2010年10月11日星期一

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Dramatic endgame nears for trapped Chile miners (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 04:58 PM PDT

Workers assemble machinery to be used in the rescue operation for 33 trapped miners in the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile, Monday Oct. 11, 2010. Rescuers on Monday finished reinforcing the hole drilled to bring 33 trapped miners to safety and sent a rescue capsule nearly all the way to where the men are trapped. The miners became trapped when the gold and copper mine collapsed on Aug. 5 and are expected to be rescued starting Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - They'll come up one by one in green overalls bearing their names on their chests — first the fittest, then the weakest, twisting in a steel cage that proved itself with four flawless test runs deep into the earth.

Joan Sutherland, 'voice of the century,' dies (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 04:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 10, 1987 file picture, Dame Joan Sutherland, left, and Luciano Pavarotti sing a scene from Gaetano Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Sutherland, a former small town secretarial school student whose mastery of tone, astonishing range and vocal control vaulted her into the top echelons of opera, died Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010 at 83. (AP Photo/Osamu Honda, File)AP - Joan Sutherland's radiant soprano stretched effortlessly over more than three octaves, with a purity of tone that made her one of the most celebrated opera singers of all time.

US rescuers may have killed Afghanistan aid worker (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 04:03 PM PDT

In this undated black and white photo made available Saturday Oct. 9, 2010, from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) showing kidnapped British aid worker Linda Norgrove, who was being held by Afghan captors, who has been killed during a rescue attempt by NATO forces. The aid worker, identified as Linda Norgrove, was killed Friday Oct. 8, 2010, night by her captors during an operation to free her, Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement from London. (AP Photo / FCO) ** NO SALES **AP - At first, NATO blamed a Taliban bomb for the death of a captive British aid worker during an American rescue attempt in eastern Afghanistan.

8 police killed in ambush in northern Mexico (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 02:37 PM PDT

A medal of the Zetas drug cartel is displayed in the Drugs Museum at the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in Mexico City in this August 18, 2010 file photo. A small group of elite army deserters originally hired as hitmen for a top drug cartel have morphed into one of the biggest crime organizations in Mexico. A simple mention of their one-letter name, the Zs or Zetas, strikes fear across Mexico and Central America. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte/Files (MEXICO - Tags: CRIME LAW SOCIETY CIVIL UNREST)AP - Eight police officers have been killed in an ambush in northern Mexico.

Return to Baghdad: A Near Kidnapping Outside Karrada (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 03:20 PM PDT

Time.com - After a surprisingly uneventful tour of Iraq, TIME's former bureau chief and a former U.S. soldier run into potential trouble

Hostage 'may have been killed by US grenade' (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 04:19 PM PDT

British aid worker Linda Norgrove, pictured here, who died in a failed US operation in Afghanistan may have been killed by a grenade detonated by her rescuers and not by her kidnappers, Prime Minister David Cameron said.(AFP/HO)AFP - A British aid worker who died in an attempt to rescue her from her Taliban kidnappers in Afghanistan may have been killed by a grenade detonated by US troops, Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday.

Iran's hardliners target moderate stronghold (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 01:52 PM PDT

Israeli vehicles (R) patrol the Lebanon-Israel border, as seen from the Lebanese village of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon, as U.N. peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) in Lebanon patrol near the border on the Lebanese side October 11, 2010. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to visit Lebanon from October 13-14 and tour villages in southern Lebanon. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)AP - Iran's leader issued a decree Monday paving the way for a state takeover of the country's largest private university, in a crushing blow to the nation's moderates.

New museum brings lessons of genocide to Mexico (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 04:18 PM PDT

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, left, inaugurates the Memory and Tolerance Museum together with the museum's director Sharon Zaga Mograbi in Mexico City, Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. The new museum takes visitors through chilling displays on the Nazi Holocaust and how it was seen from Mexico, then continues through other horrors, including the slaughters of Armenians, Tutsis and Sudanese. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP - A new museum is bringing the lessons of the Holocaust and its grim cousins to new generations of Mexicans — and reminding them the intolerance that feeds genocide can even grow close to home.

France arrests Rwandan war crimes suspect (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 02:08 PM PDT

The International Criminal Court said that Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana, seen here in 2004, wanted for warcrimes and crimes against humanity in Democratic Republic of Congo, was arrested in Paris.(AFP/Interpol/File)AFP - Police in France on Monday arrested Rwandan rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana, wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the French government said.

Obama, Cameron call for review over slain worker (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 04:01 PM PDT

AP - The White House says President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron agree their nations must investigate what happened during an American rescue attempt in which a captive British aid worker was killed in Afghanistan.

New Australia probe into 'death by dingo' case (AFP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 12:37 AM PDT

This photo taken in August 1980 shows Lindy Chamberlain holding her daughter Azaria on Ayers Rock. Australia will hold a new inquest into the death of the child to re-examine claims she was snatched and killed by a dingo at Ayers Rock, now known by its traditional Aboriginal name Uluru, in 1980 her father said on Monday.(AFP/File/News Ltd)AFP - Australia has launched a new inquiry into the death of baby Azaria Chamberlain to re-examine claims she was snatched and killed by a dingo at Uluru, or Ayers Rock, in 1980, officials said on Monday.

Chile mine rescue nears after an engineering showcase (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 02:08 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Engineers and technicians emerged victorious from the San Jose mine today after finishing a 33-day project to drill a half-mile-deep rescue shaft for the Chilean miners who, all going well, will be brought to service for a joyful reunion with families tomorrow night.

Return to Baghdad: The Slowest Car Chase in History (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 03:20 PM PDT

Time.com - On his last day in Baghdad, an ex-U.S. soldier wandering the streets of the city is followed by suspicious-looking men

Hungary arrests executive connected to red sludge spill (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 12:03 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Hungarian police today arrested the managing director of the aluminum company behind the spill of toxic sludge that killed eight people, drove dozens from their homes and threatened to pollute the Danube River.

HIV Patients Team Up to Make Treatment Cheaper (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 11 Oct 2010 01:59 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - TETE, Oct 11 (IRIN/PlusNews) - For HIV patients in Africa, monthly trips to refill antiretroviral (ARV) prescriptions cost time and money that may be in short supply. But a new strategy being pioneered in Mozambique is easing the burden of monthly refills for patients and the health system.

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