2010年6月29日星期二

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Russia: Suspected spies include Russian citizens (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:17 PM PDT

This undated image taken from the Russian social networking website 'Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general.  (AP Photo)AP - Some of the suspected spies arrested in the United States are Russian citizens, Russia's Foreign Ministry acknowledged Tuesday, but it insisted they did nothing to hurt U.S. interests.


Mexico vote goes ahead despite slain candidate (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Army soldiers guard the crime scene after candidate for governor of the state of Tamaulipas, Rodolfo Torre, was ambushed by unidentified gunmen near the city of Ciudad Victoria, Mexico, Monday June 28, 2010. Gunmen assassinated the front-running candidate and several of his aides in what Mexico's President Felipe Calderon called an attempt by drug gangs to sway local and state elections this weekend. (AP Photo/Agencia Contraluz)AP - Drug cartels fund a tenth of Mexico's economy. They have infiltrated many local and state police forces and staged assaults on army bases. Now they're violently inserting themselves into politics, killing the leading candidate for governor of a northern state only days before Sunday's elections in 12 states.


Google scrambles to save Internet license in China (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 03:21 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 12, 2006 file photo, Chinese poke their heads through a Google logo shortly after Google debuts its Chinese Language brand name in the Beijing Hotel in Beijing. Google Inc. said Tuesday, June 29, 2010, it will stop automatically rerouting users of its China search site to its Hong Kong site after Beijing said the company would lose its mainland Internet license if the tactic continued. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel, File)AP - China is threatening to revoke Google's business license over the company's decision to redirect Chinese traffic to computers in Hong Kong that are not governed by the communist government's censorship practices.


Rwanda's Hutus live in fear of attacks, repression (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 02:14 PM PDT

In this Thursday, June 24, 2010 picture Rwandan President Paul Kagame greet supporters who waited hours to see him as he applied to run for president again in the Rwandan capital, Kigali. Last fall former President Bill Clinton presented Rwanda's leader with a global citizen award and lauded him for freeing the minds of his people. Now as election day approaches, critics fear Paul Kagame's government is instead smashing dissent.(AP Photo/Adam Hooper)AP - The Rwandan refugee was walking home one night when four men jumped him and put him in a stranglehold. He lay still, pretending to be dead as one attacker made a phone call and announced the hit had been carried out.


China, Taiwan sign trade pact linking economies (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 10:13 AM PDT

Anti-China demonstrators pack a street as they march, denouncing the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) planned with China, Saturday, June 26, 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan. opposition supporters chanted anti-communist slogans as they marched in Taiwan's capital Saturday to protest a planned trade agreement with rival China that they say will undermine the island's self-rule and its economy. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - A historic trade deal between China and Taiwan will ease 60 years of hostility and push their economies closer than ever, the latest sign that Beijing's strategy of wooing the self-ruled island with carrots instead of sticks is paying off.


Assassination of a Candidate for Governor Scars Mexico (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Time.com - A high-profile assassination puts Mexico's decade-long experience with multiparty democracy to the test -- as well as its war on drug gangs

Fire at Total oil refinery, one worker missing (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 04:45 PM PDT

A general view of the Total Lindsay oil refinery. A fire broke out at Britain's third largest oil refinery Tuesday, causing an explosion and leaving one oil worker missing, the company that owns the site and emergency services said.(AFP/Nick Robinson)AFP - A fire broke out at the third largest oil refinery Tuesday, causing an explosion and leaving one oil worker missing, the company that owns the site and emergency services said.


13 killed in Iraq attacks, including army general (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 12:38 PM PDT

An Iraqi police officer mans a road block in Baghdad, as tight security measures are imposed following a spate of bombings and killings across the country, on June 21. A suicide bomber killed five people in northern Iraq on Tuesday as bombs in the capital Baghdad killed three people, including an Iraqi general, security officials said.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - A series of bombings and shootings around Iraq Tuesday claimed 13 lives, including four policemen, an Iraqi army general and a 9-year-old girl, Iraqi officials said.


Mexico rights agency decries slaying of reporter (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 04:18 PM PDT

AP - Mexico's National Human Rights Commission urged authorities Tuesday to investigate the killing of a reporter in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, the fourth slaying of a Mexican journalist this year.

Arab tribes sign peace deal in Sudan's Darfur (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:11 PM PDT

Head of the EU mission Veronique de Keyser attends a news conference in Khartoum June 28, 2010. EU observers, who monitored Sudan's April national elections on Monday called on Sudan to improve the way it registered voters and collected results in the run up to future votes, including the independence referendum.  REUTERS/Stringer (SUDAN - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)Reuters - Two rival Arab tribes have signed a peace deal in Sudan's Darfur region, peacekeepers said Tuesday, raising hopes for an end to fighting that has killed more than 200 people since March.


Petraeus leaves room for changes in Afghan pullout (AP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:16 PM PDT

Gen. David Petraeus testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 29, 2010, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to be confirmed as President Obama's choice to take control of forces in Afghanistan.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Gen. David Petraeus left open the possibility of recommending that President Barack Obama delay his plans to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan next summer if the new commander can't turn around the stalemated war.


New Australia PM confident of ending mining tax row (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 07:16 AM PDT

New Australian leader Julia Gillard has voiced confidence she will resolve a mining tax row that brought down her predecessor, hoping to cement her party's re-election chances.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - New Australian leader Julia Gillard voiced confidence Tuesday that she will resolve a mining tax row that brought down her predecessor, hoping to cement her party's re-election chances.


Dangerous Afghan highway threatens NATO supply flow (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 04:14 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan — Under relentless siege by Taliban insurgents, the crucial road that links the country's most important cities, Kabul and Kandahar, has become one of the most dangerous highways in Afghanistan — if not on the planet — over the past year.

Syria courts Latin America for oil, trade, and expats (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 11:03 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is touring Latin America in a bid to boost the country's economic and political standing as renewed relations with the US and Europe prove less fruitful than Syria had hoped.

Kenya Government, Christians Clash Over New Constitution (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Fueled by U.S. Evangelicals and by fears of Islam, Kenya's Christians take issue with constitutional reform

Students Tax Themselves to Make Campuses Greener (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 03:02 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 29 (New America Media) - The student union building at the University of California in Riverside, known as the HUB, is the pride of the school. It is a popular hangout that houses eateries, stores and student organizations.

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