2009年6月6日星期六

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2 bodies, ticket found near Air France crash site (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 04:28 PM PDT

A Brazilian Air Force radar plane, background, lands, after locating by radar, according to Brazilian Air Force spoksman,  two bodies and a brief case belonging to a missing Air France jet, in Fernando de Noronha island airport, off the northern coast of Brazil, Saturday, June 6, 2009.  Two male bodies  and a leather briefcase with an Air France ticket for the flight inside of it, were recovered Saturday morning about 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of where Air Flight 447 emitted its last signals,  roughly 400 miles (640 kilometers) northeast of the Fernando de Noronha islands off Brazil's northern coast, a Brazilian military official said Saturday.(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Searchers found two bodies and the first confirmed debris — a briefcase containing an Air France Flight 447 ticket — in the Atlantic Ocean near where the jetliner is believed to have crashed, a Brazil military official said Saturday.


Mexico day care fire kills 35 children (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 04:36 PM PDT

People help in getting a child out of a burining day-care center in the city of Hermosillo, Mexico Friday June 5, 2009. Flames engulfed the day care center in this northern Mexico city, killing at least 29 children and injuring dozens.(AP Photo/El Imparcial)AP - Sobbing relatives waited outside a morgue Saturday to claim the bodies of 35 children killed in a day care fire in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts to evacuate babies and toddlers through the building's only working exit. One father crashed his pickup truck through the wall to rescue his child.


AP IMPACT: In Algeria, al-Qaida extends franchise (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 05:22 PM PDT

In this photo taken on Sunday, May 24, 2009 an Algerian gendarme watches through his binoculars as he patrols in the desert near Bechar at the Moroccan border, about 1000km West of Algiers, Algeria. (AP Photo)AP - Deep in the Sahara Desert, along the remote southern borders of Algeria, lies an immense no man's land where militants roam.


Pakistan health care crumbles with refugee influx (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 04:01 PM PDT

AP - She doesn't have a name yet.

D-Day Tributes and Reflection Conclude Obama's Tour (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Time.com - The President's latest overseas trip began with a mission to increase international cooperation and ended at a monument to what such common purpose can achieve

Bodies, debris retrieved from Air France crash (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 06:02 PM PDT

Members of the Brazilian Air Force bandeirantes relax after a search operation over the area where Air France flight AF447 went missing en route from Rio to Paris, at a base in Fernando de Noronha island June 6, 2009. REUTERS/Bruno DomingosReuters - Brazilian search crews on Saturday retrieved the first bodies from a crashed Air France flight in the Atlantic, and investigators said faulty speed readings had been found on the same type of jets.


Hezbollah challenges pro-West camp in Lebanon vote (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 01:06 PM PDT

Lebanese supporters of the Free Patriotic Movement of Christian leader Michel Aoun wave the Lebanese and the party's orange flags as they ride their cars in the Christian stronghold of Metn north of Beirut, Lebanon Friday, June 5, 2009. Lebanese voters faced stark choices Sunday, handing power to an Iranian-backed Hezbollah alliance or renewing the mandate of a pro-Western coalition in crucial parliamentary elections that could determine the country's future for the next four years. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - Lebanese voters face a stark choice Sunday between renewing the mandate of a pro-Western coalition or handing power to a Hezbollah-led alliance that could bring international isolation and new conflict with Israel upon the small, tumultuous country.


9 more police killed in Amazon protests in Peru (AP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 04:30 PM PDT

In this picture released by Amazon Watch on June 6, 2009, an Indian protester screams as he is subdued by police in Bagua Grande in Peru's northern province of Utcubamba, Friday, June 5, 2009. Clashes broke out early Friday when security forces moved to break up a roadblock by some 5,000 Indians that was mounted in early April, to protest oil and gas exploration on their lands. Peruvian authorities say 20 police have died in the clashes and Indian protest leaders say 25 Indians have died in the clashes. (AP Photo/Amazon Watch)AP - President Alan Garcia labored Saturday to contain Peru's worst political violence in years, as nine more police officers were killed in a bloody standoff with Amazon Indians fighting his efforts to exploit oil and gas on their native lands.


Holland take first European World Cup berth, England closer (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 02:12 PM PDT

Toni Kallio of Finland (R) and Marco Ritzberger of Liechtenstein in action during a World Cup 2010 qualifying football match at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland. Finland won 2-1.(AFP/LEHTIKUVA/Roni Rekomaa)AFP - A revived England all but booked their World Cup finals place Saturday by swatting Kazakhstan 4-0 as Holland became the first European nation to seal their berth for South Africa.


Four-wicket Ojha spins India to victory (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 02:14 PM PDT

Pragyan Ojha of India celebrates after taking the wicket of Zunaed Siddique of Bangladesh during the ICC world Twenty 20 cricket match against Bangladesh at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. Ojha grabbed 4-21 as defending champions India overpowered Bangladesh by 25 runs in the World Twenty20 here on Saturday.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha grabbed 4-21 as defending champions India overpowered Bangladesh by 25 runs in the World Twenty20 here on Saturday.


Canadian Liberals hold narrow opinion poll lead (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 08:17 AM PDT

Reuters - The Liberals hold a narrow lead over the Conservatives, but neither party has a good chance of winning a majority government in a new election, according to two polls published on Saturday.

Australia reassures China over Rio decision (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 03:39 AM PDT

Australia's government has raced to reassure China that miner Rio Tinto's decision to walk away from a $19.5 bln investment by Beijing was not a political move. Rio Tinto announced on Friday it was pulling out of the deal that had sparked political and shareholder opposition and would instead raise capital from existing shareholders and forge a joint venture with arch rival BHP Billiton.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Australia's government has raced to reassure China that miner Rio Tinto's decision to walk away from a 19.5-billion-US-dollar investment by Beijing was not a political move.


At 'Obama beach,' U.S. president salutes W.W. II victors, warns N. Korea, Iran (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 06 Jun 2009 02:07 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France_On the 65th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy to free Europe from the Nazis, President Barack Obama saluted the elderly veterans who once stormed the beaches and achieved an "improbable victory" in World War II.

Fears Escalate Over Violence in Islamabad (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Time.com - Saturday's suicide bombing has raised fears that militants are intent on striking deeper inside Pakistan, mounting revenge attacks and attempting to demoralize the population

Ethnic Media Reaching Record Numbers in U.S. (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 05 Jun 2009 09:22 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - ATLANTA, Jun 5 (OneWorld.net) - Nearly 60 million Americans now regularly get information from ethnically oriented TV, radio, newspapers, and Web sites, many of which are published or broadcast in languages other than English -- and that number is on the rise.
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