2009年12月4日星期五

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Knox convicted, sentenced to 26 years in Italy (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 05:03 PM PST

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox is accompanied by a penitentiary police officer prior to a final hearing before the verdict, at the court in Perugia, Italy, Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. An Italian jury has begun deliberations in the yearlong trial of American student Knox, who is charged with murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007 with her former boyfriend Italian murder suspect Raffaele Sollecito. A verdict is expected later Friday. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - American college student Amanda Knox was found guilty of murdering her British roommate and sentenced to 26 years in prison early Saturday after a year-long trial that gripped Italy and drew intense media attention.

Reports: Russian nightclub blast kills 101 (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 05:31 PM PST

Map locates Perm, Russia, where a blast at a nightclub killed scoresAP - An explosion and fire apparently caused by pyrotechnics tore through a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm early Saturday, killing 101 people, according to news reports.

Philippines arrests clan leader in massacre probe (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 04:25 PM PST

Philippine police cover behind an armored personnel carrier as they search one of the mansions of the Ampatuan clan in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines on Friday Dec. 4, 2009. Army troops and police, armed with a warrant, stormed four mansions belonging to the Ampatuans and found firearms and ammunition, a military spokesman said. The Ampatuans are suspects in the mass killing of 57 people, more than half are journalists, in the Philippines' worst political violence. (AP Photo/Froilan Gallardo)AP - Philippine troops took the patriarch of a powerful clan — a former governor — into custody Saturday after the president put his southern province under martial law to hunt down suspects in the country's worst political violence.

US Marines launch offensive in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 04:05 PM PST

US Marines come under fire as they return to base following a search operation in Mian Poshteh in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. US President Barack Obama will announce his new Afghan strategy in an address to the nation Tuesday from the prestigious West Point military academy, the White House said.(AFP/Manpreet Romana)AP - U.S. Marines swooped down behind Taliban lines in helicopters and Osprey aircraft Friday in the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge.

Guinea's wounded president flown to Morocco (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 03:27 PM PST

FILE- In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 2, 2009, Guinea military leader Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara salutes during independence day celebrations in Conakry, Guinea. A renegade faction of Guinea's presidential guard opened fire Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, on the African country's leader, while Moussa Dadis Camera was in Conaikry, a government spokesman said, amid rumors of deep divisions within the army, just 11 months after camera sized Presidential power in a military-led coup. It was not immediately clear if Camera was wounded. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam, File)AP - The wounded president of Guinea was airlifted to a hospital in Morocco on Friday, opening a dangerous power vacuum in this mineral-rich country one year after he took over in a military coup.

2-Min. Bio: Student Amanda Knox, on Trial in Italy (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 02:05 AM PST

REFILE - CORRECTING FIRST NAME OF CURT KNOX American university student Amanda Knox's father Curt and her mother Edda give an interview at their hotel while awaiting the verdict of Knox's murder trial in Perugia December 4, 2009. Defendants Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are on trial for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in November 2007. REUTERS/Max Rossi (ITALY CRIME LAW)Time.com - A verdict is expected for the 22-year-old American student on trial for killing her roommate while studying abroad in Italy

Fire in Russian nightclub kills at least 101 (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 05:56 PM PST

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (R) chairs a meeting on the blasts at an arms depot in Ulyanovsk, November 24, 2009. Medvedev on Tuesday sacked several senior generals over a series of explosions at an arms depot in central Russia this month in which 10 people were killed. REUTERS/RIA Novosti/Kremlin/Mikhail Klimentyev (RUSSIA POLITICS MILITARY)Reuters - At least 101 people were killed and 140 injured on Friday when hundreds of people stampeded out of a packed Russian nightclub after fireworks sparked a blaze, the Emergencies Ministry said.

Iran cracks down on dissent in universities (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 12:37 PM PST

FILE- In this Monday, June 15, 2009, file photo, students hold banners' at the gate of Tehran University in Tehran. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili,file)AP - As they gear up for a major anti-government protest Monday, Iranian students are besieged by a clampdown in the universities, with a wave of arrests and expulsions. At the same time, authorities are intensifying enforcement of Islamic morals on women's dress and men's hair length as a way to punish political dissent.

At least 13 killed in shootouts in northern Mexico (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 05:23 PM PST

A federal policeman walks among stranded vehicles after a shooting between soldiers and drug hitmen in the municipality of Juarez, on the outskirts of Monterrey December 4, 2009. At least 12 people died, including a civilian, in two shootouts between organized crime gangs and the military, according to local media. During the shootings 6 men were injured, 3 civilians among them, and 9 men were detained. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO CONFLICT CRIME LAW MILITARY)AP - Mexican authorities say at least 13 people were killed in two shootouts between troops and gunmen in northern Mexico.

Prosecutor says new charges possible in Darfur (AP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 03:12 PM PST

AP - The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court raised the possibility Friday of charging Sudanese officials who cover up the government's involvement in alleged war crimes in Darfur and said President Omar al-Bashir will ultimately face international justice.

Philippines imposes martial law in massacre province (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 05:54 PM PST

Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (R) talks to family members of journalists killed in the Maguindanao massacre as she visits their wake in General Santos city in southern Philippines December 3, REUTERS/Erik de CastroReuters - Philippine authorities imposed martial law on Saturday in the southern province of Maguindanao to prevent further violence after last month's massacre of 57 people in the country's worst election-related crime.

Canada November job gains beat expectations (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 05:31 AM PST

Reuters - Canada's economy added far more jobs than expected in November, more than erasing the losses in October and suggesting stronger fourth-quarter growth as predicted by the Bank of Canada.

Australian dives face-first into deadly jellyfish (AP)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 07:23 PM PST

FILE - In this April 18, 2002 file photo taken at James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, a tiny but fully grown deadly Irukandji jellyfish lies next to match sticks for size comparison. A man was flown to a hospital intensive care unit after diving face-first into an extremely venomous, peanut-sized jellyfish in the waters off northeast Australia, officials said Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Brian Cassey, File)AP - A man dove face-first into an extremely venomous, peanut-sized jellyfish in waters off northeast Australia and medics flew him to a hospital intensive care unit to treat the potentially fatal sting, officials said Friday.

U.S. action on climate policy is key to international treaty (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 02:56 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Negotiators in Copenhagen will try to nail down all the main elements of a treaty to curb global warming in the next two weeks, but a final agreement won't be possible until the United States figures out what it will do to reduce emissions of heat-trapping pollution.

China under pressure to play key role at Copenhagen climate summit (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 01:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - As the world's worst greenhouse-gas emitter, China will be under especially intense pressure at next week's climate change summit in Copenhagen to play a key role in cutting the world's carbon emissions.

Russia and Georgia Wage War with Films and Documentaries (Time.com)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 12:00 AM PST

Time.com - Dueling film versions of last year's bloody conflict reprise old arguments and ensure that the war of words between the two nations continues

Activists Push to End Violence Against Women (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 10:36 PM PST

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (OneWorld.net) - Twenty years ago Sunday, an angry gunman killed 14 female university students in Montreal, Canada. As advocacy groups remember the 1989 Montreal Massacre, activists are working to end violence against women worldwide.

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