2010年6月2日星期三

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UK taxi driver kills 12, wounds 25 in rampage (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:43 PM PDT

Police stand next to a body following a shooting on Duke Street, in the town of Whitehaven in northwest England Wednesday June 2, 2010. British police were hunting down a man suspected in a shooting spree that has left more than one person dead in northwest England. The Cumbria Constabulary said there have been 'a number of fatalities' as well as several injuries after shots were fired in the town of Whitehaven and nearby Seascale and Egremont. (AP Photo/Rod Minchin/PA Wire) ** UNITED KINGDOM OUT **AP - A taxi driver drove his vehicle on a shooting spree across a tranquil stretch of northwest England on Wednesday, methodically killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before turning the gun on himself, officials said. The rampage in the county of Cumbria was Britain's deadliest mass shooting since 1996 and it jolted a country where handguns are banned and multiple shootings rare.

Turkish activist planes land Istanbul (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:45 PM PDT

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu speaks with a Turkish activist injured in Israel's deadly naval raid on a Gaza-bound convoy Monday, after his arrival at Etimesgut military airport in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hotly rejected calls to lift a blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza on Wednesday, insisting the ban prevents missile attacks on Israel and labeling worldwide criticism of his navy's bloody raid on a pro-Palestinian flotilla as 'hypocrisy.' (AP Photo)AP - Hundreds of activists deported from Israel following a bloody raid on a pro-Palestinian flotilla by Israeli soldiers, returned to a hero's welcome in Turkey early Thursday. Nine bodies were also on the first plane.

Details emerge of bloodshed aboard Gaza-bound ship (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:48 PM PDT

Nilufer Cetin holds his son Turker Kaan Cetin as she makes statements to the media after their arrival from Israel to Istanbul airport, Tuesday, June 1, 2010. The Turkish activist and her one-year-old baby returned home early Tuesday after being released by Israeli authorities following the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. They were on the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara ship where clashes erupted. (AP Photo)AP - At 4:30 a.m. from her perch on the bridge of a passenger ship in the Mediterranean Sea, Hanin Zoabi saw the first lights of fast-approaching Israeli gunships and helicopters. Norman Paech awoke to the sound of explosions.

Holloway suspect sought in Peru murder (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 05:43 PM PDT

In this Tuesday Sept. 6, 2005 file photo, eighteen-year-old Joran van der Sloot, center, a resident of Aruba who had been held by police on the Caribbean island in connection with the disappearance of American tourist Natalee Holloway, exits Schiphol airport accompanied by unidentified relatives in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Peruvian police confirmed on June 2, 2010, they are seeking Joran van der Sloot in last Sunday's killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores at a Lima hotel.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - A young Dutchman previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway is the prime suspect in the weekend murder of a Peruvian woman, police said Wednesday. Joran van der Sloot is being sought for Sunday's killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in a Lima hotel, police chief Gen. Cesar Guardia told a news conference. He said the suspect crossed into Chile the next day by bus.

UN rep: Haiti democracy depends on reconstruction (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:46 PM PDT

Bill Clinton, the former U.S. President and current United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti, speaks during a meeting of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission, which Clinton co-chairs, in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Wednesday June 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Diaz)AP - Haiti's struggling democracy is in jeopardy if millions of earthquake survivors' lives are not improved, the top U.N. representative to the country said Wednesday at a conference on its reconstruction.

Who Wants to Try the Captured Pirates? (No One) (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:40 PM PDT

Suspected Somali pirates captured by British Navy in the Gulf of Aden arrive at court in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, May 5 2010. The eight suspects, who were charged with attacking the MV NADA, filed an application to stop Kenya's courts from hearing cases of piracy. REUTERS/Joseph Okanga (KENYA - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)Time.com - Few governments have any appetite for mounting criminal trials, and Somalia's own judicial system barely exists

(AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:30 PM PDT

AP - Turkey's NTV television says first plane carrying hundreds of activists have landed in Istanbul.

Yemen holds Americans, others in al-Qaida probe (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 03:03 PM PDT

AP - Yemeni authorities have detained several foreigners, including Americans, Britons and an Australian woman, in connection with an investigation into al-Qaida's increased activity in the country, security officials said Wednesday.

Chavez foes rap barring of opposition candidates (AP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 03:35 PM PDT

AP - Government foes accuse President Hugo Chavez of being behind the barring of several prominent candidates from Venezuela's congressional elections, saying he is trying to undermine the opposition's chances.

Morocco court jails man for heist (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 02:52 PM PDT

A court in Morocco has sentenced a cage fighter with British and Moroccan nationality to 10 years in jail for Britain's biggest cash robbery carried out in 2006, a source said Wednesday. Ibrahim Lee Murray, pictured in 2007, was sentenced in Sale on various charges including membership of a criminal gang, theft with an armed weapon, wearing an illegal uniform and kidnapping, the source said.(AFP/File/Abdelhak Senna)AFP - A court in Morocco has sentenced a cage fighter with British and Moroccan nationality to 10 years in jail for Britain's biggest cash robbery carried out in 2006, a source said Wednesday.

Japan's ruling Democrats scramble to pick new PM (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:57 PM PDT

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama arrives at the parliament for a meeting with his ruling Democratic Party Secretary-General Ichiro Ozawa in Tokyo June 1, 2010. REUTERS/Issei KatoReuters - Japan's ruling Democratic Party was scrambling on Thursday to pick a new leader, and hence premier, after fiscally conservative Finance Minister Naoto Kan threw his hat in the ring to replace unpopular Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who resigned a day earlier ahead of a looming election.

Canada braces for "G" summits (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 08:23 AM PDT

Reuters - Contingency Plan 32 would remove any conceivable projectile, even decorative rocks, from the streets of Huntsville, Ontario, a posh lake-district resort town where Canada will host the G8 summit of world leaders later this month.

Mystery as 'drunk' parrots litter Australian town (AFP)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 01:45 AM PDT

Hundreds of seemingly drunk parrots are falling out of trees and the sky in a northern Australian town, mystifying veterinary surgeons who are struggling to care for them. The brightly coloured lorikeets are showing classic signs of drunkenness by losing all coordination and passing out, and then cowering in cages as they recover from their AFP - Hundreds of seemingly drunk parrots are falling out of trees and the sky in a northern Australian town, mystifying veterinary surgeons who are struggling to care for them.

Egypt opens Gaza border _ for those already cleared (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:01 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - RAFAH, Egypt — Hundreds of Palestinians living in the blockaded Gaza Strip crossed into Egypt on Wednesday thanks to a surprise Egyptian decision to open the border — a crack — after Israel's deadly raid on an aid flotilla that was trying to breach the siege.

Egypt eases own Gaza blockade after Israel Freedom Flotilla raid (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 11:28 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Egypt partially opened its border with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, briefly suspending its participation with Israel’s blockade of the impoverished Palestinian territory.

Israeli Gaza Raid: Bad for Obama's Middle East Diplomacy (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:40 PM PDT

Time.com - The Obama Administration has avoided criticizing Israel's handling of the aid-convoy showdown, but the escalating diplomatic spat won't help U.S. efforts on Iran and other issues

India Security Experts Fear Maoists Targeting Civilians (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 02 Jun 2010 04:05 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - KOLKATA, Jun 2 (IPS) - As India mourns for the victims of one of its worst rail accidents that occurred on Friday in eastern state West Bengal, the political class is divided on whether the Maoist rebels were behind the incident that left 148 civilians dead.

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