2010年7月27日星期二

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Audit: US cannot account for $8.7B in Iraqi funds (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan 24, 2004 file photo, fires flare off the gas from crude oil at Iraq's oldest oil processing plant in the northern Iraqi town of Baba Gurgur, outside Kirkuk, Iraq. A U.S. audit has found that the Defense Department can't properly account for how it spent about 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil money earmarked for rebuilding the war-ravaged country.(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - A U.S. audit has found that the Pentagon cannot account for over 95 percent of $9.1 billion in Iraq reconstruction money, spotlighting Iraqi complaints that there is little to show for the massive funds pumped into their cash-strapped, war-ravaged nation.

AP Impact: Mexico justice means catch and release (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 03:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2008 file photo, Julio Cesar Mondragon, left, Juan Carlos Castro, center, and Alfredo Rosas, right, are shown to the press in Mexico City. The three men are being held as suspects in the Sept. 15 grenade attack on Mexican Independence Day revelers in Morelia, Mexico that killed eight people in an unprecedented attack on civilians. A federal judge has dismissed nearly all charges against the men, who have spent nearly two years in jail and say they were beaten into false confessions. (AP Photo/File)AP - It's practically a daily ritual: Accused drug traffickers and assassins, shackled and bruised from beatings, are paraded before the news media to show that Mexico is winning its drug war. Once the television lights dim, however, about three-quarters of them are let go.

NATO: 1 missing sailor killed in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:03 PM PDT

In this May 3, 2009 photo released by the Patriot Guard Riders and provided by the Kingman Daily Miner, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley, 30, who was killed after he and another Navy sailor went missing in the eastern province of Logar, Afghanistan on Friday, June 23, 2010, attends a deployment party in Kingman, Ariz. McNeley has been confirmed dead and his body recovered, a NATO spokesman said Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The two men went missing after an armored sport utility vehicle was seen driving into a Taliban-held area. NATO officials were unable to say what they were doing in such a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban have said previously that they killed one of the two men in a firefight and captured the other. (AP Photo/Patriot Guard Riders via The Kingman Daily Miner) NO SALESAP - One of two U.S. sailors missing in Afghanistan since last week — a 30-year-old father of two — has been confirmed dead and his body recovered, a NATO spokesman said Tuesday.

Russian pilot missing in Darfur copter incident (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 03:35 PM PDT

AP - A Russian-owned helicopter that landed in the wrong place in Darfur has been recovered with all the passengers and crew except the Russian pilot, the top international envoy in the volatile Sudanese region said Tuesday.

Afghan army struggles with ethnic divisions (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 10:09 AM PDT

This combination photograph shows portraits of Afghan National Army soldiers following a patrol made on Sunday, July 11, 2010, at the United States Army's Combat Outpost Ware, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, near Kandahar City, southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - The Afghan soldiers look like they belong. They wear beards, carry Soviet-era rifles and stride confidently through fields of wheat, melons and okra. In one village, a young girl brings them a jug of milk to drink under the shade of a tree.

Cameron Courts India to be Britain's New Trade Buddy (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 02:35 PM PDT

Time.com - Forget the U.S., British Prime Minister David Cameron looks East in an attempt to boost Britain's economy -- and breaks with tradition by mixing big business with foreign policy

France declares war against al-Qaida (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 06:02 PM PDT

A photo released Monday July 26, 2010 by the City of Marcoussis, south of Paris, showing French aid group Enimilal member, Michel Germaneau, in 2007. The leader of al-Qaida's North African branch (AQIM) said in a message broadcast Sunday that the 78-year-old French engineer was killed in retaliation for the killing of six al-Qaida members in a raid. Humanitarian worker Michel Germaneau was abducted April 22 in Niger. (AP Photo/Mairie de Marcoussis/Enmilal)AP - France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.

Iran to pay for new babies to boost population (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 01:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this Wednesday May, 20, 2009 file photo, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hugs a child and is showered with flower petals during his visit to Semnan, Iran. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a new policy on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 to encourage population growth, whereby the government will pay families for every new child and deposit money into the newborn's bank account until they reach 18, dismissing Iran's decades of family planning as ungodly and a Western import. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency/Bagher Nassir, File)AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a new policy on Tuesday to encourage population growth, dismissing Iran's decades of internationally-acclaimed family planning as ungodly and a Western import.

4 journalists reported missing in northern Mexico (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 05:56 PM PDT

AP - Mexico's National Human Rights Commission called on the government Tuesday to find four Mexican journalists reported missing in or near the violence-wracked northern state of Durango.

We can build United States of Africa, Gaddafi says (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:21 PM PDT

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi addresses the media as he leaves the venue of the African Union (AU) Summit in Uganda's capital Kampala July 27, 2010. REUTERS/Xavier ToyaReuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Tuesday his dream of a United States of Africa was still alive and this week's African Union summit was another step toward that objective.

US braces for blowback over Afghan war disclosures (AP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 05:59 PM PDT

Adm. Mike Mullen, the top U.S. military officer, gestures during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Mullen says the leak of U.S. military documents about Afghanistan could put American lives at risk. Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in Baghdad Tuesday that he was 'appalled' by the leak, and said 'there is a real potential threat there to put American lives at risk.' (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - Operatives inside Afghanistan and Pakistan who have worked for the U.S. against the Taliban or al-Qaida may be at risk following the disclosure of thousands of once-secret U.S. military documents, former and current officials said.

TSX urged to do more to prevent conflicts of interest (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 09:06 AM PDT

Reuters - The Toronto Stock Exchange falls short of global listing standards and should do more to manage potential conflicts of interests in how it regulates listed companies, according to report published on Tuesday.

US leaves door open to delay in Marine move to Guam (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 01:16 PM PDT

Marines wait to be flown out by Marine Corps CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters after completing a AFP - The United States Tuesday allowed the possibility of a delay in plans to transfer some 8,000 US marines based on the Japanese island of Okinawa to the US Pacific territory of Guam by 2014.

Search continues for missing sailor in Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 04:28 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The body of a sailor who was killed in a Taliban ambush arrived home in the United States Tuesday as the military continued a massive search for his comrade, whom the Taliban claimed it kidnapped last week in eastern Afghanistan.

Khmer Rouge torture chief to appeal: Is he a chameleon or a contrite Christian? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Jul 2010 01:34 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Math wiz, high school teacher, communist ideologue, born-again Christian, aid worker, contrite confessor, and mass murderer.

Defending the Leaks: Q&A With WikiLeaks' Julian Assange (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 02:35 PM PDT

Time.com - In a conversation with TIME, Assange talks about why he does the work he has become infamous for -- and what else to expect from the Afghan war logs

Mass Grave Cover-Ups in Afghanistan (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 27 Jul 2010 07:43 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - KABUL, July 27 (IRIN) - Three years after President Hamid Karzai appointed a commission to investigate a mass grave site in the Chimtala plains, north of Kabul city, the site, the commission and the truth are missing.

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