2009年7月13日星期一

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Demjanjuk faces 27,900 accessory to murder counts (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 05:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 3, 2006 file photo, John Demjanjuk, right, is questioned during a trial in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. German prosecutors on Monday July 13, 2009, formally charged John Demjanjuk with 27, 900 counts of accessory to murder at a Nazi death camp during World War II. The 89-year-old retired auto worker, who was deported from the U.S. in May 2009, and is declared medically fit to stand trial for the alleged crimes at the Sobibor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, but there is not yet a start date for the trial. (AP Photo/Plain Dealer, C.H. Pete Copeland, File)AP - The legal saga of John Demjanjuk neared its final chapter as prosecutors set the stage for one of Germany's highest-profile war crime trials in years — formally charging the retired U.S. auto worker with involvement in the murder of 27,900 people at a Nazi death camp.

Transplant girl healthy after donor heart removed (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 04:18 PM PDT

Doctors perform heart surgery. A British girl who had a donor heart grafted onto her own after suffering cardiac failure as a baby has had the transplant removed and is living a healthy life with her own heart, doctors said Tuesday.(AFP/File/Arnaud Roux)AFP - A British girl who had a donor heart grafted onto her own after suffering cardiac failure as a baby has had the transplant removed and is living a healthy life with her own heart, doctors said Tuesday.

Police injured in N.Ireland march season violence (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 03:53 PM PDT

A masked youth prepares to throw a petrol bomb in Armagh, Northern Ireland in March, 2009. Northern Ireland police fired water cannons and plastic bullets Monday to disperse youths throwing petrol bombs as the Protestant marching season got off to its most violent start in years.(AFP/File)AFP - Northern Ireland police fired water cannons and plastic bullets Monday to disperse youths throwing petrol bombs as the Protestant marching season got off to its most violent start in years.

Medvedev cheered in breakaway Georgian region (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 03:34 PM PDT

Russia's President Dimity Medvedev, left, listens to Eduard Kokoity, the leader of the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia, as they visit a building under repair in the region's capital Tsinkhvali, Monday, July 13, 2009. Medvedev visited South Ossetia on Monday in a trip apparently designed to assert Russia's ties to the region and dash Georgia's hopes of regaining sovereignty over it. (AP Photo/ RIA Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service)AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was greeted by raucous crowds cheering and chanting "Thank you!" when he visited South Ossetia in a trip showing off Russia's ties to the breakaway Georgian region.

Belfast Catholics riot over Protestant parade (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 02:48 PM PDT

Nationalist demonstrators take cover from a police water cannon behind a mailbox in Belfast Monday July 13 2009 . Masked and hooded Belfast Catholics hurled gasoline bombs, fireworks and other makeshift weapons at police Monday as the most bitterly divisive day on the Northern Ireland calendar reached an ugly end. Irish nationalists in Ardoyne, a militant Catholic enclave of north Belfast, were trying to block a parade by the Orange Order, Northern Ireland's major Protestant brotherhood. (AP Photo)AP - Masked and hooded Belfast Catholics hurled gasoline bombs, fireworks and other makeshift weapons at police Monday as the most bitterly divisive day on the Northern Ireland calendar reached an ugly end.

British face hard questions on Afghanistan losses (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 02:21 PM PDT

Anti-war protesters demonstrate outside Downing Street in London calling for British troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan, Monday, July 13, 2009. Britain lost eight soldiers within a 24 hour period that ended Friday last week and pushed Britain's overall toll in Afghanistan to 184. (AP Photo / Sang Tan)AP - A steep rise in casualties has sparked a soul-searching debate about the value of the Afghan war inside Britain, the major international partner for the U.S. in the battle against Taliban extremists seeking to regain power there.

Brown insists enough British troops in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 02:20 PM PDT

A soldier takes part in a mission rehearsal exercise on Salisbury Plains in Wiltshire before being deployed to Afghanistan last year. The government is facing pressure to send more troops and equipment to Afghanistan as a surge of military deaths prompted questions over the mission's purpose and resourcing.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown fended off calls Monday to send more troops and equipment to Afghanistan after the blackest day yet for forces there, with eight soldiers killed in 24 hours.

