2010年8月12日星期四

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Jaguar rescued from poachers stars in Brazil movie (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 04:37 PM PDT

In this photo released by Sincrocine Producoes Cinematograficas , Brazilian actor Guilherme Berenguer touches the 15-month-old jaguar named Catarina in Santarem, Para state, Brazil, Aug. 2010. Catarina, an endangered spotted jaguar rescued from poachers, is one of the stars of a soon-to-released feature film shot in the Brazilian Amazon, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Sincrocine Producoes Cinematograficas)AP - An endangered spotted jaguar rescued from poachers is one of the stars of a soon-to-released feature film shot in the Brazilian Amazon, officials said Thursday.

War-crimes trial opens for youngest Gitmo inmate (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 04:28 PM PDT

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, Canadian Omar Khadr attends jury selection for his war crimes trial at the courthouse for the U.S. military war crimes commission in the Camp Justice compound of Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Wednesday Aug. 11, 2010. Khadr is accused killing a U.S. soldier with a grenade during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan and faces a maximum life sentence if convicted of charges including murder, conspiracy and spying. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)AP - A war-crimes trial for Guantanamo's youngest detainee opened Thursday with prosecutors showing an al-Qaida video of him making — and apparently planting — bombs in Afghanistan.

Bomb wracks offices in Colombia capital, injures 9 (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 03:30 PM PDT

Agents from the police anti explosive unit, inspect the wreckage of a car bomb that exploded outside the building of Caracol Radio station in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. The explosion shook Colombia's capital on Thursday, injuring at least six people, police said. No deaths were reported. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)AP - A car packed with at least 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of explosives blew up in an office district of Colombia's capital Thursday, shattering windows in dozens of buildings and injuring nine people, police said. No deaths were reported.

WikiLeaks preparing to release more Afghan files (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 03:23 PM PDT

FILE - Founder and editor of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, faces the media during a debate event, held in London Tuesday July 27, 2010. Assange said Thursday Aug 12 2010 that his organization is preparing to release the rest of the secret Afghan war documents it has on file. The Pentagon warned that would be even more damaging than the organization's initial release of some 76,000 war documents. That extraordinary disclosure, which laid bare classified military documents covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010, has angered U.S. officials, energized critics of the NATO-led campaign, and drawn the attention of the Taliban. (AP Photo/Max Nash, file)AP - WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange said Thursday his organization is preparing to release the rest of the secret Afghan war documents it has on file. The Pentagon warned that would be more damaging to security and risk more lives than the organization's initial release of some 76,000 war documents.

Canadian navy boards migrant ship (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 03:10 PM PDT

AP - The Canadian navy boarded a cargo ship Thursday carrying 490 asylum seekers, including some people Canada has said may be terrorists.

Why WikiLeaks Is Under Fire From Rights Groups (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Time.com - It's not only the Pentagon that has a problem with the release of names of Afghan civilians said to be helping NATO forces

Capello battles to put Beckham row behind him (AFP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 03:38 PM PDT

England coach Fabio Capello has admitted he called time on David Beckham's international career without first breaking the bad news to the star. Beckham had hoped to return to England duty when he was fully fit.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - England coach Fabio Capello insists the bond with his players will not be broken by the ham-fisted and controversial manner in which he ended David Beckham's international career.

Lawyer: Iranian who faced stoning likely tortured (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 12:20 PM PDT

FILE -This undated image made available by Amnesty International in London, Thursday July 8, 2010, shows Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a mother of two who is facing the punishment of stoning to death in Iran, on charges of adultery. Iranian state television broadcast Thursday Aug 12, 2010 a purported confession by Ashtiani who had faced death by stoning for adultery, a case that has drawn U.S. concern, an offer of asylum from Brazil and international protests. Human Rights Watch says Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, was first convicted in May 2006 of having an 'illicit relationship' with two men following the death of her husband and was sentenced by a court to 99 lashes. Later that year she was also convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned, even though she retracted a confession which she claims was made under duress. (AP Photo/Amnesty International, ho)** EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES**AP - A lawyer for an Iranian woman who had faced death by stoning on an adultery conviction said Thursday he suspects she was tortured into confessing that she was an unwitting accomplice to her husband's murder.

New Amazon monkey species discovered in Colombia (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 05:03 PM PDT

A photo released Aug. 12, 2010, by Conservation International, shows a new species of titi monkey, Callicebus caquetensis, that was found in the Colombian Amazon region near the borders with Ecuador and Peru by Drs Thomas Defler, Marta Bueno from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and undergraduate student Javier García with support from Conservation International. The monkey is the size of a cat, has grayish-brown hair, but does not have a white bar on its forehead as many of the other species of Callicebus most closely related to it. (AP Photo/Javier Garcia)AP - A new Amazon monkey species has been discovered in Colombia, and researchers said Thursday they believe the small, isolated population is at risk due to the cutting of forests that are its home.

Nigeria: Ruling party leader supports president (AP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 02:02 PM PDT

AP - The leader of Nigeria's ruling party said Thursday that he believed the West African nation's president should be allowed to run in next year's election, despite a power-sharing agreement that calls for a candidate from the Muslim north.

Canada boards ship with hundreds of Sri Lankans (AFP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 04:45 PM PDT

Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Winnipeg. The Canadian navy on Thursday intercepted a cargo ship carrying up to 500 Sri Lankan asylum seekers and prepared to screen them, fearing some belonged to the defeated and banned Tamil Tiger rebels. The HMCS Winnipeg frigate intercepted the MV Sun Sea ship, which has been monitored for days.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - The Canadian navy on Thursday intercepted a cargo ship carrying up to 500 Sri Lankan asylum seekers and prepared to screen them, fearing some belonged to the defeated and banned Tamil Tiger rebels.

Canada set to board migrant ship off its West Coast (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 11:18 AM PDT

Reuters - Canadian authorities prepared on Thursday to board a cargo ship that may be carrying as many 500 people thought to be Tamil migrants who have fled Sri Lanka in a bid to enter Canada as refugees.

Australian opposition vows uranium for India (AFP)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 12:25 AM PDT

File photo of BHP Billiton's OlympicDam copper and uranium operation at Roxby Downs in South Australia. Australia's opposition Thursday vowed to sell uranium to nuclear power India if elected this month and cautioned against over-reliance on China, the country's top trading partner.(AFP/BHP Billiton/File)AFP - Australia's opposition Thursday vowed to sell uranium to nuclear power India if elected this month and cautioned against over-reliance on China, the country's top trading partner.

Mexico rethinks drug strategy as death toll soars (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 11:39 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - MEXICO CITY — The drug war in Mexico is at a crossroads. As the death toll climbs above 28,000, President Felipe Calderon confronts growing pressure to try a different strategy — perhaps radically different — to quell the violence unleashed by major drug syndicates.

The other Kashmir problem: India and Pakistan tussle over water (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 01:55 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Amid a summer of heat, regional flooding, and separatist protests across Indian-controlled Kashmir, one of the unlikely grievances mentioned by rock-throwing youth is water.

Khadr Trial Reminds of Obama's Failure to Close Gitmo (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Omar Khadr faces a military tribunal for an incident that occurred when he was 15. The case will remind many of President Obama's failure to keep his promise about closing the GuantÁnamo Bay detention facility

The U.S.-Mexico Border Is Safer Than You Think (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 12 Aug 2010 07:04 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 11 (New America Media) - Crime along the U.S.-Mexico border has been cited to justify everything from Arizona’s new immigration law to Congress’ decision Tuesday to spend another $600 million on border enforcement.

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