2010年10月30日星期六

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Rousseff ahead as Brazil rivals rally swing voters (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 03:59 PM PDT

Brazil's presidential candidates, Dilma Rousseff (R) from the ruling party PT (Workers Party) shakes hands with Jose Serra of the PSDB party, before a television debate at the Globo TV studio in Rio de Janeiro October 29, 2010. REUTERS/Bruno DomingosReuters - Brazil's presidential candidates rallied in the key swing state of Minas Gerais on Saturday in a last-ditch attempt to win over undecided voters before Sunday's runoff election.


Weapons seized in Nigeria came from Iran: shipping company (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 03:51 PM PDT

Reuters - Crates of weapons including rocket launchers and mortars seized in Nigeria this week were loaded in Iran by a local trader, the company which shipped the containers said on Saturday.

Ivory Coast holds reconciliation poll at last (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 03:36 PM PDT

Supporters of Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo, also a presidential candidate for FPI Reuters - Ivory Coast finally holds a long-delayed presidential election on Sunday that is meant to reunite a nation split in two by war and re-launch West Africa's former star economy.


Australia has "grave reservations" about Myanmar elections (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 03:47 PM PDT

A protester demonstrates during a rally led by Therese Rein and Lucy Turnbull in support of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi outside the Sydney Opera House October 27, 2009. REUTERS/Anindha ParthyReuters - Australia expressed "grave reservations" Sunday about upcoming elections in Myanmar and called for the release of political prisoners, including pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.


Punish Canadian severely, Guantanamo court urged (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 02:25 PM PDT

A courtroom sketch shows defendant Omar Khadr, a native of Toronto, Canada, listening to testimony during his sentencing hearing at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, October 26, 2010. REUTERS/Janet Hamlin/PoolReuters - A prosecutor urged a U.S. war crimes tribunal on Saturday to sentence a young Canadian and admitted al Qaeda murderer to 25 more years in prison and said anything less would give license to militants.


Terror Plot Foiled: But is the Threat in Yemen Growing? (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 02:15 PM PDT

Time.com - Terror Plot Foiled: But is the Threat in Yemen Growing?

British dismantle IRA dissidents' bomb in beer keg (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 03:22 PM PDT

AP - Northern Ireland police seized a dissident IRA bomb packed into a beer keg Saturday and were inspecting a potential car bomb parked outside Belfast International Airport, the latest efforts to undermine peace in the British territory.

In Yemen, US hands are tied in al-Qaida fight (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 01:17 PM PDT

An unidentified Yemeni man chews Qat as he walks past the UPS office Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, in San'a, Yemen. Yemeni authorities are checking dozens more packages in the search for those who tried to mail bombs to Chicago-area synagogues in a brazen plot that heightened fears of a new al Qaida terror attack.  (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)AP - Corruption, an inefficient security force and an intoxicating plant that keeps most men in Yemen high for up to six hours a day all stand in the way of America's battle against al-Qaida's Yemen wing, which is believed responsible for a plot to mail bombs to the United States.


Honduras: At least 14 massacred on football field (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 04:53 PM PDT

AP - A carful of attackers armed with assault rifles drove up to a football field in a poor Honduran neighborhood Saturday and opened fire, killing at least 14 people.

C.African rebels abduct census agents: military (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 02:48 PM PDT

Refugees from the Central African Republic gather during a census in 2007. Rebels in the Central African Republic have abducted 21 census agents updating voters' rolls for forthcoming elections, an election official and a senior military source told AFP Saturday.(AFP/File)AFP - Rebels in the Central African Republic have abducted 21 census agents updating voters' rolls for forthcoming elections, an election official and a senior military source told AFP Saturday.


Russian FM says Medvedev free to visit Kuril Islands (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 01:27 PM PDT

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev attends the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-Russia summit on the sidelines of the 17th summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Hanoi. Russia's president is free to decide which Russian regions to visit, the foreign minister said Saturday, amid reports Dmitry Medvedev will go to the disputed Kuril Islands next week.(AFP/POOL/Kham)AFP - Russia's president is free to decide which Russian regions to visit, the foreign minister said Saturday, amid reports Dmitry Medvedev will go to the disputed Kuril Islands next week.


Punish Canadian severely, Guantanamo court urged (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 10:03 AM PDT

Reuters - A prosecutor urged a U.S. war crimes tribunal on Saturday to sentence a young Canadian and admitted al Qaeda murderer to 25 more years in prison and said anything less would give license to terrorists.

Shots fired at office of Chinese newspaper in Australia (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 11:54 PM PDT

This file photo shows the front page of the The Epoch Times in Hong Kong, in 2006, reporting a break-in incident at its offices. Shots have been fired at the office of the Chinese-language paper in northern Australia, the publication said, in an incident it says is linked to its critical coverage of China.(AFP/File/Samantha Sin)AFP - Shots have been fired at the office of a Chinese-language newspaper in northern Australia, the publication said, in an incident it says is linked to its critical coverage of China.


Yemen packages may signal Al Qaeda franchise is 'amateurish' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 07:50 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Yemen's reported association with suspicious packages found aboard US-bound cargo planes has once again thrust Yemen into the spotlight as a major battleground in Washington's war against Al Qaeda and its allies.

Strained Relations: Liberia's President and Her Stepson (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Oct 2010 02:15 PM PDT

Time.com - A huge drug bust in May was good news for Liberia but it also focused attention on President Sirleaf's strained relations with her country's security chief -- her stepson

In Kenya, corruption probes bring 'unprecedented' government shake-up (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:09 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Kenya’s higher education minister was first to go last week, followed by Nairobi's mayor, and now the foreign minister and his permanent secretary.

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