2010年3月10日星期三

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Govt seeks Afghan push to find political solution to war (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:11 PM PST

Afghan's President Hamid Karzai inspects a guard of honour of Pakistani troops at Chaklala airbase upon his arrival in Rawalpindi. The British government on Wednesday called on the Afghan government to intensify efforts and find a political solution with the Taliban to bring the conflict there to an end.(AFP)AFP - The government on Wednesday called on the Afghan government to intensify efforts and find a political solution with the Taliban to bring the conflict there to an end.

Church abuse scandal reaches pope's brother (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:03 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006 file picture Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother priest Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg, southern Germany. The pope's brother says in a newspaper interview that he slapped pupils across the face after he took over a renowned German boys' choir in the 1960s. He also says he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir, but did nothing about it. In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse published Tuesday March 9, 2010 , he said 'repeatedly administered a slap in the face' to pupils at the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir. He says it was common then and he stopped after Germany banned corporal punishment in 1980. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher,File)AP - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself.

Norway doomsday seed vault hits 1/2 million mark (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PST

AP - Two years after receiving its first deposits, a "doomsday" seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world's most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault's operators announced Thursday.

British Airways strike looms as last-ditch talks fail (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:34 PM PST

British Airways cabin crew arrive for the start of a union meeting to discuss a strike ballot at Sandown Racecourse in Esher, Surrey, in 2009. Talks to avert a strike by British Airways cabin crew over working conditions failed on Wednesday, raising the threat of a walkout as early as next week.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Talks to avert a strike by British Airways cabin crew over working conditions failed on Wednesday, raising the threat of a walkout as early as next week.

Italy, FBI raids crack down on Mafia in US, Sicily (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:30 PM PST

U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jeffrey H. Sloman speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, March 10, 2010 in Miami. The FBI arrested a reputed U.S. mobster Wednesday on charges he provided protection for a Sicilian counterpart operating in Florida, part of an international sweep aimed at further crippling the storied Gambino organized crime family and disrupting its ties to the Italian mob. Behind Sloman, from left, Raffaele Grassi, vice director, central operations service, Italian National Police, FBI Special Agent in Charge John V. Gillies and Lt. Wallace Haywood with the Broward Sheriff's Office. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)AP - The FBI arrested a reputed U.S. mobster Wednesday on charges he provided protection for a Sicilian counterpart mapping out criminal turf in Florida — part of an international sweep aimed at further crippling the storied Gambino organized crime family and disrupting its ties to the Italian mob.

Swedish artist has no regrets over prophet drawing (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:26 PM PST

Swedish artist Lars Vilks walks in the streets without protection in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday March 10 2010. The Swedish artist who angered Muslims by drawing the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog says he believes the suspects arrested in Ireland and the U.S. in an alleged plot to kill him were not professionals . (AP photo/Scanpix, Bertil Ericson)AP - The point of a caricature depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was to show that artistic freedom allows mockery of all religions, including the most sacred symbols of Islam, the Swedish artist who created it said Wednesday.

Derivatives debate splits US and Europe regulators (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:16 PM PST

AP - To European officials, financial derivatives are dangerous weapons that worsened Greece's debt crisis and should be curbed.

Summary Box: Derivatives fight divides US, Europe (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:08 PM PST

AP - TARGETING SWAPS: European countries want the U.S. to join a crackdown on credit default swaps, a type of financial derivative some blame for deepening Europe's debt crisis.

Britain confronts debt of Greek proportions (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 02:46 PM PST

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown makes a major economical speech in London Wednesday March 10, 2010. Britain's economic recovery remains fragile, Brown warned Wednesday, as he paved the way for a national election by announcing the government's budget would be published in two weeks. (AP Photo/ Charlie Bibby/Financial Times/Pool)AP - Government debt is growing, as is the deficit. The economy is struggling to get out of recession and there is talk of spending cuts or higher taxes. The unions are on edge. And the currency is plummeting.

ECB to examine European IMF plan: Trichet (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 02:30 PM PST

European Central Bank (ECB) building and a euro sculpture are reflected in a puddle in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. The European Central Bank will consider a proposed emergency fund for eurozone economies in distress, ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet said on Wednesday.(AFP/DDP/File/Thomas Lohnes)AFP - The European Central Bank will consider a proposed emergency fund for eurozone economies in distress, ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet said on Wednesday.

Deforestation conference to turn plans to action (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 11:56 AM PST

AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will open a daylong conference Thursday of some 40 nations to start turning plans into action to save the world's forests and help rein in the noxious gases blamed for climate change.

Italy parliament passes justice measure (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 11:42 AM PST

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, right, is flanked by People of Freedom party candidate, for the upcoming regional elections, Renata Polverini at the end of a press conference at the party's headquarters in Rome,Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Berlusconi has called on his supporters to take to the streets this month to defend their right to vote in coming local elections. The call Wednesday came amid weeks of chaos surrounding the registration of candidates from Berlusconi's center-right party for the March 28-29 balloting. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)AP - Silvio Berlusconi's allies pushed a controversial measure through parliament on Wednesday that shields the Italian premier from prosecution in two ongoing trials.

Russian drivers forced to act as shield (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 09:27 AM PST

AP - Russian traffic police are under investigation for ordering civilian motorists to park their cars across a highway — and remain inside — to block a fleeing criminal suspect, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Turkish officials lower quake death toll to 41 (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 09:26 AM PST

Women stand in the debris of their collapsed houses in Kayalik village in the eastern province of Elazig, Turkey, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, two days after a strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit the area. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - Turkish officials on Wednesday lowered the death toll in this week's magnitude 6 earthquake from 51 to 41.

Spain: Aid worker in Africa released by militants (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 09:17 AM PST

AP - A Spanish aid worker who spent 100 days as a hostage of al-Qaida's North African offshoot arrived home tired and grateful after being released Wednesday, and said she hopes two colleagues abducted with her in Mauritania will follow her soon.

2 men held for theft of Cyprus ex-leader's corpse (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 08:43 AM PST

Police officers set up a tarpaulin during their investigations around a grave where the body of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos was discovered at Strovolos cemetery, a suburb of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. DNA results obtained early positively identified the corpse as Papadopoulos after a telephone tip-off led police to the body late Monday at the cemetery, police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos said. Papadopoulos' corpse was dug up from another graveyard on Nicosia's southern outskirts on Dec. 11, 2009, the eve of the first anniversary of his death from lung cancer. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)AP - A suspect's remorse over his alleged role in the theft of the body of Cyprus' former president led to the corpse's discovery and three arrests, a police official testified Wednesday.

European Parliament backs UN report on Gaza war (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 08:21 AM PST

AP - In a move likely to worsen EU ties with Israel, the European Parliament urged its 27-member states Wednesday to monitor the Israeli and Palestinian probes into alleged war crimes in Gaza.

Fake fruit conceals cocaine cargo in Netherlands (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 07:57 AM PST

AP - First it was drugs among the flowers. Now, drug traffickers have stuffed real drugs into fake fruit in an effort to smuggle cocaine into the Netherlands, authorities said Wednesday.

UN expert concerned about missing Chinese lawyer (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 07:51 AM PST

AP - A U.N. torture investigator said Wednesday he is very concerned about the fate of missing Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng and believes he has been severely tortured.

Record 237 nominations for 2010 Nobel Peace Prize (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 07:34 AM PST

AP - The committee that selects the Nobel Peace Prize winner will consider a record 237 nominations for the 2010 award, a Nobel official said Wednesday.

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