2009年6月11日星期四

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WHO: Swine flu pandemic has begun, 1st in 41 years (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:53 PM PDT

An Egyptian woman wears a surgical mask as another covers her nose in Cairo's underground, Egypt, Thursday, June 11, 2009 after a student dorm at the American University in Cairo was placed under quarantine through June 15 after seven Americans, six students and one faculty member, were diagnosed with swine flu. (AP Photo/Eman Helal)AP - Swine flu is now formally a pandemic, a declaration by U.N. health officials that will speed vaccine production and spur government spending to combat the first global flu epidemic in 41 years. Thursday's announcement by the World Health Organization doesn't mean the virus is any more lethal — only that its spread is considered unstoppable.

4 former Guantanamo detainees in a new world (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, June 1, 2009 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, Chinese Uighur Guantanamo detainees, who at the time were cleared for release but had no country to go to, show a home-made note to visiting members of the media, at Camp Iguana detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Palau, an archipelago in the Pacific ocean, has agreed to accept 17 Chinese Uighurs, the last remaining Uighurs at Guantanamo Bay, indicating a resolution to one of the thorniest issues facing the Obama administration's decision to close the prison camp. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool, File)AP - Four Guantanamo detainees from arid, predominantly Muslim western China were transferred to this very proper British colony Thursday, marking an unexpected new chapter in their odyssey.

IDs of Air France victims could prove jet broke up (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 01:54 PM PDT

Brazilian Air Force personnel carry a body recovered during search operations of the missing Air France flight 447 in Fernando de Noronha island, off the northeast coast of Brazil, Thursday, June 11, 2009. As storms bore down on the crash zone off Brazil, a French submarine searched the depths of the Atlantic Ocean for the black boxes that hold the best hope of finding out what did happen to the plane when it flew into heavy storms May 31 with 228 people aboard. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Brazilian authorities started to identify bodies recovered from a downed Air France jet on Thursday, and the names of victims found 53 miles (85 kilometers) apart in the ocean could help prove whether the jet broke up in the air.

Campaign.com: New role for Web in Iranian politics (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 01:31 PM PDT

An Iranian woman who declined to give her name uses the internet in Nikoo Coffeenet internet cafe in the Tadrish bazaar in northern Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 11, 2009 . Challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi's brain trust has found new ways to harness the power of online politics in a Web-savvy campaign to bring down President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. in Friday's election. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - A dozen young Iranians tap away at computers in a headquarters so new the light fixtures are still being installed. Their mission: to post videos, messages, blogs and anything else to further the Web-savvy campaign that hopes to bring down President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Friday's election.

Pakistan public opinion turning against Taliban (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:24 PM PDT

FILE - This is file image from Friday, April 3, 2009, from mobile phone footage released by Dunya TV Channel, shows a woman in a body-covering burqa face down on the ground with two men holding her arms and feet and a third man whipping her backside. It could be the video that changed Pakistan, an instant icon that has come to represent the Taliban and an extreme form of Islam. The government is using the clip to ask its people if this is what they want; the answer from many Pakistanis is no. (AP Photo/Dunya TV Channel)AP - The footage was chilling — a woman crying out in pain, held face-down on the ground, as a man with a long beard flogged her in front of a crowd.

Can Air France Flight 447 be solved without the black box? (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 06:10 PM PDT

A Brazilian Air Force pilot, left, wears flag patches of Brazil and France as Air Force Brig. Gen. Ramon Cardoso talks to the media about search operations of the missing Air France flight 447 in Recife, Brazil, Thursday, June 11, 2009. As storms bore down on the crash zone off Brazil, a French submarine searched the depths of the Atlantic Ocean for the black boxes that hold the best hope of finding out what did happen to the plane when it flew into heavy storms May 31 with 228 people aboard. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)Time.com - As the search for wreckage and bodies from the Air France Flight 447 crash continues, the hunt for the plane's cockpit and flight-data recorder -- the black box -- has become more urgent

Air France chief questions sensor role in crash (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 06:14 PM PDT

Members of the Brazilian Air Force carry the body of a victim of Air France Flight 447 that went missing en route from Rio to Paris, at a base in Fernando de Noronha island, June 11, 2009. REUTERS/JC Imagem/Renato SpencerReuters - Air France is not convinced so far that faulty speed sensors were to blame for the loss of one of its planes over the Atlantic, but is replacing old sensors as a precaution, the airline's chief executive said on Thursday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,311 (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 04:43 PM PDT

AP - As of Thursday, June 11, 2009, at least 4,311 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Gaddafi tells Italy to scrap political parties (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 02:02 PM PDT

Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi (L) speaks with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the Chigi palace in Rome June 10, 2009. REUTERS/Max RossiReuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, addressing Italians in a historic Rome square, embarrassed his hosts on Thursday by saying he would abolish political parties and give Italians direct power if it were up to him.

AP source: NKorea may be prepping new nuclear test (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 06:23 PM PDT

South Korean Marines aboard a tank, participate in a drill at South Korea's western Yeonpyong Island, near the disputed sea border with North Korea, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. South Korea has informed the U.S. of up to 20 North Korean bank accounts suspected of being used for counterfeiting, money laundering and other illegal transactions, a news report said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Hyun-tai)AP - North Korea may be preparing for its third nuclear test, a show of defiance as the United Nations considers new sanctions on the dictatorship for conducting an underground nuclear explosion in May, according to a U.S. government official.

Canada sees big deficit, coy on return to surplus (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 12:19 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada said on Thursday it would run a C$50.2 billion ($45.6 billion) budget deficit this year and was committed to returning to surplus, but a government document made no mention of an earlier promise to get back in the black by 2013-14.

Jetstar plane makes emergency landing in Guam (AP)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 07:24 AM PDT

AP - An Airbus 330 carrying 203 people made an emergency landing in Guam on Thursday after an electrical problem sparked a small fire in the cockpit, airline officials said. It's the same type of plane that crashed last week in the Atlantic.

'Reformer' is relative for Iranian election challenger (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 02:36 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - TEHRAN, Iran — Mir Hossein Mousavi, who's mounting a credible bid to make Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the first incumbent unseated since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, has been billed in much of the Western press and even in Iran as a reformer.

Indigenous Peruvians vow more attacks over control of the Amazon (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In a low-slung concrete building packed with poor, angry, indigenous Peruvians, protester Carlos Collado speaks in hard, revolutionary terms. "We are not the assassins the government makes us out to be," he says. "But we will not let our brothers die. This meeting is illegal. But we are here. This shows that we are ready."

Why the U.S. Should Start Talking to Hamas (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 06:10 PM PDT

Time.com - A meeting in Damascus shows why the U.S. must be prepared to deal with all sides

Humanitarian Angle Key to Climate Deal (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 10:09 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 11 (OneWorld.net) - The humanitarian impact of global warming must be addressed in the next major global treaty on climate change -- to be negotiated in Copenhagen in December, urged 18 aid organizations during climate talks in Bonn, Germany.

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