2008年10月4日星期六

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Money soothes tensions in Bosnian city before vote (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:11 AM CDT

Milorad Dodik, the Prime Minister of Bosnia's Serb republic (C), toasts with local residents after opening a new water supply system in Ljubija October 3, 2008. When Dodik first became prime minister a decade ago, the U.S. hailed him as 'a man of courage and conviction'. Now some diplomats and experts warn his separatist tendencies in a country still badly scarred by war could represent the greatest threat to stability in the Balkans. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)Reuters - In the 1990s, Milorad Maglajcevic fought for Bosnia's Serbs, whose wartime goal was to clear Muslims from areas they wanted for Serbs alone.

Paris summit seeks European response to crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:05 AM CDT

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech at the business and financial outlook for the written press industry at the Elysee Palace in Paris October 2, 2008. European leaders meet on Saturday for a summit French President Nicolas Sarkozy hopes will shore up confidence in a banking system hit by the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)Reuters - European leaders meet on Saturday for a summit French President Nicolas Sarkozy hopes will shore up confidence in a banking system hit by the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.

Six killed in Ukraine mine blast: ministry (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:56 AM CDT

Reuters - A methane explosion at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine Saturday killed six people, the country's Emergencies Ministry said.

Bomb damages courthouse in Spain's Basque Country (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:34 AM CDT

Reuters - A bomb left in a bag exploded outside a courthouse in northern Spain Saturday, damaging buildings but hurting no one shortly after a warning call claiming to be from Basque rebels ETA, a police spokesman said.

Kurdish attack kills 15 Turkish soldiers (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:30 AM CDT

AP - Turkey's military says 15 of its soldiers have been killed in an attack by Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.

Bomb explodes in Spain's Basque country (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 01:55 AM CDT

AP - Basque regional police say a bomb has exploded outside a court house in Tolosa in Spain's northern Basque country, causing considerable damage but no injuries.

Shock as Mandelson returns to British government (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 12:48 AM CDT

Peter Mandelson leaves after a meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, on October 3. Mandelson's return to the British Cabinet sparked surprise and words of warning for Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday after he turned to an old enemy to tackle the financial crisis(AFP/Shaun Curry)AFP - Peter Mandelson's return to the British Cabinet sparked surprise and words of warning for Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday after he turned to an old enemy to tackle the financial crisis.

Press revels in return of 'Prince of Darkness' (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 11:47 PM CDT

Peter Mandelson leaves 10 Downing Street October 3. Newspapers said Saturday that Prime Minister Gordon Brown had either pulled off a masterstroke or miscalculation that might backfire in bringing Mandelson back into government.(AFP/Shaun Curry)AFP - Newspapers said Saturday that Prime Minister Gordon Brown had either pulled off a masterstroke or miscalculation that might backfire in bringing Peter Mandelson back into government.

European leaders to try to find way out financial storm (AFP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 11:38 PM CDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, shakes hands with people in Marseille, southern France. European leaders were set to try to cobble together a response to the global financial crisis at a mini-summit on Saturday despite disagreements that killed off talk of a Europe-wide bailout package.(AFP/Pool/Eric Feferberg)AFP - European leaders were set to try to cobble together a response to the global financial crisis at a mini-summit on Saturday despite disagreements that killed off talk of a Europe-wide bailout package.

Nobel speculation centers on rights activists (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 09:38 PM CDT

China has urged the Nobel Peace Prize committee to award the AP - Human rights activists from China and Russia are considered front-runners to win the Nobel Peace Prize next week, while bettors are putting their money on an Italian, a Syrian or an Israeli for the literature award.

Fashion designers shiver as economic crisis hits (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 07:08 PM CDT

Italian fashion designer Alessandra Facchinetti walks on the runway following the presentation of her spring-summer 2009 ready-to-wear collection for the Valentino fashion house, in Paris, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - In the cutthroat world of fashion, a designer can quickly lose rising star status — a fact that Alessandra Facchinetti knows only too well.

Ukrainians deny giving wartime help to Georgia (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 04:50 PM CDT

AP - Ukrainian officials on Friday denied Russian accusations that Ukraine provided weapons to Georgia during the August war with Russia and that its military personnel operated some of the weapons during the conflict.

Blast kills 7 Russian soldiers in South Ossetia (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 03:57 PM CDT

Heavy smoke billows over the site of an explosion at the Russian peacekeepers base in Tskhinvali. Seven Russian soldiers were killed on Friday in an apparent car bomb attack in the Georgian separatist region of South Ossetia condemned by Moscow as an attempt to undermine the EU-Russia peace accord.(AFP)AP - A car exploded Friday, killing seven soldiers outside Russia's military headquarters in South Ossetia, and Russian authorities charged it was a terrorist bombing meant to wreck the tense cease-fire that ended their war with Georgia.

British PM Gordon Brown shakes up government (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 03:35 PM CDT

Peter Mandelson speaks to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London, Friday, Oct. 3 2008. The EU commissioner has been made Business Secretary in Britain's cabinet. Mandelson does not hold a seat in Britain's House of Commons, so will likely be appointed to the House of Lords by Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, allowing him to join the government without winning a place in Parliament at an election. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown reached into the past in a bid to save his future Friday, recruiting stars from the Tony Blair era into his Cabinet.

Sartre said no to Nobels; Gandhi missed out (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 02:55 PM CDT

AP - Some curious facts about the Nobel Prizes, which will be announced starting next week:

Trucker suspended for behind-the-wheel TV viewing (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 02:21 PM CDT

AP - A court has suspended the license of a truck driver who careened down a highway while watching episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" on a laptop computer atop his dashboard.

Beyond French-Angola arms trial, other iffy trades (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 01:58 PM CDT

AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants to clean up the way France sells its weapons abroad. A trial opening in Paris on Monday about alleged arms trafficking to Angola shows why, by exposing corrupt dealings long associated with the arms trade.

Guns, dirty money and French elite on trial (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 01:54 PM CDT

AP - The 468-page French indictment makes seamy reading: secret arms deals feeding bloodshed in an oil-rich African country. Envelopes of cash changing hands in a Paris mansion. A cast of defendants ranging from a debt-ridden tycoon to a Chinese opera singer.

AP Interview: Havel calls economic chaos "warning" (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 10:55 AM CDT

AP - The man credited with toppling communism in Czechoslovakia says the global economic crisis is a warning not to abandon basic human values in the scramble to prosper.

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