2011年8月9日星期二

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Violence erupts outside London but capital quiet (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Council workers clear the remains of destroyed vehicles in Hackney, north London August 9, 2011. REUTERS/Chris HelgrenReuters - Violence flared in English cities and towns Tuesday night but London, where thousands of extra police had been deployed, was largely peaceful after three turbulent nights in which youths rampaged across the capital virtually unchecked.

China's first aircraft carrier makes maiden sea trial (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT

Reuters - China's first aircraft carrier held its first sea trial Wednesday morning, in a step likely to stoke patriotic pride at home and jitters abroad about Beijing's naval ambitions.

Tripoli says NATO strike kills dozens of civilians (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 01:54 PM PDT

A man rides his bicycle in the Tajura neighborhood of Tripoli August 8, 2011. REUTERS/Caren FirouzReuters - Libyan officials said on Tuesday dozens of civilians had been killed in a NATO strike on a cluster of farmhouses east of Tripoli, but the alliance said it hit a legitimate military target.

U.S. talks to North Korea on repatriating remains (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 03:53 PM PDT

Reuters - The U.S. military said on Tuesday it had reached out to North Korean officials about the possibility of repatriating remains of American service members killed in the 1950-53 Korean War.

Saleh vows return to Yemen, U.S. urges him stay away (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 11:40 AM PDT

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh speaks during an interview broadcast on Yemen's state TV in this still image taken from file video July 7, 2011. REUTERS/Yemen TV/FilesReuters - The United States has urged Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh not to return home from Saudi Arabia, where he has been recovering from injuries suffered in an assassination attempt during a popular uprising, diplomatic sources said Tuesday.

Slow China: Why One Town is Rejecting Life in the Fast Lane (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT

Time.com - Who needs breakneck economic growth? The town of Yaxi has become China's first officially designated 'Slow City'

London tries tripling police presence to end riots (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 05:21 PM PDT

A Miss Selfridge shop burns in Market Street in Manchester city centre, England, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011. Britain began flooding London's streets with 16,000 police officers Tuesday, nearly tripling their presence as the nation feared its worst rioting in a generation would stretch into a fourth night. The violence has turned buildings into burnt out carcasses, triggered massive looting and spread to other U.K. cities. (AP Photo / Dave Thompson / PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - Thousands more police officers flooded London streets Tuesday in a bid to end Britain's worst rioting in a generation as nervous shopkeepers closed early and some residents stood guard to protect their neighborhoods. An eerie calm prevailed in the city, but unrest spread across central and northern England on a fourth night of violence driven by poor, diverse and brazen crowds of young people.

International pressure on Syria grows (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 04:03 PM PDT

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, right, meets with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. in Damascus, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011. Syria's president held talks with neighboring Turkey's foreign minister Tuesday as the regime faced a chorus of global reproach, with envoys from India, Brazil and South Africa also heading to Damascus to press for an end to the violent crackdown on a five-month-old uprising. (AP Photo/Hakan Goktepe, Anatolian) TURKEY OUTAP - Syrian President Bashar Assad came under a new barrage of international pressure Tuesday with the Turkish foreign minister urging him to stop killing protesters and U.S. officials saying the Obama administration is preparing to explicitly demand his departure.

Violent protests for education reform in Chile (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 05:12 PM PDT

A demonstrator stands on top of an overturned car during a student protest in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. Masked demonstrators burned cars and barricades, looted storefronts and threw furniture at police as students marched by the tens of thousands to keep pressure on the government for changes in public education. Police responded with tear gas and water cannons. (AP Photo/Sebastian Silva)AP - Violence erupted on the streets of Chile's capital and other cities Tuesday as tens of thousands of students staged another protest demanding changes in public education.

Kenya burdened by famine refugees; rape attacks up (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 03:47 PM PDT

In this photograph taken Sunday Aug. 7, 2011, A Somali refugee whose identity is being withheld to protect her as a rape victim, lays in her hut with her children at the Ifo refugee camp outside Dadaab, Eastern Kenya, 100 kms (60 miles) from the Somali border. speaking to AP, she said she was gang-raped by five men after a group of families traveling together were ambushed. Sexual attacks against famine refugees from Somalis fleeing to Kenya are rising dramatically, but Kenyan police say they don't have enough manpower to stop the attacks. That lack of manpower underscores a larger problem for Kenya: Officials here say they are being overwhelmed by the influx of tens of thousands of Somali refugees, and they're letting U.S., U.N. and other world leaders know about it. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - Marauding gangs and criminals are attacking Somali famine refugees more frequently as they flee across the border to Kenyan camps, but Kenyan police say they don't have enough manpower to stop them.

Military launches probe into helicopter crash (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 05:22 PM PDT

The closed gates are seen at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. The remains of U.S. troops who died in a helicopter shoot-down incident Aug. 6, 2011 in Afghanistan, are expected to arrive Aug. 9 at the base. Pentagon officials have said that there will be no public media coverage at the Dover base during the military's 'dignified transfer' ceremony because the badly damaged remains are mingled and still being identified. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)AP - The military has opened an investigation into Saturday's devastating helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan that killed 30 U.S. troops and eight Afghans.

Housing starts climb unexpectedly in July (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 10:12 AM PDT

Reuters - Canadian housing starts unexpectedly climbed 4.3 percent in July, setting third-quarter new home construction off to a strong start and maintaining its role for now as a key support to the economy.

Australian minister's lesbian partner is pregnant (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 08:45 PM PDT

AP - A senior government minister in Australia has announced that her lesbian partner is pregnant.

Iranian group's big-money push to get off US terrorist list (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:28 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A high-powered array of former top American officials is advocating removal from the US terrorist list of a controversial Iranian opposition group with a long anti-American history.

A London Suburb Burns: Rioting Hooligans Hit Ealing Shops (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 04:30 PM PDT

Time.com - An account of the attack on a leafy London suburb on the third night of the violent street disturbances in Britain's capital

Concerns swirl over safety of 'uncontacted' Amazonian tribe (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 02:56 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The whereabouts of a remote Amazonian tribe who appeared in remarkable footage earlier this year aiming bows and arrows at a plane flying over their jungle homes was unknown Monday after government officials sent to protect them were forced to abandon their post and flee from armed drug traffickers.

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