2011年1月3日星期一

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Pakistani president vows support for embattled PM (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:12 PM PST

Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani addresses a news conference at the chancellery in Berlin, December 1, 2009. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschReuters - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari expressed full confidence on Monday in the country's beleaguered prime minister, who is scrambling to prevent his government from falling after a key coalition partner quit.

Australian floods submerge towns (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 12:27 PM PST

Buildings are submerged in floodwaters in a neighborhood in Rockhampton, Queensland January 2, 2011. REUTERS/Daniel MunozReuters - Military aircraft ferried supplies to an Australian town slowly sinking beneath swollen rivers on Monday, as record flooding in the country's northeast severed roads and ports, curtailing coal exports and devastating farmland.

U.S. renews Mideast peace bid after holiday break (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 06:05 AM PST

Palestinian women mourn during the funeral of Ahmed Muslamani in the West Bank town of Tubas, north of Nablus, January 2, 2011. REUTERS/Abed Omar QusiniReuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday senior U.S. officials will return to the Middle East this week to renew peacemaking efforts with Israel and the Palestinians.

At least 43 African migrants drown off Yemen coast (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 12:39 PM PST

Reuters - At least 43 African migrants trying to reach Yemen by boat have drowned in heavy seas off the coast and a second boat with up to 40 Ethiopians aboard is missing, Yemen's Interior Ministry said on Monday.

Fleeing Violent Husbands Lands Afghan Women in Prison (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:15 PM PST

Time.com - Even in parts of Afghanistan free of Taliban influence, women are forced into abusive marriages to settle feuds, and incur the wrath of the state if they run away

England's bowlers on top in final Ashes Test (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:09 PM PST

Australian batsmen Michael Hussey (L) and Steve Smith (R) take a run on day two of the fifth Ashes cricket Test against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground on January 4, 2011.(AFP/Greg Wood)AFP - England took a grip on the final Ashes Test with four Australian wickets during the extended second morning session at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday.

Egypt's Pope says state must address Copts woes (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:03 PM PST

Ahmed el-Tayeb the grand sheik of Cairo's Al-Azhar, the pre-eminent theological institute of Sunni Islam, left, and Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic church, talks to the media in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday Jan. 2 , 2011, two days after 21 Christian worshippers were killed in an apparent suicide bombing, feeling betrayed by a government they say has not done enough to keep them safe. (AP Photo)AP - The head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church appealed to the government on Monday to address Christians complaints about discrimination to ease tensions as fierce riots broke out in the capital following a New Year's Day church bombing that killed 21 people.

Severed head hung from bridge in Tijuana, Mexico (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:06 PM PST

This photo taken Dec. 13, 2010 shows a graffiti-covered shell of a home in a nearly-abandoned working class neighborhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. No one knows how many Juarez residents have left the city of 1.4 million since a brutal turf battle over border drug corridors unleashed an unprecedented wave of cartel murders and mayhem in 2008. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - The severed head of a young man was found hanging from a bridge in the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Monday.

Coptic pope urges calm after Egypt church blast (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:36 PM PST

An image of Jesus Christ hangs on the wall in the house of Egyptian Copt Fawzi Bakhit who was killed in the New Year's Day church bombing in Alexandria as priests pay condolences to his family in Egypt's Mediterranean port city. Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenouda III appealed for calm on Monday as Christian protesters clashed with police for a third day in a row.(AFP/Mohammed Abed)AFP - Egypt's Coptic Pope Shenouda III appealed for calm on Monday as Christian protesters clashed with police for a third day in a row after a New Year's Day bombing killed 21 churchgoers.

Khawaja born to bat for Australia: press (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 04:26 PM PST

Australian debutant Usman Khawaja showed in his modest first Test innings that he was born to wear the treasured baggy green cap and has the hallmarks of batting greatness, newspapers said on Tuesday.(AFP/Greg Wood)AFP - Australian debutant Usman Khawaja showed in his modest first Test innings that he was born to wear the treasured baggy green cap and has the hallmarks of batting greatness, newspapers said on Tuesday.

Pakistan's political crisis: Prime Minister Gilani scrambles to shore up confidence (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:40 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Pakistan’s civilian government faces a fight for survival after the withdrawal of a key coalition partner on Sunday left Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani unable to command a majority in parliament.

Richard Holbrooke's Legacy: The Power of Limited War (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:15 PM PST

Time.com - Many admirers of the late Richard Holbrooke say his diplomatic success ending the Bosnia war showed the limits of U.S. military power. But in fact, the most relevant lesson may have less to do with making peace than with waging war

Egypt's Christians pick up the pieces after deadly News Year's Eve church bombing (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 01:22 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Worshipers in Alexandria, Egypt, returned Sunday to the church that was the target of a deadly New Year's Eve bombing to hold a somber mass amid sobering reminders of the worst attack on Egypt's Christian minority in more than a decade.

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