2010年2月16日星期二

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Taliban leader's arrest a new blow to insurgents (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:08 PM PST

U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment peer out from holes in a compound wall during a firefight with Taliban fighters in the town of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Monday Feb. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - The capture of the Afghan Taliban's No. 2 commander by a joint CIA and Pakistani team dealt a fresh blow to insurgents under heavy U.S. attack and raised hopes that Pakistani security forces are ready to deny Afghan militant leaders a safe haven.


Study: Quake damage twice value of Haiti economy (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 02:01 PM PST

Looters run out with goods from an earthquake destroyed store in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. Sporadic looting has erupted since the Jan. 12 earthquake struck Haiti.  (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Damage from Haiti's catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake may be twice the value of the country's annual economy, Latin America's main development bank said Tuesday.


Baradar Capture: Aided by U.S.-Pakistan Cooperation? (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 02:40 PM PST

Time.com - The Pakistanis deny that there was a joint operation with the U.S. to arrest Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. But they might have have had no choice but to cooperate

Lady Gaga in Brit awards hat-trick as women lead the way (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:00 PM PST

US singer Lady Gaga arrives on the red carpet for The Brit Awards 2010 at Earls Court in London. Flamboyant US superstar Lady Gaga scooped three awards Tuesday at the 30th anniversary edition of the Brits music awards, in a night of triumph for female artists.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Flamboyant US superstar Lady Gaga scooped three awards Tuesday at the 30th anniversary edition of top music awards the Brits, in a night of triumph for female artists.


Clinton warns of Mideast nuclear arms race (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:50 PM PST

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton smiles during a press conference with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, unseen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Feb. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told an audience of Saudi college women on Tuesday that it is the shared responsibility of Iran's neighbors to ensure it does not get nuclear weapons.


Western Mexico: 5 decapitated men found (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 02:09 PM PST

This picture taken from a helicopter shows a view of the border city Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. Beheadings, kidnappings and daylight shootings have become common in the border cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez as drug cartels fight over smuggling routes into the United States. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Mexican authorities have found the decapitated bodies of five men in a western state known for drug-gang violence.


Latest Darfur fighting displaces 'thousands': UNAMID (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 10:03 AM PST

Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) militants in Jebel Marra in 2005. Recent fighting between Sudanese troops and rebels in the western region of Darfur has killed many people and displaced thousands more, UN and African peacekeepers said on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Salah Omar)AFP - Recent fighting between Sudanese troops and rebels in the western region of Darfur has killed many people and displaced thousands more, UN and African peacekeepers said on Tuesday.


Obama to hold Afghan war cabinet Wednesday (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 04:44 PM PST

US Marines with 1/3 Marine Charlie company fire mortar rounds on Taliban positions in the northeast of Marjah. US President Barack Obama will convene a meeting of his Afghan war cabinet on Wednesday to assess the first major offensive of his troop surge strategy against the Taliban.(AFP/Patrick Baz)AFP - US President Barack Obama will convene a meeting of his Afghan war cabinet on Wednesday to assess the first major offensive of his troop surge strategy against the Taliban.


Canadian Ricker wins cross gold (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 03:50 PM PST

Reuters - Maelle Ricker thrilled a rowdy hometown crowd and easily won the women's Olympic snowboard cross title on Tuesday, bagging the first gold for a Canadian woman on home soil.

Arrest of No. 2 may throw Taliban, peace talks into disarray (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 03:46 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL — The arrest of the second-ranking Taliban leader last week in Pakistan is likely to throw the Islamist movement into disarray and disrupt the Taliban military campaign, and it could mark a strategic U-turn for the government in Islamabad, former Taliban and Western analysts said Tuesday.

Former prisoner of North Korea builds university for his former captors (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 10:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - On a Korean War battlefield in 1950, the young, patriotic Kim Chin-kyung, then just 15, lay limp on the ground, wounded by shrapnel.

Greece Bailout: France, Germany Angry Over Rescue (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 02:40 PM PST

Time.com - Even with the future of the euro at stake, the French and Germans are angrythat their countries may be forced to come to the rescue of financiallyreckless Greece

Madagascar Government Cuts Hit Education Hard (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 07:49 AM PST

OneWorld.net - ANTANANARIVO, Feb 15 (IRIN) - Madagascar's unresolved political crisis is causing havoc in its education system after steep cuts increased the island state's inability to meet schoolchildren's basic needs, bringing a spike in child labour.

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