2009年3月19日星期四

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EU leaders reject more stimulus despite glum stats (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 05:26 PM PDT

AP - European Union nations on Thursday rejected new spending projects to boost their recession-hit economies, standing firm against massive street protests demanding subsidies and U.S. suggestions to stoke growth with more aid.

Shootout king Given saves City's European dream (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 04:11 PM PDT

Oleh Husyev of Dynamo Kiev (C) fights for the ball with Andriy Berezovchuk (L) and Jonatan Maidana (R) of Metalist Kharkov during their UEFA Cup round of 16 second leg football match, in Kharkov. Dynamo lost 3-2 to fellow Ukrainians Metalist Kharkiv on the night but progressed on away goals having won the opening leg 1-0.(AFP/Sergei Supinsky)AFP - Shay Given rescued Manchester City's faltering European dreams on Thursday when he pulled off two stunning penalty shootout saves to put his team into the UEFA Cup quarter-finals.

Madagascar power grab a coup d'etat: EU presidency (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:55 PM PDT

Madagascan opposition leader Andry Rajoelina greets the crow at a rally in Antananarivo on March 18, 2009. The European Union considers the army-backed ousting of the democratically elected president in Madagascar to be a coup d'etat, the Czech EU presidency said Thursday.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)AFP - The European Union considers the army-backed ousting of the democratically elected president in Madagascar to be a coup d'etat, the Czech EU presidency said Thursday.

Bomb damages Greek state agency; no injuries (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Police officers look for evidence following a bomb explosion in central Athens, damaging a government real estate agency, on Thursday, March 19, 2009. Greek authorities have faced an upsurge in violence by far-left militant groups in the wake of major riots in Greek cities in December, sparked by the police's fatal shooting of a teenage boy. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)AP - A bomb blast in central Athens damaged a government real estate agency Thursday, police said. No injuries were reported.

Italian famed for Moro, pope photos, dies in Rome (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 03:04 PM PDT

An undated handout picture made available by Ada Masella, showing Italian photojournalist Gianni Giansanti who died after a long illness in Rome, Wednesday March 18, 2009. He was 52. Giansanti's career began as a freelancer in 1977 and in 1978 at 22, his picture of the body of former Italian Premier Aldo Moro, who was found dead in a car after being kidnapped by terrorists of the Red Brigades, gained him world wide fame. In 1998 he won the first prize of the Wolrd Press Photo for a reportage on a day in the life of Pope John Paul II and in 1993 he was awarded the Picture of the Year prize by the University of Missouri for a reportage on the famine in Somalia. His professional work includes over 25 years of Vatican coverage, social and environmental reportages in Africa and in the world of different sports like car racing and soccer. Most recently he had approached the new challenge of the multimedia. (AP Photo/Ada Masella, HO) NO SALESAP - Gianni Giansanti, an award-winning Italian photographer who snapped candid portraits of Pope John Paul II during his pilgrimages, has died in Rome after battling bone cancer, his colleagues said. He was 52.

France hit by new wave of nationwide protests (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 02:53 PM PDT

Naval repair workers from UNM (Union Naval Marseille) join a protest march with several thousand workers of public service and private sector, in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, March 19, 2009. A new wave of nationwide strikes by angry workers demanding that French President's Nicolas Sarkozy do more to fight the economic crisis hit France on Thursday. Banners read ' Naval repair hit but not sank - Naval repair essential for the harbour - for jobs'. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)AP - More than 1 million people marched in France on Thursday to demand the government do more to overcome the economic crisis, but planned strikes failed to fulfill a key goal — to paralyze the country.

Report: Iranian defector tipped Syrian nuke plans (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 02:27 PM PDT

This Aug. 5, 2007 satellite image provided Oct. 25, 2007 by DigitalGlobe shows a suspected nuclear reactor site in Syria. A top-ranked Iranian defector told the United States that Iran was financing North Korean moves to make Syria into a nuclear weapons power, leading to an Israeli air strike that destroyed a secret reactor, a report said Thursday, March 19, 2009. The report in the daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung goes into detail about an Iranian connection and fills in gaps about Israel's Sept. 6, 2007, raid that knocked out Syria's nearly completed Al Kabir reactor in the country's eastern desert (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe)AP - An Iranian defector told the West that Iran was financing North Korean moves to transform Syria into a nuclear weapons power, leading to the Israeli airstrike that destroyed a secret reactor, a report said Thursday.

