2009年8月3日星期一

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Shiite group agrees to renounce violence in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:12 PM PDT

An Iraqi man mourns as he inspects the site of a blast outside al-Shurufi mosque in Baghdad's northeastern district of al-Shaab on August 1, 2009. Seven people were killed, including a policeman and two soldiers, and more than 40 wounded in a string of bomb attacks in Iraq on Monday, police said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AP - An extremist Shiite group believed responsible for the killing of five American soldiers in a bold raid south of Baghdad and the kidnapping of five British men has agreed to renounce violence, a government adviser said Monday.

Australia launches major anti-terror operation (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:02 PM PDT

AP - Australian police launched a major anti-terrorism operation on Tuesday, arresting four men they said were suspected of plotting an attack in the country.

Wife: Iran reform politician's confession forced (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:45 PM PDT

FILE -In this Aug. 1, 2009 file photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency, former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi, second from right, is seen with other defendants in a court room in Tehran, Iran. The wife of Abtahi said Monday her husband was forced to confess to helping fuel post-election riots and to denounce opposition claims of vote-rigging as lies during a mass trial of government opponents. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Hossein Salehi Ara, File)AP - The wife of a prominent pro-reform Iranian politician said Monday her husband was forced into confessing he helped fuel post-election riots as part of a plot to topple the government and said he appeared drugged days before the trial.

Official: Tribesmen kill 185 in Sudan village (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:31 PM PDT

Children play in Nuer cattle camp outside the southern Sudanese town of Nassir in Upper Nile state. Fierce clashes between rival ethnic groups in south Sudan have killed more than 160 people, most of them women and children, a regional official has said.(AFP/File/Peter Martell)AP - Armed tribesmen attacked a fishing village in southeast Sudan where hundreds of displaced people were camped near a river, leaving at least 185 people, most of them women and children, dead in the worst violence in three months, a southern Sudan official said Monday.

Pakistani Christians: Police did not stop carnage (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:08 PM PDT

Relatives of Pakistani Christians mourn their deaths in Gojra, 360 kilometers ( 224 miles) from Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, Aug 3, 2009. Eight Christians died over the weekend in this eastern Pakistani city — six in fires and two by gunshots. The attack, which came after rumors that some Christians had desecrated a Quran, drew condemnation Monday from the pope and sent a chilling reminder that minority religious groups are especially vulnerable in Pakistan now that extremist Islam, alongside the Taliban-led militancy, is on the rise. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)AP - Almas Hameed grabbed his 7-year-old daughter and stumbled out of their smoke-filled home as she pleaded in vain to bring her pet parrots. His wife, father and two other children did not survive.

Britain's Soul-Searching Over Its Role in Afghanistan (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:30 PM PDT

Time.com - Britain went into Afghanistan to help the U.S. in the fight against terrorism. But eight years later, a new report says Britain's role in the war has become dangerously unclear

Lawmakers call for inquiry into torture allegations (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:32 PM PDT

The headquarters of MI6 in London. The government was hiding behind a AFP - The government was hiding behind a "wall of secrecy" over allegations security agents colluded in the torture of terrorism suspects, an influential committee of lawmakers said Tuesday.

Iran president confirmed without symbolic kiss (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 05:23 PM PDT

This photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office shows Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, receiving the presidential decree from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for his second term, while an unidentified official of the supreme leader's office looks on, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Aug. 3, 2009. The country's opposition leaders and moderates boycotted the gathering in protest over the election they claim was fraudulent. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader) 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 - Iran's supreme leader bestowed his formal endorsement on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second term as president on Monday but withheld a powerful symbolic gesture — the kisses and close embrace that portrayed their bond four years ago.

Correa: Ecuador to take over radio, TV stations (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 05:12 PM PDT

AP - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa says "many" radio and TV frequencies will revert to state control due to what he's calling irregularities.

Niger president seeks more power in referendum (AP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 05:15 PM PDT

A young Fulani woman with traditional facial tattoos is seen in Niamey, Niger Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009. Niger's president Mamadou Tandja will hold a controversial referendum Tuesday, in a bid to change the constitution to allow him to serve a third term as leader of the impoverished desert nation. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)AP - His opponents call it the "slow-motion coup."

Australia foils suicide attack on army base (AFP)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 05:08 PM PDT

Police in Sydney in 2008. Australian police have arrested four people who were planning a suicide attack on a military base, senior officers said on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Anoek de Groot)AFP - Australian counter-terrorist police Tuesday arrested four people in raids that foiled a Somali-linked plot to launch a suicide attack on a military base, senior officers said.

Arms dealer with CDU ties deported to Germany (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 06:41 AM PDT

Reuters - A German-Canadian arms dealer and key figure in a funding scandal which badly damaged Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives a decade ago arrived in Munich from Canada on Monday to face tax evasion and fraud charges.

Australia police: arrested men planned suicide attack (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 05:17 PM PDT

Police tape is seen at the perimeter near a house in the suburb of Glenroy in Melbourne, which was raided in connection to planned terror attacks August 4, 2009. REUTERS/Mick TsikasReuters - People arrested by the Australian police on Tuesday were planning to carry out a suicide attack on a defense establishment in Australia, a top Australia police official told a media conference.

China censors Namibia corruption case that may touch president's son (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A potential corruption scandal may be brewing in Namibia involving a Chinese company that until last year was headed by the son of China's President Hu Jintao.

Gay vs. Orthodox: Israel's Culture War Turns Deadly (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 04:30 PM PDT

Time.com - Fatal shootings in Tel Aviv have dialed up the rhetoric in the country's attempt to balance Western liberalism and Orthodox Jewish values

Paraguay: Indigenous Squatter Communities Organise Self-Help (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 03 Aug 2009 01:20 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - ASUNCIÃ"N, Aug 2 (IPS) - Indigenous families living in a squatter settlement on the outskirts of the Paraguayan capital are organising themselves, and now have a community soup kitchen and are producing and selling handicrafts. They don't want to return to panhandling on the streets of Asunción, so far from their home villages.

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