2010年8月29日星期日

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New video shows emotional trapped Chilean miners (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 05:15 PM PDT

Members of the press stand by the pipe used to keep communication open with 33 miners trapped alive in the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Sunday Aug. 29, 2010. The trapped miners half mile underground will have to aid their own escape by clearing rock that will fall as the rescue hole is drilled, the engineer in charge of drilling said Sunday. The mine collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - A new video released Sunday of 33 men trapped in a mine under Chile's Atacama Desert shows them sending greetings to their families, talking about how they are doing better since receiving food and breaking into tears as they talk about loved ones.

Muslims donate nearly $1 billion to Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 05:19 PM PDT

Pakistans displaced by flooding take shelter on the higher ground near the flooded Indus River, outside Thatta, Sindh Province, southern Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Muslim countries, organizations and individuals have pledged nearly $1 billion in cash and relief supplies to help Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the nation's history, the head of a group of Islamic states said.

7 US troops killed in latest Afghanistan fighting (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 05:15 PM PDT

Abdul Manan, a candidate for the September Parliament elections is brought to a hospital, after being shot, in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. On Saturday evening in Herat province, a candidate running for a seat in parliament was shot and killed as he was on his way to a mosque, said Lal Mohammad Omarzai, deputy governor of Shindand district. He said two men on a motorbike opened fire on the candidate, Abdul Manan, who died of his wounds. (AP Photo/ Reza Shirmohammadi)AP - Seven U.S. troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions, while officials found the bodies Sunday of five kidnapped campaign aides working for a female candidate in the western province of Herat.

Mexico to up security in border city after blasts (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 04:58 PM PDT

An unidentified migrant from Honduras waits for a northern bound train during his journey toward the US-Mexico border on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, Saturday Aug. 28, 2010. On Tuesday 72 Central and South American migrants were found executed by a Mexican drug cartel within 100 miles of the U.S. border. (AP Photos/Marco Ugarte)AP - Mexico's government on Sunday promised to increase security after a series of explosive devices were detonated in the border city of Reynosa, and officials said they would step up efforts to identify more of the 72 migrants massacred last week in the same state.

China Reviews Death Penalty for Nonviolent Crimes (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 06:25 AM PDT

Time.com - For the first time in 30 years, China's top legislature proposed this week to reduce the number of crimes punishable by execution by up to 20%

Cool Hamilton wins chaotic Belgian Grand Prix (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 03:54 PM PDT

McLaren Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton celebrates on the podium of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Spa, after the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix. Hamilton won the race ahead of Red Bull's Australian driver Mark Webber and Renault's Polish driver Robert Kubica.(AFP/Fred Dufour)AFP - Lewis Hamilton regained the initiative in the drivers' world championship in emphatic style on Sunday when he won a dramatic and incident-filled Belgian Grand Prix.

Abbas: No peace talks with settlement building (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 05:15 PM PDT

Israeli children walk past Ariel's new Theater in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel , Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. Leading Israeli theater artists have pledged not to perform in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, stirring a heated debate in Israel on Sunday about the dozens of communities just as Israelis and Palestinians are to embark on a new round of peace talks.The settlements, deemed illegal by the international community and built on occupied land the Palestinians want for their state, could derail talks shortly after they are launched Thursday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned Sunday that he will not back down from his threat to pull out of new peace talks with Israel if it resumes construction in West Bank settlements.

Newborn Hurricane Earl threatens north Caribbean (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 03:43 PM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 01:45 PM EDT shows Category 1 Hurricane Danielle, located about 500 nautical miles northeast of Bermuda, moving northeastward at 23 knots. Danielle is beginning to weaken as it picks up speed in forward motion. Scattered moderate and isolated strong convective activity continues to accompany Danielle. To the south, Category 1 Hurricane Earl, centered about 165 nautical miles east of Antigua, is moving northwestward at 15 knots. Earl is forecast to strengthen over the next couple of days and could reach major hurricane status by Tuesday. Meanwhile, an area of low pressure located midway between the west coast of Africa and the Lesser Antilles has a high chance, 80 percent, of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next couple of days. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Islanders set up emergency shelters and airlines canceled flights Sunday as newly born Hurricane Earl churned toward the northern Caribbean. Cruise lines diverted ships to avoid the storm's path.

Gun battle frees supporter of Nigerian president: police (AFP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 11:42 AM PDT

Police stand guard in Nigeria in March 2010. Nigerian police have freed a prominent supporter of the president believed to be the son of an ex-prime minister after a gun battle with his abductors, authorities said Sunday, months ahead of elections.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Nigerian police have freed a prominent supporter of the president believed to be the son of an ex-prime minister after a gun battle with his abductors, authorities said Sunday, months ahead of elections.

BOJ seen easing policy to fight yen's rise (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 05:18 PM PDT

Reuters - The Bank of Japan began an emergency meeting on Monday to ease monetary policy, bowing to strong government pressure to try to curb a rise in the yen that is threatening a fragile economic recovery.

Australian support for republic flags: poll (AFP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2010 11:26 PM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is pictured during a visit to Sydney in 2006. Asked whether Australia should become a republic, 48 percent of the 1,400 recently polled said they wanted to keep things as they are for now -- with the Queen as head of state.(AFP/File/Rob Griffith)AFP - Support for Australia becoming a republic has slumped to a 16-year-low, according to the results of a poll released Sunday which found that one-in-three people never want to break ties with Britain.

In Chechnya, A Blood Feud Ends--and a Despot Digs In (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 06:25 AM PDT

Time.com - The men of gun-loving Chechnya, long Russia's most rebellious province, are not known for turning the other cheek. So many observers were baffled last week when the region's most notorious feud ended without a fight.

Outrage Grows Over Failure to Protect DRC Civilians (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 09:09 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (IPS) - As details emerged this week of the U.N.'s knowledge of rebel activity in the villages where nearly 200 women were systematically gang raped by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month, human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the U.N.'s failure to prevent the raid from occurring.

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