2010年10月25日星期一

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Canadian at Gitmo pleads guilty to all charges (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

** CORRECTS SLUG TO GUANTANAMO WAR CRIMES AND ADDS LOCATION ** In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official Capt Michael Grant, USAF swears in Omar Khadr, right, at the Camp Justice compound of Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Monday Oct. 25, 2010. Khadr pleaded guilty under oath before military commission Judge Patrick Parrish, rear, to five charges including murder in a plea agreement with military authorities. On Khadr's right, Canadian lawyers Dennis Edney and Nathan Whitling, with military legal defense LTC Jon Jackson, USA and Maj Matthew Schwartz, USAF.(AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)AP - Eight years after he was taken to Guantanamo as a teenage prisoner, a Canadian pleaded guilty Monday to killing a U.S. Army sergeant during a battle in Afghanistan, in a deal that will send him home in a year to serve his sentence.

WikiLeaks docs raise questions of Obama policies (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks at a Get Out the Vote Rally for Minnesota's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Mark Dayton, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - President Barack Obama stepped into the White House pledging to end George W. Bush's gloves-off approach to interrogations and detention — but a flood of leaked documents suggests that some old habits were hard to break.

Chilean miners honored in ceremony, football game (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 01:56 PM PDT

Chilean miner Jorge Galleguillos (R), one of the 33 recently rescued from the San Jose mine, is shown back at the mine for a Mass on October 17, 2010. Thirteen survivors, accompanied by partners and children, took part in a private ceremony after visiting the tent city where relatives refused to give up hope, waiting anxiously for 10 long weeks for their safe return.(AFP/Claudio Santana)AP - Thirty-three miners rescued after more than two months trapped underground were given a heroes' welcome at the national palace Monday by President Sebastian Pinera, who embraced the men just as he did when they emerged one by one from the depths.

Haiti official: Cholera outbreak is easing (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 01:51 PM PDT

A relative pushes a broken car carrying the coffin containing the remains of Tikont Dolamard, 36, who died of cholera in Dessalines, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010. A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts hoping to keep the disease from reaching the camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince. Health officials said at least 250 people had died and there are over 3,000 sick. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - A cholera outbreak showed signs of easing Monday after killing more than 250 people in a sweep through rural Haiti, but experts warned that the earthquake-devastated country's first bout with the disease in decades is far from over.

Karzai says his office gets cash from Iran, US (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 03:30 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. Karzai told reporters that once or twice a year Iran gives his office $700,000 to $975,000 for official presidential expenses. He said the U.S. has known about the Iranian assistance for years and that Washington also gives the palace 'bags of money.' (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged on Monday that he receives millions of dollars in cash from Iran, adding that Washington gives him "bags of money" too because his office lacks funds.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai Taking Money from Tehran (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Time.com - Reports of Tehran sending bags of cash to the Afghan President are greeted with a shrug -- after all, Iran has always been a key supporter of the Karzai regime

Italian seaside town bans 'scanty clothing' (AFP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 04:13 PM PDT

A fashion model shows off a miniskirt. Skimpily-clothed women in the town of Castellammare di Stabia in southern Italy are to be fined by the police under new regulations banning AFP - Skimpily-clothed women in the town of Castellammare di Stabia in southern Italy are to be fined by the police under new regulations banning "very scanty clothing" that were approved late Monday.

Palestinians, Jews race to plant West Bank (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 01:31 PM PDT

Palestinians pick olives from trees farmers say were cut overnight by Jewish settlers, nearby the Jewish settlement of Eli in the northern West Bank village of A Laban al-Sharkiyeh, Saturday, Oct 23, 2010. Vandals chopped down around 20 Palestinian-owned olive trees in the West Bank overnight Saturday, the latest in a string of attacks against Palestinian property during the important autumn harvest season. 'We found our trees sawed when we came to pick them this morning,' said farmer Raja Aweis, 42. A military spokesman said police were investigating. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - Olive tree by olive tree, Palestinian farmers and Jewish settlers are competing over the rocky hills of the West Bank, planting more of the gnarled evergreens to strengthen their hold on the land. Now in harvest season, the battle gets rough, with orchards robbed, vandalized and burned.

Chile's Pinera apologizes to Germany for slogan (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 02:47 PM PDT

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera, right, signs the golden book as his German counterpart Christian Wulff looks on at the presidential residence Bellevue palace with in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. Pinera visits Germany to thank for the German help with the rescue of 33 miners of the San Jose Mine. (AP Photo/Kai-Uwe Knoth)AP - Chile's president is apologizing for writing a slogan associated with Nazi Germany in a government guest book during a visit to Berlin.

Report: terror suspects in Morocco suffer abuse (AP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 02:26 PM PDT

AP - Humans Rights Watch said in a report released Monday that suspects detained under Morocco's counterterrorism laws are routinely subjected to human rights violations.

Major 7.7 quake strikes Indonesia (AFP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 04:39 PM PDT

A major 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia Monday, seismologists said, but there were no reports of damage or casualties and an earlier tsunami warning was lifted.(AFP/File/Sam Yeh)AFP - A major 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia on Monday, seismologists said, but there were no reports of damage or casualties and an earlier tsunami warning was lifted.

Canada province says its BHP-Potash stance is firm (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 02:37 PM PDT

Reuters - Saskatchewan's opposition to BHP's bid for Potash Corp is based on the conviction that a takeover would hurt the Canadian province, its top elected official said on Monday, not on the hope of squeezing concessions out of BHP.

Shoe-hurler targets ex-Australian PM Howard on live TV (AFP)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 12:37 PM PDT

An anti-Iraq war activist dramatically hurled shoes at former Australian prime minister John Howard, pictured in September 2010, on live national TV on Monday, mimicking the famous protest directed at ex-US leader George W. Bush.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - An anti-Iraq war activist dramatically hurled shoes at former Australian prime minister John Howard on live national TV on Monday, mimicking the famous protest directed at ex-US leader George W. Bush.

Pension-reform opposition continues in France despite riot police (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Oct 2010 04:35 PM PDT

A man walks past piles of garbage in Marseille, southern France, Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. France's massive strikes are costing the national economy up to euro400 million ($562 million) each day, the French finance minister said Monday, as workers continued to block ports, oil refineries and trash incineration plants to protest a plan to raise the retirement age to 62. Nearly 10,000 tons of garbage have been piling up in southern Marseille and its suburbs. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)Time.com - Last week, the French President sent police in to break up strikes at oil refineries in the hopes of taming protests against his new pension plans. But this week, the opposition to the reforms continues

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