2009年7月11日星期六

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Italian worker freed in Philippines after 6 months (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 05:46 PM PDT

Italian Red Cross worker Eugenio Vagni, left, listens from unidentified military officials in a military camp following his release from six months of captivity by al-Qaida-linked militants in the volatile island of Jolo in the southern Philippines early Sunday July 12, 2009. Eugenio Vagni, 63, appeared to be in good health but weak as Abu Sayyaf captors handed him over to a provincial vice governor in a jungle near Maimbung township on southern Jolo Island, officials said.(AP Photo/Nickee Butlangan)AP - Al-Qaida-linked militants freed an ailing Italian Red Cross worker Sunday from six months of jungle captivity in the southern Philippines, officials said.

Freed Italian Red Cross worker speaks with family (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 05:32 PM PDT

Freed Italian hostage Eugenio Vagni talks over the phone at a hospital in Jolo early on July 12. He was in hospital for medical checks after nearly six months in captivity in the southern Philippines, according to the military.(AFP)AFP - Italian Red Cross worker Eugenio Vagni has been able to speak with his family after being released by Islamist militants who had held him captive for nearly six months in the southern Philippines.

Italian hostage in Philippines freed: officials (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 03:42 PM PDT

This picture taken in January 2009 shows kidnapped International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers Italian Eugenio Vagni (L) and Andreas Notter of Switzerland (R) at an undisclosed location in Jolo island in southern Sulu province. Vagni was in hospital early Sunday for medical checks after nearly six months in captivity in the southern Philippines, the military said.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Italian aid worker Eugenio Vagni was doing "remarkably well" in hospital early Sunday after his sudden release by Filipino rebels who held him for nearly six months, officials said.

Freed Italian hostage in hospital for checks: military (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 03:24 PM PDT

This picture taken in January 2009 shows kidnapped International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) workers Italian Eugenio Vagni (L) and Andreas Notter of Switzerland (R) at an undisclosed location in Jolo island in southern Sulu province. Vagni was in hospital early Sunday for medical checks after nearly six months in captivity in the southern Philippines, the military said.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Freed Italian hostage Eugenio Vagni was in hospital early Sunday for medical checks after nearly six months in captivity in the southern Philippines, the military said.

British prime minister defends Afghan mission (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 02:34 PM PDT

Soldiers from The Princess of Wales's Regiment march through Worthing, England, to mark their return from Afghanistan and Iraq, Saturday July 11, 2009. Foreign Secretary David Miliband defended Britain's role in Afghanistan on Saturday after fighting claimed eight soldiers' lives in 24 hours. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons, PA)AP - The deaths of eight British soldiers in Afghanistan within 24 hours triggered a debate in Britain on Saturday that could undercut public support for the war just as the U.S. is ramping up its own participation in the conflict.

Bosnia buries Srebrenica massacre victims (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 02:27 PM PDT

Reuters - Tens of thousands of grieving Bosnian Muslims attended a somber burial ceremony on Saturday for 534 newly identified victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, one of the bloodiest events in the 1992-95 Bosnia war.

Brown defends Afghanistan strategy as deaths mount (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 01:21 PM PDT

British soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force are pictured on the outskirts of Kabul in 2008. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has insisted Britain has the right strategy in Afghanistan after British military deaths surpassed the number of dead in the Iraq war.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted Saturday that Britain had the right strategy in Afghanistan after British military deaths surpassed the number of dead in the Iraq campaign.

Chambers' hopes for Berlin 100m spot dented (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 12:36 PM PDT

Controversial British sprinter Dwain Chambers, seen here in action in June 2009, saw his hopes of competing in the 100m in the World Athletics Championships dented after finishing second in the British trials on Saturday.(AFP/File/Miguel Riopa)AFP - Controversial British sprinter Dwain Chambers saw his hopes of competing in the 100m in the World Athletics Championships dented after finishing second in the British trials on Saturday.

Italy: Hostage freed in Philippines after 6 months (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 12:05 PM PDT

AP - An ailing Italian Red Cross worker who was kidnapped in January in the Philippines by the Abu Sayyaf rebel group was freed Saturday, officials said.

