2009年9月11日星期五

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'I have final word on fighter jet deal': Lula (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 05:35 PM PDT

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will have the final say on who will sell billions of dollars in fighter jets to Brazil to modernize its air force, Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said on Friday. Rival bidders trying to sell fighter jets to Brazil have made a final push for the multi-billion-dollar contract, which had looked all but sewn up by France's Dassault.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stressed he will make the final decision on a multi-billion-dollar fighter jet contract, after publicly saying France's bid was the front-runner.

World honors 9/11 heroes, but divided over war (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 05:11 PM PDT

U.S. service members take a moment of silence before starting a 9.11 kms (about 5.5 miles) race marking the Sept. 11 2001, at the main U.S. base in Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. American troops in Afghanistan donned shorts and sneakers Friday to run in memory of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, as they fight a war that was born of that day but now faces waning public support. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - On the day to remember the terror of 9/11, the war it spawned in Afghanistan sowed fresh divisions. President Barack Obama, speaking under rainy skies after placing a wreath at the site of the attack on the Pentagon, called on the world to "renew our resolve against those who perpetrated this barbaric act and who plot against us still."

Riot police quell clashes at 9/11 demo in London (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Police try to contain unrest in Harrow. Riot police intervened Friday to quell clashes between Muslims and anti-Islamic extremists protesting outside a London mosque on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, an AFP correspondent said. Eight people were arrested Friday as riot police intervened to quell clashes between Muslims and anti-Islamic protestors outside a London mosque.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - Eight people were arrested Friday as riot police intervened to quell clashes between Muslims and anti-Islamic protestors outside a London mosque on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Iranian proposal falls short of Western demands (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 02:58 PM PDT

Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves at the start of his press conference in Tehran on September 7, 2009. The United States on Friday said it hoped for multilateral talks with Iran soon to test the Islamic Republic's willingness to address nuclear and other concerns, despite Tehran's AP - Iran's new offer for talks with six world powers ignores their key demand of a freeze of Tehran's uranium enrichment program, according to a copy obtained Friday by The Associated Press, and instead amounts to a manifesto calling for a new international order.

Three to be retried for transatlantic jet bomb plot (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 02:52 PM PDT

A court found (L-R) Ibrahim Savant, Waheed Zaman and Arafat Waheed Khan , seen here in Metropolitan Police(MP) handouts guilty Monday of plotting to blow up at least seven transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives, in what would have been a AFP - The public prosecutor said Friday he would seek a retrial of three men accused of involvement in a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners, following a hung jury in their court case.

World's oldest person dies in California at 115 (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 02:25 PM PDT

Reuters - The world's oldest person, a woman who was born in 1894 and gained a measure of fame when she voted for Barack Obama for U.S. president, died on Friday at the age of 115.

UK prosecutors want 3 bombing suspects retried (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 02:10 PM PDT

AP - British prosecutors said Friday night they would seek a retrial in the case of three British Muslims suspected of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners.

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Posted: 11 Sep 2009 01:28 PM PDT

AP - British prosecutors to seek retrial of three men suspected of plot to blow up jetliners.

EU states must balance budgets rapidly: EU official (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 12:38 PM PDT

European Union states that have hiked deficits in order to combat recession must balance their budgets as quickly as possible, European Union vice-president Gunter Verheugen, seen here in 2008, said Friday.(AFP/File/Jacques Demarthon)AFP - European Union states that have hiked deficits in order to combat recession must balance their budgets as quickly as possible, a senior European Commission official said Friday.

Suicide bomber kills one in Russia's Ingushetia (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 12:37 PM PDT

Reuters - A suicide bomber has blown himself up in a truck at a traffic police checkpoint in Russia's volatile Ingushetia region killing one other person and wounding at least five, Russian agencies reported on Friday.

Allies defend French minister after alleged slur (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 11:43 AM PDT

AP - Cabinet members rushed Friday to defend France's interior minister — a key ally of President Nicolas Sarkozy — amid calls for the man's resignation after he allegedly was caught on camera making anti-Arab remarks.

