2010年7月30日星期五

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US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 05:28 PM PDT

NATO and US soldiers are seen standing guard in Kabul. Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, NATO said Friday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - In a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky international support for the war.

Sarkozy threatens immigrants who target police (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 02:24 PM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech in Grenoble, French Alps, Friday, July 30, 2010. Nicolas Sarkozy came in Grenoble to install the new prefect after confrontations between youths and policemen, which came after a local resident suspected in the armed robbery of a casino was killed while fleeing police. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put the lives of police officers in danger as part of a "national war" on delinquency.

US investigates threats against Mexican consulate (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 01:49 PM PDT

People wait at the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday July 30, 2010. The U.S. State Department said Friday it's indefinitely closing the consulate while it evaluates threats surrounding the consulate in the Mexican border city. (AP Photo)AP - The U.S. State Department said Friday it is evaluating threats surrounding the consulate in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez as hundreds with appointments for visa applications and other services stood outside the shuttered office wondering what to do.

5.7 quake shakes Iran (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 01:27 PM PDT

AP - A 5.7-magnitude earthquake rattled the northeast Iranian city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh on Friday, injuring at least 110 people.

Is Yemen in the Middle of Another Undeclared War? (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 12:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Officially, the country says it has a ceasefire with rebels in the north but warplanes and over-run military bases indicate otherwise. And then there's al-Qaeda.

Dutch anti-Islam party to have strong voice in next govt (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 03:12 PM PDT

Dutch politician Geert Wilders addresses a press conference in Westminster, central London, in 2009. Dutch anti-Islam Wilders will have to be consulted on every decision the next government makes if a provisional agreement on forming a new cabinet reached Friday is finalised, an expert said.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders will have to be consulted on every decision the next government makes if a provisional agreement on forming a new cabinet reached Friday is finalised, an expert said.

Mexico's TV channel cancels show after kidnappings (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 05:32 PM PDT

AP - Mexico's biggest television network canceled a popular news show to protest the kidnapping of four reporters in what media advocates said Friday is an escalation of a campaign by drug gangs to control information.

U.N. tells Darfur peace force to focus on security (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 11:24 AM PDT

Yasser Arman, one of the leaders of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, speaks during a press conference in Khartoum on April 2010. Senior MPs from north and south Sudan are heading for Canada this weekend to learn from Quebec's independence referendums, officials said Friday, as the African state prepares to vote on southern secession.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)Reuters - The U.N. Security Council extended the stay of peacekeepers in Sudan's western Darfur region by another year on Friday, telling the force to focus primarily on protecting civilians and aid deliveries.

U.S., India formally sign nuclear reprocessing pact (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 05:15 PM PDT

Reuters - The United States and India on Friday formally signed an agreement on reprocessing spent nuclear fuel that U.S. officials hope will allow American firms a share of India's $150 billion nuclear energy market.

Wyclef Jean mulling Haiti presidential run against politician uncle (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 01:56 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Wyclef Jean is considering running for president against his politician uncle, although some observers are skeptical if the earthquake-ravaged country is even capable of holding elections this year.

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No end for Greek fuel protest, tourism slammed (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 08:53 AM PDT

Protesting truck drivers hold a Greek flag as they protest in central Athens on Friday, July 30, 2010. Defying an emergency government order, Greek truck drivers vowed Friday to press ahead with a protest that has halted fuel supplies across the country and is hurting tourism at peak season.The protesters rejected a compromise offer by the government to offset the financial impact of liberalizing their closed-shop profession.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP - Defying an emergency government order, Greek truck drivers vowed Friday to press ahead with a strike that has halted fuel supplies across the country and is hurting tourism during the peak summer season.

July the deadliest month of Afghan war for US (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:56 AM PDT

NATO and US soldiers are seen standing guard in Kabul. Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, NATO said Friday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - NATO announced Friday that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.

Troops kill senior 'capo' of mighty Mexico cartel (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:43 AM PDT

This undated photo downloaded from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, website shows Mexican drug cartel leader Ignacio Coronel Villareal, aka Nacho Coronel. According to local media, Coronel was allegedly killed Thursday by the army during a raid in Zapopan, near Guadalajara, Mexico. Coronel is considered number three in the organization of fugitive Mexican drug lord Joaquin Chapo Guzman. (AP Photo/FBI)AP - Soldiers killed a top leader of the Sinaloa cartel in a raid on his posh hideout, dealing the biggest blow yet to Mexico's most powerful drug gang since President Felipe Calderon launched a military offensive against organized crime in 2006.

