2010年10月9日星期六

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Minister says Wednesday rescue likely in Chile (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 04:58 PM PDT

A relative of a trapped miner gestures after the announcement that a drill reached the trapped miners in the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile, Saturday Oct. 9, 2010. Officials announced that the drill trying to reach the 33 trapped miners reached them Saturday after more than two months of efforts. The miners have been trapped since the mine collapsed on Aug. 5. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Chile's mining minister said Saturday night that the 33 miners trapped for more than two months will probably be pulled out starting Wednesday.

Hungary sludge reservoir at risk of collapse (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 03:42 PM PDT

Bus drivers wait beside their buses on a highway to pick up evacuees outside Kolontar, Hungary, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. The Hungarian town of Kolontar near the toxic red sludge reservoir that flooded the area and killed at least seven people is under evacuation over fears of a new leak of the dangerous heavy metal waste, officials said. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - The cracking wall of an industrial plant reservoir appeared on the verge of collapse late Saturday, and engineers were working to blunt a possible second wave of the caustic red sludge that has already deluged several towns in western Hungary and killed seven.

Driller from Denver becomes Chile mine rescue hero (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 03:36 PM PDT

The T-130 drill operators, Jeff Hart, left, and Matt Staffel, right, both from Denver, Colorado, embrace Elizabeth Segovia, sister of trapped miner Dario Segovia Rojo at the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. A drilling rig punched through to the underground site where the 33 miners have been trapped for 66 days under the Chilean desert, raising cheers, tears and hopes. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Jeff Hart was drilling water wells for the U.S. Army's forward operating bases in Afghanistan when he got the call to fly to Chile.

US often weighed NKorea `nuke option' (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 12:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 18, 1951 file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, B-29 planes of the U.S. Far East Air Forces drop high-demolition bombs on Chinese troops in North Korea. Three months earlier, such Air Force bombers ran nuclear rehearsal runs over North Korea's capital. Sixty years after the start of the Korean War, recently released declassified documents have helped fill in the history of U.S. nuclear threats against North Korea over the decades. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force)AP - From the 1950s' Pentagon to today's Obama administration, the United States has repeatedly pondered, planned and threatened use of nuclear weapons against North Korea, according to declassified and other U.S. government documents released in this 60th-anniversary year of the Korean War.

Red sludge only latest Hungarian calamity (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 11:56 AM PDT

Footsteps pick their way through the toxic red sludge which covers a yard in Devecser, Hungary, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. The population of the neighboring town of Kolontar was evacuated early this morning, and Devecser with a population of 5,300 is also in the likely path of a new sludge deluge. Authorities asked residents to put their most essential belongings into a single bag and prepare for possible evacuation. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - The disaster that buried three Hungarian villages in caustic red sludge this week is deepening the gloom of a country gripped by recession, polarization and the near-ubiquitous feeling that its people are doomed to be victims of calamity.

Alain Ducasse's Weapon Against Poverty: Cooking Classes (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 01:35 AM PDT

Time.com - For his latest project, the world-renowned French chef is giving 15 women from Paris' poverty-stricken suburbs the chance to learn to cook like professionals -- and maybe even work in one of his restaurants

Lack of schooling seen as root of Gypsy woes (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:01 PM PDT

In this Sept. 24, 2010 photo, Roma child Abel Bot, 8, left, listens to his teacher Justin Lyot, right, after school in Choisy-le-Roi, France, south of Paris. Abel's fortunes have turned around since French police charged into his Gypsy squatter camp in the Paris suburb of Choisy-le-Roi and evicted everyone as part of President Nicolas Sarkozy's crackdown on illegal shantytowns. The action attracted attention from charities, which helped eight children sign up for school. For most, it was their first time inside a classroom. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - At age 8, Abel Bot is starting school a bit late. The past few weeks have been a crash course in how to be a schoolboy: how to hold a pencil, to raise a hand in class, to simply sit still.

Abbas seeking alternatives if Mideast talks fail (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 02:35 PM PDT

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, looks on during a group pictured with Arab leader in Sirte, Libya, Saturday, Oct.9, 2010. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Arab League leaders gathered in Libya to discuss a deepening crisis over Israel's refusal to extend a slowdown in settlement construction in the Palestinian territories. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, left, Tunisian President Zine Elabdine Bin Ali, second left,Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, second right, Bahrain''s Deputy Premier Sheikh Mohammed bin Mubarak, right. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday sought Arab backing for possible fallback options in case troubled peace talks with Israel collapse, including urging the United States to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state.

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Posted: 09 Oct 2010 04:13 PM PDT

AP - Chile mine minister says rescue likely to begin Wednesday after encasing top of escape shaft.

UN envoys end Sudan visit amid protests (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 10:11 AM PDT

Sudanese shout slogans during a government sponsored pro-unity rally in Khartoum. Clashes erupted on Saturday as opponents of Sudan's potential breakup after a referendum on southern independence set for January protested during a visit to the capital by UN ambassadors.(AFP/Ashraf Shazly)AFP - Clashes erupted on Saturday as opponents of Sudan's potential breakup after a referendum on southern independence set for January protested during a visit to the capital by UN ambassadors.

North Korea's heir to debut at giant military parade (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 05:15 PM PDT

Kim Jong-un (R), son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (not pictured), makes an appearance at an Arirang and Mass Games venue in Pyongyang October 9, 2010. REUTERS/KyodoReuters - North Korea's leader-in-waiting, the youngest son of ailing ruler Kim Jong-il, is expected to make a high-profile public debut on Sunday during the reclusive state's biggest military parade in years.

Chilean miners: A way out, at last, as drill punches through (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 08:28 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A drilling rig punched through to the underground purgatory where 33 miners have been trapped for 66 agonizing days under the Chilean desert, raising cheers, tears and hopes on Saturday.

Prostitution, Ukraine's Unstoppable Export (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 01:35 AM PDT

Time.com - Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Odessa has become a major hub for Europe's sex trade, as poverty and corruption drive young women from Ukraine, Romania and Moldova into a life of prostitution

Global doors slam shut on immigrants (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Oct 2010 06:21 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In this town of 800,000, illegal immigrants beg in the middle of streets and linger along the railway tracks that clack incessantly with boxcars ferrying food and textiles. They cook over open fires under highway overpasses. They sleep by day on dirty backpacks that bulge with a life's belongings and wait for taco stands and cantinas to close at night to plead for leftovers.

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