2010年2月1日星期一

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Haiti PM: US Baptists knew removing kids was wrong (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 03:54 PM PST

Two Haitian police officers sit next to Charisa Coulter, 24, of Boise, Idaho, one of the 10 Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government  permission, as she rests on a cot at the University of Miami's field hospital, near Port-au-Prince's international airport, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. Coulter, who's diabetic, initially thought her insulin had gone bad in the heat but now she's being treated for what she said is either severe dehydration or the flu. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Haiti's prime minister said Monday that 10 Americans who tried to take a busload of undocumented Haitian children out of the country knew that "what they were doing was wrong," and could be prosecuted in the United States.


Female suicide bomber in Iraq kills 54 (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 03:46 PM PST

Sixteen Shiite pilgrims on their way by foot to a shrine city in central Iraq were killed on Monday when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a rest station in Baghdad.(AFP/Graphic)AP - A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives inside a way station for Shiite pilgrims Monday, killing 54 people and rattling security officials who are struggling against a possible rise in violence before key elections next month.


US envoy: March vote in Iraq must be seen as fair (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 05:01 PM PST

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill talks to The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. America's ambassador to Iraq says he thinks a fierce controversy over a ballot purge of candidates who are suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists will be resolved before March 7 parliamentary elections. Hill says he believes Iraq's government will open its vetting process to show voters why certain candidates were disqualified from running.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - The U.S. ambassador to Iraq outlined twin challenges Monday to the unsteady democracy's elections next month: assuring that voters and rival factions accept the result and then making sure the losers step aside quietly.


New NIreland pact elusive, dashing premiers' hopes (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 11:46 AM PST

Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson speaks to the media at Parliament Buildings, Stormont,Belfast, Northern Ireland, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010.  Northern Ireland's struggle to save its Catholic-Protestant administration hit another hurdle Monday as the major British Protestant party, the Democratic Unionists, unexpectedly held back from accepting a compromise deal on the table.  (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Northern Ireland's major Protestant party unexpectedly withheld support Monday for a painstakingly negotiated deal with its Catholic partners to save their 2 1/2-year-old administration.


Can Iran's regime and opposition leaders reconcile? (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 02:30 PM PST

Time.com - As both sides brace for another round of protests, Tehran is abuzz with talk of moves to reconcile regime and opposition leaders. But that would require major political shifts for which neither side is ready -- yet

Keane move to Celtic concludes recession-hit transfer window (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 04:10 PM PST

Robbie Keane, seen here in 2009, gave Monday's transfer deadline day a late twist by completing a loan move from Tottenham to Celtic.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - Robbie Keane was at the centre of another transfer deadline day of drama as the Ireland captain completed a late loan move from Tottenham to Celtic.


Iraq: Key figures since the war began (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:28 PM PST

AP - October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.

Haiti says Baptists may be tried in US (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 01:32 PM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 file photo, Americans, from left: Steve McMullen,  Jim Allen, Carla Thompson, Silas Thompson, Paul Thompson, Laura Silsby, Drew Culberth and Nicole Lankford stand at police headquarters in the international airport of Port-au-Prince. Haitian officials said Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 that they are thinking of sending the U.S. Baptists to the United States for prosecution after they were arrested trying to take 33 children out of the country without government permission.  (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, file)AP - Haiti's prime minister said Monday it's clear to him that the 10 U.S. Baptists who tried to take 33 children out of his quake-ravaged country without permission "knew what they were doing was wrong."


Obama warns of more pressure on Sudan (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:35 PM PST

Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir in 2009. President Barack Obama warned on Monday the United States would increase pressure on al-Beshir's government if it did not respond to a US engagement push aimed at securing a peace deal in Darfur.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)AFP - President Barack Obama warned on Monday the United States would increase pressure on Sudan's government if it did not respond to a US engagement push aimed at securing a peace deal in Darfur.


US probes Pacific missile test failure: Pentagon (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 05:29 PM PST

File photo shows a modified AFP - The US military failed to shoot down a ballistic missile in a test resembling an Iranian or North Korean strike after a radar malfunctioned, a spokesman said on Monday.


Canada consumer sentiment mixed in January (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 08:36 AM PST

Reuters - Canadian consumers were less optimistic about the economy in January, according to a survey by the country's biggest bank, while another poll showed overall consumer confidence leapt to a 23-month high.

New Zealand teen fights off shark with body board (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 05:21 PM PST

AP - A teenage New Zealand girl bitten by a shark bashed it over the head with her body board until it let her go, she said.

Afghan government pursues talks with Taliban leaders (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 12:58 PM PST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. Karzai appealed to Taliban fighters Sunday to put down their weapons and accept Afghan laws as the country and its international allies push a program to entice militants away from the insurgency. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — Despite U.S. misgivings, Afghan President Hamid Karzai will push his initiative for talks with Taliban leaders during a visit to Saudi Arabia this week, and his top adviser on the reconciliation process with the insurgents said in an interview Monday that the country must learn to forgive the extremist group.


Israel admission on white phosphorus doesn't settle larger debate (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 10:28 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The revelation by Israel that two senior military officers have been reprimanded for using white phosphorus in last year’s Gaza war has been met with both criticism and measured applause; Haaretz columnist Amos Harel welcomed it under the headline, “At Last, A Real Response.”

A new basis for U.S. asylum claims: homeschooling (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 02:30 PM PST

FILE - In this March 13, 2009 file photo, Uwe Romeike and his wife Hannelore work with their children at home in Morristown, Tenn. The couple have moved into a modest duplex home while they seek political asylum because they say they were persecuted for their religious beliefs by home-schooling their young children in Germany. School attendance is compulsory there and educating children at home is not allowed. The German couple who fled to Tennessee so they could homeschool their children have been granted political asylum by a U.S. immigration judge on Tuesday Jan. 26, 2010.  (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)Time.com - In a landmark case, an Evangelical German couple has been granted asylum inthe U.S. to avoid persecution in their home country for homeschooling their children


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