2011年5月5日星期四

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Pakistan threatens U.S. on cooperation if more raids (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 04:04 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 - Pakistan's army threatened on Thursday to reconsider its anti-terrorism cooperation with the United States if Washington carried out another unilateral attack like the killing of Osama bin Laden.


Morocco arrests 3 Marrakesh cafe bomb suspects (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 04:36 PM PDT

People stand near the scene after an explosion rocked the Argana cafe in Marrakesh's Jamaa el-Fnaa square April 28, 2011. REUTERS/Jean BlondinReuters - Morocco arrested three people over a bomb attack on a cafe in the tourist city of Marrakesh last week that killed 16 people, and said the chief suspect showed "loyalty" to al Qaeda.


Bin Laden, two others didn't fire on SEALs: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 04:10 PM PDT

Reuters - Only one of four principal targets shot dead by U.S. commandos in the raid which killed Osama bin Laden was involved in any hostile fire, a person familiar with the latest U.S. government reporting on the raid told Reuters on Thursday.

Pakistan pays U.S. lobbyists to deny it helped bin Laden (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 03:53 PM PDT

Reuters - Pakistan's Washington lobbyists have launched an intense campaign on Capitol Hill to counter accusations that Islamabad was complicit in giving refuge to Osama bin Laden.

Assad deploys his troops before Friday prayers (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 03:47 PM PDT

A soldier walks past prone men in civilian clothes, whose hands are apparently tied behind their backs, at a location given as Deraa in this still image taken from a recent amateur video. Editor's note: Reuters cannot independently verify contents the video from which this still image was taken. REUTERS/Amateur Video via Reuters TVReuters - Security forces have moved into central Syria and coastal areas ahead of Friday prayers in a test of will for demonstrators determined to maintain protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.


Did bin Laden's Burial at Sea Follow Muslim Law? (Time.com)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:05 PM PDT

Time.com - Was bin Laden's burial religiously appropriate? And what's in store for bin Laden's afterlife? An expert weighs in

Braga set up all-Portuguese Europa final with Porto (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 02:59 PM PDT

Braga's defender Silvio (L) vies with Benfica's forward Nicolas Gaitan (R) during their UEFA Europa League football match at Braga Stadium in Braga. SC Braga beat rivals Benfica 1-0.(AFP/Francisco Leong)AFP - Unheralded Sporting Braga edged domestic rivals Benfica 1-0 in a nerve-jangling semi-final second leg on Thursday to set up an all-Portuguese Europa League final with league champions FC Porto.


Morocco arrests 3 suspects in Marrakech bombing (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 03:05 PM PDT

AP - Three Moroccan nationals were arrested in last week's deadly bombing at a Marrakech cafe, including the main suspect — a man with loyalties to al-Qaida who had attempted to travel to Iraq and Chechnya, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Thursday.

Inmates free hostages at Venezuela prison (AP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 04:56 PM PDT

AP - Inmates at a prison near Venezuela's capital freed the prison director and 14 other hostages Thursday and ended an eight-day standoff over conditions at the jail.

Main suspect, two others held in Marrakesh attack (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 02:56 PM PDT

A view taken on April 30, 2011 shows the rubble inside the Argana cafe two days after a bomb blast in Marrakech. Morocco arrested the main suspect and two other Moroccans for their role in a bomb attack in the city of Marrakesh that killed 16 people last month, an interior ministry officials told AFP.(AFP/File/Abdelhak Senna)AFP - Morocco arrested the main suspect and two other Moroccans for their role in a bomb attack in the city of Marrakesh that killed 16 people, many of them foreigners, last month, an interior ministry officials told AFP.


Bin Laden had guns in his room, posed threat: official (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 04:50 PM PDT

A Pakistani army soldier stands guard in front of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's final hiding place in Abbottabad. US Navy SEALs who led a raid on Osama bin Laden's compound found an AK-47 and a pistol in his room, a US official told AFP Thursday, offering more details about the operation.(AFP/Asif Hassan)AFP - US Navy SEALs who led a raid on Osama bin Laden's compound found an AK-47 and a pistol in his room, a US official told AFP Thursday, offering more details about the operation.


Tories to follow tax-cut, pro-business agenda (Reuters)

Posted: 05 May 2011 07:15 AM PDT

Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper, now backed by a powerful parliamentary majority, said on Tuesday the energy sector can rest easy that his government will not impede plans to vastly expand the country's oil sands output and ship some of the crude to Asia.

Last WW1 combatant dies aged 110 (AFP)

Posted: 05 May 2011 03:42 AM PDT

A photo released by the Asutralian Department of Defence in 2010 shows World War One Navy veteran Claude Choules at the Gracewood retirement villiage in Salter Point, Perth. Choules, the last World War I combat veteran, has died aged 110 in Australia, ending the living connection with a conflict that saw 70 million military personnel mobilised.(AFP/File/AUSTRALIAN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENCE)AFP - Briton Claude Choules, the last World War I combat veteran, has died aged 110 in Australia, ending the living connection with a conflict that saw 70 million military personnel mobilised.


What's the fuss over Angela Merkel's bin Laden comment? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 May 2011 11:26 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - “I am pleased that we managed to kill bin Laden.”

Amid Migrant Fears, Europe May Bring Back Border Controls (Time.com)

Posted: 05 May 2011 12:05 PM PDT

Time.com - As migrants continue to flee the Arab uprisings, the European Commission has said Schengen countries can temporarily tighten their borders -- and take away the right to passport-free travel

686,000 Libya refugees flee to Egypt, Tunisia (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 May 2011 10:36 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Libyan revolution that began in February with hopes that Col. Muammar Qaddafi would quickly be toppled like the Tunisian and Egyptian autocrats before him, has turned into a protracted conflict with a grim human cost.
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