2010年3月19日星期五

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Pope's Irish letter faces critical Catholic world (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:39 PM PDT

FILE - The Dec. 30, 2009 file photo shows Pope Benedict XVI during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at The Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese in Munich said Friday, March 19, 2010 it is facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis. Last week, the diocese confirmed the case of a priest who was transferred in 1980 to Munich. That came after three sets of parents alleged he had abused their children in the northwestern city of Essen, the diocese there said. The priest underwent therapy, but then returned to work with youngsters. He was convicted of abuse in 1986. Pope Benedict, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was Archbishop of Munich and Freising at the time of the priest's transfer from Essen to Munich. The diocese has said Ratzinger knew about the transfer but not about the priest's continued work in Bavarian congregations after he assumed his duties at the Vatican. Erwin Wild, then spokesman of the diocese's council of priests, said he and his colleagues were not informed by Ratzinger that the priest was an offender, which he thinks was wrong. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal here — a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to Berlin to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups.

Push on for Mideast talks despite Jerusalem flap (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:26 PM PDT

A Palestinian climbs an electricity pole as he waves a Palestinian flag during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron, Friday, March 19, 2010. Palestinians in east Jerusalem and the West Bank lobbed rocks at Israeli security forces, set garbage bins and tires ablaze and torched an Israeli flag in a new outbreak of violence over contested Jerusalem building plans and unsubstantiated rumors about threats to the city's holiest shrine. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - With pressure on from global mediators Friday, Israel and the Palestinians appeared likely to resume American-mediated indirect peace talks despite a flap over east Jerusalem construction.

12 wounded in Israeli missile strike in Gaza (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:14 PM PDT

AP - Hamas officials say Israeli aircraft have fired five missiles at Gaza's defunct airport and nearby border tunnels, wounding at least 12 people.

World diplomats urge resumption of Mideast talks (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 12:50 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seen during talks in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 19, 2010. Clinton is participating in a meeting of the Quartet of Middle East peace mediators â€AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Friday that the United States and Israel have found a way around the worst disagreement the two allies have faced in years while international diplomats set goals for new U.S.-backed peace talks aimed at establishing an independent Palestinian state.

'Lawyer' for US missionaries in Haiti is arrested (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 01:45 PM PDT

AP - A fugitive who once acted as the lawyer for a group of U.S. Baptist missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children was arrested on human-trafficking charges, authorities said Friday.

Sochi: Russian Olympic Scandals, Short Funds, Strike (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:15 PM PDT

Time.com - The Sochi Winter Olympics are still four years away, but Russia is alreadyencountering a host of obstacles, including worker strikes and environmentalcomplaints

Catholic leader rejects celibacy-abuse link (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:36 PM PDT

The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols arrives at Westminster Cathedral in central London in 2009. There is no statistical connection between child abuse and celibacy, England's top Catholic cleric said Friday, ahead of the publication of a papal letter to the Irish faithful over an abuse scandal.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - There is no statistical connection between child abuse and celibacy, England's top Catholic cleric said Friday, ahead of the publication of a papal letter to the Irish faithful over an abuse scandal.

Yemen president: War with northern rebels is over (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:01 PM PDT

AP - Yemen's president on Friday declared the country's six-year war with northern rebels over, saying the Shiite militants are living up to a cease-fire agreement signed last month.

Military fights drug suspects in Mexico, 3 dead (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:02 PM PDT

Police tape surrounds a crime scene where the body of Santos Calderon lies on the ground after being killed in the Viva Tijuana Plaza in Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, March 18, 2010. According to police, Calderon was shot to death by unknown assailants. Calderon's wife, Nikola Blair, a US citizen, said her husband owned a souvenir shop. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - A shootout erupted in the streets of a northeastern Mexican city Friday, killing two suspected drug cartel gunmen and wounding a soldier.

Bomb scare in Nigerian violence-wracked city: witness (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:31 PM PDT

Policemen watches as university students fleeing from violent religious clashes are evacuated to Abia State in eastern parts of the country in a bus provided by the state government in Jos on January 2010. Students in central Jos city tackled a man believed to be mentally ill Friday after mistaking him for a suicide bomber, army spokesman and a student said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Students in Nigeria's violence-rocked central Jos city tackled a man believed to be mentally ill Friday after mistaking him for a suicide bomber, army spokesman and a student said.

Japan's Kano takes super-G gold (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:45 PM PDT

Akira Kano of Japan salutes the crowd as he crosses the finish line in the Men's Sitting Super-G at the Vancouver Winter Paralympics in Whistler, Canada. Akira Kano on Friday captured the Alpine skiing super-G (sitting) gold at the Paralympics for his second medal of the 2010 Games.(AFP/Getty Images/Jamie Mcdonald)AFP - Japan's Akira Kano on Friday captured the Alpine skiing super-G (sitting) gold at the Paralympics for his second medal of the 2010 Games.

Comeback rolls on as price pressures emerge (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:02 AM PDT

Reuters - Canadian core inflation stayed unexpectedly high in February and retailers posted solid sales gains in January, according to reports on Friday that helped push the Canadian dollar closer to parity with the greenback.

Activists urge Australia to charge Japanese whalers (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:12 AM PDT

The Japanese harpoon vessel Shonan Maru No 2 shadows the Sea Shepherd's Ady Gil in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica in 2009. Anti-whaling activists have lodged a legal complaint against the captain and crew of a Japanese trawler which hit and sank their hi-tech speedboat, a politician said Friday.(AFP/Sea Shepherd/File/Laurens de Groot)AFP - Anti-whaling activists have lodged a legal complaint against the captain and crew of a Japanese trawler which hit and sank their hi-tech speedboat, a politician said Friday.

In tight Iraq parliament vote, upsets point to future battles (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 01:18 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD, Iraq — The count in the Iraqi elections isn't yet over, but tallies released this week reveal upsets in restive provinces that portend a weak and fractious Iraq with battles looming on several fronts: Arab-Kurd rivalries, an internecine Shiite Muslim power struggle and what role Sunni Arabs will play in the next government.

Dubai assassination spotlights top cop skills in a modern-day Casablanca (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:23 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - He had a few minutes to call his brother in Gaza before his flight took off from Damascus, Syria. A cousin got on the line, too, and shared gossip from the Jabalya refugee camp, say family members. He told them to jot down the name of his hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He would be there for only a few days, in case the family needed anything. If he continued on to China after, or Iran, he said, he would let them know.

Why Britain Is Feeling Bleak (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 01:15 PM PDT

Time.com - Why Britain Is Feeling Bleak

Campaigners Target Landmine Use by 'Non-State Actors' (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:24 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - JOHANNESBURG, Mar 19 (IRIN) - The steep decline in anti-personnel landmine use in the past decade by governments is being mirrored by a similar trend among armed non-state actors (NSAs).

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