2010年1月26日星期二

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Reports: 2 Koreas fire artillery along coast (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 06:04 PM PST

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (C) looks at a photo album of partisans as he visits the Rakwon Machine Complex in North Pyongan province, in this picture released by the North's KCNA news agency January 26, 2010. KCNA did not state when the picture was taken. REUTERS/KCNA (NORTH KOREA) QUALITY FROM SOURCE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. NOT FOR USE BY REUTERS THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORSAP - North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire along their disputed western sea border on Wednesday, two days after the North designated no-sail zones in the area, the military and news reports said.

Sri Lanka: Initial results show president leads (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 06:02 PM PST

Supporters of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapksa cheer at the end of the presidential elections in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. Sri Lankans crowded polling stations Tuesday throughout Colombo in a hard-fought election to decide whether the incumbent president or his former army chief should lead the nation's recovery from a brutal civil war both men helped win. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)AP - Early returns Wednesday showed Sri Lanka's incumbent president ahead of his estranged former army chief in their bitter race to win the country's first presidential election after its quarter-century war against Tamil Tiger rebels.

Haiti's children on their own on shattered streets (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 06:05 PM PST

French consulate Jean Pierre Guegan checks for Rose Prioul's name on his manifest before loading the child on a bus for the airport in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Several children, orphans whose orphanage was damaged in Jan. 12 earthquake, are being sent to France by the school Lycee Francais and the French Embassy in Haiti, and already have adoptive parents waiting. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - The children with no names lay mute in a corner of the General Hospital grounds Tuesday, three among thousands of boys and girls set adrift in the wake of Haiti's earthquake.

UN: 27 million people became unemployed in 2009 (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:46 PM PST

A general view taken through barbed wire shows the Alpine resort of Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010, one day before the opening of the 40th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland. The overarching theme of the World Economic Forum, WEF, annual meeting which will take place from 27 to 31 January, is 'Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild'. (AP Photo/Keystone/Laurent Gillieron)AP - Twenty-seven million people around the world lost their jobs in 2009, the U.N. labor agency said Wednesday, warning of a jobless recovery in a report released on the opening day of the World Economic Forum.

Social forum activists denounce corporate greed (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 04:32 PM PST

A woman shouts during a women's march at a youth camp during the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. The World Social Forum gathers every year to seek alternatives to neo-liberal policies.(AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - Leftists in Brazil for a week of protests against capitalism denounced corporate greed on the second day of the World Social Forum, saying Tuesday that big companies humbled by the global meltdown must be prevented from controlling natural resources and harming the environment.

Europe Grumbles About Backseat Role in Haiti (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 12:35 PM PST

Time.com - European countries have pledged more than a half billion dollars in aid forHaiti, yet they still feel like they're playing second fiddle to the U.S. inthe relief operations

Spurs boss challenges Bentley after defeating Fulham (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 05:28 PM PST

Tottenham Hotspurs David Bentley (left) celebrates scoring his goal against Fulham during their Premier League match at White Hart Lane in London. Tottenham won 2-0.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp hinted that unsettled winger David Bentley may still play a part in the London team's push for Champions League qualification after starring in their win over Fulham.

Pilot in Beirut crash made 'fast and strange turn' (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 05:30 PM PST

Lebanese firefighters carry a part of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 plane that crashed into the sea Monday, at the shore in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. The pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed into the sea flew in the opposite direction from the path recommended by the control tower after taking off from Beirut in thunderstorms, Lebanon's transportation minister said Tuesday. (AP Photo)AP - The pilot of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines flight made a "fast and strange turn" minutes after takeoff from Beirut in a thunderstorm, Lebanon's transportation minister said Tuesday, revealing new clues about the plane's few minutes in flight.

Guatemalan police arrest ex-president wanted in US (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 05:22 PM PST

Guatemala's former President Alfonso Portillo, second from right, is escorted in hand cuffs by National Police officers and representatives from the Commission Against Impunity, left, at an air force base at Guatemala City, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. Police captured fugitive Portillo in northern Guatemala Tuesday, a day after U.S. prosecutors indicted him on charges of laundering money stolen from foreign donations meant to buy children's books. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)AP - Police captured ex-President Alfonso Portillo at a beach preparing to flee Guatemala by boat Tuesday, a day after U.S. authorities charged him with laundering money stolen from foreign donations to buy children's books.

Amid worry, Guinea begins transition to democracy (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 01:34 PM PST

Jean-Marie Dore, right, replaces KabinŽ Komara, left, as Guinea Conakry's prime minister in Conakry, Guinea, Tuesday Jan. 26, 2009. Dore, a veteran opposition leader in his 70s, was brutally beaten by soldiers loyal to Capt. Moussa 'Dadis' Camara, pictured rear, last year when he helped lead a demonstration calling for an end to military rule. His appointment as prime minister comes less than two months after Camara was badly wounded in an assassination attempt and agreed under intense pressure to go into exile and allow elections to be held. The agreement called for a civilian to be appointed interim prime minister. (AP Photo / Idrissa Soumare)AP - One of the fiercest critics of Guinea's military junta became prime minister Tuesday, a crucial step toward democracy that comes amid worries the country's wounded coup leader is trying to influence the political process from exile.

N.Korea fires artillery, S.Korea responds (AFP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 05:49 PM PST

File photo shows a South Korean Marine on patrols on Baengnyeong island. North Korea fired artillery on January 27 near the disputed sea border with South Korea and Seoul's military returned fire, Yonhap news agency reported. The agency said the North fired several shells into the sea near the South Korean-controlled Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea(AFP/File/Kim Jae-Hwan)AFP - North Korea fired artillery into the sea Wednesday near its disputed border with South Korea and South Korean forces fired back, Seoul officials said.

Canada says to cut fiscal deficit in medium term (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 11:41 AM PST

Reuters - The Canadian government will eliminate its budget deficit in the medium term, a senior finance official said on Tuesday, despite the doubts some economists have raised about that goal.

Man caught at airport with 44 lizards in pants (AP)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 02:08 PM PST

AP - A German reptile collector has been jailed for 14 weeks and must pay a 5,000 New Zealand dollar ($3,540) fine for plundering New Zealand's wild gecko and skink populations, a judge has ruled.

In London speech, will Karzai bite the hand that feeds him? (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 03:01 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — When 60 or more nations convene in London Thursday to discuss Afghanistan's future, the script calls for agreement on plans to split the Taliban insurgency, a process to reach an eventual political settlement, improvements in governance and the battle against corruption.

Hebrew: Why Netanyahu wants Israelis to send a 'misron,' not a text (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 01:44 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Tucked into a leafy corner of a campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Academy of the Hebrew Language has the challenging job of trying to preserve and promote one of the world’s oldest living languages.

Energy Wars: Russia's Neighbors Get Even (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Jan 2010 09:10 AM PST

Time.com - Another year, another energy dispute between Russia and one of the formerSoviet republics -- this time, Belarus. But are the little guys nowgetting the last laugh?

1 Million Casualties of Zimbabwe's Land Reform (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 06:21 PM PST

OneWorld.net - JOHANNESBURG and CAPE TOWN, Jan 25 (IPS) - The seizure of large commercial farms -- almost all white-owned -- has continued despite the formation of a unity government in Zimbabwe. The country's farm workers say they are the biggest losers.

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