in central Mexico on Saturday, including two dozen with ties to a powerful drug cartel, in a raid that took just five minutes, according to state Governor Amalia Garcia Medina. (AP Photo/Oscar Baez)AP - Security camera footage shows that guards at a Mexican prison nonchalantly stood by as 53 dangerous inmates walked out — and didn't rush into action with their guns drawn until well after their convoy of escape vehicles had disappeared into the inky night.

Mutharika wins Malawi presidential vote (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 05:40 PM PDT

AP - Malawi's electoral commission declares incumbent president Bingu wa Mutharika the winner of Tuesday's election, with more than 90 percent of votes counted.

Pakistan allies aid refugees from Taliban fight (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 05:51 PM PDT

Pakistani displaced children who fled the troubled Swat Valley, attend a class at a make-shift school setup in Shiekh Yasin refugee camp in Mardan, Pakistan, on Thursday, May 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Donations to help refugees fleeing Pakistan's latest offensive against the Taliban surpassed $200 million Thursday, as the country's allies sought to ease a crisis that risks eroding public support for military action against the militants.

Canada announces new credit card rules (Reuters)

Posted: 21 May 2009 01:21 PM PDT

Reuters - Credit card issuers in Canada will have to provide a standard 21-day grace period on payments for new purchases under regulations being introduced by Ottawa, but the rules fall short of tough new U.S. regulations.

Bank mistakenly deposits $6M in couple's account (AP)

Posted: 21 May 2009 06:58 AM PDT

AP - Two New Zealanders whose bank mistakenly deposited 10 million New Zealand dollars ($6.1 million) into their account took some of the money and ran, police said.

Pakistan army fails to rescue civilian allies in Swat (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 21 May 2009 03:25 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan_ Short of food and desperate for the military to support them, around 200,000 people remain trapped in northern Swat as the Pakistani army battles further south to wrest the area back from Taliban extremists, residents said Thursday.

A French Obama? Not likely. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 May 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Claire Edey won't deny it. She was inspired by Barack Obama.

For Ireland's Catholic Schools, a Catalog of Horrors (Time.com)

Posted: 21 May 2009 04:10 PM PDT

Time.com - A report released in Ireland reveals "endemic" child abuse in schools and institutions run by the Roman Catholic Church

New Civilian Catastrophe Looms in Eastern Congo (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 21 May 2009 01:39 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, May 21 (OneWorld.net) - A new joint offensive by Congolese troops and UN peacekeepers against rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo will exacerbate the country's dire humanitarian crisis -- already one of the worst in the world, warn experts on genocide and crimes against humanity.

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