2009年7月24日星期五

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Iran president caves in, dismisses his top deputy (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 05:24 PM PDT

In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, presents a gift to his controversial choice First Vice-President Esfandiar Rahim Mashai during a ceremony to mark his farewell as vice president in charge of tourism and cultural heritage, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Ahmadinejad is sticking by his controversial appointment for first vice president in an unusual defiance of a reported order from the supreme leader for his removal. Iran has 12 vice presidents, but the first vice president is the most important because he succeeds the president if he dies, is incapacitated, steps down or is removed. The first vice president also leads Cabinet meetings in the absence of the president. (AP Photo/ISNA,Alireza Sotakbar) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENTAP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caved into pressure from hardline clerics and the country's supreme leader Friday and allowed the resignation of his top deputy after a week-long standoff.

Ousted Honduran leader returns home — briefly (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 05:29 PM PDT

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya, left, arrives surrounded by supporters at the Nicaragua-Honduras border in Las Manos, Nicaragua, Friday, July 24, 2009. Thousands of Hondurans traveled to the remote border between Honduras and Nicaragua to support Manuel Zelaya's bid to reclaim the presidency from the government that ousted him in a June 28 coup. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - Ousted President Manuel Zelaya took a symbolic step into his homeland Friday, vowing to reclaim his post a month after soldiers flew him into exile.

Iraq investigates alleged US-insurgent talks (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr attend Friday prayers in the Sadr City neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq said Friday it was investigating reports that U.S. delegates and Sunni insurgents held reconciliation talks in Turkey this year, alleging the meetings violated Iraqi sovereignty and showed tolerance for terrorists.

US transfers $200 million in aid to Palestinians (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 01:29 PM PDT

Palestinians, Israelis and foreign demonstrators run from tear gas fired by Israeli troops during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, Friday, July 24, 2009. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - The United States has transferred $200 million to the Palestinian government to help ease a growing budget deficit, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.

US envoy warns of imperfect Afghan poll (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 12:03 PM PDT

Presidential candidate and current President Hamid Karzai, right, greets his supportera during an election rally in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, July 24, 2009. Afghanistan's president shook hands and roused supporters Friday with promises to hold international troops more accountable during his first campaign rally in the capital (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - President Barack Obama's special envoy said Friday that Afghanistan's upcoming presidential contest will be imperfect, but the country cannot be held to a democratic standard that even the U.S. struggles to achieve.

French Small Business Booms with Auto-Entrepreneur Plan (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 04:40 PM PDT

Time.com - The state auto-entrepreneur scheme aims to encourage people to start small businesses. It's working

5 ancient Roman shipwrecks found off Italy coast (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 05:24 PM PDT

This photo taken in June 2009 and made available on Friday, July 24, 2009 by the Italian Culture Ministry and the Aurora Trust, shows amphorae, believed to be of Spanish origin and dating back to the 1st century A.D., after it was found with other objects off the coast of Ventotene, a tiny island part of an archipelago between Rome and Naples, Italy. Archaeology officials say they have found five well-preserved Roman shipwrecks off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of amphorae, pots and other objects largely intact. They date from the 1st century B.C. to the 4th century and carried wine amphorae, kitchen tools and some metal and glass objects that have yet to be identified, Italy's Culture Ministry said. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Italian Culture Ministry and the Aurora Trust, ho) NO SALESAP - Archaeologists have found five well-preserved Roman shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of vases, pots and other objects largely intact, officials said Friday.

Iranian airliner skids off runway killing 17 (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 12:44 PM PDT

An Iranian passenger jet is seen after skidding off a runway and crashing at an airport in the city of Mashhad, 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) northeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 24, 2009. An Iranian passenger plane skidded off the runway during its landing in northeast Iran and crashed, shredding the cockpit into a tangled mass of wreckage and killing 17 people, the state news agency said. (AP Photo/Mahdi Ghorbani)AP - An Iranian plane carrying 153 passengers and crew skidded off the runway and crashed Friday while landing in northeast Iran, killing at least 17 people, the state news agency said. Among the dead was the manager of the privately owned Aria Airlines, operator of the plane.

(AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 01:53 PM PDT

AP - Ousted Honduran president steps across border in symbolic return home despite threat of arrest.

Mauritania police arrest al-Qaida murder suspect (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 03:23 PM PDT

AP - A police official says officers have arrested a third suspected al-Qaida member for the June murder of American teacher.

China announces first panda from frozen sperm (AP)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 04:04 PM PDT

This undated image made from video and released by Central China Television shows You You, a female panda at the Wolong Giant Panda Research Center in southwestern Sichuan, China, holding her new cub that was born on Thursday July 23, 2009. Panda researchers said Friday that they believe it's the first successful live birth worldwide using frozen panda sperm. (AP Photo/CCTV)AP - For the first time, a giant panda cub has been born in China after being conceived using frozen sperm, officials announced Friday — an innovation scientists hope will help the endangered species avoid extinction.

Via Rail hit by strike, cancels trains (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 03:12 PM PDT

Reuters - Via Rail, Canada's national passenger rail service, said on Friday it was shutting down service after mediated talks with the Teamsters union failed to resolve a contract dispute, and locomotive engineers walked off the job.

Australian coroner: Couple gave baby drug overdose (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 10:58 PM PDT

AP - An Australian toddler died after being given morphine and methadone by either his mother or her boyfriend, but there is not enough evidence to charge either of them, a coroner found on Friday.

Justice Department case unravels against teen held at Guantanamo (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 04:47 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Justice Department conceded Friday that it lacks the evidence to hold a teenage Guantanamo detainee as an enemy combatant after a federal judge last week ruled that his confession was inadmissible.

Britain's Brown taps his own Donald Trump to boost dismal ratings (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Alan Sugar is Britain's Donald Trump, a brash entrepreneur who has dispatched five seasons' worth of contestants on the BBC's version of "The Apprentice." The British press has dubbed him a "bully" and the "beast of Brentwood" (where he keeps his home) for his on-screen antics.

First Blood Diamonds, Now Blood Computers? (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 02:05 PM PDT

Time.com - Are companies doing enough to make sure that the minerals that go into their laptops and hi-tech toys don't come from blood-soaked war zones?

India 'Getting Serious' on Climate Change (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 01:41 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jul 24 (OneWorld.net) - India is taking significant steps to fight climate change by switching to renewable energy sources, helping communities deal with the effects of warming temperatures, and more, said experts at a OneWorld-hosted meeting in the country's capital.

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