2010年11月26日星期五

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China urges Korean calm, warns over naval drills (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 04:11 PM PST

Reuters - China said on Friday it was determined to prevent an escalation of this week's violence on the Korean peninsula but warned against military acts near its coast as U.S. and South Korean forces prepared for exercises in the Yellow Sea.

Federal troops and police prepare Rio slum offensive (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 04:38 PM PST

Reuters - Backed by armored personnel carriers and 800 soldiers, police prepared a major offensive on Friday to occupy one of Rio de Janeiro's largest slums where heavily armed drug traffickers bunkered up after days of violence.

Teenage boys survive 50 days adrift in South Pacific (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 09:01 AM PST

Reuters - Three teenage boys set adrift for 50 days in a small boat in the South Pacific survived on coconuts, a seagull they managed to catch and by drinking rain and then sea water, rescuers said on Friday.

Where do I vote? Much confusion clouds Haiti polls (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 01:33 PM PST

Reuters - Canaan, a 10-month-old tent and tarpaulin settlement of thousands of earthquake survivors carpeting bare hillsides north of Haiti's capital, has a prefabricated police station, a tin-roof meeting center, tent schools and churches, and even a barber shop.

Voters hammer Irish government (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:57 PM PST

Reuters - Ireland's government saw its parliamentary majority cut to two on Friday, as voters in one of the ruling party's heartlands punished it for seeking an EU/IMF bailout and instead backed nationalists Sinn Fein.

With World Cup and Olympics Approaching, Rio de Janeiro Takes On Gangs (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 03:50 PM PST

Time.com - With the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics looming, Rio de Janeiro begins an onslaught against gangs who have held it hostage for years. Can it defeat them?

Bosnian entities' leaders agree to get closer to EU (AFP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 03:32 PM PST

Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik is seen at a polling station in Banja Luka on October 2010 in the Serb-run Republika Sprska. Dodik, who was elected president of the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska in October polls, met earlier with Zlatko Lagumdzija, the head of the Social Democratic party (SDP), which won the election in the Muslim-Croat entity.(AFP/File)AFP - The leaders of Bosnia's Serb and Muslim-Croat entities edged closer Friday to forming a government with the goal to get their country closer to the European Union.

Egyptians protest police violence before election (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 01:12 PM PST

Passsengers on a bus watch as activists march through the low-income neighborhood of Imbaba, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. Egyptian activists organized several small 'Day of Anger' rallies across the country to protest police violence during the parliamentary election campaign, with the rallies organised via Facebook and Twitter and locations announced at the last minute via text messages. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - Egyptian activists held several rallies across the country Friday to protest police violence, especially against candidates running in this weekend's parliamentary election.

Schools in Ciudad Juarez targeted by extortionists (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 05:33 PM PST

AP - Authorities in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez are investigating extortion threats posted outside local schools demanding payments from teachers, a state official said Friday.

Egypt Facebook pages vanish before vote: members (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:29 PM PST

Supporters of former head of the U.N. nuclear agency Mohamed ElBaradei (pictured on posters) chant slogans during a rally in Fayoum, about 100 km (62 miles) south of Cairo, June 4, 2010. REUTERS/Asmaa WaguihReuters - Two Egyptian opposition pages on the social network site Facebook were deleted from the Internet ahead of Egypt's parliamentary election on Sunday then restored after discussions with the site's administrators, web activists who run the pages said on Friday.

Chinese AIDS activist to attend Nobel ceremony (AFP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 04:03 PM PST

Beijing-based AIDS campaigner Wan Yanhai speaks at his office in the capital in 2008. The Chinese activist said Friday he will attend next month's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Liu Xiaobo, slamming Beijing for refusing to let the dissident or his wife accept it in person.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)AFP - A Chinese AIDS activist said Friday he will attend next month's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for Liu Xiaobo, slamming Beijing for refusing to let the dissident or his wife accept it in person.

Tax deal could help Canada government avoid defeat (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 12:07 PM PST

Reuters - Canada's minority Conservative government is working on a possible tax deal with the influential province of Quebec that could help Prime Minister Stephen Harper stay in power longer than expected.

3rd blast rocks NZ mine where 29 workers died (AP)

Posted: 25 Nov 2010 09:50 PM PST

A specially designed jet engine is unloaded at Hokitika Airport, New Zealand, Friday, Nov. 26, 2010, to be transported to the mine at Greymouth to aid with clearing toxic gas from the mine where 29 miners are trapped and are feared dead following an explosion nearly a week ago. Search teams have been unable to approach the mine because of explosive methane and other toxic gases. The trapped miners are thought to be dead following an underground explosion on Wednesday. (AP Photo/NZPA, Ross Setford) NEW ZEALAND OUTAP - Another underground blast ripped through a New Zealand coal mine on Friday almost a week to the minute after an earlier explosion caused the country's worst mining disaster in decades, with 29 killed.

Amid violent flareup in Rio, Brazil defends its security strategy (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:07 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - With more than two dozen killed in a week across Rio de Janeiro in gang-related violence, reporters pressed the visibly weary Rio State Security Secretary José Mariano Beltrame on the efficacy of an aggressive two-year-old security program: Are criminals being effectively vanquished or just changing their addresses?

Art Stolen by the Nazis Now Cataloged Online in Database (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 03:50 PM PST

Time.com - During World War II, the Nazis pulled off the biggest art heist in history, looting thousands of paintings worth untold millions. Now, thanks to a newly available online database, some of them can be returned

Wikileaks release: in Russia, fear of damage to future US relations (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 26 Nov 2010 12:32 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Wikileaks is about to drop its biggest-ever bombshell â€" some 2.7-million confidential diplomatic cables from US embassies around the world â€" and, although US credibility is likely to take the worst hit, much of the collateral damage may end up in Moscow.

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