2010年4月17日星期六

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Pakistan: Bombers kill refugees waiting for food (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 06:38 PM PDT

An injured victim of a suicide bombing lies inside an ambulance at a local hospital in Kohat, Pakistan on Saturday, April 17, 2010. Two burqa-clad suicide bombers attacked people who had fled a Pakistani offensive against the Taliban close to the Afghan border, killing scores of people as they lined up to register for food and other relief supplies.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Two burqa-clad suicide bombers attacked refugees from a Pakistani offensive against the Taliban, killing 41 as they lined up to register for food and other relief supplies.

AP Exclusive: How the pope got his US lawyer (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 06:25 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI prays in the Saint Paul church in Rabat, Malta, Saturday, April 17, 2010. (AP Photo / Osservatore Romano, pool)AP - The Vatican has long let cardinals or its official spokesmen do its talking when scandal hits.

Poland holds public memorial for crash victims (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 03:11 PM PDT

Poland's former Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and twin brother of the late President Lech Kaczynski, kneels before the coffins of his brother and first lady Maria Kaczynska during a service at the Warsaw Cathedral,in Poland, Saturday, April 17, 2010. Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed in a plane crash in Russia last Saturday. (AP Photo/Ludmila Mitregai)AP - Some 100,000 Poles filled Warsaw's biggest public square Saturday, joining together for a memorial and funeral Mass for the 96 people killed in a plane crash a week earlier.

Young China quake survivor survived by sleeping in (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 06:11 PM PDT

Tibetan monks sit on a hillside to offer prayers during a mass cremation for victims of Wednesday's earthquake in Yushu County, northwest China's Qinghai province, Saturday, April 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Her roommates used to call her a "lazy pig" for trying to sleep in before class. But Song Yuhuan's slowness to get out of bed saved her life — the girls who rushed from their dorm were crushed by the walls collapsing in an earthquake that leveled their town and left 1,484 dead.

Pakistan's Military Holds Back in North Waziristan (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 02:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Islamabad's forces aren't pursuing the Taliban in North Waziristan, despite American pleas, because it says it is heeding the lessons of Iraq

Europe extends flight bans as ash cloud spreads (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 06:26 PM PDT

A airport employee stands in the empty check-in area to Europe at Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. Millions of people faced worsening travel chaos Saturday as a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland moved further south and east, forcing European countries to extend flight bans into next week.(AFP/Stephane de Sakutin)AFP - Millions of people faced worsening travel chaos Sunday as a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland moved further south and east, forcing European countries to extend flight bans into next week.

Vote monitors: Sudan elections short of standards (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 12:50 PM PDT

Head of the European Union Election Observation Mission in Sudan Veronique de Keyser attends a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan Saturday, April 17, 2010. International monitors said Saturday that Sudan's first multiparty elections in more than two decades failed to meet international standards, an assessment that diminishes hopes the voting would set the nation on the road to peace and democracy. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - International monitors said Saturday that Sudan's first multiparty elections in more than two decades failed to meet international standards, an assessment that diminishes hopes the voting would set the nation on the road to peace and democracy.

Sudan vote 'fails standards but should be recognised' (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 01:37 PM PDT

Veronique De Keyser, the head of the European Union's Sudan election observation mission, holds a press conference in Khartoum. Sudan's landmark polls, which look certain to secure President Omar al-Beshir's re-election, failed to reach international standards but should win world recognition, observers said on Saturday.(AFP/Ashraf Shazly)AFP - Sudan's landmark polls, which look certain to secure President Omar al-Beshir's re-election, failed to reach international standards but should win world recognition, observers said on Saturday.

China's President Hu flies to quake-hit region: Xinhua (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2010 06:20 PM PDT

A Tibetan Buddhist monk watches a mass cremation on a hillside in Jiegu, Yushu County. Buddhist monks cremated hundreds of China quake victims over sanitation fears Saturday as hopes dimmed of finding further survivors, with the death toll rising to more than 1,400.(AFP/Liu Jin)AFP - China's President Hu Jintao was flying to the remote northwest region hit by a strong earthquake to guide rescue efforts as the death toll rises to more than 1,400, state-run media reported Sunday.

UN concerned about Australia's asylum freeze (AFP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 10:13 PM PDT

A young Sri Lankan asylum-seeker holds up a placard during a protest on board his boat at Merak seaport in Serang on Indonesia's Java island in 2009. The United Nations has raised concerns about Australia's decision to freeze asylum applications from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, saying it could leave people in detention for prolonged periods.(AFP/File/Kris Aria)AFP - The United Nations has raised concerns about Australia's decision to freeze asylum applications from Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, saying it could leave people in detention for prolonged periods.

Volcano in Iceland: Brits add it to their grievances toward Viking republic (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 16 Apr 2010 12:17 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Could the volcanic ash cloud currently paralyzing Britain's air traffic and exacting a heavy economic toll on the country be Iceland's latest strike in a curious and long-running spate of hostilities between the Viking republic and Her Majesty's Government?

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