2009年10月18日星期日

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Iran bombing kills 5 Revolutionary Guard leaders (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 03:39 PM PDT

Iranian medical personnel bring an injured person to a medical facility in the Pishin district in Iran in this image taken from TV Sunday Oct. 18, 2009. A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of the powerful Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others Sunday near the Pakistani border in the heartland of a potentially escalating Sunni insurgency. The attack which also left dozens wounded was the most high-profile strike against security forces in an outlaw region of armed tribal groups, drug smugglers and Sunni rebels known as Jundallah, or Soldiers of God. (AP Photo/Press TV, via APTN)AP - A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of the powerful Revolutionary Guard and at least 37 others Sunday near the Pakistani border in the heartland of a potentially escalating Sunni insurgency.

Afghan opposition: Karzai delaying election probe (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:42 AM PDT

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner gestures during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009. Kouchner urged Afghanistan's political rivals Sunday to accept the findings of a fraud investigation that could decide whether the nation's disputed election goes to a runoff. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Afghanistan's political opposition accused President Hamid Karzai on Sunday of delaying release of a U.N.-backed investigation into fraud in the August presidential balloting and pressuring election officials to declare him the winner.

Irish, Ugandan aid workers freed in Darfur (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 12:50 PM PDT

AP - Two foreign aid workers seized at gunpoint more than three months ago in Sudan's Darfur were released Sunday by their captors in the third — and longest — kidnapping of aid workers in the arid region.

Taliban vow to defeat army in Pakistan offensive (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 09:25 AM PDT

A Pakistan army tank is transported by truck passing through Bara, the main town of Pakistan's tribal region Khyber along Afghan border, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009. Pakistan's army claimed Sunday to have killed 60 militants on the first day of an operation against an al-Qaida and Taliban sanctuary close to the Afghan border that residents said was meeting stiff resistance from insurgents.(AP Photo/Qazi Tariq)AP - Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles Sunday in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both sides claiming early victories in an army campaign that could shape the future of the country's battle against extremism.

Cat 5 Hurricane Rick threatens Mexico resort city (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 03:01 PM PDT

This image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Rick taken at 11 p.m. EDT Saturday Oct. 17, 2009. The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Rick turned into an 'extremely dangerous' Category 5 storm on Saturday with sustained winds reaching 180 mph (285 kph). At 11 p.m. EDT Saturday (0300 GMT Sunday), the storm's center was located about 295 miles (475 kilometers) south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. Forecasters say Hurricane Rick is the strongest hurricane in the eastern north Pacific Ocean in more than a decade. (AP Photo/NOAA)AP - Hurricane Rick, the strongest eastern North Pacific storm in more than a decade, weakened slightly over open seas Sunday as forecasters said it could veer into resorts at the tip of the Baja California Peninsula by midweek.

The Final OlÉ: A Spanish Region Moves to Ban Bullfighting (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 11:40 AM PDT

Time.com - Catalan lawmakers vote this month on an initiative to ban a centuries-oldtradition in Spain: the bloody -- and to some, exhilarating -- sport ofbullfighting. For many Catalans, it's time to put the spectacle to rest

Balloon boy case a hoax, says sheriff (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 04:54 PM PDT

Reuters - The flight of a home-made helium balloon that touched off a frantic rescue attempt for the young boy thought to be aboard was a publicity-seeking hoax, a Colorado sheriff said on Sunday.

Wounded US troops return to Iraq to find closure (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 01:45 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sunday, Oct. 11, 2009, retired Staff Sgt. Luke Wilson, of Hermiston, Ore, relaxes on an armchair, believed to have belonged to Iraq's late dictator, Saddam Hussein, at al-Faw Palace, headquarters for the U.S. military command at Camp Victory outskirts Baghdad, Iraq. Wilson, who lost his left leg below the knee in an RPG attack in Baghdad on Aug. 4, 2004, returned to Iraq this week as part of 'Operation Proper Exit,' a program sponsored by the nonprofit Troops First Foundation and the USO, which is returning troops to the battlefield where they were injured. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - As America's military role in Iraq winds down, the U.S. is grappling with how to help some of the more than 30,000 troops injured in six years of war move ahead with their lives. One approach is to bring them back to the battlefields where they were injured.

El Salvador gets 1st Cuban ambassador since 1960s (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 03:54 PM PDT

AP - The first Cuban ambassador to El Salvador since the early 1960s has presented his credentials, the government of leftist President Mauricio Funes said Sunday.

Two aid workers kidnapped in Darfur set free after 107 days (AFP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 11:47 AM PDT

The mother of an Irish aid worker Sharon Commins (pictured) who was freed after being kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region has said she was AFP - Two female staff of Irish aid agency GOAL who were kidnapped at gunpoint in Sudan's Darfur region in July were celebrating their release on Sunday from more than 100 days in captivity.

Diplomatic wrangling delays Afghan vote decision (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 04:06 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama in College Station, Texas on October 17. Obama is nearing a decision on the way forward in Afghanistan, after weeks of deliberations with his top advisers, but also as public support wanes for the conflict.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Dave Einsel)Reuters - Global pressure mounted on President Hamid Karzai on Sunday to accept a possible runoff in Afghanistan's disputed election as extended diplomacy delayed the announcement of official results from the August poll.

Canada nabs suspected migrants off Pacific coast (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Oct 2009 07:05 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada has detained a ship believed to be trying to smuggle more than 70 migrants onto its Pacific coast, police and government officials said on Saturday.

Australian teen sailor starts round-the-world bid (AP)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 04:17 AM PDT

Teenage sailor Jessica Watson walks to her boat after her final shower on land as she prepares to depart Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009, in her boat Ella's Pink Lady in her attempt to become the youngest person to sail non-stop, solo and unassisted, around the world. Watson, 16, in her newly refit 34-foot yacht will cover nearly 23,000 nautical miles on a journey that will take her from Australia's east coast and across the equator, south to Cape Horn at the tip of South America, across the Atlantic Ocean to South Africa, through the Indian Ocean and south of Australia back home in seven to eight months (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - A 16-year-old Australian steered her bright pink yacht out of Sydney Harbor on Sunday to start her bid to become the youngest person to sail solo and unassisted around the world.

Iraqis say they want U.S. investment, strategic support (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 02:54 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BASRA, Iraq -- The tourist ship "Peace" was at anchor in the Shatt al Arab waterway but southern Iraq's business leaders were eager to explore new waters when Christopher Hill, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, took the podium Friday and urged them to project positive energy instead of complaining about all the things that are wrong with Iraq.

Dutch MP Wilders enters Britain on free-speech ruling (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 16 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - An outspoken Dutch member of parliament on a "least wanted" British list of figures made a triumphant visit today after a British tribunal overturned a government decision to ban him from the country.

Pakistani Army Takes on Taliban in South Waziristan (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 10:40 AM PDT

Time.com - After nearly three months of planning, and very public anticipation, Pakistan's military moved on the South Waziristan stronghold of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

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