400-billion-euro plan to pump African solar power to Europe (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 01:18 PM PDT

A man pictured next to solar panels whose energy helps pump water into a water tower in a village in Niger, 2004. Twelve European companies launched a 400-billion-euro (560-billion-dollar) initiative on Monday to plant huge solar farms in Africa and the Middle East to produce energy for Europe.(AFP/File/Issouf Sanogo)AFP - Twelve European companies launched a 400-billion-euro (560-billion-dollar) initiative Monday to plant huge solar farms in Africa and the Middle East to produce energy for Europe.

Tevez signs for City - who also track Adebayor (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 12:33 PM PDT

Manchester City said on Monday they had signed Argentine striker Carlos Tevez, seen here in May 2009 and who left Manchester United at the end of the season.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Manchester City on Monday said they had signed Argentine striker Carlos Tevez, who left Manchester United at the end of the season, amid reports they also want Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor.

Liberia's Taylor to claim he was working for peace (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 12:33 PM PDT

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is seen at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, July 13, 2009. Charles Taylor has begun his defense against charges he led rebels in Sierra Leone who murdered, raped and mutilated villagers. Taylor's lawyer has urged judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone not to let the horrors inflicted by rebels during the country's civil war cloud their judgment about Taylor's involvement in the crimes. Taylor is charged with 11 crimes including murder, torture, rape, sexual slavery, using child soldiers and spreading terror. (AP Photo/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, Pool)AP - Former Liberian president Charles Taylor will take the stand to assert that he was trying to bring peace to Sierra Leone with his actions during a savage civil war that left hundreds of thousands dead or mutilated, his attorney said Monday.

5 militants, 3 police killed in Russia's Caucasus (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 10:48 AM PDT

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov (R) walks in the Kremlin in this June 12, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Sergei Chirikov/Pool/FilesAP - Gunmen ambushed police in Russia's troubled North Caucasus Monday, officials said, killing two of the officers in the latest spate of violence in the southern region. A sniper shot dead a third officer in another incident.

Baby who lost mother to swine flu dies in Spain (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 09:42 AM PDT

AP - A glaring medical error claimed the life of a baby born prematurely to a woman who was the first person in Spain to die of swine flu, a hospital official said Monday.

EU: Grasslands, wetlands, butterflies at risk (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 09:22 AM PDT

AP - A European Union report says grasslands, wetlands and butterflies are threatened in Europe.

German convicted of al-Qaida membership (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 08:48 AM PDT

AP - A German man of Pakistani heritage was convicted Monday of membership in al-Qaida and sentenced to eight years in prison for his active support of the terrorist group.

Britain investigates Iraqi man's death in custody (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 08:20 AM PDT

AP - A lawyer claimed Monday that British soldiers forced an Iraqi detainee to dance like Michael Jackson as part of widespread abuse and humiliation of civilians in southern Iraq — actions that resulted in the death in custody of a hotel receptionist.

French official dismisses threat by former workers (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 07:09 AM PDT

AP - A French official has dismissed a threat by laid-off workers to blow up their factory in western France, saying the gas canisters they placed in front of the automobile parts company are empty.

Chronology of the Demjanjuk case (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 06:39 AM PDT

AP - Key dates in the case of John Demjanjuk:

SAS plane makes 2 unscheduled landings in Norway (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 04:55 AM PDT

AP - Scandinavian airline SAS says a plane carrying 41 passengers made two unscheduled landings because of a problem with the flaps.

Pope on vacation in the Italian Alps (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 04:53 AM PDT

AP - The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI has traveled to a village in the Italian Alps for two weeks of vacation.

A timeline of Charles Taylor's rise and fall (AP)

Posted: 13 Jul 2009 03:00 AM PDT

AP - Jan. 28, 1948: Charles Taylor born in Arthington, Liberia, into a family descended from freed American slaves.

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