2009年10月8日星期四

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OAS diplomats get talks started in Honduras crisis (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 02:00 PM PDT

Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya demonstrate outside the hotel where representatives of Zelaya and Honduras' interim government will meet with diplomats in Tegucigalpa, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. Honduras' coup-installed leader Roberto Micheletti is resisting calls by diplomats from across the hemisphere to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya, at one point angrily telling the visitors they 'don't know the truth or don't want to know it.' (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - Diplomats pushed the two sides of the Honduran political conflict into direct talks for the first time in nearly three months, but left the country Thursday with no commitment from the coup-installed government to reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Afghanistan, Pakistan: 1 war, 2 fronts (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 02:53 PM PDT

Pakistani soldiers on patrol in Mingora, capital of the troubled Swat valley. The bullet-riddled bodies of 15 suspected Taliban were found Thursday in Pakistan's northwest Swat, officials said, while 24 insurgents were killed in military operations in the region.(AFP/File/A Majeed)AP - The suicide attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul on Thursday lays bare the reality that this conflict is a single war with multiple fronts that extend from Afghan battlefields to Pakistan's fractured political scene and include the vital interests of India and the United States.

Taliban suicide attack kills 17 in Afghan capital (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 04:51 PM PDT

Afghans try to take a victim out of a car at the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. The powerful explosion rocked the center of Afghanistan's capital early Thursday near the Interior Ministry and the Indian Embassy, where dozens of civilians were killed in an attack last year. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle outside the Indian Embassy in the bustling center of the Afghan capital Thursday, killing 17 people in the second major attack in the city in less than a month. The Afghan Foreign Ministry hinted at Pakistani involvement — a charge Pakistan denied.

Nobel lit prize goes to little-known European (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 03:07 PM PDT

German writer Herta Mueller reacts, during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Thursday Oct. 8, 2009. Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism's collapse. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)AP - The judges, apparently, could not help themselves.

Nobel winner wrote about repression in Romania (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 02:47 PM PDT

German writer Herta Mueller, seen, during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Thursday Oct. 8, 2009. Herta Mueller, a little-known Romanian-born author who was persecuted for her critical depictions of life behind the Iron Curtain, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday in an award seen as a nod to the 20th anniversary of communism's collapse. The decision was expected to keep alive the controversy surrounding the academy's pattern of awarding the prize to European writers. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)AP - Herta Mueller never intended to become a writer, it was simply a means of coping with the oppression of everyday life under Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.

German Writer Herta Muller: Nobel Literature Surprise (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 12:20 PM PDT

Time.com - The Romanian-born poet and novelist Herta MÜller was cited by the Swedish Academy for her portrayal of "the landscape of the dispossessed"

US likely to follow UK objections on Ticketmaster (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 04:23 PM PDT

AP - Regulators in the U.K. and U.S. appear likely to impose conditions on the merger of concert promoter Live Nation Inc. and ticket-selling giant Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. now that British authorities came out against the deal Thursday.

Egypt's top cleric bans face veil in some schools (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 01:56 PM PDT

FILE- In this Monday, June 1, 2009 file photo, veiled Egyptian students wearing the face-covering veil, known as the niqab, walk in Cairo, Egypt. An Egyptian daily reportED mONDAY oCT 5 2009 that the country's top Muslim cleric is planning to ban female students from wearing the face veil from schools run by al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's most prestigious institute of learning. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, file)AP - Egypt's top Islamic cleric said Thursday that students and teachers will not be allowed to wear face veils in classrooms and dormitories of Sunni Islam's premier institute of learning, al-Azhar, part of a government effort to curb radical Islamic practices.

Woman pleads guilty in USVI people smuggling case (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 04:17 PM PDT

AP - A ticket agent contractor who worked for Delta Air Lines in the U.S. Virgin Islands has pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to smuggle illegal immigrants into the United States.

Nigeria's oil output between 1.6-1.7 mln bpd : minister (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 01:01 PM PDT

A Total Akpo Floating Production Storage Off-loading (FPSO) platorm is pictured some 200 kms from Port Harcourt in May 2009. Nigeria's crude oil output is hovering between 1.6 and 1.7 million barrels per day following an amnesty deal to militants who waged a violent AFP - Nigeria's crude oil output is hovering between 1.6 and 1.7 million barrels per day following an amnesty deal to militants who waged a violent "oil war," the petroleum minister said Thursday.

Powerful typhoon slams into Japan, 2 die (AP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 05:13 PM PDT

A passer-by struggles in torrential rain on a crossing in downtown Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009 as Typhoon Melor hits central Japan. According to Japan's Meteorological Agency, Melor could dump up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) of rain by Thursday evening, and issued warnings for strong winds, heavy rains and high waves along a broad swath of southern and central Japan. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)AP - A powerful typhoon tore through Japan's main island Thursday, peeling roofs off houses, cutting electricity to hundreds of thousands and forcing flight cancellations before turning back toward the sea. Two men died.

Ignatieff contrite after gloomy poll (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 07:17 AM PDT

Reuters - The leader of the Liberal Party on Thursday admitted he had a lot of work to do in the wake of a poll showing his movement would be crushed if an election were held now.

Nazi suspect loses Australia extradition battle (AFP)

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 11:16 PM PDT

File photo shows Charles Zentai, alleged war criminal accused of murdering a young Jewish man in World War II, walking into a Federal Court in Perth. The 88-year-old on Thursday failed in his latest bid to escape extradition from Australia to Hungary.(AFP/File/Tony Ashby)AFP - An 88-year-old alleged Nazi war criminal accused of murdering a young Jewish man in World War II on Thursday failed in his latest bid to escape extradition from Australia to Hungary.

Facing massive layoffs, Russia's 'Detroit' feels the chill (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 01:51 PM PDT

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin examines automobiles at the research and design center of Russian carmaker Avtovaz in Togliatti, in March 2009. When Renault bought a quarter of Avtovaz at the height of optimism over the Russian car industry it cand hardly have imagined having to shoulder responsibility for saving Russia's largest carmaker.(AFP/RIA/File/Alexey Nikolsky)McClatchy Newspapers - TOGLIATTI, Russia -- A chilly wind snapped at Vasily Kurikov's face at noontime Tuesday as he walked to the employment office to find a part-time job as a street cleaner.

Yemen's strikes against Shiite rebels leave 30,000 refugees (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Since mid-August, a long-simmering conflict between the Yemeni government and Shiite rebels has flared up in the north of the country, threatening the stability of one of the Arab world's poorest states and raising fears that it may become a new haven for Al Qaeda.

Iran Nuclear Diplomacy: Can U.S. Accept a New Outcome? (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 12:20 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) welcomes chief of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, upon his arrival for a meeting in Tehran on October 4. Ahmadinejad, in his first comment on last week's talks in Geneva between Iran and six major powers, said on Wednesday that they were a Time.com - Tehran is talking and heeding some demands on its nuclear program, while rejecting others. Why that's creating a dilemma for Obama

Fatal Cultural Gap: Depression Among Minorities (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 10:06 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 8 (New America Media) - For years, Ram Subramaniam hid his gender preference from friends and family, and, in some ways, even from himself.

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