2010年5月27日星期四

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NY woman who aided Peru rebels free after 15 years (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 05:16 PM PDT

US Activist Lori Berenson, smiles after leaving prison on parole next to her husband and attorney Anibal Apari, in Lima, Thursday, May 27, 2010. A judge granted parole to Berenson, the 40-year-old New York activist who has spent 15 years in Peruvian prisons on a conviction of aiding leftist rebels.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)AP - New Yorker Lori Berenson walked out of a Peruvian prison with a smile on her face Thursday, then pushed through mobs of reporters before settling into a neighborhood that met her with hostility.

7.2 quake hits South Pacific nation of Vanuatu (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 04:55 PM PDT

AP - Residents of a northern town in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu ran into the streets Friday as a powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook the area, police said.

Nuke treaty session hunts for Mideast compromise (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 04:26 PM PDT

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Iranian Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh speaks with the media in Tehran April 17, 2010. REUTERS/Caren Firouz/FilesAP - In closed-door huddles extending into Thursday night, diplomats at a nuclear treaty conference sought to break a deadlock between the Arabs and Israel's allies over a plan to turn the Middle East into a nuclear weapons-free zone.

Colombia: brainy outsider vs. Uribe torchbearer (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 04:18 PM PDT

Independent presidential candidate Antanas Mockus, who runs for the Green Party, holding up a sunflower and a copy of the Colombian Constitucion, delivers a speech during his closing campaign rally in Bogota, Sunday, May 23, 2010. Colombia will hold presidential elections on May 30. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)AP - The campaign rally feels like a cross between a civics lecture and a revival meeting. The bespectacled former university rector with an Amish-style beard wields a pencil like a baton as he delivers his message: Education, not weapons, must drive change in a country wracked by violence.

Jamaica: 73 killed in hunt for alleged drug lord (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 03:37 PM PDT

Residents gather outside their bullet-riddled home during a media tour organized by government authorities inside the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood in Kingston, Thursday, May 27, 2010. After a raid in this slum that left nearly 50 people dead in four days of gunbattles, the reputed drug kingpin who was the target may have fled the country, the government has said.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Jamaican security forces kicked down doors and arrested dozens of people in a bullet-pocked slum Thursday, and said the death toll from four days of fighting sparked by the search for a reputed drug lord has risen to 73.

Afghanistan: Karzai's Peace Talks with Taliban Delayed (Time.com)

Posted: 27 May 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Time.com - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has trumpeted his traditional peace jirga, but few of his countrymen see how it can effect reconciliation with the Taliban

Secret papers show ballerina's role in Panama coup (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 04:01 PM PDT

AP - Previously secret papers declassified Friday revealed that British ballerina Margot Fonteyn was heavily involved in plotting a coup to overthrow Panama's government, detailing how her clandestine political activities both exasperated and amused officials on both sides of the Atlantic.

Israeli commandos to block Gaza activists (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 01:51 PM PDT

An Israeli navy ship sails at the port in Ashdod, Israel, Thursday, May 27, 2010. Israel has set up three huge white tents at its main southern seaport to hold hundreds of sea-borne pro-Palestinian activists hoping to breach Israel's 3-year-old blockade of the Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Israel on Thursday unveiled a massive makeshift detention center in the country's main southern port and announced the end of days of intense naval maneuvers, vowing to stop a flotilla of hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists trying to break a 3-year blockade of the Gaza Strip this weekend.

Parents visiting Pakistani in Chile bomb probe (AP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 05:21 PM PDT

Parvin Mahmood, center, mother of Mohammad Saif-Ur-Rehman Khan, a Pakistani citizen detained in Chile, is escorted by police officers at the international airport in Santiago, Thursday, May 27, 2010. A Chilean appeals court ordered Saif-Ur-Rehman Khan back into a high-security prison on May 22, saying that chemicals allegedly found on his possession at the U.S. Embassy and inside his apartment could only have come from direct contact with explosives. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - A Pakistani man being held in a terrorism investigation in Chile is getting a visit from his parents.

President says US rooting for World Cup squad (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 04:11 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama (L) shakes hands with members of the US World Cup Soccer Team at the North Portico of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama told the US World Cup squad he'd be pulling for them as they represent the country on one of sport's greatest world stages next month in South Africa.(AFP/Tim Sloan)AFP - President Barack Obama told the US World Cup squad he'd be pulling for them as they represent the country on one of sport's greatest world stages next month in South Africa.

Fifteen killed as express train derails in India: media (AFP)

Posted: 27 May 2010 05:37 PM PDT

<p/>(AFP)AFP - Fifteen people were killed as an express train derailed in eastern India, the Press Trust of India news agency reported Friday.

Gap narrows for Conservatives: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 27 May 2010 05:20 AM PDT

Reuters - Support for the Conservatives slipped slightly in an opinion poll released on Thursday, but still left the ruling party within striking distance of a workable minority.

Thaksin denies he fomented violence (AP)

Posted: 26 May 2010 08:35 PM PDT

AP - Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra denied in a television interview that he supported any violence blamed on anti-government protesters in Bangkok and called terrorism charges against him politically motivated.

Swelling Pakistani 'lake' threatens villages downstream (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 27 May 2010 02:33 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD — An enormous lake, created in the far northeast of Pakistan this year by a freak landslide, is about to burst its banks, and experts fear that it could produce a wall of water that would wash away everything in its path.

Free iPads for European Union MPs? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 May 2010 09:43 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The iPad is coming to the Old World!

Gaza Aid Ships Head for Israel to Challenge Blockade (Time.com)

Posted: 27 May 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Time.com - The Obama Administration has finally gotten the Israelis and the Palestinians talking about peace, but they're avoiding the issue of Gaza

Aid Fleet Bound for Gaza (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 27 May 2010 03:04 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - RAMALLAH, May 26 (IRIN) - Eight cargo ships with more than 10,000MT of humanitarian aid, mostly building materials, medical equipment and medicines, will set sail for the Gaza Strip on 27 May in a symbolic attempt by activists to break the three-year Israeli blockade, says the Turkish NGO, Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH), local Palestinian NGOs and authorities in Gaza.

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