Croatia moves to privatise shipyards (AFP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 11:56 AM PDT

Workers of Croatian shipyard AFP - Croatia's government decided on Saturday to move forward with privatisation of its ailing shipyards, part of reforms required by the European Union, which the country hopes to join by 2011.

5 hurt in latest Pamplona bull run (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 11:25 AM PDT

Revelers run in front of Dolores Aguirre Ybarra fighting bulls, as people watch from balconies, during the fifth day, at San Fermin Fiestas in Pamplona, northern Spain, Saturday, July 11, 2009. A packed running of the bulls swollen by weekend crowds at the San Fermin festival left five people with minor injuries but no one was gored on Saturday, the day after the first fatality for 14 years. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)AP - A packed running of the bulls swollen by weekend crowds at Spain's San Fermin festival left five people with minor injuries Saturday, but there were no gorings the day after the first fatality for 14 years.

German city honors Egyptian woman slain in court (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 09:38 AM PDT

AP - Hundreds of people carrying white roses gathered Saturday on the steps of Dresden's city hall in honor of an Egyptian woman who was fatally stabbed by a defendant in a German courtroom.

Mass funeral for Srebrenica massacre victims (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 07:42 AM PDT

A Bosnian Muslim woman weeps beside grave stones of her relative, one of the Srebrenica victims during a mass funeral ceremony at the Memorial center of Potocari near Srebrenica, 120 kms northeast of Sarajevo on Saturday, July 11, 2009. Tens of thousands of relatives and survivors gathered in Srebrenica to mark the 14th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II and to bury 534 victims recently recovered from mass graves. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)AP - Tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslims prayed for the dead in Srebrenica and buried hundreds more recovered bodies Saturday on the 14th anniversary of Europe's worst massacre since World War II.

Big Ben celebrates 150 years of bongs (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 06:08 AM PDT

An illumination of part of a message reading 'Happy Birthday Big Ben, 150 years, 1859-2009' is seen projected on the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster in London to celebrate Big Ben's 150th anniversary, Saturday, July 11, 2009. The booming bell first pealed on July 11, 1859, a few weeks after the clock in the famous tower above the Houses of Parliament began keeping time. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Britain's Big Ben is marking its 150th birthday with a celebration in London on Saturday.

Obama visit to slave fort steeped in symbolism (AP)

Posted: 11 Jul 2009 02:02 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 4, 2007 file photo, members of a U.S Major League Baseball delegation visit Cape Coast Castle, which served as Britain's West Africa headquarters for the trans-Atlantic slave trade, in Cape Coast, Ghana. On Saturday, July 11, 2009, Barack Obama and his family will follow in the footsteps of countless African-Americans who have tried to reconnect with their past on these shores. Though Obama was not descended from slaves — his father was Kenyan — he will carry the legacy of the African-American experience with him as America's first black president.(AP Photo/George Osodi, File)AP - From the rampart of a whitewashed fort once used to ship countless slaves from Africa to the Americas, Cheryl Hardin gazed through watery eyes at the route forcibly taken across the sea by her ancestors centuries before.

Pope presses Obama on abortion, stem cells (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 08:35 PM PDT

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama meet with Pope Benedict XVI, Friday, July 10, 2009, at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - Pope Benedict XVI stressed the church's opposition to abortion and stem cell research in his first meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday, pressing the Vatican's case with the U.S. leader who is already under fire on those issues from some conservative Catholics and bishops back home.

G-8 is not enough: Calls for larger, recast group (AP)

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 06:05 PM PDT

Activists wearing masks of the G8 (Group of Eight) leaders, from left, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, posing to be pregnant, at yoga class during a protest in Rome, against the G8 summit held in L'Aquila , Friday, July 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)AP - For all the smiles and upbeat talk, the just-ended Group of Eight summit showed how unwieldy the forum has become, run by Cold War-vintage powers while relegating the world's fastest growing economies — China, India and Brazil — to observers.

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