2011年5月19日星期四

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Obama says Gaddafi's departure from Libya inevitable (Reuters)

Posted: 19 May 2011 04:42 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama said on Thursday it was inevitable Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi would have to leave power and only then could a democratic transition in the North African state proceed.

Israel rejects total pullback to 1967 borders (Reuters)

Posted: 19 May 2011 02:28 PM PDT

Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed for talks in Washington on Friday saying that U.S. President Barack Obama's vision of a Palestinian state on the borders of 1967 could leave Israel "indefensible."

Yemen leadership may yet sign transition deal (Reuters)

Posted: 19 May 2011 01:17 PM PDT

A man displays a sign during a rally to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa May 19, 2011. The sign reads Reuters - Yemen's ruling party held open the possibility that President Ali Abdullah Saleh would sign a deal on Sunday that would soon ease him out of office as Washington heaped pressure on the entrenched leader to transfer power.


Obama says Syria's Assad must reform or go (Reuters)

Posted: 19 May 2011 11:24 AM PDT

EDITOR'S NOTE: PICTURE TAKEN ON GUIDED GOVERNMENT TOUR A supporter of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad holds aloft a photograph of the president at Hamidiya market in Damascus April 30, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled al-HaririReuters - Syria deployed tanks in a border village on Thursday, witnesses said, ignoring growing pressure from Washington which called on President Bashar al-Assad to stop trying to crush popular unrest or step aside.


Bahrain wants to expand military bases (Reuters)

Posted: 19 May 2011 12:25 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) shakes hands with Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa as he visits number 10 Downing Street in central London. Cameron was expected to discuss the crackdown on anti-regime protesters in Bahrain during talks with the Gulf state's crown prince on Thursday.(AFP/Leon Neal)Reuters - Bahrain floated the idea of expanding military bases within a bloc of Sunni-led Gulf Arab allies that helped it quash Shi'ite protests in March, while U.S. President Barack Obama criticized Manama over its crackdown.


513 Migrants in Two Trucks: X-Ray View of Human Smuggling (Time.com)

Posted: 19 May 2011 03:50 PM PDT

Time.com - A huge bust produces two truckloads of migrants desperate to reach the U.S. They are lucky to be alive: gangsters have kidnapped and killed many others

Spain's election commission says weekend protests illegal (AFP)

Posted: 19 May 2011 04:52 PM PDT

A general view of the Puerta del Sol square in Madrid. Spain's electoral commission declared late Thursday that protests set for this weekend by thousands of people angry over the economic crisis are illegal.(AFP/Pedro Armestre)AFP - Spain's electoral commission declared late Thursday that protests set for this weekend by thousands of people angry over the economic crisis are illegal.


Gadhafi forces rocket rebel fighters in mountains (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2011 05:01 PM PDT

Demonstrators against Moammar Gadhafi gather in front of a U.S. flag late at night downtown Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, May 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Moammar Gadhafi's forces rocketed rebel fighters Thursday in the formidable strongholds and training camps they have built up in the strategic mountain heights southwest of the Libyan capital, rebels said.


American pleads guilty in wife's murder in Peru (AP)

Posted: 19 May 2011 03:59 PM PDT

AP - A U.S. citizen has pleaded guilty in Peru to killing his Peruvian wife and dumping her body at sea inside a suitcase.

Kadhafi wife, daughter have fled to Tunisia: Clinton (AFP)

Posted: 19 May 2011 04:28 PM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton introduces US President Barack Obama to deliver a speech on the events in the Middle East and North Africa at the State Department in Washington, DC. The wife and daughter of embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi have fled the country into neighboring Tunisia, Clinton said Thursday.(AFP/Jim Watson)AFP - The wife and daughter of embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi have fled the country into neighboring Tunisia, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday.


More than 1,700 Taliban give up their arms (AFP)

Posted: 19 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT

In this photo provided by ISAF Regional Command (South), Taliban fighters peacefully surrender their arms during a meeting with Afghan government officials as part of the government's peace and reintegration process in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in April 2011. More than 1,700 former Taliban combatants have turned in their weapons to join a reintegration program started by the Afghan government.(AFP/HO/File/James D.Crawford)AFP - More than 1,700 former Taliban combatants have turned in their weapons to join a reintegration program started by the Afghan government nearly a year ago, the NATO general in charge of the program said Thursday.


Bank of Canada warns pension funds of risky buys (Reuters)

Posted: 19 May 2011 02:40 PM PDT

Reuters - The Bank of Canada warned on Thursday that Canadian pension funds and insurance companies could be tempted to invest in risky assets in order to fulfill expectations of obtaining decent returns.

"Planking" goes viral despite death, injury (Reuters)

Posted: 19 May 2011 06:41 AM PDT

Reuters - Planking, the Australian craze of lying face down stiff in often bizarre places for a photo op, claimed another victim when a man was critically injured after being thrown from the roof of a moving car when his planking went bad.

Why Estonia may be Europe's model country (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 May 2011 01:20 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - An 82-foot-high billboard wrapping Estonia's finance ministry building in its capital, Tallinn, boasts: "The euro, my money." It stands just blocks from the city's cobbled, winding medieval streets and baroque churches, in a downtown where skyscrapers have replaced Russian bunkers, as a symbol of Estonia's transformation from poor Soviet republic to the European Union's rising star.

The Turning Point (Time.com)

Posted: 19 May 2011 03:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Finally, French women start a conversation about inappropriate sexual conduct

Africa is becoming a test lab for mobile phone development (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 May 2011 12:29 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In my course on technology, development and Africa, a fine undergraduate student, David Metoyer, wrote this about the activities in Africa of Vodaphone, one of the world’s most significant mobil-telephony companies and a sizeable force in the sub-Saharan mobil boom:

HIV/AIDS: Drug Price Cuts Secured Amid Growing Funding Fears (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 19 May 2011 01:33 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - JOHANNESBURG, May 19 (IRIN/PlusNews) - Three international organizations have negotiated reductions on key first- and second-line, and paediatric antiretrovirals (ARVs) that will help countries save at least US$600 million over the next three years.

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