2009年8月6日星期四

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Pakistan, US check reports of Taliban chief death (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:10 PM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, Pakistani villagers look at a house belonging to supporters of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud which was destroyed by authorities in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mehsud)AP - U.S. and Pakistani authorities are investigating reports that Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed in an American missile strike, officials from both countries said Friday. If confirmed, Mehsud's demise would be a major boost to Pakistani and U.S. efforts to eradicate the Taliban and al-Qaida.

Clinton urged NKorea to free detained SKoreans (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:47 PM PDT

AP - Former President Bill Clinton urged North Korea to free detained South Koreans and make progress on the issue of abducted Japanese citizens, South Korean and Japanese officials said Thursday.

U.S. looks to Vietnam scholar for tips on Afghan war (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:09 PM PDT

FILE -This July 8, 2009 photo shows journalist Stanley Karnow, seated, in Washington paying respect to the first American causalities killed in Vietnam in 1959. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, NATO's top commander in Afghanistan, and Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special envoy to the country, telephoned renowned Vietnam War historian Stanley Karnow on July 27 to discuss the two conflicts. (AP Photo/The Washington Times, Chase Martinez, File)AP - Top U.S. officials have reached out to a leading Vietnam war scholar to discuss the similarities of that conflict 40 years ago with American involvement in Afghanistan, where the U.S. is seeking ways to isolate an elusive guerrilla force and win over a skeptical local population.

Clinton vows new US support for Somalia (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:23 PM PDT

The United States of America Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, carries a wreath with the help of 1998 bomb survivors to lay the Wreath at Memorial Park in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009, commemorating victims of the August 7, 1998 Embassy Bombings. On Friday, Aug. 7, 1998, at 10:35 hours local time, a massive bomb blast rocked the American Embassy and its surroundings, in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 213 people and injuring more than 4,000 civilians. Clinton is in Kenya on the first leg of a seven-nation tour of Africa. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday pledged to expand American support for Somalia's weak interim government and threatened sanctions against neighboring Eritrea for aiding an extremist group she says is trying to launch worldwide terrorist attacks from Somalia.

Ferry sinks off Tonga; dozens missing, feared dead (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:23 PM PDT

In this Aug. 6, 2009 image provided by the New Zealand Defense Force the Tongan Naval vessel Pangai searches for survivors after a ferry carrying 49 passengers and 30 crew sank 55 miles (85 kilometers) northeast of the Tongan capital, Nuku'alofa, at around midnight, Wednesday, Aug. 5. Ships and planes are searching South Pacific waters near Tonga for the 23 people missing after the ferry flipped over and sank in heavy seas during the night, killing at least one person. (AP Photo/New Zealand Defense Force, HO)AP - Giving women and children the comfort of cabins while men stayed on deck may have doomed them to be trapped inside an overnight ferry that capsized in heavy seas off Tonga, officials said. Dozens are missing and feared dead.

Swat Valley: Life Resumes After the Taliban (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:45 PM PDT

Time.com - Refugees from the fighting in Swat have begun to trickle home, pleased that the army has vanquished the militants -- but still fearful of a Taliban return

Gucci sues credit processing companies for sales of fakes (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:00 PM PDT

Reuters - Gucci America sued several credit card processing companies for trademark infringement on Thursday on grounds those companies facilitated the sale of counterfeit Gucci bags on the Internet.

NKorea, Iran use similar script to get their way (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:19 PM PDT

FILE - This Aug. 5, 2009 Korean Central News Agency file photo released by Korea News Service in Tokyo, pardoned American journalists, Laura Ling, in green, and Euna Lee, in red, are greeted by former U.S. President Bill Clinton as they board a plane bound for the United States in Pyongyang, North Korea. The type of star-power mission by former President Bill Clinton this week to free two U.S. journalists is far less likely, but perhaps not impossible, to try to aid three Americans detained by Iranian authorities last week after allegedly wandering over the frontier during a hike in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, File)AP - The parallels between Iran and North Korea would seem to riff off the same West-rattling script: start a nuclear program, test some long-range missiles, demand international respect.

Ex-president urges end to Colombia-Venezuela fight (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:18 PM PDT

Colombia's Former President Ernesto Samper, right, shakes hands with Venezuela' s President Hugo Chavez upon his arrival to Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)AP - A former Colombian president sought to ease tensions between Caracas and Bogota on Thursday, but Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez said relations will remain rocky if the neighboring nation gives U.S. troops access to its bases.

Clinton to press S. Africa on Zimbabwe's Mugabe (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 03:05 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives at the O.R. Tambo airport in Johannesburg August 6, 2009 during her second stop in an 11-day trip to Africa. REUTERS/Jacoline Prinsloo/GCIS/HandoutReuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will push South Africa to use its influence with neighbor Zimbabwe, while also seeking closer ties with Pretoria after strained relations with the Bush administration.

Adviser: US has 2 more tough years in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:05 PM PDT

Afghan children are seen next to U.S. soldiers from the 5th Striker Brigades, outside the headquarter of Afghan Border Police on the outskirts of Spin Boldak, about 100 kilometers (63 miles) southeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Thousands of U.S. troops are deploying in southern Afghanistan as part of an effort to prevent the Taliban from disrupting the country's Aug. 20 presidential ballot. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - An incoming adviser to the top U.S. general in Afghanistan predicted Thursday that the United States will see about two more years of heavy fighting and then either hand off to a much improved Afghan fighting force or "lose and go home."

GM dashes hopes for quick Opel deal with Magna (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 08:51 AM PDT

Reuters - General Motors on Thursday dashed hopes of members of the German government that a deal to sell its European operations to Canadian group Magna could be reached by the end of this week.

Aussie koala that survived fires dies in surgery (AP)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 06:28 AM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2009 file photo firefighter David Tree shares his water with an injured koala, later nicked named Sam, at Mirboo North after wildfires swept through the regioN. Sam, made famous when this image 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/Mark Parden, File)AP - Sam the koala, who gained worldwide fame and sympathy when she was rescued during Australia's devastating wildfires this year, was euthanized Thursday after a veterinarian found the cysts that threatened her life were inoperable.

U.S. drops call to restore ousted Honduran leader (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 04:49 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The Obama administration has backed away from its call to restore ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to power and instead put the onus on him for taking "provocative actions" that polarized his country and led to his overthrow on June 28.

Death sentence for Mumbai attackers – six years later (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Before last year's shootout at its luxury hotels, before the attacks on rush-hour commuter trains, Mumbai lost 52 residents to a double bombing in 2003. On Thursday, nearly six years on, an Indian court sentenced to death three perpetrators in that attack.

In Africa, Can Hillary Clinton Be Obama's Substitute Preacher? (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 02:45 PM PDT

Time.com - On her mammoth tour of the continent, can the U.S. Secretary of State follow up favorite son Obama without sounding like a neocolonial scold?

Vaccine Campaign Launched in Sri Lanka Camps (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 05:44 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (OneWorld.net) - Aid workers have begun giving the measles vaccine to more than 36,000 young Sri Lankan children living in refugee camps, displaced by the long-running conflict between the government and rebel forces, which ended in May.

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