2011年5月4日星期三

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Obama decides not to release bin Laden photos (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2011 04:13 PM PDT

Osama bin Laden sits during an interview with Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir (not pictured) in an image supplied by the respected Dawn newspaper November 10, 2001. Osama bin Laden is dead and his body has been recovered by U.S. authorities, U.S. officials said on Sunday. U.S. President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, had repeatedly vowed to bring to justice the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, but never did before leaving office in early 2009. REUTERS/Hamid Mir/Editor/Ausaf/Newspaper for Daily Dawn (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: DISASTER POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)Reuters - President Barack Obama decided on Wednesday not to release photographs of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's body, saying they could incite violence and be used by militants as a propaganda tool.


Photos show three dead men at bin Laden raid house (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2011 04:49 PM PDT

The grounds of the compound are seen after U.S. Navy SEAL commandos killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad May 2, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Photographs acquired by Reuters and taken about an hour after the U.S. assault on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad in Pakistan show three dead men lying in pools of blood, but no weapons.


Several deaths, injuries in Amsterdam shooting (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2011 03:08 PM PDT

Reuters - A number of people were killed and injured in a shooting at a car dealership in Amsterdam and five people were arrested, Dutch police said Wednesday.

Britain says still seeking U.N. condemnation of Syria (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2011 04:36 PM PDT

Reuters - Britain said on Wednesday it was still seeking condemnation at the United Nations of Syria's crackdown on protests despite being rebuffed in an attempt last week.

Indicting Gaddafi for War Crimes: Will It Help or Hurt? (Time.com)

Posted: 04 May 2011 01:45 PM PDT

Time.com - The International Criminal Court may look to indict to Libyan leader and his henchmen for war crimes. Could it induce his sons to break from him?

Israeli PM takes Hamas fight to Europe (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 04:37 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron (R) welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 10 Downing street in London. Netanyahu said Wednesday a unity pact between Fatah and Hamas was a AFP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday a unity pact between Fatah and Hamas was a "tremendous blow to peace" and vowed to press the point in his talks with British and French leaders.


Palestinian deal ends rift, hurts peace prospects (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 05:09 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Hamas Media Office, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center-left, and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, center-right, shake hands at a ceremony in Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas on Wednesday proclaimed a landmark, Egyptian-mediated reconciliation pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift, at a declaration ceremony in the Egyptian capital Cairo. (AP Photo/Hamas Media Office) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES **AP - Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a landmark reconciliation pact on Wednesday, ending a four-year rift that had divided the territory envisioned for a future Palestinian state. The deal plunged Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking deeper into uncertainty as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a "mortal blow to peace."


France to recover body from crash site off Brazil (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 02:27 PM PDT

AP - A French recovery team is reportedly pulling up the remains of one of the victims of an Air France jet that crashed two years ago off Brazil's northeastern coast.

Hundreds of Mubarak loyalists, foes clash in Cairo (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 03:24 PM PDT

Egyptian riot police stand guard outside a courthouse in Cairo in April 2011. Hundreds of diehard supporters of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak clashed with his foes in central Cairo on Wednesday leaving dozens injured, a security official told AFP.(AFP/File)AFP - Hundreds of diehard supporters of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak clashed with his foes in central Cairo on Wednesday leaving dozens injured, a security official told AFP.


Pacquiao wants Mosley seeing yellow stars (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 04:59 PM PDT

Boxer Manny Pacquiao appears during the final news conference for his bout against Shane Mosley at the MGM Grand Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pacquiao will defend his WBO welterweight title against Mosley on May 7, in Las Vegas.(AFP/Getty Images/Ethan Miller)AFP - If Filipino pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao gets his way on Saturday, Shane Mosley will be seeing a blur of yellow at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino.


Australian kills daughter after Facebook threat (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2011 01:04 AM PDT

Australian police are seen in Sydney. An Australian man wrote on his Facebook page he was AFP - An Australian man wrote on his Facebook page he was "bout to kill ma kid" minutes before repeatedly stabbing his two-year-old daughter and leaving her to die, court papers revealed Wednesday.


After bin Laden: Why the US wants military access to Afghanistan beyond 2014 (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 May 2011 12:17 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Without an airbase on Afghan soil, the secret US air raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan would have been significantly more risky, perhaps prohibitively so. The operation highlights one of the reasons the US would want military access to Afghanistan beyond the 2014 date for withdrawal.

Radical Indonesian Muslim Group to Hold Mass Prayer for bin Laden (Time.com)

Posted: 04 May 2011 01:45 PM PDT

Time.com - The Islamic Defenders Front, a radical Indonesian Muslim group in Jakarta, announced plans to hold a mass prayer for Bin Laden

Arrests at UK's Sellafield nuclear plant raise concerns about security (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 May 2011 11:41 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The arrest of five men whose actions aroused suspicion outside Britain’s Sellafield nuclear plant on Monday has increased fears of terrorist reprisals in the wake of the death of Osama bin Laden.

Bin Laden Killing Largely Unmourned in Pakistan (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 04 May 2011 07:30 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - ABBOTTABAD, May 4 (IPS) - Three days since the death of Al-Qaeda chief and U.S. public enemy No. 1 Osama bin Laden, there are no public demonstrations to protest his killing, nor are there any other displays of anger or grief in this country of 170 million where he once enjoyed tremendous support.
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