2011年4月12日星期二

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Egypt's Mubarak has heart problems in questioning (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:43 PM PDT

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak addresses the nation in this still image taken from video February 10, 2011. REUTERS/Egyptian State TV via Reuters TVReuters - Hosni Mubarak was in hospital after suffering heart problems under questioning, following protests by hard-core reformists who said he was being protected from prosecution by Egypt's military rulers.

Support may boost Ouattara chances in Ivory Coast (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:48 PM PDT

Some of the 30,000 people who have crowded a Catholic mission in Duekoue, Ivory Coast on April 11, 2011. Reprisal killings erupted as Ouattara's fighters made a lightning assault to force his rival Laurent Gbagbo from power. And although Gbagbo was captured Monday in Abidjan, Ivory Coast's commercial capital, suspected Gbagbo supporters are still being rounded up in cities and villages, especially in western Ivory Coast. Parishioners are reporting the kidnappings of dozens of young men in San Pedro, said a Catholic priest in the cocoa-exporting port city in southwestern Ivory Coast. (AP Photo/Michelle Faul)Reuters - Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara won the backing of his defeated rival's army chiefs while the EU and the World Bank pledged financial support to help end the country's prolonged divisions.

Syrian forces arrest 200 in rebellious town: lawyer (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:19 PM PDT

A tank is seen in the Syrian port city of Banias April 10, 2011. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - Syrian security forces have arrested 200 residents in a coastal town as unprecedented challenges to the rule of President Bashar al-Assad continued to spread, a human rights lawyer said on Wednesday.

Japan says nuclear crisis stabilizing, time to rebuild (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 09:58 AM PDT

Reuters - Japan's nuclear crisis is slowly stabilizing and the country must now focus on repairing the damage wrought by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the northeast coast a month ago, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said.

Nigeria opposition mulls alliance to beat Jonathan (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:33 PM PDT

Reuters - Nigeria's two main opposition parties are mulling an eleventh-hour alliance to try to unseat President Goodluck Jonathan in elections on Saturday, opposition sources said.

Should emergency departments turn away nonurgent patients? (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:40 PM PDT

Time.com - Blunt efforts by policymakers and insurers to limit emergency care merely by limiting payments need to be reconsidered. They discount the value of emergency departments not only to patients, but also to society

Publisher yanks book implying Vatican OKs condoms (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:12 PM PDT

AP - An Italian publisher has yanked copies of a book on Catholic Church teaching after a translation error implied the Vatican approved of contraception, officials said Tuesday.

Egypt's Mubarak hospitalized with heart problems (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:40 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2011 file photo, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sits during his meeting with Emirates foreign minister, unseen, at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. An Egyptian security and health official said on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 that Mubarak has been hospitalized in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)AP - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was abruptly hospitalized Tuesday for heart problems during an investigation over allegations of corruption and violence against protesters, reported state TV.

Mexico finds 28 more bodies in border pits (AP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:52 PM PDT

Mexico's Interior Secretary Jose Francisco Blake, left, talks to Attorney General Marisela Morales during a press conference in Mexico City, Tuesday April 12, 2011. Mexican investigators have found a total of 116 bodies in Tamaulipas state in pits near the U.S. border, 28 more than previously reported, Morales said Tuesday. Morales said a total of 17 suspects have been detained in relation to the killings, some of whom have purportedly confessed to abducting passengers from buses and killing them. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - Mexican investigators have found a total of 116 bodies in pits near the U.S. border, 28 more than previously reported, Attorney General Marisela Morales said Tuesday.

Ministers meet amid fears of Libya stalemate (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:39 PM PDT

Reuters - Foreign ministers meet in Qatar on Wednesday for talks on Libya's future, with some eager to step up air strikes against Muammar Gaddafi's forces, fearing the conflict could settle into a bloody stalemate.

Senators probe nuclear future in wake of Japan (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:06 PM PDT

Reuters - Senators on Tuesday pressed the country's top nuclear regulator about lessons that can be learned from Japan's nuclear disaster, especially at two nuclear plants in earthquake-prone California.

Televised debate a key test for Liberals (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 05:06 AM PDT

Reuters - A prime-time televised debate on Tuesday could make or break the election campaign for the Liberals, which need a strong showing from leader Michael Ignatieff to have a chance in what is now a lopsided race.

Australia to clamp down on problem gambling (AFP)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:30 AM PDT

People play slot machines at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek in 2010. Australian leader Julia Gillard has vowed to clamp down on problem slot machine gambling as the pubs that host the popular games launched a Aus$20 million advertising blitz attacking the move.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Joe Raedle)AFP - Australian leader Julia Gillard vowed on Tuesday to clamp down on problem slot machine gambling as the pubs that host the popular games launched a Aus$20 million advertising blitz attacking the move.

China's role in realizing 'Latin America decade' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 11:43 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff landed in China today to shore up trade and business ties, just a month after President Obama traveled to South America to lobby on behalf of US businesses.

Yuri Gagarin: Anniversary honors for first man in space (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 04:40 PM PDT

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history on 12 April 1961 when he circled the Earth in 108 minutes. Now, 50 years on, Russians celebrate his first flight into space. Duration: 01:49(AFPTV)Time.com - Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin became the first human being in space, he is being appreciated in ways he never was before

Africa's 'Iron Lady' revitalizes Liberia (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 11:36 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Late last summer, the war-ravaged West African country of Liberia quietly achieved something the United States and many other Western countries have never managed to do: It got rid of its external debt. All of it.

Cote d'Ivoire: Applause and Anger as Gbagbo Falls (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 03:14 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - ABIDJAN, Apr 11 (IRIN) - As news of Laurent Gbagbo's fall from Cote d'Ivoire's presidency spread around Abidjan, residents of the economic capital expressed a mixture of relief, anger and apprehension.

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