2009年11月11日星期三

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Defence officials in multi-million pound bonuses row (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 04:58 PM PST

British soldiers stationed in Afghanistan take part in a Remembrance Sunday ceremony at a base in Kandahar on November 8. Public servants at the Ministry of Defence have been paid 47 million pounds in bonuses so far this year, officials said late Wednesday, sparking anger from families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)AFP - Public servants at the Ministry of Defence have been paid 47 million pounds in bonuses so far this year, officials said late Wednesday, sparking anger from families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

Irish priest freed in Philippines after a month (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 04:52 PM PST

AP - A 79-year-old Irish Roman Catholic priest abducted in the Philippines a month ago was freed early Thursday and neither country paid any of the kidnappers' $2 million ransom demand, Irish and Filipino authorities said.

Kidnapped Irish priest freed and in good health: military (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 04:39 PM PST

This video grab taken somewhere in Lanao province and released October 31 shows kidnapped Irish priest Father Michael Sinnott holding a copy of a local newspaper dated October 22. Michael Sinnott was handed over to the Philippine government early Thursday, a month after he was abducted, the top military official in this southern region said.(AFP/File)AFP - Muslim rebels handed elderly Irish priest Michael Sinnott over to Philippine authorities in good health on Thursday, just over a month after he was abducted, authorities said.

Red Cross concern at growth in displacement camps (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 04:01 PM PST

AP - Camps for people uprooted by natural disasters or armed conflict inside their own country can stir envy among locals and become a recruiting ground for armed groups, the International Committee of the Red Cross warned Thursday.

Iberia cabin crew announce more strike days (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 03:56 PM PST

A passenger boards an airplane of Spanish carrier Iberia, in 2007 at Barajas airport in Madrid. Unions representing Spainish airline Iberia's cabin crew announced Wednesday that they would stage eight more days of strikes unless a pay agreement is reached.(AFP/File/Pierre Philippe Marcou)AFP - Unions representing Spainish airline Iberia's cabin crew announced Wednesday that they would stage eight more days of strikes unless a pay agreement is reached.

Miliband rejects EU role for election battle at home (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 03:41 PM PST

Foreign Secretary David Miliband, pictured on November 4, firmly ruled himself out of the race for the European Union's new foreign affairs job on Wednesday, saying he wanted to AFP - Foreign Secretary David Miliband firmly ruled himself out of the race for the European Union's new foreign affairs job on Wednesday, saying he wanted to "stay and fight" an imminent election.

Netanyahu, Sarkozy make no settlement breakthrough (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 02:03 PM PST

AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, at odds over Jewish settlements, made no apparent dent in the dispute as they sought to find ways Wednesday to revive Mideast peace efforts.

Kidnapped Irish priest freed in the Philippines: Ireland FM (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 01:43 PM PST

This video grab taken somewhere in Lanao province and released October 31 shows kidnapped Irish priest Father Michael Sinnott holding a copy of a local newspaper dated October 22. Michael Sinnott was handed over to the Philippine government early Thursday, a month after he was abducted, the top military official in this southern region said.(AFP/File)AFP - Father Michael Sinnot, an Irish priest kidnapped in the Philippines one month ago, has been freed, Ireland's Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said late Wednesday in Belfast.

Iran condemns Oxford for honoring slain protester (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 01:01 PM PST

FILE - This photo dated May 2009 and provided by Caspian Makan, 37-year-old photojournalist in Tehran who identified himself as the boyfriend of Neda Agha Soltan. The photo purports to show Neda Agha Soltan whose death on a Tehran, Iran, street was captured graphically on amateur videos which were published on the World Wide Web. Iran has protested to an Oxford University college over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student who became an icon of mass street protests sparked by the disputed June election. In Tehran, a small group of hard-line women demonstrated Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 against the scholarship in front of the British Embassy. (AP Photo/Courtesy Caspian Makan, File) EDS NOTE: THE AP CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY OF THIS IMAGE - EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Iran has protested to an Oxford University college over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student who became an icon of mass street protests sparked by the disputed June election.

