2011年5月31日星期二

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War crimes suspect Mladic to face genocide charges within days (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Serbian Gendarmerie soldiers stand guard in front of the Special Court after accused war criminal Ratko Mladic arrived in Belgrade May 31, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer Y)Reuters - Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, extradited to the Netherlands from Serbia Tuesday after 16 years on the run, will face genocide charges at the U.N. war crimes tribunal within days.

Gaddafi: I will not leave my country (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 02:38 PM PDT

File photo of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as he speaks on Libyan TV in this still image taken from video, January 15, 2011. REUTERS/Libyan TV via REUTERS TV/FilesReuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has made clear that he will not step down, despite the first big protest against him in the capital in months and a U.N. warning on Tuesday that his government was running out of food.

Syria's Assad grants amnesty as 5 killed in crackdown (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 03:50 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 President Bashar al-Assad issued a general amnesty on Tuesday, state television said, after ten weeks of protests against his 11-year rule and a military crackdown which has drawn international condemnation.

Yemen truce ends in blasts, stokes civil war worries (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:53 PM PDT

Wounded anti-government protesters lie on a bed at a hospital after clashes with police in the southern Yemeni city of Taiz May 30, 2011. REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahReuters - Street fighting raged in Yemen's capital on Tuesday ending a tenuous ceasefire between tribal groups and forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and edging the impoverished Arab state closer to civil war.

Karzai warns NATO not to become "occupying force" (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 01:24 PM PDT

Two US army Chinook helicopters land at Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan in March 2011. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has long criticised foreign forces over their mistaken killing of civilians as they hunt Taliban-led insurgents in the near 10-year war, and faces intense domestic pressure over the issue.(AFP/File/Peter Parks)Reuters - President Hamid Karzai warned NATO-led forces in Afghanistan on Tuesday they were at risk of being seen as an occupying force rather than an ally after a spate of civilian casualties, and said he would take unspecified action if they continue.

Blood, Justice and Corruption: Why the Chinese Love Their Death Penalty (Time.com)

Posted: 31 May 2011 04:55 PM PDT

Time.com - There's nothing that the Chinese people hate more than a corrupted official. But the government should do more to root out corruption than play to the public's instincts for revenge. Still, don't expect China's death penalty to disappear anytime soon

AP Exclusive: Boy in Mladic video looks back (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 05:34 PM PDT

**CORRECTS REFERENCE TO IZUDIN ALIC AS A BOSNIAN MUSLIM, NOT A BOSNIAN SERB** FILE - This image from file video shows Bosnian Muslim boy Izudin Alic being patted on the head by a grinning Ratko Mladic in 1995 as Mladic assures him that everyone in Srebrenica, Bosnia, would be safe as other young Bosnian Muslims look on, just hours before overseeing the murder of some 8,000 men and boys. But Izudin Alic escaped with his life to bear witness to the incident. Sitting in his home in Srebrenica, Bosnia, on Tuesday May 31, 2011, 24-year old Alic recalls the sunny day in 1995 when he met with the Bosnian Serb military commander Mladic, who gave him chocolate, even as soldiers were killing his father in the nearby woods. The fugitive Mladic has been arrested on charges relating to alleged war crimes during the Bosnian 1992-95 war. (AP Photo, File) TV OUTAP - The video horrified the world: a grinning Ratko Mladic patting a young Muslim boy on the head and assuring him everyone in the Srebrenica area would be safe — just hours before overseeing the murder of 8,000 men and boys.

Israeli PM: Jerusalem will never be divided (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 02:51 PM PDT

Jewish settlers take part in a march from Har Bracha settlement to a lookout point on Mount Gerizim, overlooking Joseph's Tomb and the West Bank city of Nablus May 31, 2011. A few hundred settlers took part in the march marking Jerusalem Day, the anniversary of Israel's capture of the eastern part of Jerusalem during the 1967 Middle East War. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (WEST BANK - Tags: ANNIVERSARY POLITICS)AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Jerusalem will never be divided. His long-standing policy puts him at odds with the Palestinians and much of the world.

Cuba court sentences 4 dissidents to jail terms (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 03:54 PM PDT

AP - A Cuban court has sentenced four little-known dissidents to jail terms for public disorder and disrespecting authority.

Staff safety pressed after 2nd attack at NYC hotel (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 05:37 PM PDT

In this photo taken July 15, 2010, Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar, chairman of the Egyptian state-run salt production company El-Mex Salines Co., and former chairman of Egypt's Bank of Alexandria, is seen at the company's headquarters in Alexandria, Egypt. Omar was arrested in New York on Monday, May 30, 2011 and faces charges of sexually abusing a maid at Tje Pierre, a luxury Manhattan hotel, just weeks after the arrest of a former International Monetary Fund chief on similar allegations. (AP Photo)AP - As a former chairman of a major Egyptian bank awaited his first court appearance Tuesday on charges he sexually assaulted a maid at a luxury Manhattan hotel, an industry official said more needed to be done to protect hotel workers.

Afghan president seeks to limit NATO airstrikes (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 05:22 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks with a media member after a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Angered by civilian casualties, Karzai said Tuesday he will no longer allow NATO airstrikes on houses, issuing his strongest statement yet against strikes that the military alliance says are key to its war on Taliban insurgents. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Angered by civilian casualties, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday he will no longer allow NATO airstrikes on houses, issuing his strongest statement yet against attacks that the military alliance says are vital to its war on Taliban insurgents.

Atlanta Thrashers moving to Winnipeg (Reuters)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:13 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada reclaimed one of its lost NHL franchises on Tuesday when the Atlanta Thrashers were sold to True North Sports and Entertainment and relocated to Winnipeg, triggering wild celebrations in the Prairie city.

Afghan colonel thinks rogue soldier is insurgent (AP)

Posted: 31 May 2011 04:53 PM PDT

AP - An Afghan soldier who shot dead his Australian mentor at a patrol base and then fled was probably an insurgent who had infiltrated the Afghan army ranks, an Afghan colonel said Wednesday.

What Pakistan's ISI doesn't want the world to know about Osama bin Laden's couriers (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 May 2011 12:54 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Osama bin Laden’s couriers, Arshad and Tariq Khan â€" who were killed alongside him during the raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan â€" were born and raised in Kuwait after their Pakistani father settled there to become an imam, according to relatives and other residents in their ancestral village.

Silvio Berlusconi: The Magic Is Gone (Time.com)

Posted: 31 May 2011 04:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Editorial: The drubbing suffered in local elections shows Silvio Berlusconi increasingly obsessed with his own personal and judicial woes -- and losing touch with the sentiments of everyday Italians. La Stampa editor Mario Calabresi weighs in

Nepal struggles to shape a government that can govern (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 May 2011 11:41 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Nepal’s politicians, often pegged as excellent engineers of street protests but poor managers of state affairs, averted a political meltdown and clinched a deal this weekend that bought them three more months to sort out issues that have wracked the country for three years.

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