2010年4月9日星期五

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AP EXCLUSIVE: Future pope stalled pedophile case (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:48 PM PDT

Maurine Behrend reads a letter she sent to church authorities regarding convicted sex offender and former priest Stephen Kiesle, who was volunteering in her church's youth ministry in the 1980's, at her home in San Ramon, Calif., Thursday, April 8, 2010. A letter obtained by the Associated Press and bearing the signature of future Pope Benedict XVI shows then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger resisted defrocking Kiesle, who had a record of sexually molesting children, after his case had languished for four years at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)AP - The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church," according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature.


Russia furious over adopted boy sent back from US (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:36 PM PDT

** CORRECTS BOYS AGE IN LIGHT OF SUBSEQUENT INFORMATION ** In this image taken from Rossia 1 television channel TV, 7-year-old adopted Russian boy Artyom Savelyev gets into a minivan outside a police department office  in Moscow, Thursday, April 8, 2010. Russia should freeze all child adoptions with U.S. families, the country's foreign minister urged Friday after an American woman allegedly put her 8-year-old adopted Russian son on a one-way flight back to his homeland. Artyom Savelyev arrived in Moscow unaccompanied Thursday on a United Airlines flight from Washington, the Kremlin children's rights office said Friday April 9.(AP Photo/Rossia 1 Television Channel)** TV OUT **AP - Russia threatened to suspend all child adoptions by U.S. families Friday after a 7-year-old boy adopted by a woman from Tennessee was sent alone on a one-way flight back to Moscow with a note saying he was violent and had severe psychological problems.


Rio flood death toll hits 205, expected to rise (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:16 PM PDT

A woman reacts after a landslide destroyed her house in Niteroi on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Friday, April 9, 2010.  Crews pulled at least 17 bodies from the debris at the site. More rain fell early Friday in Rio, threatening more landslides. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - The death toll from landslides and floods in and around Rio de Janeiro this week reached 205 on Friday and was expected to rise as searchers continued looking for bodies in an operation expected to last through the weekend, authorities said.


Canadian PM says police to investigate minister (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:10 PM PDT

AP - Canada's prime minister has asked the national police force to investigate what he called "serious allegations" against one of his cabinet ministers.

Kyrgyz victims mourned, US base fate on hold (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 02:48 PM PDT

Kyrgyz gather to mourn revolt victims on central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, April 9, 2010. Thousands of grieving and defiant citizens of Kyrgyzstan are gathering in the capital's main square to mourn victims of this week's revolt which forced the president to flee. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - As a crowd of thousands mourned the Kyrgyz protesters shot dead by police, many expressed hope Friday that the bloody revolt would bring a better government to the impoverished Central Asian nation. Some said they were counting on Russia's help.


Japan's Change Agent (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Can Hatoyama Be Japan's Change Agent -- At Home and Abroad?

EU leaders back Greece, markets bet on bailout (AFP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:06 PM PDT

Riot police clash with demonstrators in Athens during a protest against the government's austerity plan to solve country's debt crisis, March 2010. European Union leaders backed Greece Friday as Brussels agreed to levy lower than market interest rates if Athens is forced by its debt crisis to seek emergency EU-IMF action to prevent default.(AFP/File/Aris Messinis)AFP - European Union leaders backed Greece Friday as Brussels agreed to levy lower than market interest rates if Athens is forced by its debt crisis to seek emergency EU-IMF action to prevent default.


South Sudan votes for first time in a generation (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:12 PM PDT

A very tall security officer keeps an eye on crowds gathered for Southern Sudan President and elections candidate  Salva Kiir's  last election rally in Juba, Southern Sudan,  Friday April 9, 2010.  The people of Southern Sudan will cast ballots in a national election for the first time in more than two decades when a three-day election begins Sunday. Despite the first-in-a-generation vote, most people are already looking past the elections to a vote next January considered far more significant: a referendum on independence that could signal the birth of a new African nation, if final negotiations with Khartoum over oil rights and the location of the border are worked out peacefully. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - The election posters and slogan-filled T-shirts blanketing this town underscore a new excitement in southern Sudan, which will cast ballots in a national election for the first time in more than two decades, when a three-day vote begins Sunday.


Uruguayan ex-priest avoids justice on rape charges (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:16 PM PDT

AP - A Catholic priest who fled home to Uruguay and was defrocked after a nun accused him of raping three children in Bolivia has been living with his family for more than a year — with the full knowledge of Uruguayan church officials — despite an Interpol warrant for his arrest.

US maintains call for free expression in Egypt (AFP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:54 PM PDT

The Egyptian police stand guard in a street in the southern Egyptian village of Bahgura late January 2010. The United States reiterated its call Friday for freedom of expression in Egypt following the arrests of reformists, ignoring calls from Cairo denouncing such statements as interfering in its internal affairs.(AFP/File/Victoria Hazou)AFP - The United States reiterated its call Friday for freedom of expression in Egypt following the arrests of reformists, ignoring calls from Cairo denouncing such statements as interfering in its internal affairs.


Security clampdown in protest-hit Bangkok (AFP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:54 PM PDT

Red Shirt protesters clash with police in Bangkok. Thailand's security forces maintained a heavy presence in Bangkok Saturday as mass anti-government protests approach the one-month mark with no end in sight to the turmoil.(AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)AFP - Thailand's security forces maintained a heavy presence in Bangkok Saturday as mass anti-government protests approach the one-month mark with no end in sight to the turmoil.


Canadian PM forces out minister, calls in police (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 11:47 AM PDT

Reuters - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper forced junior minister Helena Guergis out of his government on Friday and called in the police to investigate what he said were serious allegations against her.

Crews begin moving oil from ship stuck on reef (AP)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:20 AM PDT

In this handout photo provided by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, the Chinese carrier Shen Neng 1 is hard aground on the Great Barrier Reef near Great Keppel Island tourist resort, Australia, Tuesday, April 6, 2010. The 755 foot (230 meter) bulk carrier was carrying about 72,000 U.S. tons (65,000 metric tons) of coal to China when it ran aground Saturday. The white streak is sand and coral debris disturbed by the ship.(AP Photo/Australian Maritime Safety Authority, HO) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - Salvage crews at a damaged coal carrier stuck on Australia's Great Barrier Reef began pumping fuel oil Friday from the stricken vessel onto another barge to carry it away and prevent it from leaking onto the delicate reef.


Securing nuclear materials is Obama summit goal (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:20 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Early on Nov. 8, 2007, armed men penetrated a 10,000-volt security fence, disabled intrusion detectors and scaled a ladder into the emergency control center of the Pelindaba nuclear facility, the repository of highly enriched uranium removed from the six bombs of South Africa's defunct nuclear arsenal.

Bashir: The only choice left in Sudan elections (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 12:25 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - This small city of tree-lined streets is so quiet that you wouldn’t even know that the town is about to take part in the first free Sudan election in 24 years.

Israel: The Troublesome Legal Saga of Ehud Olmert (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Time.com - The case against the former Israeli Prime Minister remains unresolved even as an investigation of an associate is disclosed

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