2010年8月9日星期一

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US military judge seals sentence for Gitmo inmate (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:19 PM PDT

** CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME TO IGLESIAS ** Captain Dave Iglesias, spokesman for the military commission prosecuting Omar Khadr, speaks to reporters at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. Khadr, 23, is due to stand trial for war crimes allegedly committed when he was 15 years old. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Colin Perkel)AP - A U.S. military judge on Monday ordered that a plea agreement capping the maximum sentence of an Osama bin Laden aide be sealed, shrouding in secrecy the first Guantanamo conviction under President Barack Obama.

Farrow, Campbell draw spotlight to war-crime trial (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 02:58 PM PDT

Actress Mia Farrow is seen in this image taken from TV at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Farrow has told the Charles Taylor war crimes trial that fashion model Naomi Campbell confided she had been sent a 'huge diamond' by the former Liberian ruler in 1997. Farrow appears to contradict Campbell's evidence last week. Campbell told the court on Friday she was given several small stones by unknown men. If Farrow's Monday account is true, it would dent Taylor's denials of any involvement with illicit diamonds. The court did not give permission to take photos of Mia Farrow inside the courtroom. (AP Photo/Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone, Via APTN) ** TV OUT **AP - Naomi Campbell flirted with Liberia's former president across the dinner table at Nelson Mandela's presidential mansion in 1997 and boasted the following morning that Charles Taylor had given her a huge diamond during the night, Mia Farrow and another witness testified at Taylor's war crimes trial Monday.

1,100 missing in China as Asian flood misery rises (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:53 PM PDT

Residents walk past a street covered by mud after the mudslide-hit town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Rescuers dug through mud and wreckage Monday searching for 1,300 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck northwestern China. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Rescuers lifted muddy bodies into trucks, and aid convoys choked the road into the remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing Monday from landslides caused by heavy rain that has flooded swaths of Asia and spread misery to millions.

Israel threatening to quit UN probe into flotilla (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 02:39 PM PDT

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits before testifying in front of a state-appointed inquiry commission into the Israeli naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla, in Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Netanyahu testified Monday before his country's inquiry commission into the bloodshed aboard a Turkish ship that tried to break the Gaza blockade in May 2010, defending Israel's actions and suggesting Turkey had been seeking a confrontation. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)AP - Israel threatened Monday to pull out of a U.N. inquiry into a deadly raid on a Turkish flotilla heading for Gaza, after the U.N. chief said there is no agreement that the panel would refrain from calling Israeli soldiers to testify.

Hezbollah accuses Israel of Hariri assassination (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 02:16 PM PDT

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a press conference through a video link held in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday Aug. 9, 2010. Nasrallah offered up documents and other material that he said implicates Israel in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Among the material presented was what Nasrallah described as Israeli reconnaissance footage intercepted by Hezbollah of areas frequented by Hariri.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)AP - The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah militants presented aerial reconnaissance footage Monday that he said implicates Israel in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The Army and the Islamists Ride High in Submerged Pakistan (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Time.com - But the people are furious at the government, particularly at President Zardari who toured Britain and his Normandy chateau while the country suffered

Cartoon time at Southampton after pic ban (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:53 PM PDT

It was cartoon time at League One side Southampton after the club restricted access to photographers, leaving an enterprising cartoonist to show Plymouth fans highlights of their side's 1-0 season-opening win.(Southampton)AFP - It was cartoon time at League One side Southampton after the club restricted access to photographers, leaving an enterprising cartoonist to show Plymouth fans highlights of their side's 1-0 season-opening win.

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Posted: 09 Aug 2010 01:46 PM PDT

AP - Israel threatens to quit flotilla probe after UN chief says panel might question soldiers.

Mexicans, US question drug legalization proposal (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 05:04 PM PDT

A federal police officer kicks a door open while looking for fellow police inspector Salomón Alarcón Olvera, aka 'El Chaman' after accusing him of being linked to drug cartels and having participated in kidnappings, executions and extortions in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. Around 200 federal police officers protested Saturday demanding Alarcon's dismissal.(AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)AP - A former Mexican president's proposal to legalize drugs as a way of breaking the economic power of drug cartels is stoking debate inside his country and bringing opposition in Washington.

Kagame set for landslide in Rwandan presidential vote (AFP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:43 PM PDT

Rwandan President Paul Kagame casts his vote at Rugunga polling station. Rwandans voted Monday in a presidential election that incumbent Kagame is poised to win, following a tense run-up marred by arrests and killings.(AFP/Simon Maina)AFP - Tens of thousands of supporters feted serving Rwandan President Paul Kagame's expected win at a giant rally, as the first results indicating a landslide for the post-genocide leader came in Tuesday.

US engineer convicted of selling secrets to China (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:53 PM PDT

In this undated passport photo provided by the Gowadia family, Noshir Gowadia, accused of selling military secrets to China, is shown. A federal jury in Hawaii has convicted an Indian-born former B-2 stealth bomber engineer of selling military secrets to China. Noshir Gowadia pleaded not guilty to 17 counts, including conspiracy, violating the arms export control act and money laundering. The decision came Monday after a week of deliberations at a federal court in Honolulu. Prosecutors accused Gowadia of helping China design a stealth cruise missile. The trial lasted nearly four months. The 67-year-old from Maui has spent almost five years in federal detention since his October 2005 arrest after a judge ruled he was a flight risk. (AP Photo/Gowadia Family) NO SALESAP - A federal jury in Hawaii on Monday convicted a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer of selling military secrets to China.

Omar Khadr's confession can be used at Guantanamo trial (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 02:34 PM PDT

Reuters - Canadian prisoner Omar Khadr's confessions to interrogators can be used as evidence against him in his murder and terrorism conspiracy trial at Guantanamo, a U.S. military judge ruled on Monday.

China urges closer military ties with Australia (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 03:02 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 photo, Chinese soldiers take part in the Vanguard 2010 live-fire air defense exercise in central China's Henan Province. China's military launched major air defense exercises Tuesday, highlighting rising capabilities that are seen as tipping the balance of power in east Asia. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - A leading Chinese general urged closer ties with Australia's military on Monday, amid a continuing freeze on Beijing's contacts with the Pentagon.

Pakistani flooding victims say government is no help (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 02:49 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - SUKKUR, Pakistan — Hungry, bewildered and bedraggled villagers are arriving by the thousands in Sukkur, a town in Pakistan's southern Sindh province that so far has escaped the country's devastating flooding, only to find that little or no help is available, victims of the disaster said.

Fight to save Moscow forest from development tests tolerance for dissent (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 11:10 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The small band of environmentalists wants to stop construction â€" using peaceful means â€" of a 10-lane toll highway through a local old-growth forest. But they have met with an escalating police crackdown, and human rights experts say the unfolding struggle over the fate of Khimki Forest is fast becoming a litmus test of authorities' willingness to allow civil society activists any voice in issues of public development.

Ten Foreign Aid Workers Killed by Taliban in Afghanistan (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Time.com - The murder of 10 aid workers in northern Afghanistan highlights the perils of aid work in a country where the U.S. believes a "civilian surge" is important to the war effort

Pakistan Floods Show No Sign of Let Up (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 10:39 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - PESHAWAR, Aug 8 (IRIN) - For the past 10 days, torrential monsoon rainfall has killed more than 1,600 people inflicted widesperad damage across the country, with the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) suffering the greatest losses, federal authorities and aid agencies say.

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