Sarkozy under pressure as French protests hit streets (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 01:38 PM PDT

Reuters - Up to three million people took to the streets of France on Thursday for a second round of protests against President Nicolas Sarkozy's handling of the economic crisis and to demand more help for struggling workers.

Spain to withdraw troops from Kosovo (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 11:38 AM PDT

AP - Spain will withdraw its hundreds of troops from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Kosovo in the next few months, an official said Thursday.

Blacklisted actress Betsy Blair dies in London (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 11:24 AM PDT

In this Nov. 1948, file photo, actress Betsy Blair is flanked by actors Montgomery Clift, left, and Gene Kelly as they board an airplane for London at La Guardia Airport in New York City. Betsy Blair, the Oscar-nominated actress and teenage bride of Gene Kelly, has died in London at the age of 85, her publisher said on Thursday, March 19, 2009. The New Jersey-born actress, who later married film Karel Reisz, suffered from cancer and died on March 13. Mark Searle, the publisher of Blair's 2003 autobiography, confirmed her death. (AP Photo/file )AP - Betsy Blair, the Oscar-nominated actress and teenage bride of Gene Kelly, has died in London at the age of 85, her publisher said on Thursday.

Report: Syria's Assad ready to mediate with Iran (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 10:36 AM PDT

AP - Syrian President Bashar Assad told an Italian newspaper that he is ready to act as a mediator between the West and Iran, and would like to meet U.S. President Barack Obama.

Arctic 5: climate is No. 1 threat to polar bears (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 10:31 AM PDT

AP - The very survival of polar bears depends on how well humans fight climate change, which is the biggest threat facing the giant carnivores, the five nations bordering the Arctic said Thursday.

Timeline of key events in Austria incest case (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 09:51 AM PDT

AP - A chronology of key events in the case against Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for locking his daughter in a basement cell for 24 years, fathering her seven children and letting one of them die.

Russia voices hope for ending missile defense rift (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 09:03 AM PDT

AP - Russia and the United States have a good chance to end their divisive dispute over missile defenses in Europe, a Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.

Israel vows to improve minority, prisoner rights (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 08:09 AM PDT

AP - Israel said Thursday it will improve its treatment of minorities and prisoners, taking on board some suggestions made in a review of its human rights record before the United Nations.

Pixar's 'Up' to open 62nd Cannes Film fest (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 07:21 AM PDT

AP - This year's Cannes Film Festival will have an animated opening.

UK soldier killed in Northern Ireland laid to rest (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 05:22 AM PDT

British soldier Mark Quinsey's sister Jaime, second from right, follows his coffin as it leaves the Immanuel Church, Birmingham, England, Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Quinsey was shot to death in a drive-by ambush at an army base in Northern Ireland. Military engineer Mark Quinsey was only hours away from deploying to Afghanistan when he and another soldier died in a spray of gun fire outside the entrance of the Massereene army base in Antrim, Northern Ireland. They were picking up pizza at the time. The attack last week was claimed by a splinter group of the Irish Republican Army. (AP Photo/Chris Radburn/PA)AP - The family of an unarmed British soldier ambushed outside a Northern Ireland army base said at his funeral Wednesday that IRA dissidents stole his chance to prove himself in battle.

Officials: oil-rich Azerbaijan scraps term limits (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2009 05:11 AM PDT

Azeri men place their ballots in a ballot-box at a polling station in Baku during the presidential referendum. Azerbaijan voted Wednesday to scrap a two-term presidential limit, paving the way for President Ilham Aliyev to indefinitely extend his family's dynastic hold on power in the oil-rich ex-Soviet republic.(AFP/Osman Karimov)AP - Election officials in Azerbaijan said Thursday that citizens overwhelmingly voted to scrap presidential term limits in the oil-rich country courted by Russia and the West.

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