2010年8月14日星期六

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AP: Sole survivor of Afghan attack tells story (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 11:07 AM PDT

In this image made available by International Assistance Mission, Jawed, a 24-year-old Afghan from Panjshir province, the team's cook, one of 10 civilian volunteers killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, is shown. The Christian charity IAM said Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 that it had no plans to leave Afghanistan despite the murders of 10 members of its medical aid team and repeated that the organization does not attempt to convert Muslims to Christianity. The 10 team members — six Americans, two Afghans, one Briton and a German — were gunned down Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 after they were accosted by gunmen after finishing a two-week mission providing medical care to impoverished villagers in remote Nuristan province. (AP Photo/International Assistance Mission) NO SALESAP - One of the gunmen who killed 10 charitable health workers in northern Afghanistan hitched a ride with the medical team shortly before the murders, the sole survivor of the attack told The Associated Press on Saturday.

Cholera strikes amid Pakistani flood disaster (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 11:55 AM PDT

Pakistani flood affected villagers sit in the rubble of their houses, in Aza Kheil near Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. International aid for Pakistani flood victims is coming in slowly compared to other recent disasters despite the massive number of people affected and the potential for dire economic consequences in a country key to Western hopes in the fight against Islamist extremists. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The deadly, waterborne disease cholera has surfaced in flood-ravaged Pakistan, the U.N. confirmed Saturday, adding to the misery of 20 million people the government says have been made homeless by the disaster. A fresh surge of floodwater swelled the Indus River, threatening previously spared cities and towns in the south.

Officials: Alleged US missiles kill 12 in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 11:27 AM PDT

Fact file and illustration on the unmanned US drone Predator. A US missile strike on a militant compound in Pakistan's tribal district on the Afghan border killed four rebels on Saturday, local security officials said.(AFP/Graphic)AP - Suspected U.S. missiles killed 12 people Saturday in a Pakistani tribal region filled with Islamist insurgents bent on pushing Western troops out of neighboring Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.

Underneath Lebanon, Israel sees hidden battlefield (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 11:03 AM PDT

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 21, 2010, an Israeli soldier from the Golani Brigade takes position during training in a forest simulating military posts in south Lebanon, at the Elyakim training grounds in northern Israel. With tensions mounting along their shared border, Israel's military says Hezbollah is moving fighters and weapons into the villages of south Lebanon, building up a secret network of arms warehouses, bunkers and command posts in preparation for war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - With tensions mounting along their shared border, Israel's military says Hezbollah is moving fighters and weapons into the villages of south Lebanon, building up a secret network of arms warehouses, bunkers and command posts in preparation for war.

2 killed as troops open fire on Kashmir protesters (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 10:14 AM PDT

A masked Kashmiri Muslim man shouts slogans during a protest in Srinagar, India, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. Tens of thousands of angry protesters rushed into the streets in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday after government forces killed four people and injured at least 12 others during protests against Indian rule in the disputed region, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)AP - Two people were shot dead by security forces Saturday as deaths continued to mount during weeks of defiant protests against India's rule over the predominantly Muslim region of Kashmir.

A Swiss Town Celebrates the Red Cross Founder It Never Much Liked (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 11:50 PM PDT

Time.com - After founding the Red Cross, Henry Dunant fell into poverty and obscurity, sheltering in Heiden, where townsfolk never warmed to him. Why is it celebrating him today?

Hampshire win T20 final despite Christian chaos (AFP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 04:42 PM PDT

Veteran Hampshire captain Dominic Cork, pictured in action in 2001, played a key role as Hampshire were crowned English county cricket's Twenty20 champions on their Rose Bowl home ground after a last ball win over Somerset.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - Hampshire were crowned English county cricket's Twenty20 champions on their Rose Bowl home ground after a last ball win over Somerset on Saturday.

6 African migrants killed in Egypt in desert clash (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 01:29 PM PDT

AP - Six African migrants trying to cross into Israel were killed in clashes with Bedouin traffickers and Egyptian border guards in the Sinai Desert, security officials said Saturday.

Chile crews drill probes will reach trapped miners (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 10:32 AM PDT

Relatives and co-workers set Chilean flags outside a collapsed mine where about 33 miners have been trapped for over a week in Copiapo, Chile, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010. The miners have been trapped below the surface since the main access collapsed with tons of falling rock last Thursday. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)AP - Chile's mining minister says rescuers hope that probes they are drilling will reach 33 trapped miners by Monday.

UNAMID says two of its police abducted in Darfur (AFP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 12:22 PM PDT

A convoy of the joint United Nations-African Union force crosses through a mud track in the southern village of Kashalongo, south of Nyala in southern Darfur. Two police advisers deployed with the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's western region of Darfur were kidnapped by gunmen on Saturday, the UNAMID said in a statement.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)AFP - Two police advisers deployed with the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan's western region of Darfur were kidnapped by gunmen on Saturday, UNAMID said in a statement.

Tamil migrants in good condition: Canada (AFP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 04:31 PM PDT

Two Canadian navy tugboats (top, left) guide the MV Sun Se into dock at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt in British Columbia. Canadian officials said hundreds of Sri Lankan Tamil migrants who arrived aboard a rusty cargo ship were in good condition after their three-month voyage.(AFP/Keith Vass)AFP - Hundreds of Sri Lankan Tamil migrants who arrived aboard a rusty cargo ship were in good condition after their three-month voyage, Canadian officials said Saturday.

Magnitude 6.6 quake hits southwest of Guam (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 04:26 PM PDT

Reuters - A magnitude 6.6 quake struck 241 miles west-southwest of the U.S. Pacific island territory of Guam, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Saturday, following a series of quakes and aftershocks in the region.

Fonseka convicted in Sri Lanka amid delayed inquiry over Tamil Tigers war (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 11:51 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A Sri Lanka military court today convicted former Army chief Sarath Fonseka of meddling in politics while on duty, raising concerns that the government is trying to silence a retired general who has hinted that the government may have committed war crimes during its 25-year civil war with the Tamil Tigers.

In Israel, A Fight to Make the Wall More Inclusive (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Aug 2010 11:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Women and other Jewish groups are fighting for the right of full religious access at the Jerusalem's Western Wall

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