2010年7月22日星期四

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Venezuela severs ties with Colombia (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:30 PM PDT

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks to the media at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday July 22, 2010.  Chavez severed Venezuela's diplomatic relations with Colombia on Thursday over claims he harbors guerrillas. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)AP - President Hugo Chavez severed Venezuela's diplomatic relations with Colombia on Thursday over claims he harbors guerrillas, and he charged that his neighbor's leader could attempt to provoke a war.


Tropical Storm Bonnie moving toward oil spill (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:34 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 10:45 AM EDT shows clouds over the Greater and Lesser Antilles.  These are produced by Tropical Depression Three, which has developed from a tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea.  The system currently sits about 400 miles Southeast of Key Largo, Florida with maximum sustained winds at 35 mph and moves west-northwest and 15 mph.  This system kicks up moderate to heavy showers and thunderstorms with strong winds over the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Puerto Rico, with scattered showers stretching into the Bahamas and down the Lesser Antilles.  (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Tropical Storm Bonnie steamed into the central Bahamas on Thursday night while tracking a course that could take it over the site of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.


Some Internet porn sites in China now accessible (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 03:14 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan 23, 2008 file photo, a computer user is silhouetted with a row of computer monitors at an Internet cafe in Shenyang, in northern China's Liaoning province. Word leaked out slowly, spread by tech-savvy folks on Twitter: Internet porn is now openly available in China. Is the new access to online pornography a policy change or a trap? It throws into sharp relief what many see as the main mission of China's aggressive Internet censorship: blocking content that might challenge the political authority of the communist government. (AP Photo/File) **CHINA OUT **AP - Word leaked out slowly, spread by Web-savvy folks on Twitter: Internet porn that once was blocked by Chinese government censors was now openly available.


Sister monument to Stonehenge may have been found (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 03:14 PM PDT

** FILE **  This is a Sept. 15, 2004. file photo of tourists looking at The Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in England.  Scientists scouring the area around Stonehenge said Thursday July 22, 2010 they have uncovered the foundations of a second circular structure only a few hundred meters (yards) from the world famous monument. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, File )AP - Scientists scouring the area around Stonehenge said Thursday they have uncovered a circular structure only a few hundred meters (yards) from the world famous monument.


Gaza tunnel smugglers cutting through Egypt's wall (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 01:12 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 14, 2008 file photo, a Palestinian smuggler moves a goat through a tunnel from Egypt to the Gaza Strip under the border in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. An Egyptian security official said Thursday, July 22, 2010 that the underground steel wall built by Egypt to stop smuggling under its border with Gaza has been breached hundreds of times. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)AP - A Palestinian tunnel smuggler with a blowtorch sliced through an underground steel wall early Thursday, the latest of what officials say are hundreds of holes cut into the Egyptian barrier meant to stop smuggling of goods, cash and weapons to the blockaded, Hamas-run Gaza Strip.


On North Korea and More, China Flexes Its Muscles (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:15 PM PDT

Time.com - As the U.S. and South Korea play war games near Chinese waters, Beijing makes bellicose sounds. Soon, it may threaten with more than noise

US Senate panel denies asking Blair to testify (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 06:00 PM PDT

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (left) meets Libyan Leader Moamer Kadhafi in Libya in late May 2007. A US Senate panel has categorically denied having asked Blair to testify about whether BP lobbied for the release of the Lockerbie bomber.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - A US Senate panel categorically denied Thursday having asked former British prime minister Tony Blair to testify about whether BP lobbied for the release of the Lockerbie bomber.


Israeli troops kill Palestinian at settlement (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 12:45 PM PDT

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, right, and visiting Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou shake hands after reviewing the honor guard upon Papandreou's arrival in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, July 22, 2010. Papandreou is making the first visit by a Greek prime minister to Israel and the Palestinian Territories in three decades. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)AP - Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man entering a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Thursday, drawing a Palestinian accusation that soldiers are too quick to open fire.


Trinidad to probe coup attempt by Islamic group (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:53 PM PDT

AP - Trinidad and Tobago's new government announced Thursday it will name a commission to look into a bloody 1990 coup attempt by a radical Islamic group in the twin-island Caribbean nation.

US apologizes to Russia in mysterious drug case (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 03:23 PM PDT

AP - The U.S. apologized to Russia on Thursday for what it called a diplomatic slip-up in the case of a Russian man arrested in Africa and then extradited to the U.S. for alleged drug smuggling.

Summary Box: World Cup lifts LG Display's profit (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 02:55 PM PDT

AP - SHOOTS, SCORES: LG Display's second-quarter net income rose 51 percent on record sales and higher prices for its liquid crystal displays amid strong demand for flat-screen televisions spurred in part by football's World Cup.

New Zealander in Cambodia for Khmer Rouge verdict (AP)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 08:49 AM PDT

Chum Mey, a survivor of the S-21 prison during the Khmer Rouge regime, walks near a portrait of Noun Chea, left, a former Khmer Rouge leader and right hand man to dictator Pol Pot, at the Tuol Sleng genocide museum, formerly the regime's notorious S-21 prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Monday, July 26, 2010, against Kaing Guek Eav, better know as Duch, the Khmer Rouge prison chief accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP - The brother of one of a handful of Westerners killed by the Khmer Rouge returned to Cambodia for a landmark verdict in a war crimes tribunal, saying there can never be adequate justice for his family.


Climate and energy bill delayed as political support withers (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:23 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Bowing a lack of support, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Thursday said there'd be no vote this summer on a bill that would put the nation's first limits on the carbon pollution responsible for global warming.

Tour de France Stage 17: Contador second by a hair, but likely to win overall (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 11:57 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Andy Schleck won the Tour de France's Stage 17 today, but Alberto Contador â€" second by half a bike length â€" may have wrapped up the overall Tour title.

Bali's Travel Boom: 'Eat, Pray, Love' Tourism (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 05:15 PM PDT

People look at paintings for sale at the Sukawati art market in Gianyar regency, at the Indonesian resort island of Bali, July 3, 2010. REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY)Time.com - After selling millions of copies, Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 book Eat, Pray, Love has inspired hordes of spiritual tourists to visit the island of Bali


Women Prepare to Set Sail Past Israel (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 22 Jul 2010 04:20 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - BEIRUT, Jul 22 (IPS) - The 'Maryam', an all-female Lebanese aid ship, currently docked in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, is getting ready to set sail for Gaza in the next few days. The ship, which aims to break Israel's siege on the Palestinian territory, will carry about 50 aid workers, including some U.S. nuns keen to deliver aid to the long-suffering women and children of Gaza.

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