2011年5月23日星期一

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Study ties new al Qaeda chief to murder of journalist Pearl (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2011 08:20 AM PDT

Saif al-Adel is pictured in an undated photo from the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists website. REUTERS/HO/FBI RCS/AAReuters - Saif al-Adel, an Egyptian militant recently appointed interim leader of al Qaeda operations, has been linked to the killing of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002, U.S. investigators said in a report.


Netanyahu speech to Congress eyed for sign of U.S.-Israel rift (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2011 03:25 PM PDT

Reuters - When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress on Tuesday, many will be watching to see whether he escalates a war of words with the White House over how to make peace in the Middle East.

EU imposes sanctions on Syria's Assad (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2011 12:45 PM PDT

People shout slogans as a coffin is lifted onto a vehicle during a mass funeral for people killed in the latest crackdown on protests in Homs in this still image taken from video uploaded on a social media website May 21, 2011. REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TVReuters - The European Union imposed sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other senior officials on Monday, raising pressure on his government to end weeks of violence against protesters.


In China's Wild West, A 'Black Gold' Rush Takes Shape (Time.com)

Posted: 23 May 2011 03:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Situated at the heart of the Xinjiang region, Karamay is rich in oil andincreasingly vital to China's energy strategy. The 'black gold' has fueledlocal development, and transformed this sleepy backwater. But ethnic splitscould create conflict

Obama starts UK visit, security issues paramount (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2011 04:08 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk through a military honor cordon after arriving at Stansted Airport aboard Air Force One May 23, 2011. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - President Barack Obama on Tuesday begins a visit to Britain where he and Prime Minister David Cameron will review NATO action to help end conflict in Libya and Western policy toward uprisings in the Arab world.


Palestinian UN bid enters unknown territory (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2011 04:29 PM PDT

An orthodox Jewish man walks past elderly Palestinians playing backgammon in an alley inside Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, May 23, 2011. U.S.-Israel tension over Barack Obama's endorsement of Israel's pre-1967 borders is obscuring a flip side of the Middle East coin: The past days' speeches by the U.S. president contained difficult challenges for the Palestinians as well. (AP Photos/Bernat Armangue)AP - President Barack Obama threw down a gauntlet this weekend: no vote at the United Nations, he asserted, would ever create a Palestinian state.


Mexico frees 62 in forced-prostitution case (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2011 03:58 PM PDT

AP - Police freed 62 female victims of a forced-prostitution ring in Mexico City, including a 13-year-old girl, prosecutors said.

NATO airstrikes rattle Tripoli (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2011 04:47 PM PDT

Libyan man walks in front of a mural portraying Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi (L) and the revolutionary's adopted flag of the old Libyan monarchy at Revolution Square in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. Key Senate Democrats and Republicans introduced a resolution Monday endorsing limited US military intervention in Libya, more than two months after coalition raids began.(AFP/Saeed Khan)AP - NATO warplanes are repeatedly hitting Tripoli early Tuesday in what appears to be the heaviest night of bombing of the Libyan capital since the start of the air campaign against Moammar Gadhafi's forces.


Australian soldier killed in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2011 04:34 PM PDT

AP - An Australian soldier has been killed and two others injured in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.

Sea levels set to rise by up to a metre: report (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2011 12:56 AM PDT

A flash flood is seen in the centre of the Austrlian city of Brisbane. Sea levels are set to rise by up to a metre within a century due to global warming, a new Australian report said Monday as it warned this could make AFP - Sea levels are set to rise by up to a metre within a century due to global warming, a new Australian report said Monday as it warned this could make "once-a-century" coastal flooding much more common.


In Yemen, Saleh's military forces showing signs of strain (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 May 2011 11:54 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Hopes for a negotiated settlement to Yemen’s mounting political crisis sank yesterday when President Ali Abdullah Saleh turned down for a third time a deal that would have offered him immunity from prosecution in exchange for stepping down.

Details Emerge of Deadly Raid on Pakistani Base (Time.com)

Posted: 23 May 2011 03:10 PM PDT

Time.com - The attackers numbered only six, two of whom escaped. And suspicions are growing that they had inside information

Is Georgia on the brink of a 'day of rage'? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 May 2011 10:18 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - After three days of sometimes violent street demonstrations, Georgian opposition leaders on Monday promised a "day of rage" on May 25 that will sweep away President Mikhael Saakashvili â€" who has withstood similar protest waves against his controversial seven-year rule in the past.

No place to hide for G8 leaders on foreign aid (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 23 May 2011 08:22 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - May 23 (OneWorld.net) - International pressure to honor pledges of foreign aid contends with domestic imperatives to slash public spending. This is just one of the dilemmas facing leaders of the world's most powerful economies at their summit starting on Thursday in the French town of Deauville.

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