2009年8月29日星期六

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Japan's ruling LDP enters elections as underdog (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:30 PM PDT

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, greets supporters during a campaign rally for the Aug. 30 parliament's lower house elections in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)AP - Japanese cast ballots Sunday in hotly contested parliamentary elections in which the ruling conservative party, battered by a laggard economy and voter desire for change after more than half a century of virtual one-party rule, was expected to suffer an overwhelming defeat.

Bombs kill 18 in Iraq, mostly in remote villages (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 01:23 PM PDT

Mourners carry the coffin of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim for burial in Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009. Al-Hakim, who died Wednesday of lung cancer in Tehran, was a powerbroker who help pave the path for the re-emergence of Iraq's Shiite political majority after decades of oppression under Saddam Hussein's Sunni-led regime. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Bombs struck a cafe in Baghdad and remote communities in northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 18 people, as the visiting Iranian foreign minister warned that Iraq's instability affected the whole region.

Pakistan destroys suicide bomber training camp (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 10:32 AM PDT

People carry a coffin of a security officer killed in a suicide attack at Pakistani border town of Torkham along the Afghanistan border on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. A suicide bomber attacked the main border crossing for convoys ferrying supplies to U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least 19 security officers, officials said. (AP Photo/Amir Zada)AP - Helicopter gunships destroyed a training camp for suicide bombers in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley, killing six Taliban fighters in an area the government had already declared clear of militants, an official said Saturday.

Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush to be released early (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 09:09 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2008 file photo, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi throws a shoe at President George W. Bush during a new conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at former President George W. Bush will be freed Sept. 14 after getting early release for good behavior, his lawyer said Saturday.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)AP - An Iraqi journalist imprisoned for hurling his shoes at former President George W. Bush will be released next month after his sentence was reduced for good behavior, his lawyer said Saturday.

U.S.-Colombia Pact Causes Stir Among Lat-Am Neighbors (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 01:05 PM PDT

Time.com - Hugo Chavez isn't the only Latin American leader unhappy about the military agreement between the two nations

Brit teen arrested in huge cocaine bust at Peru airport (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:49 PM PDT

A bag of seized freebase cocaine. Peruvian customs officials on Saturday arrested a British teenager attempting to board a flight to London with some 29 kilograms (64 pounds) of cocaine in her suitcase, police said.(AFP/File/Mauricio Duenas)AFP - Peruvian customs officials on Saturday arrested a British teenager attempting to board a flight to London with some 29 kilograms (64 pounds) of cocaine in her suitcase, police said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,337 (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 05:03 PM PDT

AP - As of Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, at least 4,337 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Families bury dead from military massacre in Peru (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 03:46 PM PDT

Students carries coffins containing remains of people killed in a 1984 massacre during a funeral procession in Huanta, Peru, on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. Peru's government-appointed truth commission said the military massacred 123 people in the village of Putis in 1984, the largest mass slaying of the bloody standoff between Maoist Shining Path guerrillas and security forces.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)AP - Victims of the worst military massacre during Peru's war with Maoist rebels were laid to rest Saturday, a quarter century after the slaughter in this remote Andean village.

Nigeria commutes life sentence of soldiers jailed for mutiny (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 04:01 PM PDT

Soldiers of the Nigerian Army are pictured before an operation in July 2009. The Nigerian army Saturday commuted to seven years the life imprisonment earlier imposed on 27 soldiers for mutiny after they protested over pay, an army spokesman told journalists.(AFP/File)AFP - The Nigerian army Saturday commuted to seven years the life imprisonment earlier imposed on 27 soldiers for mutiny after they protested over pay, an army spokesman told journalists.

Japan votes in election, opposition tipped to win (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 05:02 PM PDT

Japan's main opposition Democratic Party leader Yukio Hatoyama raises his fists as he shouts slogans at a campaign for the upcoming lower house election in Nagayo, southwestern Japan, August 28, 2009. REUTERS/Toru HanaiReuters - Japanese voted in an election on Sunday that looked set to oust the long-ruling conservative party and give the untested opposition the job of nurturing a recovery from the country's worst recession since World War Two.

Australia denies 'downplaying' oil spill (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 01:45 AM PDT

This Australian Maritime Safety Authority photo received on August 22 shows an oil leak coming from the offshore West Atlas oil rig, located about 250km off the Australian mainland. Australia has denied claims it downplayed the scale of a massive oil spill at a drilling rig off its northwest coast, and said the slick was dispersing naturally.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Australia denied claims Saturday it had downplayed the scale of a massive oil spill at a drilling rig off its northwest coast, and said the slick was dispersing naturally.

Germany's Ph.D. Scandal: Were Degrees Bought? (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Aug 2009 01:05 PM PDT

Time.com - The reputation of Germany's higher education system has been shaken by the revelation that investigators are looking into a Ph.D. scam in which professors were paid to help students gain their doctorates

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