2012年2月1日星期三

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Russia says will veto "unacceptable" Syria resolution (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 04:35 PM PST

Anti-government protesters wave flags and carry coffins during the funeral of two protesters killed in earlier clashes in Homs, January 31, 2012. The banner reads, Reuters - Russia said on Wednesday it would veto any U.N. resolution on Syria that it finds unacceptable, after demanding any measure rule out military intervention to halt the bloodshed touched off by protests against President Bashar al-Assad's rule.

More than 70 dead in Egypt's worst soccer disaster (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 04:29 PM PST

Reuters - Seventy-four people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday when Egyptian soccer fans staged a pitch invasion in the city of Port Said, in what a deputy minister called the biggest disaster in the nation's soccer history.

Taliban vows to retake Afghanistan: report (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:42 PM PST

Taliban militants hand over their weapons after joining the Afghan government's reconciliation and reintegration program, in Herat January 30, 2012. REUTERS/Mohammad ShoiabReuters - The Taliban, backed by Pakistan, remains confident despite a decade of NATO efforts that it will retake control of Afghanistan, NATO said in a new classified report that raises more questions about Afghanistan's future as foreign forces withdraw.

IAEA, Iran to meet again after "good" talks (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:45 AM PST

Reuters - Senior U.N. nuclear inspectors plan another trip to Iran later this month after holding what both sides described as good talks on the Islamic state's disputed atomic program.

Egypt's "war on democracy" threatens U.S.-ties (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 10:59 AM PST

Reuters - Arriving in Egypt last year, Julie Hughes had hoped to help write history by aiding the country's new generation of politicians and civil society groups to build a democratic future.

TIME Exclusive: Q&A with Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 12:25 PM PST

Time.com - Hina Rabbani Khar talks with TIME about her country's relationship with Afghanistan, the U.S., and its own army

Panetta: US combat in Afghanistan to end next year (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 05:06 PM PST

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrives in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, to attend a NATO conference . (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)AP - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta laid out the administration's most explicit portrayal of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan, saying Wednesday that U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan expect to end their combat role in 2013 and continue a training and advisory role with Afghan forces through 2014.

Bahrain boils as uprising nears 1-year mark (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:32 PM PST

FILE - In this Sunday, March 13, 2011 file photo, an anti-government protester gestures in front of riot police on an overpass near Pearl roundabout in Manama, Bahrain. A year later, the monument long has been torn down and it's usually well after midnight before Bahrain takes a breather. The thud of police stun grenades trails off, the stinging tear gas mist is carried away and the protest chants against the Gulf kingdom's rulers go quiet until the next day. Then the cycle of unrest resumes in one of the longest-running and perhaps most diplomatically complex chapters of the Middle East uprisings. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)AP - It's usually well after midnight before Bahrain takes a breather.

Juarez police leave their homes after 5 are slain (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 04:46 PM PST

REFILE - CORRECTING TO REMOVE REFERENCE TO LOCATION More than 1.25 tons of marijuana are seen, in this January 28, 2012 U.S. Border Patrol handout photo provided to Reuters on January 31, 2012. Police seized a motorboat packed with more than a ton of marijuana north of Los Angeles and arrested three Mexican men, the latest seizure as traffickers try to beat tougher border security by taking to the waves, authorities said on Tuesday. U.S. Border Patrol agents intercepted the open-topped AP - Every police officer in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez has been ordered to leave home and stay in a hotel after the killing of five officers by a local drug cartel.

Nigeria Boko Haram spokesman arrested, victims buried (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 02:48 PM PST

Reuters - Nigeria's secret service arrested the purported spokesman for Islamist militant sect Boko Haram Wednesday, a group that has claimed responsibility for a string of deadly bombings and gun attacks, a secret service source told Reuters.

Police arrest 6 at Occupy Sydney protest site (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:02 PM PST

AP - Police have arrested six demonstrators while pulling down tents and posters at the Occupy Sydney protest site in Australia's largest city.

James Cameron plans move to New Zealand farm (AP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 02:38 PM PST

AP - Hollywood director James Cameron is planning to move onto a New Zealand farm.

Leaked US report on Afghanistan reveals Taliban optimism (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 05:24 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - A classified US military report leaked to the media compiles interviews with Taliban detainees who say their group is primed to regain control of Afghanistan after NATO forces leave in 2014.

Russia: A Kremlin Website Launched to Expose 'Stupidity' (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 12:25 PM PST

Time.com - Envisioned as a tool for reform, a new government site encourages ordinary citizens to point out the absurdities and inanities of the bureaucracy

Will the EU really turn to growth? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 Jan 2012 12:57 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - At the 17th summit by European Union leaders since the eurozone crisis began, the rallying cry and hope for the meeting boiled down to a single word: growth.

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