2009年11月14日星期六

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Suicide attack kills 11 at NW Pakistan checkpoint (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 09:57 AM PST

Pakistani police officers stand at the a site of a suicide car bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. A suicide car bomber killed people Saturday at a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, in the latest in a string of militant attacks targeting the city, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing 11 people, including four children, the latest in a wave of militant attacks that have claimed more than 300 lives in the past month.

Few call Venice home, but it's not history, either (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 02:13 PM PST

Native Venetians stage a mock funeral procession in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. Historic Venice is approaching the dread status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000, a largely symbolic threshold considered by some to signal the end of the city's viability. As native Venetians flee in droves to the mainland for cheaper housing and easier living, those who have stayed are marking their modern-day demise with a mock funeral procession Saturday. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)AP - A dozen gondolas snaked down the Grand Canal on Saturday in a mock funeral procession bemoaning Venice's approach to the dreaded status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000.

In Asia, Obama pushing arms control with Russians (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:19 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong before the gala dinner for APEC leaders in Singapore, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)AP - A major pact within tantalizing reach, President Barack Obama aims to nudge forward an arms-control deal in talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

A president of Europe? Continent's unity is tested (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 08:05 AM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2009 file photo, Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair attends a reception in London. Very soon, Europeans from Denmark to Bulgaria will wake up to the reality of having their very first president, one person world leaders can call when they want to talk to Europe. It's taken a lot of history to get here. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson, Pool, File)AP - The European Union has battled long and hard for this moment: the imminent choice of its first president.

NATO says insurgents killed during search (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 09:59 AM PST

A German soldier watches as a flare is fired from his helicopter to prevent missiles from hitting the aircraft, on the way to Kunduz, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - NATO and Afghan forces killed several insurgents, including an armed woman, in a search operation in western Afghanistan on Saturday, the alliance said.

Malaria Drugs: Artemisinin-Resistant Strain Appears (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 07:35 AM PST

Time.com - A dangerous new malaria strain has taken hold on the Thai-Cambodia border. Can an ambitious new plan to bring cheaper, better drugs to malarial countries like Cambodia stamp out the world's third deadliest disease before it's too late?

Sweden returns 22 human skulls to Hawaii (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:24 PM PST

AP - With a solemn ceremony in Stockholm's antiquities museum, Sweden marked the return of 22 skulls looted from a native Hawaiian community more than a century ago.

Opposition: Iran rulers more brutal than shah (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 01:00 PM PST

In this Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009 photo, leaders of Iranian opposition, Mahdi Karroubi, right, and Mir Hossein Mousavi talk in Tehran, Iran. The showdown between Iran's clerical leaders and a resilient protest movement sharpened Saturday Nov. 14, 2009, as opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah's regime and authorities announced a new Internet crackdown. Two of Iran's top pro-reform figures said in a Web statement that police used excessive force against anti-government protesters who took to the streets last week on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover. Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi, who lead the protest movement rejecting the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's June re-election, said authorities wielding batons even struck women on their heads. They called such treatment an ugly act that was not even seen during Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's response to the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled him. (AP Photo)AP - Iran's embattled opposition leaders accused the government of becoming more brutal than the shah's regime in Web statements Saturday, and authorities announced a new Internet crackdown aimed at choking off the reform movement's last real means of keeping its campaign alive.

US health agency to take 'fresh look' at Vieques (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 02:58 PM PST

AP - A U.S. agency has overturned its 2003 research that said no health hazards were caused by decades of military exercises on Vieques, a bombing range-turned-tourist destination off Puerto Rico's east coast.

Martins winner takes Nigeria to World Cup (AFP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 02:36 PM PST

Nigerian striker Obafemi Martins (R) celebrates with teammate Yakubu Ayiegbeni after scoring during their qualifying match against Kenya at the Moi International Sports Centre Kasarani. Martins was the two-goal hero as Nigeria defeated Kenya 3-2 in Nairobi on Saturday and snatched a place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.(AFP/Simon Maina)AFP - Obafemi Martins was the two-goal hero as Nigeria defeated Kenya 3-2 in Nairobi on Saturday and snatched a place at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

9 killed, 80 injured when train derails in India (AP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 04:35 PM PST

Rescue operators work at the site where coaches of the New Delhi-bound train derailed near Banshkov, a village nearly 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Jaipur, India, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009. A speeding train derailed while traveling through western India early Saturday, killing at least nine people, police said. (AP Photo)AP - A speeding train derailed in western India, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 80.

Canada ruling Conservatives hold solid lead - poll (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 06:34 AM PST

Reuters - Canada's ruling Conservatives retain a strong lead over their opponents, making it unlikely their minority government will face an election soon, according to a poll published on Saturday.

New Zealand qualify for World Cup finals (AFP)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 01:26 AM PST

Rory Fallon of New Zealand celebrates after scoring during a 2010 World Cup qualifying match against Bahrain in Wellington. New Zealand qualified for the World Cup finals with a 1-0 win over Bahrain here in the Asia/Oceania final second leg.(AFP/Brendon O'hagan)AFP - New Zealand qualified for the World Cup finals on Saturday with a 1-0 win over Bahrain here in the Asia/Oceania final second leg.

In China, Obama will glimpse world's new center of gravity (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 11:32 AM PST

Pedestrians are seen entering a metro station in front of a shopping mall in Shanghai. The nation's consumer price index, the main gauge of inflation, fell 0.5 percent in October compared with the same month a year earlier, after falling 1.1 percent in the first nine months of the year.(AFP/File/Philippe Lopez)McClatchy Newspapers - SHANGHAI — When President Barack Obama lands here Sunday night in China's largest city, he'll find many of its 20 million people intrigued by him and welcoming, but hardly deferential, and some openly skeptical of his promises of change.

In Asia, Obama Makes Promises of Change (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Nov 2009 07:35 AM PST

Time.com - President Obama's popular and rhetorical success on the global stage has not yet been matched by resolution of the United States' foreign policy challenges.

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