2011年9月3日星期六

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CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents: rights group (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 12:12 PM PDT

A man looks at the documents found in the abandoned Libyan External Security office where Muammar Gaddafi's former spy chief and foreign minister Moussa Koussa was based in Tripoli September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Anis MiliReuters - Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.


Libyans say closing in on Gaddafi bastions (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 03:39 PM PDT

Rebel gather in the Al-Noflea area, close to the city of Sirte, 450km (280 miles) west of Benghazi, September 2, 2011. REUTERS/Esam Al-FetoriReuters - Libya's interim government said it was closing in on bastions of support for Muammar Gaddafi Saturday, although there were mixed signals of how quickly their forces were moving.


Government: Cuban defense minister dead at 75 (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 02:10 PM PDT

Reuters - General Julio Casas Reguerio, Cuba's defense minister and longtime aide to President Raul Castro, died Saturday of heart failure at the age of 75, the Cuban government said.

EU targets Syrian oil firms, says may get tougher (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 08:23 AM PDT

EDITOR'S NOTE: FACES BLURRED AT SOURCE. People protest against President Bashar al-Assad on the first day of Eid Al-Fitr in the city of Suqba, Syria, August 30, 2011. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - The European Union imposed a ban on purchases of Syrian oil on Saturday and warned of further steps unless President Bashar al-Assad's government ends its five-month crackdown on dissent.


Crime and Punishment in Libya: Inside Gaddafi's Surveillance System (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 10:40 PM PDT

Time.com - As rebels sift through the archives of Gaddafi's internal security apparatus, Libyans are finding confirmation that they had every reason to be paranoid about the regime.

Experts: Europe needs more perfect union (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 03:45 PM PDT

AP - Finance officials and experts gathered in Italy mostly agreed Saturday that Europe needs deeper political union to preserve the troubled euro — even though persistent national identities made the prospect politically unlikely in the near future.

Documents show ties between Libyan spy head, CIA (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 03:41 PM PDT

This image provided by Human Rights Watch on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011 shows part of a secret document dated June 19, 2003 discovered by Human Rights Watch in Tripoli, Libya, detailing a meeting regarding a CIA visit to Libya's WMD programs. The CIA and other Western intelligence agencies worked closely with the ousted regime of Moammar Gadhafi, sharing tips and cooperating in handing over terror suspects for interrogation to a regime known to use torture, according to a trove of security documents discovered after the fall of Tripoli. The revelations provide new details on the West's efforts to turn Libya's mercurial leader from foe to ally and provide an embarrassing example of the U.S. administration's collaboration with authoritarian regimes in the war on terror. (AP Photo/Human Rights Watch)AP - The CIA and other Western intelligence agencies worked closely with the ousted regime of Moammar Gadhafi, sharing tips and cooperating in handing over terror suspects for interrogation to a regime known to use torture, according to a trove of security documents discovered after the fall of Tripoli.


Chile: Pinera, students decide to keep talking (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 02:58 PM PDT

Chile's student leader Camila Vallejo speaks to reporters at La Moneda government palace after holding a meeting with Chile's President Sebastian Pinera in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. In the last trimester, Chilean students have been holding a campaign demanding free and better education. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Chile's president met with student, university and teachers' union leaders for nearly four hours Saturday in the government palace, and all those involved decided to keep negotiating in search of a solution to the country's conflicts over education reform.


Cuba withdraws ambassador from Libya (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 01:38 PM PDT

AP - Cuba has announced the withdrawal of its ambassador and diplomatic mission in Libya and reiterated that it does not recognize the rebels' transitional government.

Magnitude-7.0 quake shakes Vanuatu (AP)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 04:27 PM PDT

AP - A magnitude-7.0 earthquake shook the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Canadian authorities probing employees of SNC-Lavalin Group (Reuters)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 07:36 PM PDT

Reuters - Canadian authorities are investigating employees of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc for possible corruption involving a $1.2 billion World Bank bridge project in Bangladesh, a bank spokesman said on Friday.

Witness to a decade that redefined Southeast Asia (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 09:01 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - It was the summer of 2001. I was covering an election in East Timor, a newly minted nation at the end of the world. It was my first assignment for the Monitor, the start of a decade of reporting in Southeast Asia, filing hundreds of stories from across a diverse region of 600 million people.

Mercy at Qaddafi's notorious Abu Salim prison (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 03:16 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Juma Mukhtar Sayeh never chose a career in Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s military intelligence service. It was chosen for him.

Harvard's a Bargain -- If You're From the UK (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 10:40 PM PDT

Time.com - How America's top colleges are luring British students to the U.S.

Rebels resent Sirte residents, but vow not to take revenge (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 02:13 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - On the first Friday since Libya’s revolutionaries freed this small village from the control of forces loyal to former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, the mosque is full with village men and rebel fighters who have come from nearby checkpoints.

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