2009年12月12日星期六

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Iran puts conditions on nuclear fuel swap (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 03:31 PM PST

Iranian Foreign Minister Manochehr Mottaki speaks during a press conference, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies regional security conference in Manama, Bahrain. Iran is ready to exchange the bulk of its stockpile of enriched uranium for nuclear fuel rods as proposed by the U.N. but according to its own mechanisms and timetable, the foreign minister said Saturday. Speaking to reporters at a regional security conference in Bahrain, Manochehr Mottaki said Iran agreed with a U.N. deal proposed in October in which up to 2,600 pounds (1,200 kilograms) of its uranium would be exchanged for fuel rods to power its research reactor. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - After weeks of conflicting responses, Iran abruptly said Saturday that it is ready to exchange uranium for nuclear fuel — the key demand of a U.N.-sponsored initiative to defuse global fears over its nuclear program.

Martial law ended in Philippine massacre province (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 08:58 AM PST

A soldier tosses a box containing rounds of M16 and M14 ammunition buried in the pit outside the farm of Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr., in Shariff Aguak township, Maguindanao province Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009, in southern Philippines. The Ampatuan clan is implicated in the massacre of 57 people, including 30 journalists and their staff that led to the imposition of Martial Law in that province. The Government announced it will lift late Saturday the weeklong Martial Law declaration. (AP Photo/Froilan Gallardo)AP - The Philippine president lifted martial law late Saturday in a southern province where 57 people were massacred in the country's worst political violence, but the area will remain under a state of emergency as authorities investigate a powerful clan accused in the carnage.

Iraq hails 2nd oil auction but risky sites shunned (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 08:01 AM PST

Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani, center, are seen during the second round of bids for oil licenses to develop some of Iraq's massive oil fields at a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. Lukoil and Norway's Statoil ASA took the biggest prize in the closing round of the two-day bidding: the 12.88 billion barrel West Qurna Phase 2 field in the Basra region. The deal was a coup for the Russian firm, which had been promised the field under Saddam Hussein's regime. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq's oil minister began counting the money Saturday even before the first wells were drilled, dubbing the country's second postwar oil auction a triumph even as international oil companies largely snubbed the most violent regions in the Middle East's last major oil bonanza.

AP IMPACT: Science not faked, but not pretty (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 02:58 PM PST

This Dec. 10, 2009 photo shows a sign at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. E-mails stolen from the computer network server of the climate research unit at the university show climate scientists stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data, but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press. The 1,073 e-mails examined by the AP show that scientists harbored private doubts, however slight and fleeting, even as they told the world they were certain about climate change. However, the exchanges don't undercut the vast body of evidence showing the world is warming because of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press.

What Was David Headley's Role in the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks? (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 06:50 AM PST

Time.com - The alleged activities of David Headley may provide critical clues as to how a radical Pakistani Islamist group plans to go global with terrorism

Hollins v Whittle in 'Strictly Come Dancing' final (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 03:40 PM PST

Television presenter Chris Hollins will take on actor Ricky Whittle in the final of this year's AFP - Television presenter Chris Hollins will take on actor Ricky Whittle in the final of this year's "Strictly Come Dancing" after actress Ali Bastian was knocked out of Saturday's semi-final.

Lawmaker: Iraqi security had tip-off before bombs (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 11:46 AM PST

Shiite lawmaker Haider al-Ibadi speaks to the press after an Iraqi Parliament session held to discuss how suicide bombers managed to elude security to launch Tuesday's attack, which killed 127 people in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009. Iraq's top security chiefs faced lawmakers behind closed doors to answer for security lapses that allowed a third attack since summer against government sites in the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraqi security forces were tipped off to this week's suicide bombings in Baghdad just hours before the blasts killed 127 people, a Shiite lawmaker said Saturday after a closed-door parliamentary briefing by the nation's defense minister.

Leftist LatAm bloc to begin using its own currency (AP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 03:51 PM PST

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, accompanied by Cuba's President Raul Castro, gestures upon his arrival to Havana, Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. Chavez is on a three-day official visit to Cuba. (AP Photo/Prensa Latina, Ismael Francisco)AP - Members of a leftist bloc of nine Latin American nations said Saturday they plan to use a new currency dubbed the sucre for trade among themselves starting in January.

Zimbabwe President Mugabe re-elected as ZANU-PF leader (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 03:14 PM PST

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe addresses ZANU-PF delegates at his party's fifth National People's Congress in Harare on December 11. Mugabe was re-elected Saturday as ZANU-PF leader for the next five years, urging supporters to work for the survival of the party.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)AFP - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was re-elected Saturday as ZANU-PF leader for the next five years, urging supporters to work for the survival of the party.

968 arrests at Copenhagen mass climate rally (AFP)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 03:42 PM PST

Climate change demonstrators gather outside The Parliament ahead of the climate march in Copenhagen. Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Copenhagen on Saturday calling for tough action from the UN climate conference, after police arrested some 400 rioters at the start of the protest.(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Police arrested almost 1,000 people among the violent fringes of a mass rally in Copenhagen on Sunday intended to put pressure on the UN climate summit to take stronger action.

In Afghanistan war, marines' struggle to recruit locals could delay US exit (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:58 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The challenges with recruiting and training Afghan security forces in unstable parts of the country calls into question the ability to draw down international forces in 18 months.

Small Islands Discovering Their Power in Copenhagen (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 12 Dec 2009 09:59 AM PST

OneWorld.net - COPENHAGEN, Dec 11 (OneClimate.net) - The UN's Copenhagen climate conference has suddenly become a thrilling place to be. And it's a whole week till President Obama arrives, so the thrill has nothing to do with the power of the US. Quite the reverse. It's the small islands that are making waves here - islands so small and low-lying that they will be drowned if dramatic action is not taken.

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