2010年2月9日星期二

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Doctors treat mystery patient in Haiti (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 04:42 PM PST

In this photo provided by michaelthemaven.com, a man who identified himself as Evans Monsigrace, 28, is attended at the Salvation Army medical center after being brought in by two men in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. University of Miami doctors working in Haiti are treating Monsigrace, who, according to two Haitian men who brought him, had been trapped in rubble since the Jan. 12 earthquake, and he may have been provided food and water during his reported ordeal. The men's account could not be confirmed by doctors at a university field hospital or at a Salvation Army medical center where Monsigrace, emaciated and suffering from dehydration, was first brought. (AP Photo/Michael Andrew, michaelthemaven.com)AP - University of Miami doctors working in Haiti are treating a man who, according to two other Haitians, had been trapped by debris since the Jan. 12 earthquake — but he may have been provided food and water during his reported ordeal.

Haiti parents testify they gave kids to Americans (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 05:02 PM PST

Three of ten Americans who were arrested while trying to bus children out of Haiti without proper documents or government permission, Drew Culberth, 34, of Topeka, Kansas, far right, Jimmy Allen, 47, of Amarillo, Texas, behind left of Culberth, and Paul Thompson, 43, of Twin Falls, Idaho, third from left, are escorted by Haitian police as they arrive to court in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Nine of the ten Americans were brought to court for a fourth time for questioning. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Parents of some of the children who 10 U.S. missionaries tried to take out of Haiti after its catastrophic earthquake told a judge Tuesday that they freely handed over their kids, the Americans' lawyer said.

Nigeria: Vice president now acting president (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 02:17 PM PST

FILE - In this May 29, 2007 file photo, Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua, right, stands with Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo, left, and Nigeria's vice President Goodluck Jonathan, center, after they were sworn in at Abuja, Nigeria. Parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010 to take over for the ill president of oil-rich Nigeria, whose absence has stoked unrest in Africa's most populous country. Both the House of Representatives and the Senate passed measures calling on Jonathan to act as president and commander in chief until President Umaru Yar'Adua returns from Saudi Arabia, where he has been receiving medical treatment for a heart condition since November. (AP Photo/George Osodi, File)AP - Nigeria's parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa's most populous nation Tuesday in place of an ill and absent president, striving for a political end to a crisis that ground the government to a virtual halt and triggered the resumption of an insurgency in the vital oil sector.

Iran boosts nuclear enrichment, drawing warnings (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 05:02 PM PST

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tours an exhibition on laser technology in Tehran on February 7, 2010. Iran was expected Monday to officially inform the UN nuclear watchdog of its plans to enrich uranium to a higher level, but insisted it will stop the process if a UN-backed nuclear deal is clinched.(AFP/Atta Kenare)AP - Iranian nuclear technicians set dozens of centrifuges spinning Tuesday to begin enriching uranium stocks to a significantly higher level, prompting President Barack Obama to warn of a "significant regime of sanctions."

North Korean Defectors Finding Matchmakers in the South (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 07:05 AM PST

Time.com - Matchmaking services connecting North Korean women and South Korean men are helping ease the transition to a new life for some defectors

Mancini salutes Vieira and Johnson (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 05:42 PM PST

Manchester City's Adam Johnson (left) vies with Bolton Wanderers' Jack Wilshire during their Premier League match at The City of Manchester stadium, Manchester, north-west England, on February 9. The City won 2-0.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Roberto Mancini paid tribute to two players at either ends of their careers after Manchester City boosted their bid for a fourth-place finish in the Premier League with a 2-0 victory over Bolton.

Iran sentences another activist to death (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 01:51 PM PST

Student supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi hold red roses during protests in central Tehran in this December 7, 2009 file photo. Internet messages have been circulating about possible rallies on February 11, 2010, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. But the climate in the Islamic Republic is much harder than before last year's post-election protests. Picture taken December 7, 2009. REUTERS/via Your ViewAP - Iran has convicted another opposition activist on charges related to the country's post-election turmoil and sentenced him to death, the judiciary said Tuesday, bringing to at least 10 the number of those facing the death penalty for the unrest following June's disputed presidential election.

Bolivian candidate sentenced to make adobe bricks (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 05:47 PM PST

Felix Patzi, candidate for governor of the La Paz department, makes 1,000 bricks as his punishment after pleading guilty to drinking and driving in Patacamaya in Bolivia's La Paz department, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Patzi served as education minister during the first term of Bolivia's President Evo Morales, who asked Patzi to withdraw his candidacy after his Feb. 4 arrest. Bolivia will hold regional elections on April 4. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)AP - A governing party candidate in Bolivia is making 1,000 adobe bricks as part of a drunk-driving sentence handed down under the community justice system backed by the country's pro-indigenous government.

Nigerian VP assumes office as acting president (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 02:33 PM PST

Nigeria's Vice President Jonathan Goodluck attends the plenary session of the Africa-South America Summit in Margarita Island September 27, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia RawlinsReuters - Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan assumed office as acting president on Tuesday to fill a power vacuum more than two months after President Umaru Yar'Adua left for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.

UN envoy arrives in North Korea to spur nuke talks (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 05:08 PM PST

In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, meets with senior Chinese Communist Party envoy Wang Jiarui, unseen, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Wang was in North Korea on a mission to persuade the reclusive state to rejoin nuclear disarmament talks, reports said. Sitting at left is Kim Yong Il, international department director of the Workers' Party of Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)AP - A senior U.N. envoy pressed ahead Wednesday with international efforts to get North Korea back into nuclear disarmament talks, during the world body's first high-level visit to the reclusive state in nearly six years.

Canada seeks to appeal Vancouver drug site decision (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 12:57 PM PST

Reuters - Canada will ask the Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court decision that allowed North America's only sanctioned drug-injection site to remain open in Vancouver despite the federal government's objections.

Activists ambush Japanese whalers in Antarctic seas (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 02:48 AM PST

The Sea Shepherd ship AFP - Anti-whaling activists said Tuesday they had exchanged water cannon fire with Japanese fishermen after ambushing them in Antarctic waters.

As Iran protest looms, Obama sticks to cautious script (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 04:04 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — At first blush, it seems like a godsend for U.S. foreign policy: a tenacious Iranian opposition, democratic in name at least, is challenging a regime that has caused the U.S. no end of headaches over the last 30 years.

Why the Olympics still matter (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 01:31 PM PST

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge gives a press briefing on the 2010 Winter Olympics at the Main Press Center in downtown Vancouver, on February 8. Rogge will oversee his last Winter Olympics as president at the Vancouver games.(AFP/Mark Ralston)The Christian Science Monitor - If you want to know why the Olympics still matter, meet a guy named Tony Benshoof. He's 34, an Olympic Everyman who slides feet first down mountains made of ice, seeking perfection during every lonely day of training.

Spain's Troubled Economy: Why Europe is Worried (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 07:05 AM PST

Time.com - Spain's in trouble. It's the only major world economy still in recession andits rising deficit is sparking concerns that it could bring down the entireeurozone

People of the Year: A.T. Ariyaratne (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 09 Feb 2010 12:25 PM PST

OneWorld.net - for over 50 years leading and embodying a mass movement rooted in peace, mutual respect, and village development, and for promoting reconciliation and recovery in the face of this year's ferocious end to Sri Lanka's nearly-30-year-long violent conflict

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