2011年8月11日星期四

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Cameron denies austerity drive caused UK riots (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 01:32 PM PDT

Reuters - Prime Minister David Cameron blamed the worst riots in Britain for decades on street gang members and opportunistic looters and denied government austerity measures or poverty caused the violence in London and other major English cities.

Bomb kills five U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 09:13 AM PDT

Reuters - A roadside bomb killed five American troops in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, the U.S. military said, less than a week after American forces suffered their worst single loss of the Afghan war when Taliban insurgents shot down a helicopter.

Syrian forces kill 17, U.S. threatens more sanctions (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:58 PM PDT

EDITOR'S NOTE: REUTERS CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT OF THE VIDEO FROM WHICH THIS STILL IMAGE WAS TAKEN People protest in Homs, in this undated still image taken from amateur video, taken August 7, 2011 and made available to Reuters on August 8, 2011. REUTERS/Social media website via Reuters TVReuters - Syrian forces killed at least 17 people in raids near the Lebanon border and in the country's Sunni tribal heartland, activists said, pursuing a military campaign to crush street protests against President Bashar al-Assad.

Israel okays 1,600 settler homes for East Jerusalem (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:24 PM PDT

Israel's Shas party leader Eli Yishai speaks to the media after a meeting with Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem February 11, 2009. REUTERS/Ammar AwadReuters - Israel's interior minister has given final approval for a plan to build 1,600 settler homes in East Jerusalem, a project whose announcement last year during a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden caused a diplomatic rift with Washington.

Ivory Coast arrests 57 troops from former regime (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 04:59 PM PDT

Reuters - Ivorian authorities arrested 57 soldiers from former president Laurent Gbagbo's regime on Thursday, and charged them with crimes ranging from murder and kidnapping to attacking state security and buying illegal arms, the military prosecutor said.

What Scares the Sinai Bedouin: the Rise of the Radical Islamists (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Time.com - With the central government a diminished presence in Egypt's badlands, the Takfiris have returned, sending shudders through even the toughest Bedouin smugglers

Cameron: UK will seek anti-gang ideas from US (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 04:58 PM PDT

Metropolitan Police officers prepare to carry out a raid on a property on the Churchill Gardens estate in Pimlico, London during an operation where police hope to recover property stolen during the recent disturbances in the capital Thursday Aug. 11, 2011. British Prime Minister David Cameron says the government is 'acting decisively' to restore order after riots that shocked the country. Cameron told lawmakers that 'we will not allow a culture of fear to exist on our streets.' (AP Photo/Anthony Devlin/PA Wire) UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday that Britain would look to the United States for solutions to gang violence after nights of riots and looting, and promised authorities would get strong powers to stop street mayhem from erupting again.

Israel prepares for Palestinian statehood rallies (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 03:39 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 15, 2011 file photo Arab demonstrators marking the anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians surrounding Israel's establishment in 1948 hold Palestinian flags as they approach the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, between Syria and Israel. Israeli police confirmed Thursday Aug. 11, 2011 media reports that Israel's police and army are importing horses, water cannons, tear gas launchers and a noise machine to prevent fatalities while dealing with mass Palestinian protests expected during a bid for U.N. endorsement of statehood in September 2011.(AP Photo/Yaron Kaminsky) ISRAEL OUTAP - Israeli security forces are importing horses, water cannons, tear-gas launchers and a nauseating noise machine to control crowds if they become violent at Palestinian protests planned next month to support their bid for U.N. endorsement of statehood. Israel hopes the measures will avoid casualties among demonstrators.

Chavez accuses foes of trying to divide military (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 04:32 PM PDT

AP - President Hugo Chavez accused his opponents on Thursday of representing U.S. interests and trying to stir up discontent in Venezuela's military while he undergoes cancer treatment in Cuba.

Libyan rebels capture part of Brega, push north (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 04:54 PM PDT

Swelmah Boukr, a lawyer representing several Libyan civilian organizations, speaks during a news conference with the foreign press in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. Boukr condemned the recent NATO airstrikes in the town of Majar, where according to the Libyan government 85 civilians were killed, and called on international human rights organizations as well as the United Nations to conduct a fact-finding missions to investigate the incident. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)Reuters - Libyan rebels said they had captured part of the oil town of Brega on Thursday while their forces in the west pushed toward Zawiyah, trying to get within striking distance of Muammar Gaddafi's capital.

Afghan witnesses: Chinook ablaze when it crashed (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 04:48 PM PDT

Wreckage of a Chinook helicopter shot down last week is seen at the site of crash at Tangi Valley in Wardak province some 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011. The Chinook helicopter that insurgents shot down over the weekend burst into flames before hitting the ground, leaving wreckage scattered on both sides of a river in eastern Afghanistan and killing 30 Americans and eight Afghans, witnesses told The Associated Press on Thursday. The crash of the Chinook CH-47, was the deadliest single loss for U.S. forces in the nearly 10-year Afghan war. (AP Photo/ Mohammad Nasir)AP - Afghan children retrieved souvenir-sized pieces of a helicopter shot down by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan where witnesses on Thursday described seeing the chopper burst into flames and break apart before falling from the sky, killing 30 U.S. troops and eight Afghans.

June new home prices up by 0.3 percent (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 05:50 AM PDT

Reuters - New home prices in Canada climbed 0.3 percent in June following a 0.4 percent advance in May, an increase which matched analysts' expectations, Statistics Canada data indicated on Thursday.

US joins minnows NZ, Belgium in AA+ credit club (AP)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 02:06 AM PDT

FILE - In this 2005 file photo, sheep in yards wait for sale at Stortford Lodge in Hastings, New Zealand. For the U.S. to be ranked alongside two minnows in world affairs — whose combined population is less than Florida's — prompted considerable derision at home. Some New Zealanders feel they should be the ones taking offense. Known for its stunning landscapes, sauvignon blanc wines, and producing the blockbuster Lord of The Rings film trilogy, New Zealand was plunged into recession by the U.S. mortgage crisis in 2008 but emerged in relatively healthy financial shape. (AP Photo/NZPA, John Cowpland, File) NEW ZEALAND OUT, NO ARCHIVE, NO SALESAP - When Standard & Poor's downgraded the debt of the United States last week, the U.S. joined just two other countries with an AA+ rating — Belgium and New Zealand.

'Eurobonds' anyone? Officials call for EU-wide fiscal policies to ease debt crisis (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 12:03 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - While America’s credit downgrade and rioting in London have grabbed the headlines, the financial crisis in the eurozone rumbles on.

Sinai's Above-Ground Underground: Cars, Illegal Migrants and Weed (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Time.com - With Cairo's control over the border area tenuous at best, the Bedouin feel free to grow marijuana for the domestic and Israeli market

Serbia, Kosovo inch toward tentative peace (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Aug 2011 11:40 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Serbian officials in northern Kosovo postponed a key decision on whether to adopt a NATO-brokered deal aimed at defusing ethnic tensions in the breakaway state yesterday.

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