2010年7月6日星期二

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French parliament debates ban on burqa-style veils (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 02:57 PM PDT

FILE - This May 18 2010 file photo shows a woman, who gave her name as Najat, holding her passport during a press conference in Montreuil, east of Paris. A proposed law to ban wearing the burqa-style Islamic veil in public, in France, goes before parliament Tuesday July 6, 2010. President Nicolas Sarkozy's government has cast the measure as a way to promote equality between the sexes and protect oppressed women, despite concerns of many French Muslims, and scholars who argue that it is not constitutional. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, FILE)AP - France's justice minister went before parliament Tuesday to defend a hotly debated bill that would ban burqa-style Islamic veils in public, arguing that hiding your face from your neighbors is a violation of French values.

Vatican to issue long-awaited sex abuse document (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 02:46 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI, flanked by his secretary Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, delivers his blessing during a weekly general audience he held in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 30, 2010. The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet was named chief to its powerful Congregations for Bishops, which vets bishop appointments around the world, and that Italian Monsignor Rino Fisichella has been tapped to head a new Vatican office to fight secularization and re-evangelize the West. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI will soon issue a document outlining the church's procedures for handling clerical sex abuse cases that will gather the norms now in use and make them permanent and legally binding, a Vatican official and canon lawyer said Tuesday.

Queen addresses UN, places wreath at ground zero (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 04:04 PM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II dedicates a memorial wreath at the site of the Sept. 11 attacks, Tuesday July 6, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - Queen Elizabeth II placed a wreath of flowers at a site of the Sept. 11 attacks Tuesday and chatted with victims' families and first responders, minutes after using her first visit to New York in more than three decades to praise the U.N. for promoting peace and justice.

British activist fighting expulsion from Peru (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 03:53 PM PDT

In this photo taken July 2, 2010, British brother Paul McAuley talks to reporters in Iquitos, Peru. A British religious activist is fighting an expulsion order from Peru's government for allegedly inciting unrest among indigenous peoples protesting environmental damage from oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest. (AP Photo/Rosa Cardenas, La Republica Newspaper)AP - A British religious activist is fighting an expulsion order from Peru's government for allegedly inciting unrest among indigenous peoples protesting environmental damage from oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest.

Nigeria: Middle class in fear as kidnappings rise (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 12:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug 2, 2009 file photo, Nigerian police stand guard outside a church in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Kidnappers who once targeted foreign oil workers are now abducting children for whatever ransom they can get. Those who can afford it hire police officers from elite and lethal units like the Mobile Police, or 'kill-and-go' as Nigerians refer to them. A report released in May 2010 by the Soros Foundation's Open Society Justice Initiative suggested about a fourth of the nation's officers are hired out as private security guards. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, file)AP - Masked armed men guard Nigeria's elite in this volatile oil-rich region, but the country's middle class can only lock their doors and pray each time their children leave home.

Big Oil Firms Accused of Human-Rights Abuses in Burma (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 04:10 PM PDT

Time.com - The NGO EarthRights has accused oil giants Chevron and Total of tolerating human-rights abuses in connection with their pipeline in Burma and financially supporting the country's oppressive regime

Queen Elizabeth II pleas for world peace in NY visit (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 04:28 PM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II waits before addressing the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations In New York. The Queen pleaded for world peace Tuesday in her first visit in five decades to UN headquarters at the start of a whirlwind tour of a sweltering New York.(AFP/Don Emmert)AFP - Queen Elizabeth II pleaded for world peace Tuesday in her first visit in five decades to UN headquarters during a whirlwind tour of a sweltering New York.

AP Interview: Odierno eyes UN forces for Iraq (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 01:30 PM PDT

U.S. Army Gen. Raymond Odierno, speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. The top American military commander in Iraq said that U.N. peacekeeping forces may need to protect disputed territories in the nation's north if tensions between Kurds and Arabs haven't eased by the time U.S. troops leave in 2011. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - The top American military commander in Iraq said Tuesday that U.N. peacekeeping forces may need to replace departing U.S. troops in the nation's oil-rich north if a simmering feud between Arabs and minority Kurds continues through 2011.

Venezuela to send detained Salvadoran to Cuba (AP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 04:33 PM PDT

AP - Venezuela is planning to extradite a Salvadoran man wanted by Cuba as a suspect in a series of bombings, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Tuesday.

During World Cup half-time, Queen Elizabeth at U.N. (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 03:12 PM PDT

Reuters - Britain's Queen Elizabeth addressed the United Nations on Tuesday for the first time in more than half a century, an event coinciding with half-time of a World Cup soccer semi-final in South Africa.

UK to hand violent Afghan district to U.S. troops (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 01:41 PM PDT

Reuters - British troops will turn over responsibility for one of the deadliest districts in southern Afghanistan to Americans in a reconfiguration of NATO-led forces in the area, a newspaper website reported on Tuesday.

Canadian guilty of breaking U.N. sanction on Iran (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 02:18 PM PDT

Reuters - A Toronto man was convicted on Tuesday of attempting to illegally export nuclear-related technology to Iran, in the first Canadian criminal case resulting from UN sanctions against the Middle East nation.

Push for 'AusVegas' on the Great Barrier Reef (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 08:28 AM PDT

Fish swim past a coral reef on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. An Australian lawmaker has stirred controversy with a proposal to establish a gambling hub at the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef in a bid to address widespread problem betting in the community.(James Cook University/Ho)AFP - An Australian lawmaker has stirred controversy with a proposal to establish a gambling hub at the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef in a bid to address widespread problem betting in the community.

Obama, Netanyahu patch up differences _ at least in public (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 04:02 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday during a carefully choreographed White House makeup meeting that was short on details that they'd press for a quick resumption of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Tour de France Stage 3: Why Lance Armstrong lost ground (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 12:24 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Lance Armstrong’s teeth chattered and his arms shook at times today during Tour de France Stage 3, but he wasn’t cold: It was a balmy 75 degrees outside.

Will British Torture Inquiry Strain Relations with U.S.? (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 04:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Britain has launched an inquiry into whether its security services were involved in the torture of terrorism suspects. Will the search for the truth strain Britain's relationship with the U.S.?

Finding Space for Crowd-Sourcing in Humanitarian Response (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 06 Jul 2010 03:45 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - NAIROBI, Jul 5 (IRIN) - "Crowd-sourcing" is a new buzzword in the world of humanitarian information. The combined power of mobile phones, mapping technology and social networking can enable citizens in crisis to seek help, facilitate aid deliveries, bear witness to abuses and hold governments and aid agencies more accountable, advocates say.

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