2011年6月7日星期二

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Gaddafi defiant as NATO intensifies Tripoli strikes (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:32 PM PDT

A Libyan fireman looks at the damage of a shoe warehouse which was hit by Grad rockets fired by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi at Misrata's western front line, about 25 kilometers from the city centre June 6, 2011. REUTERS/Zohra BensemraReuters - NATO unleashed its heaviest bombing of the Libyan capital since air strikes began in March, but Muammar Gaddafi vowed to fight to the end.

Yemen's Saleh injuries believed more serious (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 01:29 PM PDT

Defected army soldiers take up position on a street in Sanaa June 6, 2011. The writing reads, Reuters - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's injuries from a rocket attack on his palace at the weekend were more serious than previously reported, a Yemeni official said, raising further questions about his rule.

Syrians flee town as troops approach (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 03:31 PM PDT

A man wearing a mask of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad demonstrates against Assad in front of the International Criminal Court (ICC) offices in The Hague June 7, 2011. REUTERS/Michael KoorenReuters - Syrians fled a restive town toward the Turkish border, fearing bloodshed as troops with tanks approached, under orders to hit back after the government accused armed bands there of killing scores of its security men.

Jewish settlers accused in West Bank mosque attack (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 01:40 PM PDT

Palestinians survey the damage to a mosque in the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir near Ramallah June 7, 2011. Suspected Israeli settlers damaged the mosque in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday when they threw a burning tyre into it and scrawled Hebrew graffiti on its walls, an Israeli police spokesperson said. REUTERS/Mohamad TorokmanReuters - Jewish settlers were accused of attacking a mosque in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday, setting alight carpets and daubing Hebrew graffiti on its walls.

Steam and Bean Sprouts: On the Trail of the Killer Bacteria (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:05 PM PDT

Time.com - German investigators haven't quite cleared beansprouts yet because of one farm's apparent role in a contaminated supply chain

Spanish writer, activist Jorge Semprun dies aged 87 (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:25 PM PDT

Spanish writer and former culture minister Jorge Semprun, pictured in 2005, died in Paris on Tuesday aged 87, Spanish media reported, citing family and Spanish culture ministry sources.(AFP/DDP/File/Jan-Peter Kasper)AFP - Spanish writer, left-wing activist and former culture minister Jorge Semprun died in Paris on Tuesday aged 87, his grandson Thomas Landman said.

NATO unleashes blistering airstrikes in Libya (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:49 PM PDT

Local residents are seen on a hotel roof as a smoke plume rises after a NATO airstrike in the sky over Tripoli, Libya, on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Low-flying NATO military craft pounded Tripoli on Tuesday, landing a series of 26 strikes that shook the Libyan capital in rare rare daytime raids designed to step up pressure on Moammar Gadhafi to leave power. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Moammar Gadhafi stood defiant Tuesday in the face of the heaviest and most punishing NATO airstrikes yet — at least 40 thunderous daylight attacks that sent plumes of smoke billowing above the Libyan leader's central Tripoli compound.

Puerto Rico seizure yields car that uses jet fuel (AP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:23 PM PDT

AP - Federal officials in Puerto Rico have seized 16 high-end cars and 15 luxury watches from purported drug traffickers with links to an alleged drug boss known as the "Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean."

Five killed in Islamist sect attacks in Nigeria (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:04 PM PDT

Motorists pass through a gate that leads to northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri in January 2011. Bomb attacks by members of an Islamist sect targetting a church and a police station in Nigeria's troubled city of Maiduguri killed five people on Tuesday, police said.(AFP/File/Aminu Abubakar)AFP - Multiple bomb attacks by members of an Islamist sect targeting a church and a police station in Nigeria's troubled city of Maiduguri killed five people on Tuesday, police said.

Taliban changing strategy in Kandahar: governor (AFP)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:11 PM PDT

An Afghan policeman secures a staircase after gunmen launched an attack at the compound of the governor of Kandahar province in Kandahar in May 2011. Taliban militants have changed their strategy in southern Afghanistan and are attacking towns as their support dwindles among the local population, the governor of Kandahar province said.(AFP/File/Mamoon Durrani)AFP - Taliban militants have changed their strategy in southern Afghanistan and are attacking towns as their support dwindles among the local population, the governor of Kandahar province said.

Enbridge says northern spill larger than thought (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:10 AM PDT

Reuters - Enbridge Inc said a leaking pipeline in the Northwest Territories spilled as much as 1,500 barrels, drastically higher than its initial estimate of a four-barrel leak and the third major spill on the company's lines in less than 12 months.

Australia's military loses its UFO X-Files: report (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 06:49 AM PDT

A plane flies past the full moon over Budapest September 25, 2007. REUTERS/Viktor UfoReuters - Australia's military has lost its X-Files, detailing sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, across the country, a newspaper report said Tuesday.

Ghana takes steps to avoid oil curse (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 12:05 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In December, when the small West African nation of Ghana started pumping oil, President John Atta Mills said oil revenues would be used to transform the country into a “modern industrial nation” and reduce its economic dependence on the export of raw materials.

Unrest in Libya: Gaddafi's Security Forces Weaken Rebels' NTC (Time.com)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 04:05 PM PDT

Time.com - With the war between the Libyas at an impasse, the rebels in the east worry that the dictator is using undercover agents to sabotage their morale

Underdog candidate Carstens takes on IMF's European tradition (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 11:54 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Since launching a bid to lead the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mexico's central bank chief, Agustín Carstens, has sparked debate about whether the fund's head should hail from an emerging nation and end more than 60 years of European dominance.

New Laws Have Little Impact on Sexual Violence in DRC (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 08:54 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - BUKAVU, Jun 7 (IRIN) - Five years after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) revised its laws against sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), these crimes continue to go unpunished because of judicial inaction and a legal culture at odds with the changes. The laws, ignored and misinterpreted, have left escalating numbers of sexual violence survivors unprotected, and perpetrators free to violate again.

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