2010年1月7日星期四

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Official: Jamaica to take in radical Muslim cleric (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 04:34 PM PST

AP - A Jamaica-born Muslim cleric who has called for killing Americans, Hindus and Jews has not committed any crimes in his native country and the Caribbean island will take him in, the foreign affairs minister said Thursday.

Hamas squeezed between Iron Dome and steel wall (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:45 PM PST

Palestinian cadets at Hamas' new police academy march at the training facility in Gaza City, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. Demonstrating its position of power, last week Hamas opened its first four-year police academy to mark the anniversary of the Dec. 27, 2008 start of Israel's military offensive against Gaza. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - Gaza's Hamas rulers have suffered back-to-back setbacks with Israel's successful test of a rocket shield and Egypt's push to block smuggling tunnels.

EU nations divided on use of airport body scanners (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 02:39 PM PST

Members of staff are seen demonstrating a new full body security scanner at Manchester Airport, Manchester, England, Thursday Jan. 7, 2010. Airline passengers bound for the United States faced a hodgepodge of security measures across Europe and airports did not appear to be following a U.S. request for increased screening of passengers from 14 countries. (AP Photo/Jon Super).AP - Fearing a rift with the United States, the European Union said Thursday it may force resistant member states to use the full-body scanners being pushed by the Obama administration in the wake of the failed Christmas Day bombing.

Yemen says Nigerian may have met radical cleric (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 02:03 PM PST

File - This Oct. 2008 file photo by Muhammad ud-Deen shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Yemen's deputy prime minister Rashad al-Alimi says Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas, may have met in Yemen with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-Yemeni cleric linked to al-Qaida and the alleged Fort Hood shooter U.S. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File)AP - Yemen on Thursday provided the most comprehensive account yet of contacts between al-Qaida and the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner, saying he may have met with a radical U.S.-born cleric who previously had contact with the alleged Fort Hood shooter.

Activists pursue Japanese whalers by helicopter (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:57 PM PST

In this photo made from a video released by the Institute of Cetacean Research of Japan, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's new anti-whaling vessel Ady Gil is seen colliding with the Japanese whaling ship Shonan Maru in the Antarctic waters Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. The conservation group's boat had its bow sheared off and was taking on water Wednesday after the collision, the group said. The boat's six crew members were safely rescued. Each side routinely accuses the other of dangerous activity during what has become a cat-and-mouse chase in one of the world's most remote regions. (AP Photo/Institute of Cetacean Research) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Conservationists monitoring Japanese whalers in the Antarctic said Friday that they remained committed to protecting whales despite a dangerous clash this week that resulted in one of their boats sinking.

Slovakia-Ireland Explosives Plant Foils Air Security (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 10:25 AM PST

Time.com - Slovakian officials are trying to explain why airport security staff planted real explosives in a passenger's bag -- and then let the man board a flight to Ireland

Immigrants and Italian police clash: report (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 05:33 PM PST

Scuffles have broken out between Italian police and hundreds of immigrant workers in the southern city of Rosarno, injuring several people, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.(AFP/File/Marcello Paternostro)AFP - Scuffles have broken out between Italian police and hundreds of immigrant workers in the southern city of Rosarno, injuring several people, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

Israeli aircraft strike tunnels, Hamas targets (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:42 PM PST

AP - Witnesses say Israeli aircraft fired missiles at smuggling tunnels and other Hamas targets in Gaza.

UN rep: Haiti's future depends on smooth elections (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 04:06 PM PST

Haiti's President Rene Preval, right, sits with his wife, fist lady Elisabeth Debrosse Delatour, during a ceremony marking Haitian Independence Day, in Gonaives, Haiti, Friday, Jan. 1, 2010. Preval spoke in an annual address marking Haiti's Jan. 1, 1804 independence from France in a slave revolt. (AP Photo/Evens Sanon)AP - Haiti's democratic and economic development hinge on a pair of legislative and presidential elections planned for this year, the top U.N. representative to the Caribbean nation said Thursday.

American mother, baby killed by elephant in Kenya (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 01:59 PM PST

May 10, 2009 photo released by her family of Sharon Brown 38, holding her baby Margaux. A lone elephant charged out of the brush as an American family was hiking near Mount Kenya and trampled to death the mother and the 1-year-old daughter she held in her arms, officials said Wednesday Jan 6 2009. Four adults and the baby were walking with an unarmed guide just outside Mount Kenya National Park on Monday morning when the elephant charged, said Kenya Wildlife Service official Michael Kipkeu. Brown, originally from New York, and her husband are listed as faculty members at the International School of Kenya. Friends and colleagues at the American-curriculum K-12 school held a memorial service Wednesday (AP Photo/ Family HO )AP - Sharon Brown was hiking with family and her 1-year-old daughter in a Kenyan nature reserve when suddenly their unarmed guide froze in his tracks. Around a corner was an elephant.

Malaysian church fire-bombed amid 'Allah' dispute (AP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 05:19 PM PST

AP - Attackers fire-bombed a Malaysian church and tried to set another ablaze Friday amid a growing conflict over the use of the word "Allah" by non-Muslims, officials said.

Canada PM Harper says recession not truly over (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:23 PM PST

Reuters - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday the country's recession is not yet over, noting that the return to economic growth in a technical sense is not the only factor to be considered.

Smashed anti-whaling superboat sinks in Antarctic: activists (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 03:36 PM PST

This handout photo received and taken on January 6, from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society shows the Sea Shepherd's ship Ady Gil after it was rammed by a Japanese whaling vessel. A high-tech anti-whaling powerboat that was badly damaged in a collision with Japanese fishermen sank overnight after salvage attempts failed, activists said on Friday.(AFP/HO/File/Joanne Mcarthur)AFP - A high-tech anti-whaling powerboat that was badly damaged in a collision with Japanese fishermen sank overnight after salvage attempts failed, activists said on Friday.

Afghan election plan triggers new clash with Western backers (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 12:22 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL — Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission on Thursday reaffirmed plans to hold parliamentary elections on May 22 but pleaded for financial support from the international community to fund the voting.

Japan finance minister Naoto Kan: sharp-tongued and battle-ready (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 06:04 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The significance of Naoto Kan’s appointment as Japan’s new finance minister lies as much in his reputation as a battler against the country’s powerful bureaucrats as in his yet untested financial expertise. Mr.

CIA Bomber al-Balawi was no double agent, Jordanians say (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Jan 2010 10:25 AM PST

This undated image provided Thursday, Jan. 7, 2009 by al-Jazeera purports to show Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, the suspected Jordanian double agent who killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/english.aljazeera.net) IMAGE MUST BE USED IN ITS ENTIRETY, LOGO MUST NOT BE OBSCURED OR REMOVED, NO SALESTime.com - Jordanian intelligence tells TIME that Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi may have turned out of guilt that his work for the CIA had caused many civilian casualties

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