2010年11月11日星期四

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Iraq breaks impasse as Maliki to form government (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 01:57 PM PST

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki speaks during a news conference after meeting Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak at the presidential palace in Cairo October 20, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Shi'ite Nuri al-Maliki was re-nominated as Iraqi prime minister on Thursday as fractious politicians ended an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian warfare.

Clinton offers Netanyahu security pledge on peace talks (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 03:42 PM PST

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that Israel's security requirements would be fully taken into account in any peace deal with the Palestinians.

Top Russian spy defects after betraying ring in U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:47 PM PST

A billboard with a view of Moscow's Kremlin reflects in a puddle as Muscovites walk past it in the centre of Moscow in 2006. A top Russian spy turned double agent helped Washington crack a major Moscow spy ring that sparked the worst post-Cold War espionage crisis between the two countries, media and a lawmaker said Thursday.(AFP/File/Denis Sinyakov)Reuters - The head of Russia's deep cover U.S. spying operations has betrayed the network and defected, a Russian paper said Thursday, potentially giving the West one of its biggest intelligence coups since the end of the Cold War.

Taiwan ex-president gets 19 years in prison (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 05:45 PM PST

Reuters - Taiwan's supreme court sentenced ex-president Chen Shui-bian, an anti-China firebrand whose rhetoric enraged Beijing and irked Washington, and his wife to 19 years in prison for bribery, a court official said on Friday.

Haiti cholera toll at 800, U.S. risk seen low (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 04:40 PM PST

A Haitian resident suffering from cholera waits for help on a street at the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince November 10, 2010. REUTERS/St-Felix EvensReuters - The death toll in Haiti's cholera epidemic climbed on Thursday to 800, according to an American medical expert, but U.S. health authorities said the risk of widespread transmission to the United States was low, given good sanitation there.

Targeted by the Taliban, Pakistan's Sufi Muslims Fight Back (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 02:15 PM PST

Time.com - A mass movement sees itself as locked in a struggle for the soul of Pakistan, but declines to resort to violence as its enemies have done

APNewsBreak: EU in Kosovo probes organ trafficking (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:28 PM PST

AP - A European Union prosecutor has named seven people as suspects in an international organ trafficking network, according to the indictment obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

Palestinian held for Facebook criticism of Islam (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 04:03 PM PST

In this Nov. 10, 2010 photo, Palestinian boys look at websites on the Internet in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. A mysterious blogger who set off an uproar in the Arab world by claiming he was God and hurling insults at the Prophet Muhammad is now behind bars, caught in a sting that used Facebook to track him down. The case of the unlikely apostate, a shy barber from Qalqilya, is highlighting the limits of tolerance in the Western-backed Palestinian Authority — and illustrating a new trend by authorities in the Arab world to mine social media for evidence. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)AP - A mysterious blogger who set off an uproar in the Arab world by claiming he was God and hurling insults at the Prophet Muhammad is now behind bars — caught in a sting that used Facebook to track him down.

Study: 100,000 Hispanics left Arizona after SB1070 (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:20 PM PST

FILE - This May 14, 2010 file photo shows Jessica Colotl, a college senior, talking to reporters in Atlanta. A jury has found Colotl guilty of driving without a license in a case that sparked a larger debate over illegal immigration. But the Cobb County jurors acquitted her Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 of a second charge of impeding traffic. (AP Photo/Kate Brumback, File)AP - A new study suggests there may be 100,000 fewer Hispanics in Arizona than there were before the debate over the state's tough new immigration law earlier this year.

Iran FM holds talks in Nigeria after illegal arms shipment (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 03:59 PM PST

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, pictured on November 7, held talks in Nigeria on Thursday, a spokesman said, following the recent discovery of an illegal arms shipment in Lagos believed to have been loaded in Iran.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki held talks in Nigeria on Thursday, a spokesman said, following the recent discovery of an illegal arms shipment in Lagos believed to have been loaded in Iran.

Philippine volcano spews ash but no eruption seen (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:08 PM PST

An Indonesian farmer gathers grass to feed livestock as Mount Merapi spews ash and dust in central Java. Indonesia's most active volcano has sent clouds of ash high into the sky after a series of major eruptions, with an alert status remaining in force.(AFP/File/Sonny Tumbelaka)AP - An explosion of ash and smoke from the rumbling Bulusan volcano in the central Philippines has jolted residents awake but scientists say an eruption is not imminent.

Parties deadlocked in new Canadian opinion poll (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 06:26 AM PST

Reuters - There's little to separate Canada's two main political parties in an opinion poll released on Thursday, making the outcome of a new federal election far too close to call.

Calls to inspect A380 Rolls-Royce engines (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:36 AM PST

File photo shows a visitor looking at a Rolls Royce Trent 900 jet engine at the Farnborough Air Show. The European Aviation Safety Agency has ordered airlines to carry out new inspections of the Rolls-Royce engines on the Airbus A380 superjumbo after analysis of one which blew up on a Qantas flight.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - The European Aviation Safety Agency has ordered airlines to carry out new inspections of the Rolls-Royce engines on the Airbus A380 superjumbo after analysis of one which blew up on a Qantas flight.

Tumultuous parliamentary session threatens Iraq's fragile, new government (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 02:25 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Iraq’s Parliament ended a political crisis Thursday that left the country without a new government for a record eight months, but the tumultuous first session laid bare the deep divisions with the emerging governing coalition.

Britain's Student Riots: A Sign of Things to Come? (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 02:15 PM PST

Time.com - Brits have stayed fairly calm since severe austerity cuts were announced last month. But Wednesday's student riots have some wondering whether more protesting -- and more violence -- is on the way

Pakistani Taliban go for 'the jugular' with attack on Karachi police compound (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 02:14 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Taliban fighters attacked an anti-terrorism police compound today, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 100 here in Pakistan's largest city, according to police and hospital sources.

Investigation: Suicide Rates Soaring Among WWII Vets (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 04:25 PM PST

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 11 (New America Media/Bay Citizen) - We call them the Greatest Generation of military veterans, who saved the world for democracy by defeating Germany and Japan and then returned home to build the United States into a superpower after World War II.

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