2010年4月19日星期一

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Europe resumes some air travel despite volcano (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 06:34 PM PDT

The first of three KLM passenger planes heading to New York takes off from Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday April 19, 2010. European transport officials have carved up the sky, creating three zones to break the flight deadlock caused by a cloud of volcanic ash flowing from Iceland over Europe. France said Monday that European countries can resume airline traffic in designated 'caution zones' where the threat of ash is considered less dangerous. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - Europe began to emerge from a volcanic cloud Monday, allowing limited air traffic to resume and giving hope to millions of travelers stranded around the world when ash choked the jet age to a halt.


Top al-Qaida leaders killed in Iraq, US says (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 06:36 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 15 2006 file photo, a U.S. soldier at a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq  stands by a photograph that purports to show Abu Ayyub al-Masri  who is the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. Iraq's prime minister says two of the most wanted al-Qaida in Iraq figures have been killed in a joint operation with the U.S. Nouri al-Maliki said Monday, April 19, 2010 that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri were killed over the weekend when a joint operation of U.S. and Iraqi forces rocketed a home where they were hiding.  (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)AP - The U.S. and Iraq claimed a major victory against al-Qaida on Monday, saying their forces killed the terror group's two top figures in this country in an air and ground assault on their safehouse near Saddam Hussein's hometown.


Bidding on huge Amazon dam project halted again (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 05:34 PM PDT

Canadian movie maker James Cameron holds a t-shirt during a demonstration against the Belo Monte Hydroelectric power station construction, in Brasilia, on April 12. Cameron vowed Friday to fight on for the indigenous people of the Amazon after a Brazilian court overturned a ruling that would have halted construction of a huge dam that would flood tribal lands.(AFP/File/Evaristo Sa)AP - A Brazilian judge on Monday suspended for a second time bidding on a massive hydroelectric dam project opposed by environmentalists, Indians and "Avatar" director James Cameron.


Brazil priest detained after pedophilia accusation (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 05:33 PM PDT

AP - Brazilian police have detained an 83-year-old priest after a congressional hearing produced allegations he molested boys as young as 12, fueling a growing scandal involving Roman Catholic clergy across Latin America.

The Cost of Europe's Volcanic Ash Travel Crisis (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Time.com - As the cloud of volcanic ash hanging over Europe dissipates, E.U. authorities give the okay to fly again. But the recession-hit region won't emerge from the five-day travel ban unscathed

Think-tank unveils website to boost aid controls (AFP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 06:12 PM PDT

File photo shows an aid worker alongside tonnes of equipment destined for refugees inside a cargo-carrying aircraft. Aid agencies can now ensure that companies contracted to carry aid and peacekeepers to disaster zones do not also engage in activities that spark conflict, such as transporting armaments, a leading think-tank said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Joel Robine)AFP - Aid agencies can now ensure that companies contracted to carry aid and peacekeepers to disaster zones do not also engage in activities that spark conflict, a leading think-tank said Tuesday.


Hamas leader vows to capture more Israeli soldiers (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 01:55 PM PDT

Khaled Mashaal, head of the Hamas political bureau  attends a forum held in the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, Syria on Monday, 19 April 2010. Posters behind read: 'Give life back to the prisoner.' The forum aimed to express solidarity with Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli and Palestinians jails, was organized by the Committee for Defending Prisoners and Detainees in Israeli jails and was attended by representatives of Damascus-based opposition Palestinian groups.(AP Photo/ Bassem Tellawi).AP - The leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas has vowed to capture more Israeli soldiers to use in bargaining for the release of Palestinian prisoners.


Chavez hosts Latin American allies for summit (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 04:54 PM PDT

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, left, greets Cuba's President Raul Castro as they attend an event honoring Venezuela's independence hero Simon Bolivar during Venezuela's 200th independence anniversary celebrations in Caracas, Monday, April 19, 2010. In foreground, a security guard.  (AP Photo/Leonardo Ramirez)AP - President Hugo Chavez marked the 200th anniversary of Venezuela's independence movement Monday with celebrations and a gathering of his closest Latin American allies.


U.S. faults Sudan election but will work with victors (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 01:53 PM PDT

Polling staff members count votes at a polling station in Sudan's capital Khartoum April 17, 2010. REUTERS/Mohamed NurdldinReuters - The United States said on Monday Sudan's elections were neither free nor fair but it will deal with the victors to try to settle internal disputes before a referendum that could bring independence to southern Sudan.


3 rescued, 5 days after China quake killed 2,000 (AP)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 06:27 PM PDT

Four-year-old girl Cairen Baji is carried by a rescue worker after they dug her and an elderly woman out from a collapsed mud house near Jiegu town in earthquake-hit Yushu county in west China's Qinghai province on Monday, April 19, 2010. Relatives kept Wujian Cuomao, 68, and Cairen Baji alive for five days by sending them food and water through gaps in the rubble with the help of bamboo poles, state broadcaster CCTV said. (AP Photo)**CHINA OUT**AP - Relatives kept alive a 4-year-old girl and an elderly woman trapped by an earthquake under a collapsed house for almost a week in China by using bamboo poles to push water and rice through the rubble until rescuers saved them.


Volcanic ash cloud reaches North American coast (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 02:20 PM PDT

Reuters - The ash cloud from Iceland's volcanic eruption brushed up against Canada's Eastern seaboard on Monday, but airlines said domestic flight cancellations were mostly because of fog.

UN 'troubled' by Australia's treatment of asylum-seekers (AFP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2010 11:53 PM PDT

Sri Lankan asylum seekers disembark onboard a rubber boat from the Australian Customs ship the Ocean Viking as they are transferred to a waiting Indonesian ferry off the island of Bintan near Singapore last November. The United Nations said Monday it was AFP - The United Nations said Monday it was "deeply troubled" by Australia's treatment of asylum-seekers, as rights group Amnesty International condemned the reopening of a remote detention centre.


Pakistan suspends officials after scathing U.N. report (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 01:01 PM PDT

A man holds a portrait of the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto while displaying her images at a makeshift memorial in Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi March 31, 2010. REUTERS/Faisal MahmoodMcClatchy Newspapers - LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan suspended a raft of officials following a damning United Nations report into the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the government said Monday.


Two Iraq Al Qaeda leaders killed: Did they really get Abu Omar al-Baghdadi? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 03:47 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The death of a top Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leader could sever a link between Al Qaeda headquarters and its Iraqi offshoot but the identity of a second figure previously announced to have been killed appears far from clear.

Christianity's Surge in Indonesia (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Time.com - Christianity's Surge in Indonesia

Relief Work Suspended After Dozens Killed in Pakistan IDP Camp Attack (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 03:46 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - KOHAT, Apr 18 (IRIN) - Relief work has been suspended at the Kacha Pakha camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) on the outskirts of Kohat town in northwestern Pakistan after two bomb attacks killed at least 41 IDPs, according to officials and media reports.

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