2009年8月19日星期三

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Pakistani Taliban's deputy head takes over group (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:42 PM PDT

Visiting U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke listens to a reporter during his visit to Karachi, Pakistan Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Holbrooke is visiting Pakistan to meet with Pakistani officials to discuss the bilateral issues. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - The deputy head of the Pakistani Taliban announced that he is temporarily assuming leadership of the militant group because its chief is ill, although Washington and Islamabad have said he almost certainly was killed by a recent missile strike.

Afghans vote for president amid fears of attacks (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 06:35 PM PDT

A soldier keeps guard a day ahead of elections in Herat, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect the new president. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)AP - Threats of Taliban violence and rumors of fraud cast a shadow over Afghanistan's election, in which millions of voters will choose a new president Thursday to lead a nation plagued by armed insurgency, drugs, corruption and a feeble government.

Wave of blasts in Iraqi capital kills at least 95 (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 06:35 PM PDT

Fire fighters respond as smoke billows over the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, center, after a massive bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. A series of explosions struck the Iraqi capital Wednesday, targeting primarily government and commercial buildings, killing more than a dozen people and wounding more than 100 others, Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Nearly simultaneous truck bombs struck Iraq's Foreign and Finance ministries Wednesday as a wave of explosions killed at least 95 people, bringing the weaknesses of Iraqi security forces into sharp focus less than two months after U.S. forces withdrew from urban areas.

Lead poisoning stokes tensions in Chinese town (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:53 PM PDT

Children affected by lead poisoning from the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Co. plant receive medical treatment at a hospital in Fengxiang county, West of Xi'an, China, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Dozens of police and plainclothes officers guarded the Chinese smelting plant in central Shaanxi on Wednesday, days after hundreds of villagers stormed the factory because more than 600 children from two nearby villages had been sickened by lead poisoning. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Farmer Wang Zhifan jabs a stubby finger toward the sprawling smelter blamed for poisoning hundreds of local children with lead. He bares his yellowed teeth and spits hard.

Reports: Scottish government will release Lockerbie bomber (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 02:46 PM PDT

FILE - This is an undated file photo, issued by the Crown Office, of Abdel Baset al-l Megrahi, the Libyan man found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, A Scottish court is expected on Tuesday Aug. 18, 2009 to decide whether the Libyan convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing can drop his appeal. The step could lead to his rapid release or a transfer back to a prison in his homeland. Scotland's government must decide whether to release al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds, transfer him to a Libyan prison, or keep him in prison in Scotland. (AP Photo/Crown Copyright) (AP Photo/ Crown Office, File )AP - A decision has been reached in the case of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and will be announced Thursday, the Scottish government said. British news networks reported that he would be released on compassionate grounds.

The Warlord Who Is Key to Karzai's Victory (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 02:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Returning from exile to back Karzai, General Dostum says he can deliver the Uzbek vote and dismisses concerns over his human right record

Scotland rules on Lockerbie bomber on Thursday (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 06:10 PM PDT

A protestor holds a placard during a hearing to withdraw the appeal of Abdel Basset al-Megrahi at Edinburgh's High Court, Edinburgh, Scotland August 18, 2009. REUTERS/David MoirReuters - Scotland announces on Thursday whether it will release a Libyan sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1988 bombing of an airliner over Lockerbie that killed 270 people, the majority of them Americans.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,332 (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:52 PM PDT

AP - As of Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009, at least 4,332 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Hurricane Bill looms in Atlantic at Category 4 (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 06:38 PM PDT

Hurricane Bill is pictured moving through the Atlantic Ocean, more than 1,160 miles east of the Lesser Antilles islands of the Caribbean, in this satellite image taken on August 17, 2009. REUTERS/NOAA/HandoutAP - Hurricane Bill howled over the open Atlantic as a dangerous Category 4 storm Wednesday, and it could be energized by warmer waters as it moves north.

North, south Sudan agree on implementing peace deal (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 01:56 PM PDT

Reuters - Representatives from Sudan's north and south have agreed to implement several disputed or neglected elements of a 2005 peace deal that ended more than two decades of fighting, a U.S. envoy said on Wednesday.

Afghan vote could aid war effort but not end it (AP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 06:38 PM PDT

Pfc. Jack Shortridge, 21, of Long Beach Calif., of the U.S. Army's 1st Platoon Apache Company, 2nd Battalion 87th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Combat Brigade 10th Mountain Division based out of Fort Drum, N.Y., brushes his teeth during a patrol briefing on Combat Outpost Tangi in Afghanistan's Wardak Province Wednesday Aug.19, 2009. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP - Thursday's election in Afghanistan won't end the eight-year fight against the Taliban, bring U.S. troops home sooner or ensure a competent democratic government.

Lessons on life and sovereignty in Canada's North (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 03:31 PM PDT

Reuters - Leetia Siakuluk had a valuable lesson on Wednesday for Canadian soldiers carrying out military exercises in the Arctic, near the end of the Road to Nowhere. Don't eat the mushrooms.

Australia trumpets record deal with China (AFP)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 02:07 AM PDT

Australia has touted itself as a AFP - Australia celebrated the biggest trade deal in its history on Wednesday and said it proved vital ties with China had survived a series of bruising rows.

Did looser Baghdad security prompt deadly bombings? (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 03:56 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The deadly bombings Wednesday in Baghdad near two key government ministries raise questions about whether U.S. and Iraqi officials have moved too quickly to dismantle many of the security steps that brought about a dramatic drop in bloodshed in the Iraqi capital in the last two years.

Afghan women on the campaign trail (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - When Farzana Barekzai and her small band of female campaigners knock at the home of Ahmadin Pahlawan, he greets them and points to a poster of President Hamid Karzai above the door to assure them: His vote isn't changing.

Afghanistan's Election: The Generational Divide (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 02:55 PM PDT

Ballot boxes and voting slips are being carried across Afghanistan's rugged terrain by donkey as the country prepares to vote in presidential and provincial elections. Duration: 00:56(AFPTV)Time.com - Registered voters ages 18 to 25 range from 8 million to 10 million, outof a total of 17 million. Can they make a difference?

Aid Worker Killings Spiking (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 03:39 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (OneWorld.net) - The people who spend their days and nights handing out food, treating the sick, counseling traumatized refugees, and educating at-risk children are facing greater personal risks than ever before.

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