2009年6月16日星期二

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Thousands return to streets of Iran's capital (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 03:10 PM PDT

In this frame grab taken from amateur video, supporters of Iranian reformist opposition leader Mir Hossien Mousavi demonstrate in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday June 16, 2009. Thousands of protesters rallied in Tehran in support of Mousavi, according to witnesses and video footage. (AP Photo/APTN, Amateur Video)AP - Thousands of Iranians swarmed the streets of Tehran on Tuesday in rival demonstrations over the country's disputed presidential election, pushing a deep crisis into its fourth day despite a government attempt to placate the opposition by recounting a limited number of ballots.

Can Iran's regime survive public anger? (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 12:41 PM PDT

In this image issued by the government run Iranian Students News Agency, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, arrives at Tehran's Mehrabad airport after he attended in a summit in Russia, on Tuesday June, 16, 2009. Russia welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tuesday on his first trip abroad since his bitterly disputed re-election, a show of support for a leader facing major protests at home and questions from the West about the legitimacy of the vote count. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Forootan)AP - Iran's Islamic regime has survived a devastating war with Iraq, strong American sanctions and international isolation in its 30 years of power. It has seen reformist and hard-line presidents come and go, with barely a flinch.

Attempted Iran media clampdown meets Internet age (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 03:49 PM PDT

FILE - This June 15,2009, file photo shows a photo of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, left bottom, next to a broken computer monitor in a room in a Tehran University dormitory after it was attacked by militia forces during riots in Tehran, Iran, in the early hours of Monday . Overnight, police and militia stormed the campus at the city's biggest university, ransacking dormitories and arresting dozens of students angry over what they claim was election fraud. Iran's media clampdown seeks to restrict what its citizens and the world can see of street protests. But it's the Internet age, and protesters can take video and photos with cellphones and transmit them over the Web - a huge change from the primitive communications during Iran's 1979 revolution. (AP photo)AP - Iran clamped down Tuesday on independent media in an attempt to control images of election protests, but pictures and videos leaked out anyway — showing how difficult it is to shut off the flow of information in the Internet age.

NKorea: US journalists plotted 'smear campaign' (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:06 PM PDT

File - In this June 8, 2009 file photo, a South Korean man watches a TV broadcasting news about two American journalists detained in North Korea at the Seoul Railway Station, in South Korea. North Korea's state-run news agency says that two American journalists sentenced last week to 12 years of labor admitted they crossed into the country illegally. The Korean Central News Agency said in a detailed report Tuesday, June 16, 2009, that Laura Ling and Euna Lee of Current TV were arrested after crossing the Tumen River from China into North Korea. The report says the women 'admitted and accepted' the sentences handed down by North Korea's top court on June 8. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)AP - One video recorder, six tapes, a digital camera and a stone. North Korea laid out its evidence Tuesday against two American journalists sentenced to hard labor for entering the country illegally.

Pakistan prepares offensive on Taliban stronghold (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 02:12 PM PDT

Pakistani anti-Taliban protesters beat and burn an effigy of top Pakistani commander of Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, on Monday, June 15, 2009 in Karachi, Pakistan. Activists of a moderate Muslim group chanted slogans against Taliban militant Baitullah Mehsud and Sufi Mohammad, a cleric who wanted to impose Sharia or Islamic jurisprudence in Swat. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - Pakistan's army launched airstrikes and ferried in tanks and artillery as it confirmed Tuesday that it was preparing a major offensive against insurgents in al-Qaida and the Taliban's safest haven along the Afghan border.

More Trouble in West Africa's Narco State (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:35 PM PDT

Time.com - As Guinea-Bissau moves toward presidential elections on June 28, the assassination of a candidate is killing any hope that the country can escape the control of its rogue army

Breakdancing pensioner gets disability benefit cut (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:03 PM PDT

A pensioner vowed Tuesday to keep making his moves despite having his disability benefits cut after he appeared breakdancing on Britain's Got Talent.(Britain's Got Talent)AFP - A pensioner vowed Tuesday to keep making his moves despite having his disability benefits cut after he appeared breakdancing on a television talent show.

Iraq unveils results of prison abuse investigation (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 12:46 PM PDT

Men sit in crowded cells in a jail in central Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Iraqi interior minister Jawad al-Bolanivisited the jail after members of Iraqi parliament called for investigation on human rights abuses in Iraqi jails. Complaints about mistreatment of inmates in Iraqi prisons gained widespread attention last week when a Sunni lawmaker who was a champion of prisoner rights was killed after delivering a sermon at a Baghdad mosque. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq's interior minister said Tuesday more than 40 police officers face charges after an investigation into prison abuse found inmates incarcerated without warrants and others with their rights violated.

7 men beaten, shot to death in northern Mexico (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:53 PM PDT

Mexican soldiers patrol a street in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco June 10, 2009. Eighteen people were killed in a shootout between drug gangs and soldiers on June 7 and the gun battle was a further blow to Mexico's tourism industry, already reeling from cancellations by foreigners scared away by the swine flu epidemic. REUTERS/Jesus Trigo (MEXICO CRIME LAW MILITARY)AP - Police have found the bodies of seven young men who were beaten or shot to death in the northern state of Durango.

Presidents, dictators at Gabon leader's funeral (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 01:43 PM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, stand next to former French President Jacques Chirac, right, as they lay down flowers in front of the coffin of late Gabonese President Omar Bongo at the Presidential Palace in Libreville, Gabon, Tuesday, June 16, 2009. African heads of state and France's president laid wreaths beside the coffin of Gabon's late leader Omar Bongo as his official state funeral began Tuesday in the marble hall of the Central African nation's presidential palace.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)AP - Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Gabon's capital Tuesday to say farewell to late President Omar Bongo, whose flag-draped coffin was paraded through the heart of a nation he was accused of pillaging during four decades of rule.

Lee and Obama discuss free trade deal (AP)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:44 PM PDT

AP - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is urging representatives of top U.S. companies to push for quick ratification of a stalled U.S.-South Korean free trade deal.

Harper, Ignatieff extend "productive" talks (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 12:38 PM PDT

Reuters - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the main opposition leader, Michael Ignatieff, have finished a first meeting aimed at avoiding an election and will meet again later on Tuesday, a Harper spokesman said.

Obama rejects North Korea's bid to be nuclear power (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 02:09 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Despite President Barack Obama's assurance Tuesday that he won't accept North Korea as a nuclear power, he has few options short of war and may have little choice but to find a way to live with the threat.

Yemen hostage killings: the work of Al Qaeda? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Jun 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - As many as nine foreign hostages, including Germans, a Briton, and a South Korean, have been found dead in the volatile region of Saada in northern Yemen today, according to news agency reports.

What Iraqis Think About Iran's Election Turmoil (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 04:35 PM PDT

Time.com - While much of the rest of the world wrings its hands over the Iranian election, there has been little anguish in Baghdad. There are several reasons why

'Only Rich Countries' Can End Climate Deadlock (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 12:40 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 16 (OneWorld.net) - Only wealthy nations -- which have a "double duty" to reduce pollution at home and help poor countries slash emissions -- can relieve the deadlock paralyzing global climate negotiations, says a new report by an international relief agency.

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