2011年5月11日星期三

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Syrian tanks shell towns with at least 19 killed (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2011 02:57 PM PDT

EDITOR'S NOTE: REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT OF THE VIDEO FROM WHICH THIS STILL IMAGE WAS TAKEN. Protesters march through the streets in Homs May 6, 2011 in this still image taken from video uploaded on a social media website. REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TVReuters - Syrian tanks shelled residential districts in two towns on Wednesday and at least 19 people were killed across the country, rights campaigners said, as President Bashar al-Assad's forces fought to crush a seven-week uprising.

Yemen forces fire on protests in 3 cities; 9 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2011 12:38 PM PDT

An anti-government protester demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh helps a fellow protester who was wounded during clashes with police in Sanaa May 11, 2011. REUTERS/Ahmed JadallahReuters - Yemeni forces opened fire on demonstrators in three cities on Wednesday, killing at least nine and wounding scores in escalating bloodshed that could ramp up public fury at the president's refusal to step down.

More pressure on Pakistani military over bin Laden (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2011 03:52 PM PDT

Senator John Kerry meets Israel's President Shimon Peres (not seen) in the Israeli coastal town of Caesarea, north of Tel Aviv March 22, 2011. REUTERS/Uriel Sinai/PoolReuters - Pakistan's opposition leader accused the powerful spy agency of negligence and incompetence on Wednesday as the country's former president said rogue members of the security establishment may have helped Osama bin Laden hide for years near Islamabad.

Earthquake rocks Spanish town killing 10 people (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2011 04:04 PM PDT

Rescue workers survey the damage to a building in Lorca, after a rare earthquake rocked the town in southeastern Spain causing houses to collapse, damaging historic churches and public buildings and killing at least six people, May 11, 2011. REUTERS/Francisco BonillaReuters - A rare earthquake rocked the ancient town of Lorca in southeastern Spain on Wednesday causing homes to collapse, damaging historic churches and killing at least 10 people.

Clashes in Greece as EU and IMF start key visit (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2011 03:08 PM PDT

Reuters - A group of 150 hooded demonstrators attacked three policemen in an Athens hospital after a protester was seriously injured in an anti-austerity march on the first day of a visit by EU and IMF inspectors.

In Search of Energy, A Booming Chile Chooses to Dam Its Rivers (Time.com)

Posted: 11 May 2011 01:30 PM PDT

Time.com - Despite widespread opposition, fast-growing Chile is embarking on a decades-long infrastructure project that threatens ecological destruction in an effort to feed its hungry economy

Libyan rebel chief in London to discuss new office: govt (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2011 04:28 PM PDT

Libyan rebel leader Mustafa Abdul Jalil, pictured in April 2011, will meet Thursday with Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss the possibility of setting up a London office, the government confirmed.(AFP/File/Tiziana Fabi)AFP - The head of Libya's rebel council will meet Thursday with Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss the possibility of setting up a London office, the government confirmed.

Rebels: Gadhafi forces pushed back from Misrata (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2011 04:40 PM PDT

In this image made from Libyan TV, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi holds a meeting with tribal leaders from eastern Libya, in Tripoli, Libya, Wednesday, May 11, 2011. (AP Photo / Libyan TV via APTN) TV OUT LIBYA OUTAP - Pressing to break a two-month siege, rebels in the port city of Misrata said Wednesday they had captured the local airport and pushed Moammar Gadhafi's forces ever further from the city's western outskirts.

Honduran police kill 6 suspected drug traffickers (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2011 04:26 PM PDT

AP - Police says six alleged drug traffickers were killed and two police officers and a teenager injured in a three-hour gunbattle in a rural province in eastern Honduras.

Libyan TV shows footage of long-absent Gaddafi (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2011 03:58 PM PDT

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., second fro right, talks about his meeting with a Libyan delegation opposed to the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, Wednesday, May 11, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are: Ali Suleiman Aujali, the former Libyan ambassador to the U.S. who publicly broke with Moammar Gadhafi's regime in February, Mahmoud Jibril, representative for foreign affairs with the Libyan Transitional National Council, Kerry, and former Libyan ambassador to the United Nations Abdurrahman Mohamed Shalgham. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Reuters - Libyan state TV showed footage of an apparently healthy Muammar Gaddafi meeting officials in a Tripoli hotel Wednesday, ending nearly two weeks of doubt over his fate since a NATO air strike killed his son.

No 'meaningful change' in Myanmar: Suu Kyi (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2011 03:32 PM PDT

No AFP - No "meaningful change" has taken place since Myanmar's first elections in 20 years in November, recently released opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in comments due to be broadcast this week.

Flaherty urges governments to tackle fiscal woes (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2011 11:30 AM PDT

Reuters - Canada's finance minister warned on Wednesday that countries need to get their fiscal houses in order, saying that markets would act if politicians failed to do so.

US missile test deal offers hope to Marshalls slum (AFP)

Posted: 10 May 2011 10:26 PM PDT

File photo shows a rocket being launched from the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll. The United States has struck a deal with the Marshall Islands to continue using the key missile testing range at Kwajalein Atoll through to 2066, officials said on Wednesday.(AFP/US Army/File)AFP - The United States has struck a deal with the Marshall Islands to continue using the key missile testing range at Kwajalein Atoll through to 2066, officials said on Wednesday.

Venezuela-Colombia ties remain strong despite Chávez's reported links to FARC (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 May 2011 02:31 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Hugo Chávez for years has offered the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) financial support and sanctuary inside Venezuela, motivated by the belief that Colombia, and its ally the United States, would be less of a threat if it were mired in a rebel conflict.

Have Foreigners Unwittingly Adopted Victims of Baby-Selling in China? (Time.com)

Posted: 11 May 2011 01:30 PM PDT

Time.com - An investigation by a respected Chinese magazine has uncovered evidence of Chinese family-planning officials taking children from local couples who had violated the country's one-child policy and selling them to orphanages

Skype's journey from tiny Estonian start-up to $8.5 billion Microsoft buy (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 May 2011 11:56 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - It was in a grim Soviet-era complex on the outskirts of Tallinn, Estonia, that a quiet high-tech revolution bubbled. In the research park where the USSR secretly assembled its first computer and designed its first space mission, a group of young Estonian computer buffs launched Skype and ushered in a communications revolution.

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