2011年10月21日星期五

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Gaddafi family demands body; NATO ends Libya war (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:11 PM PDT

Libyan Americans embrace each other as they celebrate the death of Moammar Gadhafi on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Reuters - NATO called an end to its air war in Libya, and the clan of Muammar Gaddafi demanded a chance to bury the body that lay on display in a meat locker after a death as brutal and chaotic as his 42-year rule.


U.N. council condemns Yemen violence, urges deal (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:53 PM PDT

Anti-government protesters gesture as they gather outside a public school set on fire during clashes with supporters of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz October 20, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned the Yemeni government crackdown on protesters but urged the signing of an agreement that would require the president to step down in exchange for immunity.


Clinton says U.S. officials have met with Haqqanis (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 08:01 AM PDT

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that the United States had held a preliminary meeting with representatives of the Haqqani network, a group of militants Washington has blamed for a series of attacks in Afghanistan.

Tunisia rivals stake positions in election rallies (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:26 PM PDT

Reuters - The main contenders in Tunisia's first free election after the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali held final campaign rallies on Friday, with both Islamists and their secular opponents claiming they would protect women and represent modernity.

Pakistan, three others elected to U.N. council (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 05:10 PM PDT

Reuters - Pakistan, Morocco, Togo and Guatemala were elected on Friday to the 15-nation U.N. Security Council for 2012 and 2013, and Islamabad's envoy said he looked forward to working with fellow council member India.

Iraq's Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:45 PM PDT

Time.com - President Barack Obama's announcement on Friday that all 40,000 U.S. troops still in Iraq will leave the country by New Year's Eve will, inevitably, draw howls of derision from GOP presidential hopefuls

NATO agrees to wind down in Libya over 10 days (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:51 PM PDT

Libyan celebrate after the Muslim Friday prayer at Martyrs Square in Tripoli, Libya, Friday Oct. 21, 2011. The death Thursday of Gadhafi, two months after he was driven from power and into hiding, decisively buries the nearly 42-year regime that had turned the oil-rich country into an international pariah and his own personal fiefdom. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)AP - NATO said Friday it plans to end its seven-month bombing campaign in Libya at the end of the month, leaving the battle-scarred country's new authorities on their own to ensure security after the death of Moammar Gadhafi and the ouster of his regime.


Brazil doctors found guilty of killing patients (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 03:57 PM PDT

AP - A jury convicted three Brazilian doctors of killing four patients by removing their organs, which prosecutors said were used for transplants at an expensive private clinic.

NATO plans to end Libya mission at end of October (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:52 PM PDT

Reuters - NATO plans to end its seven-month air and sea campaign in Libya at the end of October, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday, the day after the death of Muammar Gaddafi.

Chinese toddler ignored after hit-and-run dies (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 02:33 PM PDT

In this photo taken Tuesday Oct. 18, 2011, journalists surround the unidentified parents of a two-year-old girl identified as Wang Yue in a hospital in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province.  A video showing Wang Yue being struck twice by vans and then ignored by passers-by is sparking outrage in China and prompting soul-searching over why people didn't help the child.  (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - A toddler who was twice run over by vans and then ignored by passers-by on a busy market street died Friday a week after the accident and after days of bitter soul-searching over declining morality in China.


Exclusive: Alberta: EU oil sands ranking threatens ties (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 12:51 PM PDT

Reuters - The government of Alberta, home to the bulk of Canada's oil sands, has written to EU experts voicing "grave concerns" that the bloc's plans to rank unconventional oil as a highly polluting fuel are unfair and a potential threat to trade ties.

Australia to argue 1902 war crimes case was unfair (AP)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:21 AM PDT

AP - Australia's government said Friday that it would tell Britain that two Australian soldiers executed more than a century ago for war crimes in South Africa were likely denied fair trials under the British military justice system.

NATO teargasses Kosovo Serbs in battle over barricades (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 01:24 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In a surprising use of force, NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo early today used tear gas and pepper spray against local Serbs while dismantling a series of barricades erected in July by local hardliners.

Turkey Sends Troops to Iraq to Fight PKK Kurdish Separatists (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 04:45 PM PDT

Time.com - Regional dynamics, from Turkey's deteriorating ties with Iran and Syria to the plans for the pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq, have combined to fuel a new round of clashes

Basque militant group ETA ends four decades of separatist violence (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 12:56 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Spanish terrorist group ETA ended Thursday after almost half a century of separatist violence that has killed nearly 900. The announcement set off celebrations, even if it was long expected after years in which the group has been crippled militarily and cast aside politically.

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