2010年4月5日星期一

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AP Analysis: Karzai remarks risk US-Afghan rift (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:16 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, surrounded by his body guards walks through Kandahar city, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - President Hamid Karzai's startling threat to join the Taliban if foreigners don't stop meddling in Afghanistan and his strident criticism of the West's role have worsened relations with Washington at a time when the U.S. military wants closer cooperation ahead of a potentially decisive offensive this summer.


Now 16, Elian Gonzalez shown at Cuba youth meeting (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:59 PM PDT

Elian GonzaleZ holds a Cuban flag during the UJC, Union of Young Communists, congress in Havana Sunday April 4, 2010. Gonzalez, the Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle 10 years ago in April 2000, attended Cuba's Young Communist Union wearing an olive green military school uniform.(AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina)AP - Cuba has released photos of one-time exile cause celebre Elian Gonzalez wearing an olive-green military school uniform and attending a Young Communist Union congress.


Ill Nigerian president meets Christian leaders (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:01 PM PDT

AP - Nigeria's ill and long unseen president met briefly with Christian religious leaders Monday, still physically weak but "able to grunt out an amen," a pastor who took part in the visit said.

US consulate attacked in northwest Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 02:43 PM PDT

Map locates Peshawar, Pakistan, where four bombs exploded near the U.S. ConsulateAP - Islamist militants unleashed a car bomb and grenade attack against a U.S. consulate in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing four people and striking back after months of American missile strikes against Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in the region.


Terre'Blanche murder reveals S. Africa racial divide (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:50 PM PDT

A supporter of African far-right leader Euguene Terre'Blanche looks at flowers and pays tribute in front of the entrance of the farm in Ventersdorp. South Africa's ruling party on Monday brushed off accusations of fuelling racial tension amid fears of a bloody backlash over the killing of far-right leader Eugene Terre'Blanche.(AFP/Alexander Joe)Time.com - The bludgeoning to death of South Africa's most infamous white racist, Eugene Terre'Blanche, focuses attention on his most notorious black successor, Julius Malema


Brown defends economy plans as election battle set to start (AFP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 03:19 PM PDT

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, seen here in London, has defended his handling of the economic recovery as he prepares to fire the starting gun on a general election that polls suggest he could lose.(AFP/Pool/File/Peter Macdiarmid)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown defended his handling of the economic recovery on Monday as he prepared to fire the starting gun for a general election that opinion polls suggest he could lose.


Police say Shiite family of 6 gunned down in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:01 PM PDT

An Iraqi police officer stands guard on top of an armored vehicle in central Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 5, 2010. Suicide attackers detonated three car bombs in quick succession near foreign embassies in Baghdad on Sunday, killing more than 40 people in coordinated strikes that Iraqi officials said were intended to disrupt efforts to form a new government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - A Shiite couple and four of their children were gunned down in their home outside Baghdad on Monday, the latest in a string of attacks that have killed some 70 people since Friday, police said.


88 gay couples have married in Mexico City (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Olly Staneslow, left, and Judith Weir, who spent seventeen years together before getting married in Iowa last year, smile while reading a book to each other in their St. Paul, Minn. home, Friday, April 2, 2010. The two are just one of more than 1,000 same-sex couples who traveled to Iowa to get married between April and December 2009. Since the Iowa Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage on April 3, 2009, the state has become a wedding destination for couples across the country. (AP Photo/Janet Hostetter)AP - Mexico City's officials say 88 same-sex couples have gotten married in Mexico's capital since a law allowing such unions took effect last month.


One dead in fresh sectarian clashes in central Nigeria (AFP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 02:34 PM PDT

Policemen stand guard at the police headquarters in Jos in March 2010. Fresh clashes erupted Monday between groups of Christian and Muslim youths in Nigeria's central city of Jos, leaving one dead as security forces restored order, a senior state official said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Fresh clashes erupted Monday between groups of Christian and Muslim youths in Nigeria's central city of Jos, leaving one dead as security forces restored order, a senior state official said.


Hawaii man's China military secrets trial to begin (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 05:21 PM PDT

AP - A former B-2 stealth bomber engineer from Maui who is accused of selling military secrets to China is due to face trial in federal court this week.

Loonie edges closer to parity with U.S. dollar (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:26 AM PDT

Reuters - The Canadian dollar shot to a 20-month high against the greenback on Monday, within striking distance of parity with the U.S. currency, bolstered by higher oil and metals prices and bullish U.S. employment data.

Stranded coal carrier threatens Great Barrier Reef (AFP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:50 AM PDT

Oil leaks from the Chinese coal carrier the Shen Neng 1 after the vessel ran aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef off the coast of the state of Queensland late on April 3. Australian authorities are battling to prevent the badly damaged ship stranded on the Great Barrier Reef from spilling tonnes of oil into pristine waters teeming with marine life.(AFP/Queensland Government /Ho)AFP - Australian authorities were Monday battling to prevent a badly damaged Chinese coal carrier stranded on the Great Barrier Reef from spilling tonnes of oil into pristine waters teeming with marine life.


Attack on U.S. consulate suggests Pakistani militants still a threat (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:05 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD — A multi-pronged assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in northwest Pakistan and a suicide bomb attack elsewhere in the area left some 50 people dead Monday, demonstrating extremists' continued ability to strike despite military operations against them.

Islamist network takes shape in Russia (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 12:18 PM PDT

Map locating Karabulak in Ingushetia. A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a police station in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Ingushetia, killing two police officers, officials said.(AFP/Graphic)The Christian Science Monitor - Five terrorist attacks that killed almost 60 people in a single week have left Russians deeply shaken. The latest attack took place today in the restive Republic of Ingushetia.


Pakistani Taliban bomb attack: U.S. consulate a target (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 02:50 PM PDT

Security forces stand guard at the site of a bomb attack targeting the U.S. consulate in Peshawar April 5, 2010. Militants using a car bomb and firing weapons attacked the U.S. consulate in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday hours after a suicide bomber killed 38 people elsewhere in the northwest, officials said. Pakistani Taliban militants claimed responsibility for the attack on the consulate, in which eight people including three militants were killed but no one in the mission was hurt.    REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)Time.com - The Pakistani Taliban's attack on the U.S. consulate on Monday suggests that they are undettered by U.S. drones and Islamabad's forces


Iraq's Health System Needs Years of Work (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 02:12 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - BAGHDAD, Apr 4 (IRIN) - Much more time and effort is needed to improve Iraq's health system and institutions, which have been battered by decades of conflict, underinvestment and neglect, the country's top health official said on 3 April.

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