2010年1月15日星期五

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Aid slowly reaching Haitians as desperation grows (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:45 PM PST

Members of a Dominican rescue team attempt to save a victim trapped amid the rubble of a destroyed building in Port-au-Prince. Anger and despair mounted in quake-hit Haiti with rotting bodies littering the streets and little sign of desperately needed international aid for the hundreds of thousands of victims.(AFP/Juan Barreto)AP - Pushed to the far edge of desperation, earthquake-ravaged Haitians dumped decaying bodies into mass graves and begged for water and food Friday amid fear that time is running out to avoid chaos and to rescue anyone still alive in the wreckage.


In Haiti, little separates life and death (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 02:39 PM PST

Rescuers provide medical aid to a man named Perst, 35, a victim of the earthquake in Haiti, in the capital Port-au-Prince, January 15, 2010. Thousands of people left hurt or homeless in Haiti's earthquake begged for food, water and medical assistance on Friday as the world rushed to deliver aid to survivors before their despair turned to anger. REUTERS/Tatyana Makeyeva  (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER)AP - The body lies on the side of the road that leads to and from Haiti's capital city.


AP Enterprise: US buyers must beware in China (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:47 PM PST

This is one of the stores that David Smith owns, called A Beaucoup Conge that he ships his beads to in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. The American shop owner said he would screen the trinkets for lead before they hit the shelves of his Arizona stores. But he was unaware of the recent discovery of hazardous levels of cadmium in Chinese-made children's jewelry. (AP Photo/John Miller)AP - David Smith pushed a cart piled high with boxes of beads and other jewelry through a maze of shops at a wholesale market in southern China.


UN launches $550 million appeal for Haiti aid (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:25 PM PST

Handout photo provided by the MINUSTAH mission on January 14 shows an injured man in a wheelchair looking at the collapsed Haitian Governmental taxation building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Text HAITI to 90999 or Yele to 501501. Americans are digging deep for Haiti and sending millions of dollars to relief organizations via innovative mobile phone giving campaigns.(AFP/MINUSTAH-HO/File/Logan Abassi)AP - The United Nations said Friday about a third of the buildings in Haiti's capital have been damaged or destroyed, and appealed for $550 million to help three million people badly affected by the earthquake.


US kills FBI-wanted terrorist in Pakistan strike (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 10:22 AM PST

Pakistanis struggle to get an amount of donated popcorn and sweets, at the Beri Iman, a shrine of famous Sufi Saint Beri Imam, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - A U.S. missile strike in Pakistan killed one of the FBI's most-wanted terrorists, a man suspected in a deadly 1986 plane hijacking with a $5 million bounty on his head, three Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday.


After the Quake: Should Haitian Refugees Be Given Special Status? (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:45 PM PST

The Department of Homeland Security main complex is shown January 8 in Washington, DC. The US government on Friday said it had granted temporary asylum to Haitians already in the United States before this week's devastating earthquake.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)Time.com - Undocumented aliens from the impoverished island nation have long been excluded from a special immigration status. Will the earthquake change that?


Ukraine 'model farm' to help sell ND ag supplies (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:04 PM PST

AP - It used to take Alex Oronov 24 hours of flight time to shop for North Dakota farm machinery. Now it takes him less than an hour.

Yemen says airstrike kills al-Qaida military chief (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:18 PM PST

Graphic locates Yatama in Jouf province, Yemen where Yemeni warplanes conducted an airstrike against al-Qaida forcesAP - Yemeni warplanes struck outside a desert village near the border with Saudi Arabia on Friday, killing six al-Qaida operatives, including the group's top military leader in the country, security officials said.


Haiti by the numbers: Damage, help on giant scale (AP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:40 PM PST

The U.S. carrier Carl Vinson sits in waters off Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, after arriving as part of the relief effort to aide survivors of the earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday.   (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - People in Haiti needing help: 3 million. Bodies collected for disposal so far: 9,000. Number of people being fed daily by the United Nation's World Food Program: 8,000.


Former Haiti president Aristide 'ready' to return (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 04:41 PM PST

Former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide, seen here in 2003, says he is ready to return to help rebuild the country in the wake of the devastating earthquake.(AFP/File/Thony Belizaire)AFP - Former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide, exiled in South Africa since 2004, said Friday he was "ready" to return to help rebuild the country in the wake of the devastating earthquake.


China plays down Google dispute but U.S. concerned (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 03:11 PM PST

Reuters - China sought on Friday to play down a threat by Google Inc to quit the country on hacking and censorship concerns, but the United States said it will formally express concern over the cyber attacks the Internet search giant said originated in China.

Canadian drug-injection site allowed to stay open (Reuters)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:22 PM PST

Reuters - The Canadian government must allow Vancouver's Insite facility, North America's only sanctioned drug-injection site, to remain open, a provincial appeals court ruled on Friday.

Aborigines to ask Prince William for slain warrior's head (AFP)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 12:13 AM PST

Australian Aborigines reportedly will ask Britain's Prince William (pictured last October) for help in finding and returning the head of an indigenous warrior when he visits Sydney next week. William, 27, will meet several indigenous leaders on Tuesday on his first trip to Australia since visiting as a baby with his parents Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana in 1983.(AFP/Pool/File/Chris Jackson)AFP - Australian Aborigines said Friday they will ask Britain's Prince William for help in finding and returning the head of an indigenous warrior when he visits Sydney next week.


'Flying IEDs': The new weapon threat in Iraq? (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 12:47 PM PST

This photograph taken from a helicopter on November 5, 2009 in Kandahar shows a US Army vehicle burning after it was hit by an IED. Four US troops and a British soldier have been killed in Afghanistan, officials said Monday, the first reported fatalities of 2010 after a record number of foreign deaths in the conflict last year.(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — U.S. troops stationed at an outpost in southern Iraq heard a chilling whistle, and then a 60-pound airborne bomb punched through a concrete blast wall and sent shrapnel flying, wounding three Americans.


Are Latin America's drug cartels working with al-Qaeda? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 08:29 AM PST

A Yemeni soldier stands atop a hill overlooking the capital Sanna on January 13. A senior Yemeni official has told AFP that an air strike killed six suspected leaders of the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) network.(AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)The Christian Science Monitor - It's known as the Coca Cola plane. In early November, drug traffickers landed a Boeing 727 in the Malian desert in Gao state and offloaded between 10 and 12 million tons of cocaine.


Haiti Tries to Dig Out as Corpses Pile Up (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Jan 2010 01:45 PM PST

Time.com - Port-au-Prince is a series of open graves and funeral pyres and no one knows how many have died. But the living are pulling together to clear away the rubble

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