2009年9月29日星期二

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Quake triggers tsunami in the Samoas, killing 34 (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:15 PM PDT

Apowerful 8.0 magnitude earthquake generated Pacific tsunami on Wednesday, killing an unknown number of people in American and Western Samoa and sending others fleeing for higher ground, officials said. REUTERS/GraphicsAP - Towering tsunami waves spawned by a powerful earthquake swept ashore on Samoa and American Samoa early Tuesday, flattening villages, killing at least 34 people and leaving dozens of workers missing at devastated National Park Service facilities.

Sources: Senior U.S. diplomat held unannounced talks with Cuba (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:01 PM PDT

AP - A senior American diplomat has held unannounced, high-level talks in Havana with the Cuban government, three State Department officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday, raising hopes for a thaw in long-icy relations.

Swiss choose law over neutrality, arrest Polanski (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:29 PM PDT

The chalet named 'Milky Way' which is, according to Swiss newspaper 'Blick', the chalet of filmmaker Roman Polanski, is seen on Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009 in Gstaad, Canton of Bern, Switzerland. 76-year-old Polanski, who pleaded guilty three decades ago to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, has been arrested Saturday Sept. 26, 2009, when he arrived in Switzerland to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich film festival. Polanski awaits a possible extradition to the United States. (AP Photo/Keystone, Dominic Favre)AP - First numbered bank accounts and now Roman Polanski. Switzerland is no longer a place for foreign fugitives and tax evaders to live above the law.

Polanski asks Swiss court to free him from custody (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:36 PM PDT

This 1977 photo shows Polish-French filmmaker Roman Polanski (right) leaving the Santa Monica Superior Court with his attorney Douglas Dalton after pleading guilty to a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. Polanski's lawyers have vowed to fight his extradition to the US over a three-decade-old child sex case and called his surprise detention in Switzerland AP - Roman Polanski's legal team fired the first shot Tuesday in a lengthy battle over his possible extradition to the United States, asking a Swiss court to release the famous filmmaker from prison immediately.

History or no mystery? IOC has a statement to make (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:14 PM PDT

Brandi Chastain, former soccer player with the U.S. national women's team, arrives as part of the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid team at Kastrup airport in Copenhagen, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Chicago is competing with Tokyo, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro for the right to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. The IOC will choose the winning city in a vote on Friday Oct. 2 in Copenhagen. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - Rio or Chicago? Risk vs. reliable.

Iran Sanctions: Would Blocking Gas Imports Hurt Tehran? (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:10 PM PDT

Iran's newly-appointed Oil Minister Massoud Mirkazemi in Vienna September 9, 2009. Iran is prepared to deal with any possible sanctions on its gasoline import over its disputed nuclear programme, Oil Minister Massoud Mirkazemi said. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter BaderTime.com - Talk of new sanctions to press Tehran on its nuclear program have focused on Iran's dependency on imported gasoline. But choking off the nation's energy supplies will be far from easy

Nero's rotating banquet hall unveiled in Rome (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:04 PM PDT

An unidentified man talks to the media, near a recently unearthed brick structure incorporating a 4-meter diameter pillar, seen in the background, discovered during maintenance works in the Roman Forum, in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. Archaeologists believe the structure supported a rotating dining room imitating the Earth's movement and used by Roman Emperor Nero to impress his guests in his Golden Palace. The Golden Palace, also known by its Latin name Domus Aurea, rose over the ruins of a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64 A.D. and was completed in 68 A.D. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)AP - Not only was Nero a Roman emperor, it turns out he may also have been the father of the revolving restaurant.

Iran built nuclear site shielded from air attack (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:26 PM PDT

This combination of two satellite images provided by GeoEye show an area about 20 miles north northeast of Qom, Iran. The photo at left shows the site on Feb. 5, 2000, and the photo at right shows the same site on Sept. 26, 2009. Although there is no confirmation, analysts at both the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security and London-based IHS Jane's believe the facility in the satellite photo at right is most likely the newly revealed centrifuge facility. (AP Photo/GeoEye Satellite Image, IHS Jane's Analysis) MANDATORY CREDITAP - In an unusually frank disclosure, Iran's nuclear chief said Tuesday the country's new uranium enrichment site was built for maximum protection from aerial attack: carved into a mountain and near a military compound of the powerful Revolutionary Guard.

Puerto Rico union leaders clash with police (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:54 PM PDT

AP - Union leaders scuffled with police outside the governor's mansion Tuesday during a protest against mass layoffs of public workers in this U.S. territory, which has a jobless rate higher than any U.S. state.

Darfur refugees raped in Chad camps: Amnesty (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Women who fled violence in Sudan's Darfur region are being regularly raped in refugee camps in neighboring Chad, despite the presence of U.N.-trained forces, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

NATO leader agrees war strategy should be reviewed (AP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 05:14 PM PDT

Vice President Joseph Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, as President Barack Obama began remarks with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - As the White House began Tuesday to debate in earnest the increasingly unpopular Afghanistan war, NATO's secretary-general said President Barack Obama is right to delay troop decisions until a possibly revamped approach is devised.

Ontario files $50 billion suit versus tobacco companies (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 12:28 PM PDT

Reuters - The Canadian province of Ontario said on Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit seeking C$50 billion ($45.9 billion) in damages from tobacco companies for healthcare costs incurred by taxpayers since 1955.

At least 28 dead in Samoa quake, tsunamis: reports (AFP)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 04:21 PM PDT

This graphic provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows tsunami travel times after earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 rocked Samoa, causing a tsunami. The death toll from a massive South Pacific earthquake and tsunami has risen to at least 28, with a minimum of 14 reported dead in both Samoa and American Samoa, the Red Cross and media reports said.(AFP/NOAA)AFP - The death toll from a massive South Pacific earthquake and tsunami has risen to at least 28, with a minimum of 14 reported dead in both Samoa and American Samoa, the Red Cross and media reports said.

Honduras' de facto president says he'll restore civil liberties (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:59 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Facing condemnation abroad and criticism at home, interim President Roberto Micheletti reversed course Tuesday and said he'd withdraw a controversial measure that's suspended civil liberties in Honduras.

Why Iran's missile tests may not play well in Tehran (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Amid increasing international support for tougher sanctions on Iran, the Islamic republic launched its longest-range missiles in a show of force ahead of nuclear talks scheduled for Oct. 1 in Geneva.

Guinea: Crackdown on Protesters Shatters Democracy Hopes (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Guinean police arrest a protester in front of the biggest stadium in the capital Conakry during a protest banned by Guinea's ruling junta on September 28. Canada condemned Tuesday the Time.com - Guineans once believed that the military officer who took power in a coup last year could set their corrupt, impoverished country back on track. The promise is now gone, following a massive crackdown on demonstrators that has left dozens dead

Guinea Crackdown Attracts International Scorn (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 29 Sep 2009 02:44 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Sep 30 (OneWorld.net) - Human rights groups and the UN chief are condemning Tuesday's brutal military attacks on a pro-democracy rally in the West African nation of Guinea. Over 100 people were killed and countless women raped and sexually assaulted.

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