2009年9月4日星期五

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NATO jets bomb fuel tankers; Afghans say 70 killed (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 05:07 PM PDT

An injured person is carried into the main hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. A NATO airstrike Friday destroyed a fuel tanker hijacked by Taliban insurgents, causing dozens of casualties including civilians, officials and witnesses said.(AFP)AP - A U.S. jet dropped 500-pound bombs on two tanker trucks hijacked by the Taliban before dawn Friday, triggering a huge explosion that Afghan officials said killed more than 70 people, including insurgents and some civilians who had swarmed around the vehicles to siphon off fuel.

Iraq sends thousands more police to Syrian border (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 02:38 PM PDT

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, left, leads U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, right, on a tour of the grounds of the foreign ministry building, damaged in one of twin truck bomb attacks on Aug. 19, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq has deployed thousands of reinforcements along its border with Syria to prevent insurgents from crossing the desert frontier, as the government said Friday it has provided Syria with evidence linking Iraqis there to bombings.

AP IMPACT: Calm — then sudden death in Afghan war (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 02:12 PM PDT

FILE- In this Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 file photo, U.S. Marine Lt. Jake Godby pays his respects to Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard during a memorial service at a forward operating base with Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, in Now Zad in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Bernard was mortally wounded during a Taliban ambush on Aug. 14. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - The pomegranate grove looked ominous.

AP NewsBreak: Iran says US nuke documents 'forged' (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 03:11 PM PDT

AP - Iran accused the U.S. on Friday of using "forged documents" and relying on subterfuge to make its case that Tehran is trying to build a nuclear weapon, according to a confidential letter obtained by The Associated Press.

Jews who escaped Nazis as kids recreate train trip (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:09 PM PDT

Nicholas Winton, left, talks to Tal Cohain at Liverpool Street station in London, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. A vintage train carrying Holocaust survivors pulled into London on Friday, ending a three-day trip across Europe that marked the 70th anniversary of their extraordinary rescue by a young British stockbroker. Waiting to greet them at London's Liverpool Street Station was Nicholas Winton, age 100, who organized the rail 'kindertransports' that carried hundreds of mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to safety in 1939. Tal Cohain's, grandmother Hanna Slome was one 22 children saved by Sir Nicolas Winton. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - Elderly Holocaust survivors were reunited at a London railway station Friday with the man who saved them on the eve of World War II — a now 100-year-old former stockbroker who rescued hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

Russia's Troubled Caucasus, Five Years After Beslan (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 04:55 PM PDT

Time.com - One legacy of Vladimir Putin was supposed to have been the end of civil strife in the region. That is not turning out to be the case

Racing: Fallon forced to settle for second on comeback (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 03:26 PM PDT

Irish jockey Kieren Fallon, seen herebefore the Felbridge Handicap race at Lingfield racecourse, had to settle for second place in his first race in Britain since 2006.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - Former champion jockey Kieren Fallon on Friday had to settle for two second places as rode in Britain for the first time since 2006.

Chavez tells Israelis to disobey 'genocidal' govt (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 04:23 PM PDT

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez delivers a speech, at the national stadium in Sweidah province, some 106 kilometers (66.25 miles) south of Damascus, Syria, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009, where a large Venezuelan community live. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attacked Israel Thursday during his visit to Syria, calling it an imperialist nation that annihilates other people. The attached poster depicts Chavez, left, and Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told the Israeli people not to support their government, which he described as "genocidal" on Friday, the second day of his trip to Syria.

Police arrest Mexican mayor suspected of drug ties (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 05:17 PM PDT

A girl from the AP - Federal police detained a small-town mayor on Friday on suspicion of aiding drug traffickers in the same western Mexico state where eight other city chiefs have been arrested since May on similar charges.

Amnesty urges Sudan to withdraw charges in 'trouser trial' (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 04:32 PM PDT

Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein (L), seen here in August 2009, talks to the press outside the court in Khartoum, by the judge to delay her trial to September 7. Amnesty International on Friday called on the Sudanese government to withdraw the charges against a woman journalist who risks 40 lashes for wearing trousers.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)AFP - Amnesty International on Friday called on the Sudanese government to withdraw the charges against a woman journalist who risks 40 lashes for wearing trousers.

Dems signal resistance to Afghan troop increase (AP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 04:19 PM PDT

Afghan security forces stand guard near a burnt fuel tanker in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 4, 2009. NATO jet blasted two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, setting off a huge fireball Friday that killed up to 90 people, Afghan officials said. (AP Photo)AP - Key Senate Democrats signaled Friday that any push by President Barack Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan is likely to hit resistance on Capitol Hill, deepening a growing political divide on the war even within his own party.

Canada villages face isolation without Greyhound (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 02:16 PM PDT

Reuters - Each day a single Greyhound bus pulls into Ethelbert, Manitoba, population 312, and stops for just five minutes before moving on -- a critical lifeline for the village's fragile economy.

Wealthy developer gunned down on Sydney street (AFP)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 03:29 AM PDT

An aerial view of Sydney, which is Australia's largest city with more than four million residents. A millionaire Australian property developer -- who once tried to sue the sultan of Brunei -- was gunned down in front of his young son outside their exclusive Sydney home.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - A millionaire Australian property developer who once tried to sue the sultan of Brunei was gunned down in front of his young son outside their exclusive Sydney home, police said Friday.

Chalabi aide: I went from White House to secret prison (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 01:51 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. authorities detained a top aide to former Iraqi exile leader and Bush administration ally Ahmad Chalabi last year and accused him of helping Iranian-backed militants kidnap and kill American and British soldiers and contractors.

Why Chavez is wooing autocrats abroad (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Stymied in trying to advance his anti-US agenda in Latin America, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is tightening the screws at home — and touring friendly autocratic regimes abroad.

Gabon Voters Lash Out at French Influence in Africa (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 04:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Amid the rioting that broke out in Gabon after Ali Ben Bongo succeeded his father as President, rage was focused on France's relationship with Africa's oppressive rulers

Sri Lankan Scouts Trek 600 Km for Peace (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 03 Sep 2009 07:11 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - COLOMBO, Sep 3 (IPS) - It is a walk that no one has taken in the last quarter of a century. The nation having been beset by a bloody sectarian war, who would have thought of travelling the length of Sri Lanka south to north, let alone walk the distance, in the name of peace?

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