2010年4月12日星期一

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Anger mounts as US troops kill 4 Afghans on bus (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 06:19 PM PDT

Afghan policemen keep watch at the entrance to an Emergency hospital in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday April 11, 2010. The head of Italian aid group Emergency denounced the detentions of three of its hospital workers in Afghanistan and said Sunday the group was targeted because the hospital treats Taliban fighters along with civilians.(AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)AP - Afghans burned tires and chanted "Death to America" after U.S. troops fired on a civilian bus near Kandahar, killing four people and wounding more than a dozen. Afghanistan's president accused NATO of violating its commitment to safeguard civilian lives.

200,000 civilians flee Pakistan military offensive (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:06 PM PDT

A man stands amid the rubble of a government agriculture office in Khyber Agency, located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province, after it was destroyed early morning April 11, 2010. Suspected militants blew up a government agriculture office in Bara, Khyber Agency on Sunday, local media reported. There were no casualties. REUTERS/Stringer (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW POLITICS AGRICULTURE)AP - More than 200,000 people have fled Pakistan's latest offensive against Taliban militants in the northwest, the United Nations said Monday, as fresh clashes in the remote region killed 41 insurgents and six soldiers.

Vatican to bishops: follow law, report sex abuse (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 06:30 PM PDT

FILE - This Thursday, March 25, 2010 file photo shows a view of St. Peter's Basilica during a youth meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican. The Vatican on Monday, April 12, 2010 for the first time made it clear that bishops and other high-ranking clergy should report clerical sex abuse to police. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, file)AP - The Vatican on Monday responded to allegations it long concealed clerical sex abuse by making it clear for the first time that bishops and clerics worldwide should report such crimes to police if they are required to by law.

Vatican makes peace with the Beatles (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 07:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 11, 1966 file photo, John Lennon of the Beatles, center, is flanked by bandmates George Harrison, left, and Ringo Starr as he apologizes for his remark that 'the Beatles are more popular than Jesus,' at a Chicago news conference. The Vatican newspaper in its weekend editions April 10-11, 2010 said the Beatles' 'dissolute' lives and John Lennon's boastful claim that the band was more popular than Jesus are in the past, while their music lives on. (AP Photo)AP - The Vatican has finally made peace with the Beatles, saying their drug use, "dissolute" lives and even the claim that the band was bigger than Jesus are all in the past — while their music lives on.

World's deepest known undersea volcanic vent found (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 02:31 PM PDT

This undated photo released by the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England, Monday April 12, 2010, shows a cloud of smoky water billowing from the top of a tower of metal ore at a volcanic vent five kilometers (more than three miles) beneath the surface of the Caribbean. The vent, located in the Cayman Trough, is the deepest ever discovered, a British scientific expedition says. Experts hope that studies of the vent and the exotic creatures which bask in its warmth will yield insight into how life formed on earth, and perhaps elsewhere too.(AP Photo/National Oceanography Centre)**EDITORIAL USE ONLY**AP - Scientists using a remote-controlled submarine have discovered the deepest known volcanic vent and say the superheated waters inside could contain undiscovered marine species and perhaps even clues to the origin of life on earth.

Kyrgyz Civil War? President Bakiyev Won't Step Down (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:30 PM PDT

Time.com - Both the ousted President and the new, still wobbly interim government are flexing their muscles. But will the standoff end in negotiations or more bloodshed?

Russia points to human error in fatal Polish crash (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 06:30 PM PDT

Polish soldiers stand guard near a sea of candles in front of the President Palace two days after Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash, in Warsaw, early Monday, April 12, 2010. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday, when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Russian investigators suggested human error may have been to blame in the plane crash that killed the Polish president and 95 others, saying Monday there were no technical problems with the Soviet-made plane.

Roman-era mummy found in Egyptian oasis (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:25 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities on Monday, April 12, 2010, archaeologists work around a 3 feet (1 meter) tall intricately carved plaster sarcophagus portraying a wide-eyed woman dressed in a tunic, in a newly uncovered complex of tombs at the remote Bahariya desert oasis area some 186 miles (300 km) southwest of Cairo in Egypt. Archaeologist Mahmoud Afifi, who led the dig, said the new find had not been dated but the burial style indicated the sarcophagus belonged to Egypt's long period of Roman rule, from 31 B.C. until the Arab invasions of the 7th century. (AP Photo/Supreme Council of Antiquities) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES **AP - Egyptian archaeologists discovered an intricately carved plaster sarcophagus portraying a wide-eyed woman dressed in a tunic in a newly uncovered complex of tombs at a remote desert oasis, Egypt's antiquities department announced Monday.

PR guv submits bill to slash legislature's size (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:35 PM PDT

AP - Puerto Rico's governor submitted a bill Monday that would slash 30 percent of the seats in the U.S. territory's legislature, which offers its lawmakers among the highest salaries of any state assembly under the American flag.

Security Council team to scrap Rwanda, Uganda visits (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 02:43 PM PDT

A soldier from the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) is pictured in Gemena in 2009. A UN Security Council delegation has scrapped planned visits to Rwanda and Uganda on an upcoming central African tour and will now take in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) only, diplomats said Monday.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Peuchot)AFP - A UN Security Council delegation has scrapped planned visits to Rwanda and Uganda on an upcoming central African tour and will now take in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) only, diplomats said Monday.

Obama, Hu discuss yuan on nuclear summit sidelines (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:55 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama repeated on Monday his call for more yuan flexibility during a meeting with China's Hu Jintao, deploying careful diplomatic language while Beijing stressed dialogue.

Canada sending nuclear materials back to U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 01:10 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada will return spent nuclear fuel to its supplier, the United States, as part of a global drive to secure fissile materials, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday.

Ship that leaked oil on Great Barrier Reef removed (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:12 PM PDT

Queensland Government-issued photo shows oil leaking from Chinese coal carrier the Shen Neng 1 after the vessel ran aground on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Australia said a Chinese ship that crashed and leaked oil at the Great Barrier Reef took an illegal route, vowing to AP - A coal carrier that ran aground and leaked about 3 tons of oil on Australia's Great Barrier Reef was refloated Monday after being stuck for more than a week.

China signals readiness to back new U.N. sanctions on Iran (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:02 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — China on Monday indicated for the first time that it might back new U.N. sanctions against Iran, giving a significant boost to President Barack Obama as he opened a 47-nation summit called to energize global efforts to prevent terrorists from obtaining materials for use in a crude nuclear weapon.

Yemen balks at possible US strike on cleric Anwar al-Awlaki (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 12:49 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Yemen appeared to balk this weekend at a recent US authorization to capture or assassinate Anwar Al-Awlaki, the Yemeni-American cleric tied to 9/11 attackers, the Fort Hood shooter, and the Christmas Day underwear bomber.

Hungary Elections: Voter Anger Boosts Extreme Right (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:30 PM PDT

Time.com - Hungarians, irate over their government's handling of the economic crisis, tossed the ruling Socialists out of power -- and threw their support behind conservatives and a far-right, anti-Roma party

Draft Law Targets NGOs in Egypt (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 07:14 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - CAIRO, Apr 12 (IRIN) - A draft law in Egypt curbing the independence of local NGOs has angered aid workers and bodes ill for civil society freedom, experts say.

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