2010年12月21日星期二

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Iraq approves new government with Maliki as PM (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:17 PM PST

Reuters - Iraq's parliament approved Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and his new government on Tuesday, nine months after an inconclusive election left politics in limbo and delayed investments to rebuild the country after years of war.

Suspected Rome bomb contained no explosive: police (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:23 PM PST

Carabinieri carry equipments outside the underground train station where an explosive device was found, in Rome, December 21, 2010. REUTERS/Alessandro BianchiReuters - A suspected bomb was found on an empty underground train in Rome on Tuesday but police said it lacked a detonator and tests showed it contained no explosive.

European freeze haunts Christmas for airlines, shops (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 11:59 AM PST

A car is stuck in a ditch along a snow-covered road at Fechain near Cambrai December 20, 2010, after heavy snow fell in Northern France. Heavy snow and frigid temperatures caused further disruption across northern Europe on Monday stranding travellers, snarling traffic and shutting schools. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol (FRANCE - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TRANSPORT IMAGES OF THE DAY BUSINESS)Reuters - Northern Europe's big freeze wreaked more havoc on Tuesday as some airports failed to cope with the snow and retailers struggled to make up lost sales in the few shopping days left before Christmas.

China urges North Korea to accept nuclear inspectors (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:52 PM PST

A South Korean soldier talks to residents gathered in a bunker ahead of a live-fire exercise on Yeonpyeong island. A wary South Korea stayed on guard against North Korea Tuesday, with jet fighters and warships deployed, a day after the communist state backed off from threats of attack over a live-fire exercise.(AFP/File/Lee Hoon-Goo)Reuters - China on Tuesday urged North Korea to follow through on its offer to allow U.N. nuclear monitors into the country as a way to alleviate international tensions during a standoff with South Korea.

Kindergarten near-miss highlights Gaza risks (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 10:19 AM PST

A Palestinian man is seen through a water pipe as he gestures while removing rubble after an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 21, 2010. Israel carried out a series of air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian officials and witnesses said, after militants from the Hamas-ruled territory fired rockets into southern Israel. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu MustafaReuters - A rocket fired from Gaza exploded near an Israeli kindergarten Tuesday as cross-border violence surged in the approach to the second anniversary of Israel's war in the Hamas Islamist-run enclave.

Iraq: Preparing for the Return of Moqtada al-Sadr (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:20 PM PST

Time.com - The Iran-based cleric remains wildly popular in Iraq, which makes the democratic process a vehicle for his ambitions. Washington may simply have to get used to him

Adoptive parents arrive in Haiti to fetch children (AFP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:27 PM PST

A French woman sits with her adopted Haitian child at the residence of the French ambassador in Port-au-Prince before leaving with their adoptive parents for France. French families arrived in Haiti late Tuesday to fetch a group of Haitian children they adopted in the wake of a devastating earthquake that ravaged the impoverished country nearly a year ago.(AFP/Thony Belizaire)AFP - French families arrived in Haiti late Tuesday to fetch a group of Haitian children they adopted in the wake of a devastating earthquake that ravaged the impoverished country nearly a year ago.

Stark challenges ahead for Iraq's new government (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:49 PM PST

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the Iraqi lawmakers before submitting his new government for approval in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Iraqi lawmakers unanimously approved on Tuesday a new government to be headed by incumbent Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, ending nine months of political deadlock that threatened to stall economic development and suck the country back into sectarian violence. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq seated a freely elected government Tuesday after nine months of haggling, bringing together the main ethnic and religious groups in a fragile balance that could make it difficult to rebuild a nation devastated by war as American troops prepare for their final withdrawal.

Death toll from Mexico crude-oil blast rises to 29 (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:51 PM PST

People bury a victim of the oil pipeline explosion in a cemetery in San Geronimo, Mexico, Monday Dec. 20, 2010. The Sunday explosion in the nearby town of San Martin Texmelucan laid waste to parts of the central Mexican city, incinerating people, cars, houses and trees as gushing crude turned streets into flaming rivers. At least 28 people were killed, 13 of them children, in a disaster authorities blame on oil thieves. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - The death toll from a massive oil pipeline explosion that laid waste to parts of a central Mexican city has risen to 29.

UN: 2.8M at risk if violence breaks out in Suday (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:20 PM PST

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2010 file photo, a southern Sudanese woman registers to vote in the town of Melut. The U.N. is planning for the possibility that 2.8 million people will be displaced in Sudan if fighting breaks out over the south's January independence referendum, according to an internal report reviewed by The Associated Press on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Pete Muller, File)AP - The U.N. is planning for the possibility that 2.8 million people will be displaced in Sudan if fighting breaks out over the south's January independence referendum, according to an internal report reviewed by The Associated Press on Tuesday.

SKorean Christmas tree sign of new propaganda war (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 04:47 PM PST

A tourist touches ribbons with messages wishing for reunification of the two Koreas tied to a barded wire fence at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak gathered his national security leaders for strategic talks Tuesday as troops braced for possible North Korean retaliation a day after conducting artillery drills on Yeonpyeong island the North bombed last month. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - As troops stood guard and a choir sang carols Tuesday, South Koreans lit a massive steel Christmas tree that overlooks the world's most heavily armed border and is within sight of atheist North Korea.

Canada's TD Bank bets $6 billion on U.S. auto lending (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:31 PM PST

Reuters - Toronto-Dominion Bank is buying Chrysler Financial for $6.3 billion, the second time in a week that a Canadian lender has placed a big bet on the U.S. economic recovery.

Indian doctor wins compensation over terror charge (AFP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:02 AM PST

Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef with his wife and daughter at Brisbane International Airport on December 17. An Indian doctor wrongly detained on terror charges by Australian police three years ago Tuesday raised the prospect of moving back to the country, after winning compensation from the government.(AFP/File/Eddie Safarik)AFP - An Indian doctor wrongly detained on terror charges by Australian police three years ago Tuesday raised the prospect of moving back to the country, after winning compensation from the government.

South Korea's mixed messages to North: anger, and a Christmas tree (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:36 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Christmas may be the last thing on the minds of many North Koreans this year, but that didn’t stop their neighbors to the south on Tuesday from sending a message designed to raise their spirits.

Somali Militants Suspected in Kenya Blast (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:20 PM PST

Time.com - A grenade detonated at a bus station, possibly by accident, is viewed as part of a campaign of Christmas terror

Belarus risks alienating both Russia, EU in wake of political crackdown (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:58 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Alexander Lukashenko appears to be completely secure in the massive â€" yet highly suspect â€" electoral landslide Sunday that returned him to a fourth five-year term as supreme leader of Belarus with 80 percent of the popular vote.

Somalia: All to Play For in Unifying Football Tournament (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:10 AM PST

OneWorld.net - NAIROBI, Dec 21 (IRIN) - Holding a football tournament with teams from 15 regions of Somalia is an achievement in itself - but the organizers hope it will do more than only bring players together.

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