2009年12月28日星期一

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Obama vows to use power to thwart terrorists (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 05:35 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement on health care and climate change at the White House in Washington December 19, 2009. Obama on Monday vowed to track down those behind an attempt to bring down a U.S. passenger airline on Christmas Day as he announced stepped-up measures to ensure U.S. flight safety. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/FilesAP - President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to use "every element of our national power" to keep Americans safe and said the failed Christmas Day plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner was "a serious reminder" of the need to continually adapt security measures against changing terrorist threats.

Gay marriage in Argentina is 1st in Latin America (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 03:21 PM PST

In this photo distributed by the press office of Tierra del Fuego government, Alex Freyre, right, and his partner Jose Maria Di Bello, center, who are HIV positive, get married at the civil registry in Ushuaia, southern Argentina, Monday, Dec. 28, 2009. The couple's union is the first gay marriage in Latin America. (AP Photo/Government of Tierra del Fuego)AP - Two Argentine men were joined Monday in Latin America's first same-sex marriage, traveling to the southernmost tip of the Americas to find welcoming spot to wed.

UK says plane bomb suspect on routine watchlist (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST

In this undated photo provided by the Web site saharareporters.com and verified by an Associated Press reporter present at the subject's arraignment, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is shown. Abdulmutallab, who claimed ties to al-Qaida, was charged Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009 with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner, just a month after his father warned U.S. officials of concerns about his son's religious beliefs. (AP Photo/saharareporters.com) NO SALESAP - The man accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner was not flagged in Britain as a potential terror suspect — he was merely put on a standard watch list of people whose visa applications were rejected, British officials said Monday.

Suicide attack on Pakistani Shiites kills 30 (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 04:47 PM PST

In this image from security camera footage released by Karachi Police on Monday Dec. 28 2009 an explosion caused by a suicide bomber rips through a crowd of Shiite Muslims marching through the streets of Karachi, Pakistan, marking the key holy day of Ashoura. At least 30 people were killed and dozens wounded in the blast. (AP Photo/ Karachi police) -- TV OUT --AP - A suicide bomber struck a procession marking a key Shiite Muslim holy day in Pakistan's biggest city Monday, killing 30 people in an attack blamed on extremists trying to hamper the country's fight against militancy by sparking a sectarian war.

Iran holds bodies of slain protesters (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 04:46 PM PST

This undated image courtesy of Paris-based Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf shows opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, left with his nephew Ali Mousavi. The body of Ali Mousavi, slain in the deadliest day of anti-government protests in months in Iran on Sunday Dec. 27, 2009, disappeared from a Tehran hospital Monday. (AP Photo/Courtesy Mohsen Makhmalbaf ) NO SALESAP - Iranian authorities said Monday that they were holding the bodies of five slain anti-government protesters, including the nephew of the opposition leader, in what appeared to be an attempt to prevent activists from using their funerals as a platform for more demonstrations.

Pamela Anderson on Stage in the U.K.'s Pantomime Season (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 01:05 AM PST

Time.com - A British Christmas wouldn't be complete without the traditional pantomime show, a retelling of a children's tale with transvestites, hammy acting -- and, this year in London, guest star Pamela Anderson

Govt pleads with China to spare Briton facing execution (AFP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 04:08 PM PST

Akbar Shaikh, brother of British national Akmal Shaikh, holds a candle during a vigil at the Chinese Embassy in London. The Govenment on Monday urged China to AFP - The government on Monday urged China to "do the right thing" in a last-ditch appeal to halt the execution of a Briton on death row for drug smuggling, as his family and supporters held a candlelit vigil.

Al-Qaida in Yemen expands operations (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 02:56 PM PST

This image made available by IntelCenter and taken from a Web site frequently used by militants to disseminate their messages, purports to show Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. In a statement posted on the WebsSite dated Saturday Dec. 26, 2009, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the attack on a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. In the statement, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula said Abdulmutallab coordinated with members of the group, an alliance of militants based in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. (AP Photo/IntelCenter)AP - Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which claimed responsibility for the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit, is led by a Yemeni who was once a close aide to Osama bin Laden.

Doctors remove needle from near Brazil boy's spine (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 05:17 PM PST

A TV grab taken on December 15 shows an X-ray of the stomach of a two-year-old boy at the intensive care unit of the Barreiras hospital in the Brazilian state of Bahia. The boy pierced with 31 sewing needles by his black-magic believing stepfather underwent a second operation on Wednesday to remove 14 from his body, according to a hospital spokeswoman.(AFP/HO/File)AP - Doctors have removed four more sewing needles from the neck of a 2-year-old Brazilian boy who was stuck with dozens by his stepfather in an alleged plot to spite his wife.

Nigerian broke family contact before bomb attempt (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 04:22 PM PST

AP - A young Nigerian man who allegedly tried to bring down a trans-Atlantic flight broke off contact with his worried parents only a few months before the attack, apparently trading a world of wealth for the calling of a jihadist.

S.Korea posts current account surplus for 10th month (AFP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 03:49 PM PST

Pedestrians walk at a shopping district in Seoul in July 2009. South Korea recorded a current account surplus for the 10th straight month in November thanks partly to brisk exports, the central bank said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Park Ji-Hwan)AFP - South Korea recorded a current account surplus for the 10th straight month in November thanks partly to brisk exports, the central bank said Tuesday.

125 pilot whales die on NZ beaches, 43 saved (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 02:44 AM PST

Two volunteers look over dead pilot whales at Colville Bay, north of Coromandel, New Zealand, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. Some 125 pilot whales died after becoming stranded on the beach over the weekend - but vacationers and conservation workers Sunday managed to coax 43 others back out to sea. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Steven McNicholl)AP - Some 125 pilot whales died in New Zealand after stranding on beaches over the weekend — but vacationers and conservation workers managed to coax 43 others back out to sea.

'Time is running out' in Afghanistan, intelligence officials say (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 12:55 PM PST

British soldiers in Afghanistan. A British soldier was killed on Monday in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said, taking the country's military death toll there this year to 107.(AFP/File/John D McHugh)McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL — As the U.S. and its allies try to overcome logistical hurdles and rush some 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan in 2010, intelligence officials are warning that the Taliban-led insurgency is expanding and that "time is running out" for the U.S.-led coalition to prove that its strategy can succeed.

Skin whitening cream finds new popularity among Palestinian women (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Dec 2009 09:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - At the Princess Center salon in downtown Ramallah, Shafa Usama has the “magic formula” that can make young women’s dreams come true. After Ms. Usama subjects their visages to a long litany of peels and masques, they’ll leave about $40 poorer â€" and a little paler.

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