2010年7月25日星期日

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Taliban claim to capture US sailor, kill another (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 02:06 PM PDT

A U.S. soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) chats with a driver during a search for the two missing U.S. Navy personnel at a joint check post with Afghan soldiers in Pul-e-alam, Logar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Taliban have offered to exchange the body of a U.S. Navy sailor they said was killed in an ambush two days ago in exchange for insurgent prisoners, an Afghan official said Sunday. (AP Photo)AP - The Taliban claimed Sunday that they killed a U.S. sailor and kidnapped another as NATO forces ramped up a massive search for the servicemen, who went missing two days earlier in an area held by the militants.


Raul Castro prepares Cuban Revolution Day speech (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 04:59 PM PDT

A woman walks under a Cuban flag and banners referring to the Cuban Revolution celebrations in Havana, Sunday, July 25, 2010. The Cuban government has said nothing about whether Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro will be on hand for the main celebration that will mark the 57th anniversary of the July 26, 1953, when the Castros led an attack on the Moncada army barracks in the eastern city of Santiago and a smaller military outpost in the nearby city of Bayamo. The operation failed but Cubans consider it the beginning of the revolution that culminated with dictator Fulgencio Batista's ouster on New Year's Day 1959. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)AP - It would be easy for Raul Castro to make headlines in a major Revolution Day speech in this central Cuban city Monday. All he has to do is bring up the 52 political prisoners he has agreed to release, or discuss plans to open the island's communist economy.


Russia's Putin sings with expelled agents (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 02:19 PM PDT

In this July 24, 2010 photo, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, left, greets Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during their meeting at a presidential  residence in Foros, near Yalta, in Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula. (AP Photo/Andrey Mosienko, Presidential Press Service, Pool)AP - Vladimir Putin says he met with the Russian spies who were expelled from the United States, joining them in singing an unofficial KGB anthem and promising them good jobs and a bright future back in their homeland.


Chavez warns of US oil cutoff in Colombia dispute (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 04:12 PM PDT

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks to members of his party, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), at a campaign rally for upcoming congressional elections in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday July 25, 2010.  Chavez threatened to halt oil sales to the U.S. if Venezuela faces any military attack by Colombia. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office, Efrain Gonzalez)AP - President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to cut off oil sales to the United States if Venezuela is attacked by its U.S.-allied neighbor Colombia in a dispute over allegations that Venezuela gives haven to Colombian rebels.


Families mark 10 years since Concorde crash (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 03:39 PM PDT

The families of victims from the Concorde supersonic jet crash gather at the site of the crash in Gonesse, North of Paris, Sunday July 25, 2010. Families of those who died when a supersonic Concorde jet crashed on takeoff from Paris have gathered to mark the tenth anniversary of the disaster. Air France officials gave flowers to some 100 family members, mostly from Germany, to lay at a monument to the dead in Gonesse, near Charles de Gaulle Airport. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - Families whose loved ones died in the fiery crash of a supersonic Concorde jet 10 years ago joined together near Paris on Sunday, laying flowers at a monument to the dead and wandering the breezy field where the plane went down.


What's Killing the Animals at Ukraine's Biggest Zoo? (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 07:10 AM PDT

Time.com - The mysterious deaths of several animals at Kiev Zoo have sparked outrage, with critics accusing the zoo's management of neglect and corruption. But officials say the animals are being poisoned by an unknown suspect

Al-Qaida in N. Africa says French hostage killed (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 03:46 PM PDT

AP - The leader of al-Qaida's offshoot in North Africa said in a message broadcast Sunday that the group has killed a French engineer taken hostage in Niger in April.

Iraqi forces still frail as US troops head home (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:12 AM PDT

AP - When the U.S. ends its combat mission in Iraq five weeks from now, the nation's safety will be in the hands of its homegrown, American-trained security forces. The army is almost up to the job, the police are hit-and-miss, and the Kurdish militia is nowhere close to ready.

Chile rejects pardons proposed by Catholic Church (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 04:22 PM PDT

A police officer looks on as people hold portraits of family members who were dissidents killed during the dictatorship of former Gen. Augusto Pinochet outside La Moneda government palace in Santiago, Chile, Wednesday July 21, 2010. The Roman Catholic Church handed Chile's President Sebastian Pinera a petition for massive pardons that include military officials who committed crimes against humanity during Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-90). (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Chile's conservative president rejected a proposal by the Roman Catholic Church for sweeping pardons of elderly and sick prisoners that would have freed military officers convicted of human rights violations during the Pinochet dictatorship.


Escape of Egypt priest's wife inflames sectarian tension (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 04:52 PM PDT

Egyptian Christians attend mass in Cairo in April 2010. The brief disappearance of a priest's wife that sparked rumours of abduction and forced conversion to Islam has highlighted deep-rooted tensions between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, where a private dispute can quickly become a matter of national security.(AFP/File/Victoria Hazou)AFP - The brief disappearance of a priest's wife that sparked rumours of abduction and forced conversion to Islam has highlighted deep-rooted tensions between Christians and Muslims in Egypt, where a private dispute can quickly become a matter of national security.


Japan's exports rise for seventh straight month (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 05:43 PM PDT

AP - Japan's exports rose for the seventh straight month in June, fueled by strong demand for machinery and steel products.

NZ teen survives 16-story fall onto concrete floor (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 05:34 PM PDT

AP - A 15-year-old New Zealand boy has survived a 16-story plunge from the balcony of his family's apartment onto a concrete floor.

Lance Armstrong's Tour de France team forced to remove 'Livestrong' jerseys (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 01:01 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - While many who completed the 2010 Tour de France will compete next year, Lance Armstrong will not. He’s made it clear over the past few weeks that this is his last Tour de France.

Hmong Refugees Live in Fear in Laos and Thailand (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 07:10 AM PDT

Time.com - A few Hmong leaders -- many of whom fought on U.S.'s side during the Vietnam War -- have escaped repatriation camps in Laos and say they fear the Thais who will send them back

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