2011年9月1日星期四

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Gaddafi vows fight as world backs new leaders (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:40 PM PDT

Combination picture of Muammar Gaddafi's sons Saadi (L) and Saif al-Islam. Saif al-Islam, promised on August 31, 2011 continued resistance to Libyan forces which ousted his father from Tripoli, and urged Libyans to wage a war of attrition against the National Transitional Council and its NATO backers, while Saadi, told al-Arabiya TV he had contacted the NTC commander in Tripoli with authorisation from his father as part of efforts to stop the bloodshed in Libya. REUTERS/Staff/FilesReuters - Muammar Gaddafi urged his supporters from hiding to fight on as Libya's new interim rulers met world leaders on Thursday to discuss reshaping a nation torn by 42 years of one-man rule and six months of civil war.

Defiant Gaddafi vows no surrender (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 02:11 PM PDT

Reuters - A defiant Muammar Gaddafi rejected on Thursday demands by Libya's new rulers that his forces should surrender.

Syrian forces raid Hama, official resigns in protest (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 08:48 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the media about Syria at the State Department in Washington August 12, 2011. Clinton on Thursday urged European and other countries to impose more sanctions on Syria and President Bashar al-Assad, saying more pressure was needed to force him to step down. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/FilesReuters - Syrian forces raided houses in Hama on Thursday, residents said, hours after the city's attorney general declared on YouTube he had resigned in protest against the suppression of street demonstrations.

U.N. panel faults both sides in Gaza flotilla clash (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:43 PM PDT

An Israeli soldier stands guard aboard a naval vessel as a Gaza-bound ship is intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea May 31, 2010. REUTERS/Uriel Sinai/PoolReuters - A long-awaited U.N. report on an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound ship that killed nine Turks declares that Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip was legal, but that the Jewish state used unreasonable force.

Iran "charm offensive" fails to ease nuclear fears (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 11:00 AM PDT

Iran's Head of Atomic Energy Organization Fereyoun Abbasi-Davani attends the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety in Vienna in Vienna June 20, 2011. REUTERS/Herwig PrammerReuters - An Iranian effort to show increased openness about its disputed nuclear program is doing little to dispel Western suspicions about Tehran's atomic ambitions, with one Vienna-based envoy dismissing it as a "charm offensive."

Out of Libya's Shadows: A Source Reveals His Real Identity (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:25 PM PDT

Time.com - In communications, he was called "Mr. Utah." But now that the fear of Gaddafi has faded, he has emerged from anonymity to reveal more fully his family's travails

Clinton: Libya must deal with Lockerbie bomber (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:35 PM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton poses for photographs with Libyan Transitional National Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, in Paris. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told Libyan opposition leaders Thursday that they must deal with the case of the only person convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing and that the U.S. will be watching closely how they handle it. The bomber "should be behind bars," Clinton said.

Gadhafi, in hiding, vows no surrender in Libya (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 03:46 PM PDT

Freedom fighters climb on a tank for a lookout at a defensive outpost, some 30 kilometers outside Misrata, Libya, Thursday, Sep. 01, 2011. A ring of outposts along the outer perimeter of Misrata have been created to defend the city as well as to provide backup troops and supplies to the fighters heading to the frontline.(AP Photo/Gaia Anderson)AP - In a fiery broadcast from hiding, Moammar Gadhafi warned Thursday that loyalist tribes in his main strongholds were armed and preparing for battle, a show of defiance hours after rebels extended a deadline for the surrender of the fugitive leader's hometown.

Mexico's old ruling PRI hits bumps in rebranding (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 03:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2006 file photo, Coahuila, Mexico, Gov. Humberto Moreira Valdes talks with another governor before the opening ceremony of the border governors conference in the Texas Capitol in Austin, Texas. Moreira, who heads the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, helped pull off a decisive gubernatorial victory in Mexico's most populous state in 2011 and was heading into the 2012 presidential campaign fielding the strongest candidate when federal officials reported a massive debt in the state that Moreira governed until January 2011. Moreira has called the claims a smear campaign against the PRI as it is poised to regain the presidency it lost in 2000 after 71 years of rule. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck, File)AP - The leader of Mexico's long-ruling political dynasty is facing some old-style scandals in his campaign to repair the party's image and regain the presidency in 2012.

World leaders back new Libyan administration (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:34 PM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, right, welcomes Libyan National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil, center, and Libyan Transitional National Council Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril, left,at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. Heads of state and top officials gather in Paris to work out how to support Libya's opposition leaders after Gadhafi's fall from power. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - World community, meet Libya's new leaders. That was the message of an international conference in Paris on Thursday that was short on substance but full of symbolism.

Afghans anxious about exit of foreign troops (AP)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 10:56 AM PDT

In this Aug. 23, 2011 photo, cows forage in garbage near destroyed Soviet-made armored tanks in Kabul, Afghanistan. Along with violence, uncertainty abounds this summer in Afghanistan where Afghans don't share the U.S.-led coalition's confidence that the Afghan security forces are ready to secure the nation by 2014 and others worry that the Afghan economy will collapse if foreign troops go home and the international community slows aid. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - It's been a tough summer in Afghanistan: Foreign troops started leaving. The Afghan president's half brother was assassinated. Suicide bombers keep killing government officials. The Taliban shot down a helicopter, killing 30 Americans. Civilian casualties are up and many Afghans fear their nation will plunge into civil war once the foreign forces go home.

Analysis: String of deaths opens door to tough questions (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:04 PM PDT

Reuters - Determining whether the sudden deaths of three players was related to their enforcer roles is something that must be explored, a leading sports psychologist and former National Hockey League tough guy said on Thursday.

Australians Ask: What Do We Do With a Folk Hero's Bones? (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 10:53 AM PDT

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Hana Qaddafi: dictator's daughter survived Reagan's bombs? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:39 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The story began in 1986, after the Libyan-backed bombing of a nightclub in West Berlin. The attacks were aimed at US servicemen, and ended up killing two and injuring dozens.

German City Taxes Prostitutes with a Sidewalk Meter (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 04:25 PM PDT

Time.com - The oldest profession in the book just got a new chapter

Flag lowered on British town's tradition of honoring Iraq and Afghanistan war dead (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 12:08 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The scene became a familiar backdrop to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan here: funeral processions slowly creeping through the market town of Wootton Bassett, met by a silent, dignified line of residents, heads bowed.

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