2010年10月29日星期五

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Koreas exchange gunfire at land border (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:17 AM PDT

North Korean soldiers march during a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. This year's celebration comes less than two weeks after Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top post and the news that his 20-something son would succeed his father and grandfather as leader. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)Reuters - North and South Korea exchanged gunfire across their heavily armed land border on Friday, the South's military said, despite an apparent thaw in tensions on the divided peninsula in the past few months.

China, Japan ties strained over islands at summit (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 08:02 AM PDT

China's Premier Wen Jiabao (C) arrives at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi October 28, 2010. Wen is in Hanoi for the East Asia Summit from October 28 to 30. REUTERS/KhamReuters - Japan Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will not hold a one-on-one meeting intended to mend ties at an Asian summit as Chinese anger flared over an over-lapping claim in the resource-rich East China Sea.

Big rally by Islamic Jihad in Gaza, joined by Hamas (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 07:45 AM PDT

Reuters - Tens of thousands of supporters of the militant Islamic Jihad movement rallied in the streets of Gaza on Friday, chanting "Death to America" and "Death to Israel."

Iran ready for nuclear talks after November 10 (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 11:48 AM PDT

Iranian workers stand in front of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, about 1,200 km (746 miles) south of Tehran October 26, 2010. REUTERS/Mehr News Agency/Majid AsgaripourReuters - Iran is ready to hold its first talks with world powers in more than a year about its disputed nuclear program any time after November 10, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Friday.

Last chance for Brazil's Serra in TV debate (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 06:10 AM PDT

This combination photograph shows Brazilian presidential candidates Dilma Rousseff (L) of the ruling Worker's Party and Jose Serra of the PSDB party attending ampaign rallies in Sao Paulo in October 2010. REUTERS/Paulo WhitakerReuters - Brazilian presidential candidate Jose Serra has a last chance to win over voters in a televised debate on Friday night after a new poll showed him trailing by double digits ahead of Sunday's runoff election.

Strained Relations: Liberia's President and Her Stepson (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:35 PM PDT

Time.com - A huge drug bust in May was good news for Liberia but it also focused attention on President Sirleaf's strained relations with her country's security chief -- her stepson

Berlusconi amid scandal: 'I love women' (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:05 PM PDT

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures while speaking during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. EU leaders on Friday agreed on tougher rules for spendthrift nations whose overspending threatens Europe's single currency and risks triggering a debt crisis. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)AP - Premier Silvio Berlusconi issued an unapologetic defense of his lifestyle Friday amid the latest scandal involving his personal life, admitting that he intervened to secure the release from police custody of a 17-year-old Moroccan girl who had previously been at his villa.

Explosive packages reflect new Yemen terror threat (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 05:02 PM PDT

In this image taken from video, showing the international airport at Sana, Yemen, on Friday Oct. 29, 2010, after news was released of a credible terror plot from a Yemeni based group. A foreign intelligence service is thought to have alerted authorities to a possible terrorist threat in the U.S., prompting investigators to search air-cargo containers which unearthed explosive devices aboard aeroplanes in Dubai and Britain, in a terror threat believed to originate in Yemen. (AP Photo/APTN) ** TV OUT **AP - The discovery of two explosive-laden packages sent from Yemen and aimed at U.S. and Western interests represents a new escalation in the terror threat emanating from this violence-wracked, poverty-stricken Mideast country.

Brazilian candidate's key asset: a nod from Lula (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:36 PM PDT

A child stands at his house entrance next to a sign of Workers Party's presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff at the Dona Martha slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. Rousseff will face Jose Serra, presidential candidate of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party, PSDB, in an election runoff Sunday.(AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - Eight years ago, raw sewage ran through the streets in Patricia Silva's neighborhood and she could find only intermittent work cleaning houses. Now the streets are clean and Silva, with a steady job as a hotel maid, has clawed her way above the poverty line.

Morocco suspends Al-Jazeera TV: official (AFP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:26 PM PDT

The director of Al Jazeera Morocco, Abdelkader Kharroub, sits in an office of the news channel's headquarters in Rabat. Morocco has suspended the operations of the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television news channel in Rabat and withdrawn the accreditations of its staff, the communications ministry said Friday.(AFP/Abdelhak Senna)AFP - Morocco has suspended the operations of the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television news channel in Rabat and withdrawn the accreditations of its staff, the communications ministry said Friday.

Storms crippling tsunami aid to Indonesia islands (AP)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:26 PM PDT

A tsunami survivor walks in his village which was hit by Monday's earthquake-triggered tsunami at Munte, North Pagai island, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. The toll from the tsunami rose to more than 400 on Friday as officials found more bodies, and about 300 people were still missing, according to a provincial disaster management center official. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)AP - A group of private aid workers battled fierce swells and driving rain that kept most craft on shore Friday, managing to deliver food and other supplies to desperate survivors on the islands hardest hit by a tsunami that killed more than 400 people.

Canadian provinces push Ottawa to block Potash bid (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 01:03 PM PDT

Reuters - Potash Corp's home province is ratcheting up pressure on the Canadian government to block BHP Billiton's hostile approach, while the company still insists that rival bids could emerge.

Clinton in Guam to meet US troops (AFP)

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 11:46 PM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2nd L) poses for photographs with US troops at Andersen Air Force Base on the island of Guam. Clinton arrived for a brief stopover in the US Pacific territory of Guam to meet US troops and local Governor Felix Camacho(AFP/Pool/Evan Vucci)AFP - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived for a brief stopover in the US Pacific territory of Guam Friday to meet US troops and local Governor Felix Camacho.

How Germany's Merkel convinced EU to change rules after the Greek crisis (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:45 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - German diplomacy, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, appears to have won an important victory today as European Union leaders agreed to a German-French proposal that could have brought a bitter crisis among EU states.

Russia Returns to Afghanistan for a Joint Drug Raid (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:35 PM PDT

Time.com - Moscow uses the war on drugs as its pathway back to scene of one of its most humiliating defeats

Russia to drop Microsoft in quest for 'national' operating system (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:32 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Russian government has admitted that it's spending almost $5 million to develop a "national" operating system, based on the open source Linux OS.

The Year of the Indian-American Candidate (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:59 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WICHITA, Oct 29 (New America Media) - If he wins on November 2, Raj Goyle would make history as the first-ever Indian American elected to Congress from Kansas. But Goyle doesn’t want to focus on that.

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