2010年4月8日星期四

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Emaciated children signal crisis in southern Sudan (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 12:47 PM PDT

** CORRECTS TERMINOLOGY TO TRIPLETS STED TWINS ** Odong Obong, barely 3 days old, is tended to by his mother, as he lays under a mosquito net with his triplet brothers Opiew and Ochan, in a hospital ward in Akobo, Southern Sudan, Thursday April 8, 2010. Two years of failed rain and tribal clashes in this Sudan region bordering Ethiopia have laid foundations for a humanitarian crisis the U.N. mission dubs the 'hungriest place on earth.' A recent survey found that almost 46 percent of children in the region are malnourished. Lise Grande, the top U.N. official in southern Sudan, said most humanitarian agencies regard a malnutrition rate of 15 percent at an emergency threshold. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - Three-day-old Odong Obong lay in the hospital bed, his pencil-thin arms almost motionless and his shriveled, gaunt face resembling that of an elderly man.

Kyrgyz opposition says it will rule for 6 months (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 03:02 PM PDT

Protesters pose in Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's cabinet room inside Kyrgyz government headquarters on central square in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. An opposition coalition in Kyrgyzstan said it has formed an interim government that will rule the turbulent Central Asian nation for six months. Opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva said Thursday she will head the government that dissolved the parliament and will take up legislative duties.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Consolidating their victory after a bloody uprising, opposition leaders declared Thursday they would hold power in Kyrgyzstan for six months and assured the U.S. it can keep a strategic air base here — at least for now.

Slum disappears in Rio mudslide; 200 feared dead (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 03:18 PM PDT

Firefighters pull the body of a landslide victim out of the mud in the Morro do Bumba neighborhood of Niteroi near Rio de Janeiro, Thursday, April 8, 2010. At least 200 people were buried and feared dead under the latest landslide to hit a slum in Rio de Janeiro's metropolitan area, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - They are all gone. The Evangelical church where worshippers were praying. A daycare center where kids were playing. The pizza parlor where a family was eating.

Sex Pistols' former manager McLaren has died at 64 (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 04:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 1978 file photo, band manager Malcolm McLaren leaves Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, after the arraignment of Sid Vicious of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols, on second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. McLaren, 64, died of cancer, Thursday, April 8, 2010, in New York according to his agent, Les Molloy. (AP Photo, file)AP - The former manager of the Sex Pistols and one of the seminal figures of the punk rock era, Malcolm McLaren, died Thursday, his son said. He was 64.

Lunch-only beer policy prompts Carlsberg strike (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 02:57 PM PDT

File - Undated file photo of a worker at Carlsberg Breweries in Copenhagen. Scores of Carlsberg workers walked off their jobs in protest Thursday April 8 2010 after the Danish brewer tightened laid-back rules on workplace drinking and removed beer coolers from work sites, a company spokesman said. The warehouse and production workers in Denmark are rebelling against the company's new alcohol policy, which allows them to drink beer only during lunch hours in the canteen. Previously, they could help themselves to beer throughout the day, from coolers placed around the work sites. (AP Photo / PELLE RINK/POLFOTO, file) ** DENMARK OUT **AP - Scores of Carlsberg workers walked off their jobs in protest Thursday after the Danish brewer tightened laid-back rules on workplace drinking and removed beer coolers from work sites, a company spokesman said.

A Brief History of Kyrgyzstan: Behind the Upheavals (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 01:50 PM PDT

Time.com - The impoverished Central Asian republic was once one of the more promising new nations in the region. But corruption and a moribund economy have led to upheavals

Former Sex Pistols manager McLaren dead at 64 (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 04:10 PM PDT

Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, seen here in 2006, died Thursday at his home in New York, his spokesman said, adding that he had been suffering from cancer.(AFP/File/Pascal Guyot)AFP - Malcolm McLaren, the punk rock mogul best known as the manager of the Sex Pistols, died Thursday after a battle with cancer, his girlfriend Young Kim said. He was 64.

Key opposition party in north boycotts Sudan vote (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 12:56 PM PDT

A Sudanese man shouts to volunteers during a Muslim Sufi celebration while passing under a billboard supporting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, April 8, 2010. A key opposition party in northern Sudan is boycotting this week's local and parliamentary elections, a senior party official said Thursday, in another blow to the country's first multiparty balloting in more than two decades. The elections start April 13, and will include local as well as parliamentary and presidential polls in a three-day balloting. (AP Photo / Amr Nabil)AP - A key opposition party in northern Sudan is boycotting next week's local and parliamentary elections, a senior party official said Thursday, in another blow to the country's first multiparty balloting in more than two decades.

Chile's Pinera: no 'nostalgia' in first tour (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 02:30 PM PDT

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera, left, shakes hands with Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez before a meeting at the government house in Buenos Aires, Thursday April 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Argentina and Chile's presidents said Thursday that ideological differences won't keep them from working closely together.

Sudan polls to start despite fraud claims, boycotts (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 03:28 PM PDT

Reuters - Sudan's first multi-party elections in 24 years are on track to start on Sunday, with Khartoum dismissing a U.S. suggestion that it would consider supporting a brief delay to ensure greater stability.

Six major powers agree to further talks on Iran sanctions (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 04:22 PM PDT

US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, pictured in 2009. Envoys of six major powers met for nearly three hours behind closed doors Thursday to weigh new UN sanctions on Iran and said further talks would be held here and in capital cities in coming days.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Neilson Barnard)AFP - Envoys of six major powers met for nearly three hours behind closed doors Thursday to weigh new UN sanctions on Iran and said further talks would be held here and in capital cities in coming days.

Canadians back ruling party, oppose Afghan mission (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 07:35 AM PDT

Reuters - Canada's governing Conservatives are still ahead of their main rivals in public support, but would have little chance of forming a stable government if an election were held now, according to a poll released on Thursday.

Australia, India sign education deal after attacks (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 09:05 AM PDT

India's Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibai (L) and Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Julia Gillard (R) sign a Joint Ministerial Statement to build on the cooperative ties between the two nations in the education sector, in Melbourne. Australia and India pledged to expand education links after a series of attacks on Indian students, tarnished relations.(AFP/William West)AFP - Australia and India pledged to expand education links on Thursday after a series of attacks on Indian students, including a murder, tarnished relations.

Big-business Brazil taps into its young entrepreneurs (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 02:25 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Genesis Institute in Rio de Janeiro looks nothing like the high-tech offices that grew amid the boom in Silicon Valley.

Israel Drops a Gag Order Mocked by the Internet (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 12:50 PM PDT

Time.com - An official ban on Israeli media covering the case of a self-styled whistleblower accused of stealing military secrets became pointless once Israelis could get the story online from foreign sources

Haitian Women Demand Role in Rebuilding Their Country (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 09:48 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - NEW YORK, Apr 8 (New America Media) - Almost three months after the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti, women advocates and UN officials are increasingly worried that Haitian women are being sidelined in national relief and reconstruction efforts.

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