2009年8月5日星期三

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Officials: 27 missing after ferry sinks off Tonga (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 04:18 PM PDT

AP - Rescue officials searched the South Pacific's waters for 27 people missing after a ferry sank during the night off the coast of Tonga, New Zealand rescue coordinators said Thursday.

Blast walls on major Baghdad streets to come down (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 03:24 PM PDT

FILE - This July 31, 2004 file photo shows men walking past a blast wall in central Baghdad, Iraq. Although the walls helped reduce violence, they are now unsightly, towering reminders for Baghdad residents that their riverside capital of leafy neighborhoods and palm-lined boulevards has turned into a prison-like city of shadows separating one community from another. Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, the spokesman for the city's operations command center, said the walls will be taken off major thoroughfares and secondary roads in the capital. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban, File)AP - The towering concrete blast walls that have both protected and suffocated Baghdad streets for the past two years will come down within 40 days, Iraq's government announced Wednesday.

Analysis: Kim's choice after high-profile meeting (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 02:35 PM PDT

In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, meets with former U.S. President Bill Clinton,unseen, in Pyonggyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009.Former US President Bill Clinton met Tuesday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on the first day of a surprise visit to Pyongyang, holding 'exhaustive' talks that covered a wide range of topics, state-run media said. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)AP - Kim Jong Il's smile said it all.

Iraq: $2,000 for Shiite-Sunni couples who marry (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 10:33 AM PDT

In this photo taken Sunday July 19, 2009, Muhanad Talib, left, and his new bride Samma Nasir, are seen in their home in the Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad, Iraq. Muhanad, a Sunni, and Samma, a Shiite, are one of more than 1,700 Sunni-Shiite couples who accepted $2,000 from the Iraqi government in an effort to heal the country's sectarian divide. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Muhanad Talib, a Sunni Muslim, married his Shiite bride because she was a "suitable woman" for him. It also didn't hurt that their vows made them eligible for a $2,000 payout from the government.

Ahmadinejad sworn in as Iran president amid crisis (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 12:33 PM PDT

Hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will on Wednesday be sworn in for a second term as Iranian president in a ceremony likely to be snubbed by opposition leaders who claim he was fraudulently re-elected.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)AP - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in to a second presidential term Wednesday with a call for the divided nation to "join hands," but it was greeted by protests in the streets and snubs inside Iran's parliament.

Street Protests Don't Stop as Ahmadinejad Begins a New Term (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 02:20 PM PDT

Time.com - As the hardliner takes office, the regime moves in force to clamp down on demonstrations around the ceremony. But the street action does not cease

Waste shipped back from Brazil (AFP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 05:15 PM PDT

Agents of Brazil's state environmental agency (IBAMA) inspect 41 containers from Britain containing 1,400 tons of household waste imported into the country improperly labeled as recyclable plastic, at Santos' port, south of Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 22(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)AFP - A cargo ship carrying 1,477 tons of waste, including used condoms, syringes and diapers, left Brazil on Wednesday to return the illegal trash to Britain, Brazilian officials said.

Israel claims control over split village (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 09:49 AM PDT

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman visits the village of Ghajar between northern Israel and Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. Lieberman visited Ghajar on Wednesday to study the dispute over the village. Ghajar was annexed to Israel in 1981 along with the Golan Heights. Following the Israel Defense Forces' withdrawal from southern Lebanon, the United Nations, which does not recognize the 1981 annexation, determined that the international border between Syria and Lebanon cuts across the village.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Israel's foreign minister on Wednesday visited an Arab village cut in half by an international border and insisted it will remain under Israeli control.

Chavez: Venezuela to buy more tanks over US threat (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 05:15 PM PDT

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is handed a weapon during a news conference in Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. Chavez spoke Wednesday about allegations by Colombia that anti-tank rocket launchers sold to Venezuela by Sweden in the 1980s were obtained by Colombia's main rebel group, the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday his government will buy dozens of Russian tanks because Venezuela feels threatened by a pending deal for the U.S. military to increase its presence in neighboring Colombia.

Nigeria oil rebels amnesty offer starts Thursday (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 11:55 AM PDT

Reuters - Niger Delta militants are expected to start turning in their arms at collection centers on Thursday when an unconditional pardon offered by President Umaru Yar'Adua begins, the amnesty committee said.

Freed from North Korea, U.S. journalists return home (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 04:23 PM PDT

American journalists Euna Lee (L) and Laura Ling are shown in this undated file photo from Yonhap news agency. REUTERS/YonhapReuters - Two American journalists freed by North Korea tearfully reunited with their families in the United States on Wednesday while Washington tried to play down talk of a breakthrough with Pyongyang.

Canada legislators to probe sale of Nortel assets (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 11:00 AM PDT

Reuters - Canadian legislators will hold an emergency day-long meeting on Friday to examine the proposed sale of wireless assets from bankrupt Nortel Networks to Sweden's Ericsson, a deal that opposition parliamentarians say could be bad for Canada.

Koala saved from Australian fires battling disease (AP)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 05:23 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, Sam the koala is treated at the Mountain Ash Wildlife Center in Rawson, Australia, as she recovers from burns suffered in devastating wildfires. Sam, made famous when her image being fed water by a firefighter was widely publish, is about to undergo a risky surgery for a life-threatening disease, animal shelter officials said Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/File)AP - A koala made famous by a photograph of her drinking from a firefighter's water bottle as wildfires ravaged Australia this year is about to undergo a risky surgery, animal shelter officials said Wednesday.

Could humanitarian mission pave way for nuclear deal? (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 04:26 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — With two journalists who'd been detained in North Korea safely back on U.S. soil, the Obama administration Wednesday adopted a wait-and-see stance over whether the humanitarian breakthrough will lead to renewed talks on the more pernicious question of the North's nuclear weapons.

Clinton maneuvers testy time for US, Africa (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - With the 11-nation tour of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, America's often testy relationship with Africa has opened a new chapter.

The U.S. Hikers in Iran: A More Complicated Diplomatic Problem (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 02:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Caught between Iran and the U.S., Iraq and its autonomous Kurdish provinces try not to make much about three detained American hikers

Cambodia's Shanty Evictions Roll On (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 05 Aug 2009 04:34 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (OneWorld.net) - The 60 low-income families forced to abandon their homes in Phnom Penh's "Group 78" are just the latest victims in a string of mass evictions carried out by the Cambodian government in recent years, say international observers.

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