2009年8月26日星期三

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World leaders pay tribute to Kennedy (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2008 file photo, then-Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., smiles with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., during a rally at American University in Washington where Kennedy endorsed Obama. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, has died after battling a brain tumor. He was 77. Kennedy's family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - Nowhere outside of America has the Kennedy legacy been more deeply felt than in Ireland, where photographs of the family adorn homes and hundreds claim to be distant relations of the glittering dynasty that brought the first Roman Catholic to the White House.

Analysis: Afghan summer brings reversals (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:22 PM PDT

Family members watch receive the casket of Army Staff Sgt. Clayton Bowen, 29, after arrival in San Antonio, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009. Bowen was killed in action Aug. 18 after he was struck by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. Bowen, 29, was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - It's been a summer of setbacks in Afghanistan — with rising casualties, a divisive election and growing public doubts about the war in the United States and among key allies.

Mexico's new drug use law worries U.S. police (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:17 PM PDT

Victor Moreno, 40, a drug addict with a 20 year-old habit, shoots up on a street corner near the international border in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009. Mexico now has some of the most liberal laws in the world for drug users after eliminating jail time for tiny amounts of marijuana, cocaine and even heroin, LSD and methamphetamine. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Mexico now has one of the world's most liberal laws for drug users after eliminating jail time for small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and even heroin, LSD and methamphetamine.

China moves to cut use of executed inmates' organs (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 09:15 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 26, 2003 file photo, China's Vice Minister of Health Huang Jiefu, center, is surrounded by journalists after attending the ASEAN + 3 Health Minister Special Meeting on Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The majority of transplanted organs in China come from executed prisoners, state media reported Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009, in a rare disclosure about an industry often criticized for being opaque and unethical. The country's Health Ministry and the Red Cross Society of China this week launched a national organ donation system to reduce the reliance on death row inmates and encourage donations from the public, the China Daily newspaper reported. Condemned prisoners are 'definitely not a proper source for organ transplants,' the report quoted Huang as saying. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)AP - China has launched a national organ donation system to try to reduce its dependence on body parts harvested from executed prisoners, who make up the majority of donors, state media reported Wednesday.

Car matching Ryan's last ride is at sister's condo (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 12:51 PM PDT

AP - A silver PT Cruiser matching the description of the vehicle seen dropping off reality TV actor and murder suspect Ryan Jenkins at a motel is parked at his half-sister's condominium in Vancouver.

Israeli prime minister fuels hopes for renewed peace talks (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Meeting with leaders in London and Berlin this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted at movement towards restarting peace talks between Israel and Palestine, giving his hosts some rare, but tentative, hope

GM returns to Cold War fear in talks to sell Opel (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 30, 2009 photo, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill seen in Putin's Volga car after attending a foundation stone laying ceremony of a church complex in the village of Usovo outside Moscow. Behind the politics and posturing in General Motors' effort to dump its money-losing European car business lies a cold war story line: Keep U.S. technology out of Russian hands. (AP Photo/Alexei Druzhinin, Pool, file)AP - Behind GM's hesitation to sell its unprofitable car business in Europe lies a Cold War fear: American technology will fall into Russian hands.

Police: Iraqi forces recover stolen Picasso (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 01:51 PM PDT

AP - Special forces have recovered a stolen Picasso and arrested a man planning to sell the painting during a raid of his house in southern Iraq, Iraqi police said Wednesday.

Hooded men slay 12 Indians in Colombia (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:45 PM PDT

AP - Hooded men in uniforms without insignias on Wednesday killed 12 members of the Awa indigenous group, including five children, on a reserve in a region plagued by the cocaine trade, authorities said.

Madagascar power-sharing talks extended to Thursday (AFP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:35 PM PDT

Madagascar transitional leader Andry Rajoelina arrives to attend the second round of the negotiations of the Madagascar political conflict taking place in Maputo, Mozambique, on August 25, 2009. Power-sharing talks between Madagascar's rival leaders were extended to Thursday as two days of negotiations in the Mozambican capital failed to yield an agreement.(AFP/File/Carlos Litulo)AFP - Power-sharing talks between Madagascar's rival leaders were extended to Thursday as two days of negotiations in the Mozambican capital failed to yield an agreement on the make-up of a transitional government, mediators said.

Japan opposition may win 2/3 majority: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 04:42 PM PDT

Reuters - Japan's main opposition Democratic Party looks set to win an election on Sunday by a huge margin and could even secure a two-thirds majority in parliament's powerful lower house, a newspaper survey showed on Thursday.

Liberals slip in Quebec but still strong (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 08:10 AM PDT

Reuters - The Liberal Party, which is considering toppling the Conservative government, is neck and neck with separatists in the key battleground of Quebec, but has slipped markedly since June.

Australian military court ruled unconstitutional (AP)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 12:03 AM PDT

AP - Australia's highest court ruled Wednesday that the country's military justice system is unconstitutional because its judges are not independent of the military command — throwing into doubt 171 cases judged in the past two years.

Prominent Shiite political leader dies in Iran (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 07:35 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Abdul Aziz al Hakim, the leader of one of Iraq's dominant Shiite Muslim political parties and a renowned cleric who resisted Saddam Hussein's regime for more than 20 years while in exile, died Wednesday in Tehran.

Skepticism over 'breakthrough' Middle East peace plan (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A report by the Guardian newspaper that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is close to a White House Middle East peace deal that would link a partial freeze on Israeli settlements to sweeping sanctions on Iran – is being met with deep skepticism.

Afghanistan's Election Vote Count: Room for Mischief? (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai (R) sits with then Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah during the opening of a four-day seminar on Time.com - Charges and countercharges of fraud fly in the aftermath of Afghanistan's presidential election

On Women's Equality Day in U.S., a Global Focus (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 11:41 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (OneWorld.net) - Eighty-nine years after U.S. women finally won the right to vote, advocacy groups are pressing the Obama administration to promote women's equality worldwide and paying tribute to an "indefatigable" champion of women's rights, Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

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