2010年3月9日星期二

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Israel, Syria pursue nuclear-powered Mideast (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 04:33 PM PST

Israeli Infrastructure Minister Uzi Landau speaks to media during an international conference on civilian nuclear energy, in Paris, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear activities. Landau said nuclear plants built in Israel will be subject to strict safety and security controls, and even said his country would like to build them in cooperation with scientists and engineers from 'our Arab neighbors.'(AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - Is the Middle East about to go officially nuclear?

Ex-spy chief: US misled allies over detainees (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 02:28 PM PST

AP - United States intelligence agencies misled key allies, including Britain, about its mistreatment of suspected terrorists, the former head of the country's domestic spy agency, MI5, said Tuesday.

Shots ring out near site of Christian-Muslim massacres (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 02:02 PM PST

A mother comforts her crying child in Dogo Nahwa, Nigeria, Monday, March 8, 2010. More than 200 people, most of them Christians, were slaughtered on Sunday in central Nigeria, according to residents, aid groups and journalists. The local government gave a figure more than twice that amount, but offered no casualty list or other information to substantiate it. (AP Photos/Jon Gambrell)AP - Automatic weapons fire punctuated by screams erupted after dark Tuesday in a Nigerian city located near villages where massacres just two days ago left more than 200 people dead.

China, India give qualified nod to climate deal (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 11:24 AM PST

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, left, and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. participate in a public forum at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston Tuesday, March 9, 2010 where they discussed current foreign policy challenges including Iran, Afghanistan and the Middle East; climate change and energy security and the world economy. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - China joined India on Tuesday in giving qualified approval to the Copenhagen climate accord calling for voluntary limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

Biden condemns new Israeli settlement plan (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 04:55 PM PST

U.S Vice President Joe Biden, left, shakes hand with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Biden said there is a 'moment of opportunity' for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Vice President Joe Biden condemned an Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem on Tuesday — a disagreement that tarnished a high-profile visit that had been aimed at repairing ties with the Jewish state and kickstarting Mideast peace talks.

Israel: Did the Alleged Mossad Hit in Dubai Really Help? (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:35 AM PST

Time.com - While all the signs point to Mossad as the perpetrator and the Israelis are hardly denying it, the killing of a top Hamas operative may have caused the Israelis problems on other fronts

U.S. kept Britain in dark over torture: ex spy chief (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 05:57 PM PST

Reuters - The United States deliberately kept Britain in the dark about the harsh methods it used when interrogating suspected terrorists, the former head of Britain's domestic spy agency said on Tuesday.

US military: 2 soldiers die in Iraq in accident (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 02:28 PM PST

The top US general in command of forces in Iraq, Ray Odierno (pictured), has predicted it would take AP - The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in a vehicle accident in Iraq.

Venezuelan officials take control of 2 sugar mills (AP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 06:02 PM PST

AP - Venezuela's government seized temporary control of two sugar mills Tuesday, accusing managers of hoarding a basic good and violating the labor rights of employees.

Britain gives one million pounds to S.Africa for condoms (AFP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 03:30 PM PST

A nurse draws blood from a patient for an HIV test in Johannesburg. Britain announced Tuesday one million pounds in aid to South Africa for the purchase of condoms to tackle HIV and AIDS in the world's worst-affected country ahead of the 2010 World Cup.(AFP/File/Paballo Thekiso)AFP - Britain announced Tuesday one million pounds in aid to South Africa for the purchase of condoms to tackle HIV and AIDS in the world's worst-affected country ahead of the 2010 World Cup.

Japan machinery orders fall 3.7 percent in January (AFP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 06:05 PM PST

An Hitachi worker at assembles parts on an air-conditioning production line in the town of Ohira in Tochigi prefecture. Japan's core private-sector machinery orders, a leading indicator of corporate capital spending, fell 3.7 percent in January from the previous month, official data has shown.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - Japan's core private-sector machinery orders, a leading indicator of corporate capital spending, fell 3.7 percent in January from the previous month, official data showed Wednesday.

Air Canada learns that hockey trumps flying (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 04:36 PM PST

Reuters - Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday.

'Miracle' birth of baby elephant, says zoo (AFP)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 04:03 PM PST

File photo of a young male elephant calf born at Sydney's Taronga Zoo last year. A baby elephant believed to have died during labour was born alive at an Australian zoo on Wednesday, amazing its keepers and defying expert opinion that such an outcome would take a AFP - A baby elephant believed to have died during labour was born alive at an Australian zoo on Wednesday, amazing its keepers and defying expert opinion that such an outcome would take a "miracle".

Israel rebuffs Biden by announcing new settlement construction (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 02:58 PM PST

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden arrive at Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv, March 8, 2010. REUTERS/Ronen ZvulunMcClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — Hours after the arrival Tuesday of Vice President Joe Biden to help launch indirect Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Israel announced the construction of 1,600 homes in a settlement block in mostly Arab East Jerusalem, an open rebuff that led Biden to issue a sharply worded condemnation.

Japan's Hatoyama tries to shift more power to the politicians (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 11:12 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - For decades, Japan's weekly political calendar was fixed. Before the cabinet met on Tuesdays, the top civil servants from each ministry would meet on Mondays. If the bureaucrats had not already set government policy, the wags said, the ministers would have nothing to rubber stamp.

Russian Shareholder Activist Exposes Corporate Greed (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 12:35 AM PST

Time.com - Alexei Navalny is a unique type of opposition figure in Russia. He believes the most effective way to challenge the ruling class is not through elections, but by acquiring stock

Nigeria: More Mass Graves Dug in Jos (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 09 Mar 2010 11:51 AM PST

OneWorld.net - ABUJA, Mar 8 (IRIN) - Hundreds of people in the city of Jos, 350km northeast of Nigeria's capital, Abuja, have been buried in mass graves after machete-wielding intruders attacked residents at 3 a.m. (local time) on 7 March.

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