2010年1月9日星期六

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Video links Pakistan Taliban to deadly CIA bombing (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 04:24 PM PST

In this image taken from undated video made available from Taliban sources on Saturday Jan. 9, 2010, purportedly showing Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi, right, reading a statement to camera vowing revenge for the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, while sitting next to the new leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud. Jordanian doctor Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi, is identified by news organizations to be the man who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan on Dec. 30. The authenticity of this video is unconfirmed. (AP Photo/Taliban video via APTN)AP - In a video broadcast after his death, the Jordanian suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees sits cross-legged on the floor next to the new chief of the Pakistani Taliban, confirming the group was behind the brazen attack in eastern Afghanistan.

Togo team leaves tournament after deadly ambush (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 10:58 AM PST

Angolan police escorts the bus carrying Ghana's soccer team as it leaves the compound where teams are based, in Cabinda, Angola, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010. Togo's national soccer team pulled out of the African Cup of Nations Saturday after three people were killed when the team bus came under fire as it traveled through a section of Angola plagued by separatist violence. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)AP - Hosting the African Cup of Nations was Angola's chance to show it is recovering from decades of war. But gunmen sprayed bullets at Togo's national team, killing three people and forcing its withdrawal from the soccer tournament.

Migrants bused from riot-struck Italian town (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 12:31 PM PST

Migrant workers leave an abandoned factory which they turned into a dormitory in Rosarno, southern Italy, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010, following overnight clashes between migrants and police. Some hundreds of migrant workers, most of them Africans, went on a rampage Friday, in Rosarno, in a second day of rioting, with authorities reporting at least 37 wounded, including police officers and migrants. Migrants come to the area for seasonal work and are known to set up camps in abandoned buildings. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi)AP - Bloody clashes between African migrants and residents in one of Italy's poorest regions over the last few days brought home a national dilemma Saturday: Many Italians don't want to pick crops in the south or toil in the north's factories, but resent the desperate foreigners who will work for a pittance.

Disgraced wife of NIreland leader to step down (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 09:06 AM PST

FILE - A June 5, 2008 photo from files of Iris Robinson, with her husband, Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson. First Minister Peter Robinson vowed Friday, Jan. 8, 2010 he wouldn't quit as leader of Northern Ireland's Catholic-Protestant government following revelations that his wife, Iris — like him a British Parliament member — solicited 50,000 pounds ($80,000) from businessmen to launch a riverside cafe for her young boyfriend. (AP Photo/PA, John Harrison, File)AP - The wife of Northern Ireland's leader will step down as a lawmaker within days, British media reported Saturday, as pressure mounted on Peter Robinson's shaky coalition government over her admissions of an affair with a far-younger man.

UK police charge 2 men after Heathrow bomb threat (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST

AP - Two men have been charged with making a false bomb threat and being drunk aboard a passenger plane following a security scare at London's Heathrow Airport, British police said Saturday.

In France, a Move to Outlaw Psychological Abuse in Marriage (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 10:40 AM PST

Time.com - Couples will always argue. But in France, a movement is afoot by legislatorsto protect partners when the yelling becomes something scarier --psychological abuse

British man charged with bomb hoax on Dubai flight (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST

Aircraft are pictured at Heathrow Airport in November 2009. A British passenger was charged on Saturday with making a bomb threat that grounded a Dubai-bound plane at London's Heathrow Airport and sparked a major security alert, police said.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - A British passenger was charged on Saturday with making a bomb threat that grounded a Dubai-bound plane at London's Heathrow Airport and sparked a major security alert, police said.

Yemen's conflicts flare amid al-Qaida fight (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 11:43 AM PST

Two soldiers from the anti-terrorism force of the Yemeni Defense Ministry take part in an exercise in a training camp at the Sarif district, north of the capital San'a, Yemen Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - While ramping up the fight against al-Qaida with U.S. help, the Yemeni government has also escalated its own internal conflicts in the north and south that threaten to throw the fractured country into greater chaos and even nourish the terror group's growth.

2 men decapitated, 2 women killed on Mexico border (AP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 01:40 PM PST

A drug addict prepares a mixture of heroin and water on the bottom of a can in an abandoned lot in a neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez January 6, 2010. The number of Mexicans addicted to illegal drugs jumped 50 percent to around 500,000 people between 2002 and 2008, according to a government study last year. Drug trade experts say the real figure is much higher, with an estimated 200,000 addicts in Ciudad Juarez alone. Picture taken January 6, 2010. REUTERS/Alejandro Bringas (MEXICO - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH CRIME LAW)AP - Police found two severed heads and the bullet-ridden bodies of two women and a disabled man in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, the latest chapter in Mexico's increasingly gory drug war.

Wary favourites I.Coast launch Nations Cup campaign (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 05:06 PM PST

Ivory Coast captain Didier Drogba answers journalists' questions during a press conference in Abidjan in December 2009 about the forthcoming African Nations Cup. Title favourites Ivory Coast launch their 2010 African Nations Cup campaign on Monday against Burkina Faso in the Cabinda enclave where the Togo squad were attacked by separatists in a terror attack.(AFP/File/Sia Kambou)AFP - Title favourites Ivory Coast launch their 2010 African Nations Cup campaign on Monday against Burkina Faso in the Cabinda enclave where the Togo squad were attacked by separatists in a terror attack.

CIA bomber video calls for attacks on U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 03:08 PM PST

Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud (L) sits beside a man who is believed to be Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal Al-Balawi, the suicide bomber who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan, in this still image taken from video released January 9, 2010. A Pakistan television station showed on Saturday what it said was the suicide bomber double agent who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan sitting with the Pakistani Taliban leader, and reported he shared U.S. and Jordanian state secrets with militants. REUTERS/Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan via Reuters TVReuters - The suicide bomber who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan had made a video calling on militants to avenge the death of the Pakistani Taliban leader by carrying out attacks in and outside the United States, al Jazeera said.

Indian set on fire in latest Australia attack (AFP)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 11:24 AM PST

Australian police survey the Melbourne park where Indian student Nitin Garg was stabbed to death on January 2. A man of Indian descent is recovering in hospital after a group of men set him on fire in the Australian city of Melbourne -- in the latest in a string of similar attacks.(AFP/File/David Crosling)AFP - A man of Indian descent s recovering in hospital on Saturday after a group of men set him on fire in the Australian city of Melbourne, police said, the latest in a string of similar attacks.

CIA suicide bomber appears in video with Pakistani Taliban leader (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 01:45 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani officials fear that a video that appears to link the suicide bomber who struck a CIA base in Afghanistan last week to the Pakistani Taliban will prompt the Obama administration to step up pressure on them to take more aggressive action against extremists and intensify U.S. drone attacks on targets in Pakistan.

How cold is Europe? Even Norway's buses can't take it. (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Jan 2010 09:41 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - After three years sans snow, Paris got hit twice this week. The city doesn’t do snow plows, and the novelty of icicles on the Eiffel is wearing off. Even city birds seem to be shivering. “Global warming I care about, but look outside,” offered a denizen of the 8th District.

Yemen: The Most Fragile Ally (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Jan 2010 10:40 AM PST

Time.com - Yemen is becoming an increasingly important base for terrorist attacks. Can it be helped? Not easily -- the place is in crisis

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