2010年10月16日星期六

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Wife gives 2nd statement on border lake shooting (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 04:54 PM PDT

AP - The wife of an American tourist reported shot to death by pirates on a border lake has given helpful new details about the incident to Mexican authorities, Mexico's government said Saturday.

2 miners found dead after Ecuador tunnel collapse (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 03:03 PM PDT

A rescue worker looks on outside the Minesadco mine in Portovelo, southern Ecuador, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. A tunnel collapsed in the gold mine, operated by the Ecuadorean company Minesadco, on Friday, trapping four miners 490 feet, some 150 meters, underground. (AP Photo)AP - Search teams found the bodies of two miners Saturday and were still looking for two other men missing since a tunnel collapsed 490 feet (150 meters) underground the previous day.


Fuel supplies low as French protest pension reform (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 12:58 PM PDT

Students shoot slogans as they demonstrate in Paris, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010. Saturday's march from the Place de la Republique in Paris was the fifth in a full month of protests that have swept this nation of 64 million people, affecting trains, subways, airports, hospitals, schools and other facilities. Diesel and jet fuel supplies were running low Saturday in parts of France as workers took to the streets for another nationwide protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to raise the retirement age to 62. (AP Photo Thibault/Camus)AP - Officials have taken the extraordinary step of warning some flights landing at France's main airport to come with enough fuel to get back home, bracing for a possible fuel shortage after a new round of protests Saturday against plans to raise the retirement age to 62.


Attacks hit Kandahar, killing 2 Afghan civilians (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 11:53 AM PDT

An Afghan soldier performs the call for prayers at Howz-e-Madad Forward Operating Base, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - A series of blasts killed at least two civilians and wounded several others Saturday in Afghanistan's main southern city, the scene of several recent deadly attacks on police.


With flawless rescue, Chile hopes to join the club (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 11:09 AM PDT

In this photo released by the Chilean Presidential Press Office, the last miner to be rescued, Luis Urzua, center, gestures as Chile's President Sebastian Pinera, right, looks on after his rescue from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine where he had been trapped with 32 other miners for over two months near Copiapo, Chile, Wednesday Oct. 13, 2010.  The 69-day underground ordeal reached its end Wednesday night after 33 trapped miners were hauled up in a cage through a narrow hole drilled through 2,000 feet of rock.  (AP Photo/Alex Ibanez, Chilean Presidential Press Office)AP - As the capsule carried the first rescuer down to the 33 trapped miners, President Sebastian Pinera closed his eyes, made the sign of the cross and then smiled at Mining Minister Laurence Golborne.


Lessons from the Chile Mine Rescue: What Underdogs Can Teach Us (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 11:25 AM PDT

Time.com - As Camp Hope is dismantled, TIME's correspondent on the scene contemplates the "heroism" of the 33 -- and why it means so much to the rest of the world

Basque separatist says ETA should declare 'permanent truce' (AFP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 05:33 PM PDT

Arnaldo Otegi (pictured), the jailed top leader of the banned political wing of ETA, said the Basque separatist group should declare a permanent ceasefire, in an interview published by El Pais daily on Sunday.(AFP/Pool/File/Angel Diaz)AFP - Arnaldo Otegi, the jailed top leader of the banned political wing of ETA, said the Basque separatist group should declare a permanent ceasefire, in an interview published by El Pais daily on Sunday.


Palestinians weighing alternatives to peace talks (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 02:22 PM PDT

Palestinians walk in front of a wall painting showing Israeli army soldier Sgt. Gilad Schalit, in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010.  The German mediator trying to broker the release the Israeli soldier held captive for four years by Palestinian militants made a secret visit to the Gaza Strip, a senior Hamas official said Saturday, suggesting a renewed attempt to push forward negotiations deadlocked for months. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - The Palestinians will study alternatives to peace talks with Israel in the coming days, a top PLO official said Saturday, after Israel gave the green light to build 238 new houses for Jews on war-won land Palestinians seek for their state.


1 dead, 39 hurt in Jamaica bus crash; driver flees (AP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 02:31 PM PDT

AP - Police in Jamaica say a bus has plunged over a cliff on the Caribbean island's north coast, killing a teenage girl and injuring 39 people.

Nigerian president vows to toughen anti-terorism law (AFP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 03:31 PM PDT

Goodluck Jonathan, pictured in September 2010, vowed to toughen anti-terrorism laws so that kidnappers and robbers had their property within and outside the country confiscated.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Mcgrath)AFP - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Saturday vowed to toughen anti-terrorism laws so that kidnappers and robbers had their property within and outside the country confiscated.


Vatican to announce Australia's first saint (AFP)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 02:14 PM PDT

This picture taken in the 1880's and released by The Trustees of the Sisters of St Joseph shows Mary MacKillop. Pope Benedict XVI will formally recognise Australia's first saint, MacKillop, at a ceremony in front of Saint Peter's basilica on Sunday.(AFP/HO)AFP - Pope Benedict XVI will formally recognise Australia's first saint, Mary MacKillop, at a ceremony in front of Saint Peter's basilica on Sunday.


Australian says Guantanamo was 'six years of hell' (AFP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 10:53 PM PDT

Undated photo of Australian David Hicks, who was a detainee at the US base at the remote Guantanamo Bay US base in Cuba. Hicks Saturday broke his silence on life inside the US-run prison, saying he endured deprivation and witnessed brutality in AFP - Australia's former long-serving Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks Saturday broke his silence on life inside the US-run prison, saying he endured deprivation and witnessed brutality in "six years of hell".


As media circus wanes, Chile miners' families turn spotlight on reporters' antics (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 01:48 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - At 2 a.m. Thursday in Chile's Atacama Desert, family members of newly freed miners gathered around a campfire at Camp Hope. The ubiquitous flat-screen televisions that had aired the rescue of 33 trapped miners were off, and it was for once possible to hear the hiss and pop of charcoal.

Nepal: The Man Who Would Be King, Again (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Oct 2010 10:25 AM PDT

Time.com - While former king Gyanendra Shah and Nepal's fractured government jockey for power and influence, residents of the Himalayan nation are stuck in the middle

Why 13 percent of Germans would welcome a 'Führer' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 01:10 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A new survey in Germany shows that 13 percent of its citizens would welcome a “Führer” â€" a German word for leader that is explicitly associated with Adolf Hitler â€" to run the country “with a firm hand.”

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