2010年4月26日星期一

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Haiti tosses kidnapping charges against Americans (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 06:09 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 8, 2010 file photo, US missionary Laura Silsby, 40, of Meridian, Idaho, is escorted by police officers upon her arrival to the courthouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A Haitian judge has dropped kidnapping charges against all 10 U.S. missionaries detained for trying to take children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake. But Silsby, the only missionary still in jail, still faces a charge of organizing the illegal transport of 33 children in the chaos after the disaster. The charge carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)AP - A Haitian judge said Monday he has dismissed kidnapping and criminal association charges against 10 American missionaries detained for trying to take a busload of children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake.

APNewsBreak: Israel halts east Jerusalem building (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:40 PM PDT

An Ultra-orthodox Jewish boy climbs on timber beams at a construction site in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, Monday, April 26, 2010. Under heavy U.S. pressure, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has imposed a de facto freeze on new Jewish construction in disputed east Jerusalem despite his declarations to the contrary, city officials said Monday, a move likely to enrage hardline supporters but advance U.S.-backed Mideast peace efforts. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Israel's prime minister has effectively frozen new Jewish construction in east Jerusalem, municipal officials said Monday, reflecting the need to mend a serious rift with the U.S. and get Mideast peace talks back on track.

Nigeria: 3 journalists killed in weekend violence (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:51 PM PDT

AP - Gunmen shot and killed a Nigerian journalist at his home the same day two others died while attempting to cover fighting between Christians and Muslims in the nation's restive central highlands, authorities said Monday.

Dissidents steal headlines from Cuban election (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:31 PM PDT

A government supporter cheers while touching a Cuban flag during a demonstration against the Ladies in White, a group of Cuban female dissidents, after a Mass in Havana, Sunday, 25, 2010. A small group of carefully choreographed government supporters shouted down an even smaller contingent of wives and mothers of jailed opposition activists Sunday, preventing their traditional march for the third straight week in another ugly confrontation that may be becoming a Cuban weekend tradition. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Nearly every eligible Cuban cast ballots in a vote the communist government proclaims is proof of the island's democracy. But if headlines were made, it was by six elderly women standing under an ancient ficus tree, enduring seven hours of insults and obscenities for demanding political prisoners be freed.

Iraqi court bans candidates in election disarray (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 06:08 PM PDT

Iraqi election officials count votes at a polling station in Karbala, March 2010. An Iraqi spokesman for a controversial investigative committee said that a judicial panel has invalidated the candidatures of 52 people who stood in Iraq's March 7 general election.(AFP/File/Mohammed Sawaf)AP - An Iraqi court threw the nation's disputed election into deeper disarray Monday by disqualifying 52 candidates, including one winner, in a legal ruling that cast doubt on the slim lead of a Sunni-backed alliance over the prime minister's political coalition.

Austrian Voters Turn Their Backs on the Far Right (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Time.com - While she was never expected to win in Austria's presidential election, far-right candidate Barbara Rosenkranz was set to get a big chunk of the vote. But at the polling stations, voters turned their backs on her and her views on the nation's Nazi history

Scottish nationalists mount BBC legal challenge (AFP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:45 PM PDT

Scotland's first minister, and leader of the pro-independence Scottish National party, Alex Salmond (second left) holds a Scottich flag while celebrating the right for Scotland to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The Scottish National Party is set to mount a legal challenge against the BBC over the exclusion of the political party from the final British election TV debate.(AFP/File/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi)AFP - The Scottish National Party (SNP) is set to mount a legal challenge against the BBC over its exclusion from the final British election TV debate.

Egypt's prosecutor corrects name of wanted Saudi (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:26 PM PDT

AP - The Egyptian prosecutor's office has corrected the name of a prominent Saudi cleric charged along with four other members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood with money laundering and raising funds abroad.

Trinidad lifts entry ban for US stragegist (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:44 PM PDT

AP - Trinidad has lifted an entry ban for a U.S. political campaign strategist as the twin-island Caribbean nation prepares for general elections.

War crimes court rejects new bid to try Darfur rebel chief (AFP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:44 PM PDT

Darfur rebel chief Bahar Idriss Abu Garda appears in 2009 at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The International Criminal Court said Monday it had rejected a new prosecution attempt to bring Garda to trial for the killing of 12 African Union soldiers.(AFP/Pool/File/Evert-Jan Daniels)AFP - The International Criminal Court said Monday it had rejected a new prosecution attempt to bring Darfur rebel chief Bahar Idriss Abu Garda to trial for the killing of 12 African Union soldiers.

S.Korea economy grows faster than expected in Q1 (AFP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:57 PM PDT

A South Korean woman walk pasts commercial signs in a shopping district of Seoul in January 2010. South Korea's economy grew a faster than expected 1.8 percent in the first quarter thanks to a firm export performance and improved domestic demand, the central bank said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - South Korea's economy grew a faster than expected 1.8 percent in the first quarter thanks to a firm export performance and improved domestic demand, the central bank said Tuesday.

Canada ups 2010 growth view, says budget on track (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 01:48 PM PDT

Reuters - The Canadian government raised its 2010 economic growth outlook on Monday, based on forecasts from private sector economists, bringing its view closer in line to that of the Bank of Canada.

Egypt retries property tycoon in Lebanese pop star's killing (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:57 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - CAIRO — An Egyptian criminal court Monday began to retry a real estate tycoon and a policeman-turned-hitman, both of whom had received the death sentences for allegedly killing a Lebanese pop star. The case has captivated the Arab world and triggered endless conspiracy theories in Egypt.

Sudan 101: Is the Darfur conflict a fight between Arabs and Africans? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 11:19 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Many in Sudan consider racism to be at the root of the Darfur conflict, and those who belong to Sudan's ruling Arab elite have often been dismissive of those who belong to African tribes far from the capital, Khartoum.

In Lebanon, a Campaign to Get God Out of Politics (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Time.com - In a country where authority is rigidly allocated on the basis of sect, a campaign to take religion out of politics is a long shot. But there are plenty of young Lebanese willing to give secularism a go

Latinos, Blacks Join Fight for Civil Rights in Arizona (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:30 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - PHOENIX, Apr 26 (New America Media) - A united front of black and Latino Arizonans mobilized against a state law that they see as a threat to their civil rights on Sunday at the First Institutional Baptist Church in downtown Phoenix. Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 into law on Friday, making Arizona the first state in the nation to make it a crime for a person to be undocumented.

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