2 German cargo ships pass through 'Arctic Passage' (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 11:35 AM PDT

In this photo released by Beluga Shipping on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, a pair of German merchant ships are seen as they traverse the fabled Northeast Passage. Two German ships have traversed the fabled Northeast Passage, having arrived in Siberia from South Korea by traveling around Russia's Arctic coast line. Global warming and melting ice made the journey possible. (AP Photo/Beluga Shipping)AP - Two German merchant ships have traversed the fabled Northeast Passage after global warming and melting ice opened a route from South Korea along Russia's Arctic coast to Siberia.

Clarification: Russia-Gulag Required story (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 11:19 AM PDT

AP - In a story Sept. 9, The Associated Press reported that excerpts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago" will become required reading in Russian high schools.

Medvedev laments Russia's democracy, economy (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 10:16 AM PDT

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, is greeted by a Kazakh girl dressed in national costume, as Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, center, looks on, in Aktau, the Caspian Sea port in Kazakhstan, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Aktau for meeting with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)AP - Russia's democracy is weak, its economy is ailing and the country faces long-term problems with the health of its population, President Dmitry Medvedev said in an article published Friday.

Germany investigates nuclear waste storage report (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 09:47 AM PDT

AP - Germany will investigate a 1983 report on a nuclear waste storage facility after allegations that the report was manipulated by officials at the time, the government said Friday.

Uighur activist urges world to pressure China (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 09:35 AM PDT

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, gestures while former South African president Frederik de Klerk, left, shakes hands with president of the World Uyghur Congress Rebiya Kadeer, right, during an international peace conference held by Forum 2000 foundation in Prague, Czech Republic, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/CTK, Michal Krumphanzl)AP - An exiled Uighur activist accused China on Friday of destroying the cultures of the country's minorities and urged democratic nations to force China to change its policies on minorities.

UK gov't apologizes to gay codebreaker Alan Turing (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:57 AM PDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, seen here on September 2, issued a posthumous apology to World War II code-breaker Alan Turing, who committed suicide after he was tried and convicted of being homosexual.(AFP/Pool/File/David Jones)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown offered a posthumous apology Friday for the "inhumane" treatment of Alan Turing, the World War II codebreaker who committed suicide in 1954 after being prosecuted for homosexuality and forcibly treated with female hormones.

Hugo Chavez jokes with Spain's king (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:21 AM PDT

Spain's King Juan Carlos, left and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, seen, at the Zarzuela Palace on the outskirts of Madrid, Friday Sept. 11, 2009. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez joked Friday with King Juan Carlos, saying the Spanish monarch's new beard reminded him of Fidel Castro, further cementing a patched-up rapport with a man who once told Chavez to shut up. 'It is to change my look a bit,' said the king, who grew the beard over the summer. (AP Photo/Paul White)AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez joked Friday with King Juan Carlos, saying the Spanish monarch's new beard reminded him of Fidel Castro, further cementing a patched-up rapport with a man who once told Chavez to shut up.

UK police to investigate spy over torture claim (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:12 AM PDT

An undated handout image of Binyam Mohamed. Police said they are investigating an allegation of torture of Mohammed against the country's MI6 foreign spy agency.(AFP/HO/File/London Guantanamo Campaign)AP - Britain's foreign intelligence agency MI6 reported one of its officers to authorities amid new concerns over the country's possible complicity in torture, prompting police to launch an investigation Friday, officials said.

Murder trial of US student to resume in Italy (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 08:03 AM PDT

FILE - In this July 18, 2009 file photo, US murder suspect Amanda Knox looks on prior to the start of a hearing in the Meredith Kercher murder trial, in Perugia, Italy. A reader-submitted question about Amanda Knox's murder trial is being answered as part of an Associated Press Q&A column called 'Ask AP.' (AP Photo/Stefano Medici, File)AP - Forensic experts and other defense witnesses will be taking the stand as an American student and her former Italian boyfriend try to defend themselves against charges they killed her British roommate.

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