2009年5月24日星期日

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Defeated Tamil Tiger rebels confirm leader's death (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 12:48 PM PDT

In this Tuesday, May 19, 2009 photo, Sri Lankan soldiers gather as the body of Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is carried on a stretcher in Mullaittivu, Sri Lanka. Aid groups and the U.N. appealed to be allowed to survey the aftermath of the final battle of Sri Lanka's civil war and pushed for unfettered access to some 280,000 Tamils displaced from the former combat zone. (AP Photo)AP - The defeated Tamil Tiger rebels confirmed Sunday that their supreme leader was killed in the group's final battle against Sri Lankan troops.

'Bloody intersection' secured by Pakistani troops (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 05:05 PM PDT

A Pakistani displaced girl carries pieces of bread during a food distribution at Chota Lahore Refugee Camp in Swabi, Pakistan, Sunday, May 24, 2009. Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis have fled fighting between the army and Taliban militants in a northwestern valley, raising the risk that public support could turn against an offensive Washington sees as a must-win battle. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - The Taliban left so many mutilated bodies at the crossing — some hanging from trees with threatening notes — that Pakistanis in the Swat Valley's main town took to calling it "bloody intersection."

Sikh rivals fight at temple in Austria; 16 injured (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 05:21 PM PDT

Austrian policemen stand in front of a house in Vienna's Rudolfsheim district, housing an Indian temple, in which a shooting took place in Vienna, Austria, on Sunday, May 24, 2009. Police in Austria say up to 30 people have been wounded, nine severely, in a shooting at the Indian temple. Police spokesman Michael Takacs told Austria Press Agency five men entered a place of worship for an Indian religious community early afternoon Sunday and started firing at those present. Police arrested all five suspects, Takacs said. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)AP - Sikhs wielding knives and a handgun attacked two preachers at a rival temple in Vienna on Sunday in a brawl that left at least 16 people wounded, police and witnesses said. A related clash later broke out in northern India.

SKoreans mourn death, pay respects to ex-president (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 06:43 PM PDT

Women cry in front of a picture of former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun during a funeral service for Roh near Roh's home in Gimhae, South Korea, Sunday, May 24, 2009. The sound of wailing pierced the air as tens of thousands of South Koreans streamed to a rural village Sunday to pay their respects to Roh a day after he killed himself by jumping off a rocky cliff overlooking his home. (AP Photo/ Korea Pool)AP - Bowing deeply and laying white chrysanthemums before his portrait, tens of thousands of mourners journeyed Sunday to the southern village where former President Roh Moo-hyun killed himself by jumping off a rocky cliff overlooking his home.

US military: Iraq attacks down nearly 60 percent (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 12:20 PM PDT

An Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of U.S. Army Sgt. Paul F. Brooks, 34, of Joplin, Mo., at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Sunday, May 24, 2009. According to the Department of Defense, Brooks was one of three soldiers killed May 21 near Baghdad from wounds suffered from an improvised explosive device. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)AP - High-profile attacks in Iraq have fallen nearly 60 percent in the past year, the U.S. military said Sunday, though violence continues to plague the northern city of Mosul, where a suicide car bomber targeting an American convoy killed one Iraqi and wounded 45 others.

Iran's Spending Spree in Afghanistan (Time.com)

Posted: 24 May 2009 10:30 AM PDT

Time.com - Tehran is bankrolling public works projects in Herat. But many Afghans wonder if their neighbor also has more nefarious projects on its budget

(AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 06:55 PM PDT

AP - Police say one of two Indian preachers shot in a Vienna temple by Sikhs has died.

Facebook block ahead of Iran vote hampers youth (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 11:40 AM PDT

A supporter of leading reformist candidate in upcoming Iranian presidential elections, Mir Hossein Mousavi, holds a poster with Mousavi's photo,left and THAT OF former President Mohammad Khatami, right, who is supporting Mousavi , during an election campaign rally in Tehran Saturday May 23, 2009. Mousavi, is a former Prime Minister, and a main challenger of the hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for June 12 presidential elections. (AP photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)AP - Iran's decision to block access to Facebook — less than three weeks before nationwide elections — drew sharp criticism Sunday from a reformist opposition hoping to mobilize the youth vote and unseat President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Paraguay bishop-turned-president: Celibacy flawed (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 12:35 PM PDT

AP - Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, who last month admitted fathering a son conceived while he was still a bishop, says celibacy vows taken by Roman Catholic clerics are "imperfect."

Filipinos freed in Niger Delta: army (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 01:57 PM PDT

A fighter of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), holds his weapons at the militia's creek camp in the Niger Delta in 2008. The Nigerian army said Sunday it freed a total of six Filipinos held hostage in the oil-rich Niger Delta.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - The Nigerian army said Sunday it freed a total of six Filipinos held hostage in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

Guru dies after Austrian temple clash: police (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 06:53 PM PDT

Austrian police secure the area outside of a Sikh temple in Vienna. A visiting Indian guru died after being shot in a clash between rival religious communities at a Sikh temple in Vienna in which about 30 people were injured, police announced.(AFP/Samuel Kubani)AFP - A visiting Indian guru died after being shot in a clash between rival Sikh communities at a temple in Vienna in which about 30 people were injured, police said.

Australian flood waters create 'inland sea' (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2009 12:30 AM PDT

State Emergency Service staff patrol a flooded street in Lismore on May 22. Thousands of homeowners have remained isolated in the country's flood-hit northeast, where authorities have said days of torrential rain had created a vast AFP - Thousands of homeowners remained isolated in Australia's flood-hit northeast Sunday, where authorities said days of torrential rain had created a vast "inland sea".

Former Iraqi insurgent contemplates returning to war (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 24 May 2009 03:00 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Abu Fatma dresses in suits now. He cuts his hair short and talks like a politician.

Iraqi Army: almost one-quarter lacks minimum qualifications (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 May 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In a legacy of the US rush to build up Iraqi security forces, almost one-quarter of the Iraqi Army currently fails to meet its own minimum qualifications for soldiers, the Iraqi government is discovering in its first real look at the composition of the Army.

Zimbabwe in Transition: A 100-Day Report Card (Time.com)

Posted: 24 May 2009 09:30 AM PDT

Time.com - While some progress has been made in terms of the economy, little has changed in terms of democratic freedoms and the ability of journalists to report

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