Israel hints at Syria opening after Sarkozy meeting (AFP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 12:48 PM PST

French President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) shakes hands with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Netanyahu met Sarkozy for talks on the crisis in the Middle East peace process Wednesday and appeared to open the door to talks with Syria.(AFP/Eric Feferberg)AFP - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met French President Nicolas Sarkozy for talks on the crisis in the Middle East peace process Wednesday and appeared to open the door to talks with Syria.

IRA suspect charged with '77 murder of British spy (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 11:34 AM PST

Kevin Crilly, from Jonesborough, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, arrives at Newry Magistrates' Court Wednesday Nov. 11, 2009. An Irish Republican Army suspect has been charged with murdering a British Army intelligence agent on the Northern Ireland border 32 years ago, one of the conflict's most mysterious unsolved killings. Northern Ireland state prosecutors levied the surprise new charge Wednesday at a bail hearing for 58-year-old Kevin Crilly. (AP Photo / Paul Faith)AP - A suspected Irish Republican Army man was charged Wednesday with the murder of a British Army intelligence agent on the Northern Ireland border 32 years ago, a surprising turn in one of the conflict's most mysterious killings.

Man convicted of Egyptian woman's court killing (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 11:19 AM PST

Defendant Alexander Wiens, right, is escorted to the courtroom of the district court in Dresden, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. A man who stabbed a pregnant Egyptian woman to death in a German courtroom has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel, Pool)AP - A Russian-born German man was found guilty Wednesday of murder and sentenced to life in prison for fatally stabbing a pregnant Egyptian woman in court, an attack that triggered outrage in the Muslim world.

German chancellor helps French mark end of WWI (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 11:15 AM PST

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel before Armistice Day ceremonies Wednesday Nov. 11, 2009 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. France commemorates the end of World War I hand-in-hand with the country vanquished in the so-called 'great war' as German Chancellor Angela Merkel joins President Nicolas Sarkozy to remember the fallen, and to celebrate peace. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - For the first time since World War I, the leaders of Germany and France held a joint ceremony on Wednesday to commemorate the end of the conflict, saying it is now time to celebrate their countries' reconciliation and friendship.

Azerbaijan opposition bloggers sentenced to jail (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 11:08 AM PST

AP - A court in Azerbaijan sentenced two bloggers to prison Wednesday for a fight in a restaurant, but the defendants say the charges were a pretext to punish them for political dissent.

UK to hold DNA of innocent people for 6 years (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 11:02 AM PST

AP - Britain said Wednesday it plans to get rid of DNA profiles of most innocent people after six years in response to a European Court ruling that said keeping the information indefinitely was a violation of human rights.

Opera-loving Scottish widow leaves millions to Met (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 10:35 AM PST

AP - Mona Webster had two passions: birds and music.

Russia launches program to save tigers worldwide (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 10:10 AM PST

FILE -- In this Monday, Dec. 5, 2005 file photo Lutiy, an endangered Amur tiger, roams in his cage at the Wild Animals Rehabilitation Center in Sikhote-Alin a mountain range in the Russian Far East. Russia's government and environmental organizations say they will launch a major international campaign to protect the endangered Amur tiger and begin increasing its population. (AP Photo/Burt Herman, File)AP - Vladimir Putin has made headlines by championing the endangered Siberian tiger — posing with a cuddly cub and placing a tracking collar on a full-grown female in the wilds of his country's Far East. Now Russia is helping plan an ambitious program it hopes can double the global tiger population by 2022.

UK's Brown: Obama's Afghan troop decision due soon (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 09:59 AM PST

AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says President Barack Obama will announce his decision on sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan within days.

Businesses fear Europe's recovery to remain timid (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 08:43 AM PST

A worker at the family run metal protection specialist Frantz Electrolyse in Villeneuve-La-Garenne, outside Paris, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. When times were booming, as many as 60 large truck loads could pull into the forecourt at Villeneuve-La-Garenne. Now it's more like 25. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - From his upstairs office, Jerome Frantz can hear the delivery trucks as they rumble into the yard of the auto parts business his grandfather founded 90 years ago.

UN agency calls for global fast against hunger (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 07:34 AM PST

AP - The head of a U.N. food agency called on people around the world Wednesday to join him in a day of fasting to highlight the plight of undernourished people, whose ranks have surged past 1 billion in the global economic crisis.

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