2010年9月17日星期五

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Holloway's mom confronted Van der Sloot in jail (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 03:47 PM PDT

FILE - In this June 4, 2010 file photo Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot is escorted by police officers outside a Peruvian police station, near the border with Chile in Tacna, Peru. A newspaper has quoted the Dutchman charged with killing a 21-year-old Peruvian woman and suspected in the disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway as confessing to extorting money from Holloway's parents, it was reported, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)AP - The mother of Natalee Holloway entered a maximum-security Lima prison — apparently without registering as a visitor — and confronted the Dutchman who remains the lead suspect in her daughter's 2005 disappearance in Aruba.

Newspaper: Mexican media defenseless against gangs (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 03:31 PM PDT

El Diario de Juarez photojournalist Christian Torres, colleague of Luis Carlos Santiago who was killed, reacts at the scene of the crime at a shopping mall parking lot in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday Sept. 16, 2010. Santiago, 21, who started working at the newspaper two weeks ago, and fellow photojournalist Carlos Sanchez, an intern, were attacked as they left their offices, according to El Diario de Juarez news director Pedro Torres. Sanchez was seriously wounded. This is the second attack against reporters of El Diario and comes almost a year after the death of reporter Armando Rodriguez who was shot outside his house. (AP Photo/El Diario de Juarez, Ricardo Lopez)AP - Mexican journalists are defenseless against cartel attacks that the government seems incapable of stopping, the main newspaper in this drug war-torn city said Thursday in a front-page editorial inspired by the killing of one its photographers.

Afghans head to polls as Taliban threats mount (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 03:25 PM PDT

An Afghan policeman stands guard near posters of candidates contesting in the upcoming Afghan parliamentary elections in Jalalabad, Afghanistan Thursday Sept. 16, 2010. Afghan officials and political figures sought to reassure wary Afghans on Thursday that it will be safe to vote in this weekend's parliamentary election despite an upswing in violence in recent months. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)AP - The Taliban have written threats on leaflets passed out at mosques, whispered them in villages, proclaimed them to journalists and posted on the Internet: If you vote in Saturday's parliamentary elections, prepare to be attacked.

Turkey: Baby on highway causes panic (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT

AP - Security cameras in Turkey have recorded the sight of a baby crawling onto a highway and startling drivers who waved frantically to other motorists to get out of the way. The 1-year-old toddler survived.

Commentary: Seeing Double (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 08:25 AM PDT

Time.com - How Tension and Affluence Abound in Northeast Asia

Sweden's welfare state at heart of final election debate (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 03:46 PM PDT

Mona Sahlin, Chairman of the Social Democratic party, stands in front of a relief of the party's first chairman Hjalmar Branting during her election rally in Stockholm on September 16. The future of Sweden's famous welfare state was a central theme when the country's main political party chiefs met late Friday for a final televised election debate.(AFP/File/Jonathan Nackstrand)AFP - The future of Sweden's famous welfare state was a central theme when the country's main political party chiefs met late Friday for a final televised election debate.

Oman: No plans to free 2 other Americans in Iran (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 12:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 20, 2010 file photo, American hikers Shane Bauer, left, Sarah Shourd, center, and Josh Fattal, sit at the Esteghlal Hotel in Tehran, Iran. On Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, Iran's English language state television has reported that American Sarah Shourd has been released after more than a year in prison. 'Iran has released US national Sarah Shourd,' flashed the red colored urgent banner on Press TV Tuesday. (AP Photo/Press TV, File)AP - Oman's foreign minister said Friday he's not aware of any plans for Iran to release two other Americans still being held there, but that his country stands willing to act as an intermediary between Tehran and Washington.

Big step completed in Chile miners' escape route (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 03:57 PM PDT

Two policemen walk next to the drill that is being used in the rescue operation of thirty-three miners trapped at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Rescuers achieved a key breakthrough in efforts to rescue the miners on Friday, reaching the caverns where they are imprisoned with a bore hole that will now be widened so that they can be pulled to freedom. The miners have been trapped deep underground since the mine collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Aliosha Marquez)AP - Drilling equipment pounded its way into one of the caverns where 33 miners have been trapped for a month and a half, completing a bore hole ahead of schedule on Friday and raising hopes that the men can be pulled out earlier than expected.

Violence spirals out of control in east Congo (AP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 02:33 PM PDT

Congolese troops walk as they provide security for villagers on the outskirts of Walikale, Congo, Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. Violence in the competition for minerals is spiraling out of control in this corner of Congo, where hundreds of victims of a mass gang-rape that drew international outrage include the mother, wife, sisters and cousins of a militia leader whose fighters were among the alleged attackers. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)AP - First the rebel soldiers told residents of the villages in the mineral-rich eastern Congo not to worry. They were just there for a rest and would do no harm. But as dusk fell, the fighters encircled five villages simultaneously, and the gang rapes began.

Afghanistan to vote in shadow of Taliban threats (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 04:21 PM PDT

Election posters on display in the old section of Kabul. The Taliban has kidnapped an Afghan parliamentary candidate and were blamed for snatching another 18 election workers, as President Hamid Karzai warned of AFP - Afghanistan's voters are set to go to the polls Saturday to elect their second parliament since the collapse of Taliban rule with security forces on full alert against threatened attacks.

Unpopular BC sales tax deal upheld by court (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 03:14 PM PDT

Reuters - British Columbia's unpopular agreement to merge its provincial sales tax with Canada's federal goods and services tax was legal, a judge ruled on Friday.

Australian pupils probed after kangaroo beaten to death (AFP)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 12:28 AM PDT

Three Australian pupils have been suspended from school as authorities investigate whether they beat a kangaroo to death with a metal pole, police and their principal said Friday. The animal was found dead in the Great Otway National Park in the southern state of Victoria on September 8, while a school camp was under way in the reserve.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Three Australian pupils have been suspended from school as authorities investigate whether they beat a kangaroo to death with a metal pole, police and their principal said Friday.

Pope Benedict trip: Why move John Henry Newman toward sainthood? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 02:36 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The state visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Britain has placed him with the queen, prime minister, and given him a prized platform to argue for a deeper religious meaning in an overtly secular land.

Sarkozy Lashes Out As Roma Row Escalates (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 08:25 AM PDT

Time.com - Following harsh words from the French President, a European Union summit degenerates into open discord over France's deportation of unwanted Roma immigrants

In Afghan election, corruption colors aims of many female candidates (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 17 Sep 2010 01:25 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In a cynical reminder that Afghan politics is rarely what it seems, activists in Kabul question whether many female candidates running in Saturday’s parliamentary elections are actually champions of women's rights.

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