2010年2月4日星期四

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AP IMPACT: Drug cartels co-opt rehab for recruits (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 12:39 PM PST

In this Nov.  20, 2009 photo, a recovering drug addict guards the entrance door at the CDLDA rehab center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.  Mexico's powerful drug cartels have been operating drug rehabilitation clinics, turning some into bloody killing fields and forcing recovering addicts into their ranks of hit men and smugglers. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Mexico's powerful cartels have taken to running drug rehabilitation centers, turning recovering addicts into hit men and smugglers and giving some an ultimatum: Work for us or we'll kill you.


10 Americans charged in Haiti with kidnapping (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:16 PM PST

Laura Silsby, 40, center, and Charisa Coulter, 24, left, both of Boise, Idaho, are escorted out of the court building in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. The ten Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the earthquake, were charged with child kidnapping and criminal association, after a judge found sufficient evidence to file the charges, according to their Haitian lawyer Edwin Coq.  (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Ten U.S. Baptist missionaries were charged with kidnapping Thursday for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti to a hastily arranged refuge just as officials were trying to protect children from predators in the chaos of a great earthquake.


Venezuelan police break up anti-Chavez protest (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:46 PM PST

University students clash with police during a protest against Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010.  Police blocked the protesters' march route from a downtown plaza to Congress. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)AP - Police used tear gas, plastic bullets and water cannons to scatter hundreds of students protesting against the government Thursday, while President Hugo Chavez's supporters celebrated the 18th anniversary of his failed coup as an army officer.


Protestants accept deal to save NIreland govt (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:27 PM PST

AP - Lawmakers from Northern Ireland's major Protestant party have unanimously backed a compromise plan with the Catholic minority to save their power-sharing government, Democratic Unionist Party leader Peter Robinson declared Friday.

Egypt restores monastery touting religious harmony (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:55 AM PST

Officials, visitors and journalists take a tour following a ceremony of the completion of the restoration works at the Monastery of St. Antony, Suez city, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Egypt's antiquities chief on Thursday unveiled the completion of an 8-year, $14.5 million restoration of the world's oldest Christian monastery, touting it as a sign of Christian-Muslim coexistence. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - Egypt's chief archaeologist unveiled on Thursday an extensive renovation of the oldest monastery in the world, touting the work at the 1,600 year-old-site as a symbol of peaceful coexistence between the country's Muslims and Christians.


Iran's Secret Obsession: Getting Lost in Tehran (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 11:45 PM PST

Time.com - The denizens of the capital of the Islamic Republic are as excited about Season Six of the U.S. TV show as fans elsewhere. Perhaps more so.

N.Ireland party backs deal, saves power-sharing (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 06:23 PM PST

Northern Ireland's leader Peter Robinson, pictured on February 1, has said his party has backed a deal with their power-sharing partners to pull the province's threatened administration back from the brink.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AFP - Northern Ireland's leader Peter Robinson has said his party has backed a deal with their power-sharing partners to pull the province's threatened administration back from the brink.


U.S. rushing bomb dogs to Iraq amid equipment concerns (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:09 AM PST

In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, an Iraqi police dog handler watches a bomb-sniffing dog searching for explosives during a training session at the police college in Baghdad, Iraq. The American military is rushing delivery of bomb detection dogs to Iraq, following a request by Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's government for more canines after questions were raised about whether a bomb detection device widely used at Iraqi checkpoints works, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The American military is rushing delivery of dozens of bomb-detection dogs to Iraq after accusations that widely used mechanical devices are ineffective to pinpoint explosives at checkpoints and other search sites, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.


Jamaican cleric says he was unfairly demonized (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:34 PM PST

AP - A radical Muslim cleric who served time in a British jail for inciting murder and was recently deported to his native Jamaica said Thursday that he has been unfairly demonized by the media.

Mandela celebrates 20 years of freedom (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 02:11 PM PST

In this photo supplied by Zinc Media, former South African President Nelson Mandela and his former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, right, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010, toast the upcoming 20th anniversary of Mandela's release from prison, with family, friends and former activists of the liberation struggle, during the filming of a documentary  AP - Nelson Mandela, fellow veterans of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and family have raised glasses of bubbly to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his release from prison.


Dalai Lama to visit White House despite China anger (AFP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 06:20 PM PST

The Dalai Lama greets supporters before the Capitol dome during festivities honouring him in 2007 in Washington, DC. The Dalai Lama will be welcomed at the White House later this month despite China's anger at the Tibetan spiritual leader's planned meeting with President Barack Obama, an official said Thursday.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AFP - The United States risked inflaming a row on multiple fronts with China, saying the Dalai Lama would visit the White House later this month despite Beijing's fierce protests.


Vancouver counts the cost of high security (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 04:14 PM PST

Reuters - The threat of a terror attack on the Vancouver Olympics is considered low but Canada is still spending far more to protect the event than it did to build the venues where athletes will compete.

3 cheetahs swim moat, briefly escape in NZealand (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 05:52 PM PST

AP - Three cheetahs swam a moat and crawled through a hole in a rusty fence to escape their enclosure and then briefly roamed inside a wildlife park in New Zealand.

U.S. plan to win Afghanistan tribe by tribe is risky (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:49 AM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - PAKTIA PROVINCE, Afghanistan — U.S. officials put a lot of hope last year in Haji Rashid, an up-and-coming community leader in the Zormat district of Afghanistan's Paktia province. They considered Rashid a unifying figure who was capable of bringing together about a dozen tribes in the area to work in support of the American-backed Afghan government.

Why Jacob Zuma's infidelity carries a small political price (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 10:22 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - A sitting president cheats on his wife with another woman, admits to the press that he has a “love-child,” and he still keeps his job.

People of the Year: Neipamei Ngodia and Kakenya Ntaiya (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 04 Feb 2010 11:28 AM PST

OneWorld.net - for forging their own path out of a patriarchal society, and then returning to provide new opportunities for the girls in their community

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