2010年6月14日星期一

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Uzbeks flee Kyrgyzstan, seek safety at border (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 05:22 PM PDT

** CAPTION ADDITION, ADDS ID ** An Uzbek woman who identified herself only as Khadicha, and who fled from the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh after her husband was killed and house burned down stands in line in no-man's-land near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk waiting for permission to cross into Uzbekistan, Monday, June 14, 2010. Tens of thousands of refugees fled pogroms that began last week in southern Kyrgyzstan. (AP Photo/Anvar Ilyasov)AP - Standing behind barbed wire with other Uzbek refugees, the woman tearfully raised her hands in a Muslim prayer for her dead husband. She had left his body at their burned-down house in southern Kyrgyzstan while fleeing ethnic riots that reduced much of a major city to ruins.


Natalee Holloway's father seeks answers in Aruba (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 02:16 PM PDT

Beth Holloway, mother of Natalee Holloway, speaks during the opening of the Natalee Holloway Resource Center (NHRC) at the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Holloway's daughter disappeared in Aruba in 2005, and today launched a resource center named for Natalee to assist the families of missing persons. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Natalee Holloway's father was back in Aruba on Monday, hoping the suspect in his daughter's disappearance has provided local authorities with new clues since being arrested for the killing of a 21-year-old woman in Peru.


Gunmen ambush Mexican police, killing 10 officers (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 05:14 PM PDT

Crime scene investigators and a Mexican army soldier stand over the body of a fallen federal policeman after an ambush on a patrol of federal agents near the town of Zitacuaro, Mexico Monday June 14, 2010. Mexican federal police say 10 of their officers were killed in the attack and several others were wounded.(AP Photo/Agencia MVT-Crisanta Espinosa)AP - Gunmen killed 10 federal police officers Monday in an ambush near a high school in western Mexico, staging one of the deadliest attacks on security forces since the government stepped up its fight with drug cartels.


20 inmates shot dead during Mexico prison battle (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 03:42 PM PDT

AP - Twenty inmates were shot to death Monday when a group of prisoners attacked another gang inside a prison in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, authorities said. Two policemen guarding the prison were wounded.

Israel approves inquiry into Gaza flotilla attack (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 02:23 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Monday, June 14, 2010. Israel's Cabinet has approved an inquiry commission into its bloody attack on a Gaza-bound flotilla two weeks ago. The Cabinet convened Monday and okayed the independent public commission headed by a retired Israeli judge and including two high-ranking foreign observers. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)AP - The European Union on Monday called Israel's closure of Gaza "unacceptable" and offered to play a role in opening the borders, as Israel appointed three Israeli experts and two foreign observers to a commission to investigate its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla.


Chaos in Kyrgyzstan: Will Violence Cross the Border? (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 06:05 PM PDT

Time.com - Kyrgyzstan's instability breaks out with attacks on the Uzbek minority who flee to their home country. Will ethnic vengeance lash out across the frontiers?

Wreck of WWII freighter believed found off Albania (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 05:07 PM PDT

In these images made available from the US-Albanian expedition on Monday June 14, 2010  allegedly shows two views the Italian ship Rosandra.  Underwater archaeologists believe they have found the wreck of the Italian merchant ship torpedoed by the British during World War II off Albania's southern coast.  A joint U.S.-Albanian team said Monday the wreckage found last weekend probably was part of  the 8,000-ton Rosandra, which sank after being hit by a British submarine 67 years ago. (AP Photo/ US-Albanian expedition) **  EDITORIAL USE ONLY  **AP - Using undersea scanning devices, archaeologists from the U.S. and Albania believe they have found the wreckage of an Italian ship that British forces torpedoed during World War II when Albania was occupied by Mussolini's Fascists.


US removing hazardous waste during Iraq withdrawal (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 01:34 PM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2007 file photo, U.S. army soldiers from Blackfoot Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment burn garbage at K-wal combat outpost in the village of Shakarat, in the volatile Diyala province, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The U.S. military says it has treated and disposed of more than 300 million pounds of hazardous waste accumulated during seven years of war. The clean-up effort comes amid concerns about America's environmental legacy in Iraq as the military prepares to withdraw by the end of next year.(AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic, file)AP - The U.S. military is removing tens of millions of pounds of hazardous waste accumulated during seven years of war amid concerns about America's environmental legacy in Iraq, officials said Monday.


Bill Gates, Carlos Slim announce $150M for health (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 02:33 PM PDT

From left,  Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, Spain's Infanta Cristina, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Mexico's first lady Margarita Zavala, and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates pose for photographers in Mexico City, Monday, June 14, 2010. Gates and Slim, the world's two richest men, said they are teaming up with the government of Spain to donate a total of $150 million to a program to fight health problems like malnutrition, dengue and malaria in Mexico and Central America. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - The world's two richest men are teaming up with Spain to donate $150 million to fight malnutrition, dengue, malaria and other health problems in Mexico and Central America.


US urges accountability in deadly Egyptian police beating (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 03:26 PM PDT

Egyptian activists face police near the Interior Ministry in Cairo during a demonstration against police brutality. The United States expressed concern Monday over the death of a 28-year-old man reportedly beaten by police in the northern Egyptian port city of Alexandria.(AFP/File)AFP - The United States expressed concern Monday over the death of a 28-year-old man reportedly beaten by police in the northern Egyptian port city of Alexandria.


Two dead as light plane plunges into Sydney street (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 06:19 PM PDT

The skyline of the Australian city, Sydney. At least two people have been killed after a light plane crash-landed in a Sydney street and exploded just metres from a primary school, police have said.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - At least two people were killed Monday when a light plane crash-landed in a Sydney street and exploded just metres (yards) from a primary school, police said.


Top U.S. court rejects Maher Arar's torture suit appeal (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 07:55 AM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday the dismissal of a lawsuit by a Canadian man against U.S. government officials for sending him to Syria, where he says he was tortured.

Japanese space probe finds unique asteroid dust (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jun 2010 11:17 PM PDT

REFILE - CLARIFYING CAPTION  A person secures the Japanese Hayabusa Sample Return Capsule (SRC) at Woomera rocket range in the Australian outback in this June 14, 2010 handout photo. A Japanese space probe has landed in the Australian outback after a seven-year voyage to an asteroid, safely returning a capsule containing a unique sample of dust, Japanese mission controllers said on Monday. REUTERS/JAXA/Handout (AUSTRALIA - Tags: SCI TECH POLITICS IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSReuters - A Japanese space probe has landed in the Australian outback after a seven-year voyage to an asteroid, safely returning a capsule containing a unique sample of dust, Japanese mission controllers said on Monday.


Israeli flotilla inquiry inadequate, Turkey and others say (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 02:31 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — Israel on Monday announced a limited internal inquiry into its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a move the Obama administration welcomed but one that Turkey, the Palestinian Authority and other countries denounced as falling far short of the independent international probe they're seeking.

Does Belgium's Election Spell the End of the Country? (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 06:05 PM PDT

Time.com - By giving power to a separatist party in Sunday's election, Belgium's Dutch-speaking Flemish and French-speaking Wallonians seem to have declared it time for a split. But the country has a knack for muddling through its divisions

New Push to Make Motherhood Safe (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 02:57 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 13 (IRIN) - Progress in reducing maternal mortality and morbidity is still "tragically slow". Now, the United Nations has unveiled a global initiative based on government, civil society and private sector cooperation that could save the lives of up to one million women during pregnancy and childbirth.

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