2010年10月26日星期二

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Iran fuels up nuclear plant as sanctions bite (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:04 PM PDT

A general view of the Russian built Bushehr nuclear power reactor in southwestern Iran March 11, 2003. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl MN/AA/FilesReuters - Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant on Tuesday, its atomic energy chief said, the last major step toward realizing its stated goal of becoming a peaceful user of nuclear energy.

Haiti cholera toll near 300, disease seen "settling" (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 03:05 PM PDT

Residents wear protective masks in St. Marc, the center of the cholera epidemic in Haiti, October 25, 2010. REUTERS/Sophia Paris/MINUSTAH/HandoutReuters - Deaths from Haiti's cholera epidemic approached 300 on Tuesday, and health experts said the illness would "settle" in the poor Caribbean nation, joining other endemic diseases like malaria and tuberculosis.

Guantanamo made Omar Khadr more dangerous, doctor says (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 03:37 PM PDT

Reuters - A Canadian who admitted he was a teen terrorist has grown more dangerous after being "marinated in radical jihadism" at the Guantanamo detention camp, a psychiatrist told a U.S. war crimes tribunal on Tuesday.

Indonesian tsunami kills 108, hundreds missing (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 07:15 AM 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)Reuters - A tsunami that pounded remote islands in western Indonesia following an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra killed more than 100 people, officials said on Tuesday, and hundreds more were missing.

Iraq's Tareq Aziz sentenced to death, Vatican appeals (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 12:24 PM PDT

Reuters - Iraq's high tribunal Tuesday passed a death sentence on Tareq Aziz, once the international face of dictator Saddam Hussein's government, over the persecution of Islamic parties, the court said.

Iran's Businesses Worry in Face of Uncertainty (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Businesses have grown dependent on official energy subsidies and, with the government mum about how it plans to cut them, many industrialists foresee really bad times ahead

EU, U.S. grapple with crunch in rare earth supplies (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:55 PM PDT

A man works at the site of a rare earth metals mine at Nancheng county, Jiangxi province October 20, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - The European Union and the United States said on Tuesday they were pressing for solutions to concerns China may be exploiting its stranglehold on rare earth metals, crucial in the making of everything from portable phones to wind turbines.

Iran acknowledges it funds Afghan government (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:12 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks 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 - Iran acknowledged Tuesday it has been sending funds to neighboring Afghanistan for years, but said the money was intended to aid reconstruction, not to buy influence in the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Canadian Gitmo prisoner said to be 'full of rage' (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 05:13 PM PDT

In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense, Canadian Omar Khadr listens to testimony by Dr. Wellner, unseen, during his trial at the Camp Justice compound of Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Tuesday Oct. 26, 2010. Eight years after he was taken to Guantanamo as a teenage prisoner, Khadr pleaded guilty Monday to killing a U.S. Army sergeant during a 2002 battle in Afghanistan, in a deal that will send him home in a year to serve his sentence. (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)AP - Jurors considering a sentence for a former teenage al-Qaida militant got a stark message Tuesday from a government-hired psychiatric expert: The last Westerner at Guantanamo is radical, angry and dangerous.

Disciplined South Africa beat Pakistan in Twenty20 (AFP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 01:17 PM PDT

South African paceman Lonwabo Tsotsobe (R), seen here delivering a ball, and off-spinner Johan Botha took three wickets apiece to help South Africa beat Pakistan by six wickets in the first of two Twenty20 matches.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)AFP - Paceman Lonwabo Tsotsobe and off-spinner Johan Botha took three wickets apiece to help South Africa beat Pakistan by six wickets in the first of two Twenty20 matches here on Tuesday.

Watchdog: Company botched Afghan police stations (AP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 05:37 PM PDT

AP - An Afghan-owned company bungled the construction of police stations there so badly that the buildings are at risk of collapse, undermining U.S.-led efforts to beef up the country's security forces, a government watchdog says.

Watchdog praises Canada stimulus, raps chopper buy (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 01:12 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada's government-spending watchdog eased political pressure on the minority Conservative government on Tuesday with a report that said a C$48 billion ($47 billion) two-year stimulus program had been well planned.

Australia unharmed by Afghan WikiLeaks: military (AFP)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 12:09 AM PDT

Australian soldiers at a forward operating base in southern Uruzgan province's Mirwais in January 2010. Australia said Tuesday that July's release by WikiLeaks of thousands of classified documents had not had a major impact on its operations in Afghanistan, as it probed fresh leaks about the war in Iraq.(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)AFP - Australia said Tuesday that July's release by WikiLeaks of thousands of classified documents had not had a major impact on its operations in Afghanistan, as it probed fresh leaks about the war in Iraq.

French strikers begin to retrench after Senate finalized pension bill (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 01:19 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Strike season in France appears to have ended with a whimper.

High Anxiety in Iran: Awaiting Economic Reform (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Ahmadinejad is on the verge of implementing a much-needed adjustment to the economy. But most Iranians are scared to death of the consequences

How Tariq Aziz's death sentence could drive a wedge into Iraqi politics (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 12:44 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Iraqis thirsting for vengeance as much as justice welcomed the death sentence Tuesday of one of Saddam Hussein’s best-known officials, Tariq Aziz.

U.S. Aid Shift Envisions Path to Self-Sufficiency (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 26 Oct 2010 03:54 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (IPS) - As part of a more general promise of reform to U.S. development policy, the U.S. Agency for International Development is poised to fundamentally alter the way it tackles poverty overseas.

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