Floods ravage NW Pakistan, kill 430 people (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:20 AM PDT

A Pakistani woman sits at the bank of the swollen Nelum river flooded by monsoon rains in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir on Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Aftab AhmedAP - Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said 430 people had been killed in the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929.

Saudi, Syrian leaders make rare visit to Lebanon (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:09 AM PDT

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, center, receives Saudi King Abdullah, left, and Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, upon their arrival at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 30, 2010. The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia launched an unprecedented effort Friday to defuse fears of violence over upcoming indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.(AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)AP - The leaders of Syria, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon have issued a joint statement pledging solidarity during a time of heightened tensions in Beirut.

Will Britain Give Up its Nuclear Submarines? (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:10 AM PDT

Time.com - With the Ministry of Defense facing budget cuts and the nation's nuclear-deterrent system seeming more and more like a relic of the Cold War, is it time for Britain to give up its Doomsday boats?

IMF warns France on deficit (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:04 AM PDT

The IMF building is seen in 2008 in Washington, DC. The IMF warned France on Friday that it would fail to meet its goal of reducing the public deficit to 3.0 percent of output in 2013 unless it made AFP - The IMF warned France on Friday that it would fail to meet its goal of reducing the public deficit to 3.0 percent of output in 2013 unless it made "further efforts" to curb spending.

Roadside bomb in Iraq kills 5 members of family (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:44 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 29, 2010 file photo, Stones with the word 'hero' written on them lay on grave stones in Section 60, where many soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. NATO announced Friday, July 30, 2010 that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP - Iraqi police say a roadside bomb north of Baghdad has killed five members of a family, including a 4-year-old girl.

Argentine couples wed under new gay marriage law (AP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 07:41 AM PDT

** CORRECTS LAST NAME OF JUDGE TO VINACUR ** Ernesto Rodriguez Larrese, second from left, and Alejandro Vanelli, left, are married by Judge Adriana Vinacurt, right, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, July 30, 2010. Larrese and Vanelli are the first gay couple to get married at the Argentine capital after President Cristina Fernandez signed a new law on July 21 making Argentina the first country in Latin America to legalize marriage for same-sex couples. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - An architect and a retired office worker are the first couple to wed under Argentina's historic law legalizing same-sex marriage.

Thousands flee Congo clashes, security worsens (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:13 AM PDT

Reuters - Almost 90,000 people have fled fighting in eastern Congo in the past month, aid agencies said, underscoring a worsening security situation despite the official end of Congo's 1998-2003 war.

Five Taliban taken off UN sanctions list: Austria (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 10:10 AM PDT

UN Security Council members vote at the UN headquarters in June 2010 in New York. Five Taliban members, including a former Afghan ambassador to the United Nations, have been taken off a UN sanctions terrorism list, Austria's UN mission said Friday.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - Five Taliban members, including a former Afghan ambassador to the United Nations, have been taken off a UN sanctions terrorism list, Austria's UN mission said Friday.

Economic growth ticks higher in May (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 07:58 AM PDT

Reuters - Growth in Canada's economy edged up in May after stalling unexpectedly in April, helped by strength in the goods-producing sectors led by oil and gas extraction, while the service sector faltered for a second straight month.

Former Australian PM Rudd hospitalised (AFP)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 12:35 AM PDT

Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd (pictured) was Friday admitted to hospital for surgery to treat severe stomach pain -- one month after he was dramatically removed from office by his own party.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd was Friday admitted to hospital for surgery to treat severe stomach pain -- one month after he was dramatically removed from office by his own party.

Pentagon rethinking who can access secret information (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 06:11 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A low-ranking Army soldier suspected of leaking thousands of classified documents had access to the documents because U.S. officials have pressed to make sure secret information is available to combat units.

Black Eyed Peas join Mexico in protesting Arizona immigration law SB1070 [video] (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 02:41 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Mexico staged a handful of protests today against the new immigration law in Arizona, where up to 530,000 undocumented workers live and 88.6 percent of the Hispanic population is Mexican.

French Baby Killings: Was it Mental Illness or Murder? (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 09:10 AM PDT

Time.com - Now that Dominique Cottrez has confessed to killing her eight newborn children, France waits to find out whether the awful act was driven by psychosis or premeditated murder

Kenya Divided by the Colours of a New Constitution (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 08:23 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - NAIROBI, Jul 30 (IRIN) - Less than three years after a closely fought presidential election plunged Kenya into widespread violence and displaced thousands, the country is bracing itself for another crucial and equally divisive ballot, this time on a new constitution.

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