2011年9月21日星期三

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Obama tries to derail Palestinian U.N. bid (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:53 PM PDT

Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian youth during clashes that erupted between the soldiers and Palestinian stone-throwers at Qalandiya checkpoint September 21, 2011. The clashes erupted after a rally in the nearby West Bank city of Ramallah in support of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' bid for statehood recognition in the United Nations. REUTERS/Darren WhitesideReuters - U.S. President Barack Obama told the United Nations on Wednesday there was no short cut to Middle East peace, but Palestinians said they would press on with a request for U.N. recognition of their nascent state.


Two U.S. hikers convicted as spies leave Iran on bail (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:14 PM PDT

Freed American Josh Fattal, center in blue shirt, hugs his family members and relatives upon his arrival from Iran, in Muscat, Oman Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. After more than two years in Iranian custody, two Americans convicted as spies took their first steps toward home Wednesday as they bounded down from a private jet and into the arms of family for a joyful reunion in the Gulf state of Oman. (AP Photo/Sultan Al-Hasani)Reuters - Two U.S. citizens sentenced in Iran to eight years' jail for spying flew out of the country on Wednesday after Oman paid bail of $1 million, diplomats said.


Pakistan ISI urged attacks on U.S. targets: officials (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:37 PM PDT

Reuters - U.S. officials say there is mounting evidence that Pakistan's chief intelligence agency has been encouraging a Pakistan-based militant network to attack U.S. targets.

Snipers, shelling in Yemen break uneasy truce (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:11 PM PDT

A wounded anti-government protester is carried by fellow protesters onto a motorcycle after clashes with security forces in Sanaa September 20, 2011. Raging battles between heavily armed loyalists and foes of Yemen's president killed six people in the capital on Tuesday as a crisis over his violent crackdown on popular unrest drifted towards civil war. REUTERS/Khaled AbdullahReuters - Yemeni forces clashed with soldiers backing a mass protest movement in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, breaching a short-lived truce on a day when six protesters were killed by snipers, shelling and gunfire.


Libya rulers say they seize Gaddafi desert outposts (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:29 PM PDT

Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil salutes upon his arrival at the Libya Contact Group meeting at the United Nations in New York September 20, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - Libya's interim rulers said on Wednesday they had captured one of Muammar Gaddafi's last strongholds deep in the Sahara desert, finding chemical weapons, and largely taken control of another.


Mexico's Gangsters Send a Grisly Message on Crime (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 09:55 AM PDT

Time.com - The dumping of 35 bodies in rush hour traffic underscores the president's point that organized crime is killing more people than dictatorships

(AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:43 PM PDT

AP - WikiLeaks chief Assange condemns publisher Canongate for issuing unauthorized autobiography.

Americans freed from Iran prison begin trek home (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:24 PM PDT

In this photo released by the Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, US hikers Shane Bauer, right, and Josh Fattal, smile, at the Tehran's Mehrabad airport before leaving Iran. Two Americans jailed in Iran as spies left Tehran on Wednesday, closing a high-profile drama with archfoe Washington that brought more than two years of hope then heartbreak for the families as the Islamic Republic's hard-line rulers rejected international calls for their release. (AP Photo/IRNA, Ehsan Nederipour)AP - After more than two years in Iranian custody, two Americans convicted as spies took their first steps toward home Wednesday as they bounded down from a private jet and into the arms of family for a joyful reunion in the Gulf state of Oman.


Mexico drops terrorism charges in Twitter case (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 04:37 PM PDT

AP - A Mexican man and woman who had been charged with terrorism for allegedly setting off a panic by tweeting rumors about nonexistent drug cartel attacks were freed Wednesday after prosecutors dropped the charges.

AP Interview: Libyan royal offers to help homeland (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 01:50 PM PDT

Prince Mohammed el Hasan el Rida el Senussi, the great-nephew of the Libyan king ousted by Moammar Gadhafi, is interviewed in Rome Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. The prince offered to do what he can to help his countrymen have a 'bright' future as they decide the kind of democracy they want, including what he envisioned as a possible return to a monarchy. Leaders of the rebels who ended Gadhafi's 42-year-long dictatorship have said they don't foresee any role for Prince Mohammed el Hasan el Rida el Senussi in his homeland. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - The great-nephew of the Libyan king ousted by Moammar Gadhafi said Wednesday his countrymen should be allowed to decide if they want the return of the monarchy, offering his family as a "servant of the Libyan people."


Typhoon buffets Tokyo, dumps rain in tsunami zone (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 03:24 PM PDT

Surging waves hit against the breakwater in Udono in a port town of Kiho, Mie Prefecture, central Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. A powerful typhoon was bearing down on Japan's tsunami-ravaged northeastern coast Wednesday, approaching a nuclear power plant crippled in that disaster and prompting calls for the evacuation of more than a million people. (AP Photo/Chunichi Shimbun, Daiji Yanagida) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALESAP - A powerful typhoon slammed into Japan Wednesday, halting trains and leaving 13 people dead or missing in south-central regions before grazing a crippled nuclear plant and heaping rain on the tsunami-ravaged northeast.


Harper says Bank of Canada can act on FX: report (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 02:46 PM PDT

Reuters - The Bank of Canada could intervene to prevent a speculative appreciation of the Canadian dollar, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in an interview published on Wednesday.

Australian PM won't watch sex-under-flag TV scene (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:06 AM PDT

In this undated photo made from  a  TV image provided by the Australia Broadcasting Corporation, actors, Amanda Bishop, left, and Phil Lloyd, act out a scene from their comedy show 'At Home With Julia,' a satirical series about Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her partner Tim Mathieson. Gillard said Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, that she did not plan to watch the TV program showing two comedians playing her and her partner blanketed by the national flag after having sex on her office floor. (AP Photo/Australian Broadcasting Corporation) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALESAP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Wednesday that she did not plan to watch a TV program showing two comedians playing her and her partner blanketed by the national flag after having sex on her office floor.


Tensions over Palestinian UN bid spur new patrols in West Bank (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 12:19 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - As Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas defends his bid for statehood at the United Nations, his people are defending their land.

American Hikers' Two-Year Iran Ordeal Is Over (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 09:55 AM PDT

Time.com - The release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal ends a 26-month hell for their families

Mexican families struggle to find drug war's 'disappeared' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Sep 2011 11:17 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Veronica Coronilla said goodbye to her husband on March 21 as he set off from their home in rural Guanajuato in central Mexico with 22 other men to enter the United States illegally to find work. It was her husband's fifth trip, so Ms. Coronilla was not worried.
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