2010年3月26日星期五

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Recruit Afghan women to sell war to Europeans: CIA report (AFP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 04:19 PM PDT

Burqa-clad Afghan women wait for bus transportation in Kabul. A CIA expert has called for recruiting Afghan women in a public relations bid to persuade skeptical Europeans to support the NATO-led war effort, according to a document leaked Friday.(AFP/Shah Marai)AFP - A CIA expert has called for recruiting Afghan women in a public relations bid to persuade skeptical Europeans to support the NATO-led war effort, according to a document leaked Friday.

Church, deaf students square off on Italian TV (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 04:18 PM PDT

From left Gianni Bisoli, 60, Dario Laiti, 59, and Alessandro Vantini, 60, attend an interview with Associated Press in a hotel in Rome, Friday, March 26, 2010. Bisoli, Laiti, Vantini, and 64 former students at Verona's Provolo Institute for the Deaf, signed a statement last year, in which they described sexual abuse, pedophilia and corporal punishment that occurred at the school from the 1950s to the 1980s. They named 24 priests, brothers and lay religious men at the school. The Vatican has told the Verona diocese to interview the former students to hear testimony about the accusations. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - Three deaf men who say they were repeatedly sodomized and abused by priests as children confronted the church diocese Friday about why it hadn't punished their abusers, saying they want justice.

Iceland's premier pressing IMF on bailout review (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 03:02 PM PDT

AP - Iceland's prime minister said Friday she was pressing the International Monetary Fund to hasten a review to determine the next batch of bailout funding for the nation's struggling economy.

British Airways fly 75 percent of flights in looming strike (AFP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 02:52 PM PDT

Striking British Airways employees give the thumbs down sign towards a BA aircraft that flies past their picket line on March 22. Troubled British Airways said Friday it would fly more than three-quarters of customers during a four-day strike by cabin crew starting within hours, as a war of words with their union mounted.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Troubled British Airways said Friday it would fly more than three-quarters of customers during a four-day strike by cabin crew starting within hours, as a war of words with their union mounted.

Clergy abuse threatens to tarnish pope's legacy (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 02:28 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 8, 2005 file photo, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, blesses the coffin containing the body of Pope John Paul II, during the funeral mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. The Vatican is facing one of its gravest crises of modern times as sex abuse scandals move ever closer to former Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI - threatening not only his own legacy but also that of his revered predecessor Pope John Paul II. Benedict took a much harder stance on sex abuse than John Paul II when he assumed the papacy five years ago, disciplining a senior cleric championed by the Polish pontiff and defrocking others under a new policy of zero tolerance. But the impression remains of a woefully slowfooted church and of a pope who bears responsibility for allowing pedophile priests to keep their parishes. In an editorial Friday March 26, 2010, the National Catholic Reporter in the United States called on Benedict to answer questions about his role 'in the mismanagement' of sex abuse cases, not only in the current crisis but during his tenure in the 1980s as archbishop of Munich and then as head of the Vatican's doctrinal and disciplinary office. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, FILE)AP - The Vatican is facing one of its gravest crises of modern times as sex abuse scandals move ever closer to Pope Benedict XVI — threatening not only his own legacy but also that of his revered predecessor.

EU seeks better trans-Atlantic ties (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 02:06 PM PDT

EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, talks with U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk in his office at the EU Commssion headquarters in Brussels, Friday. March 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)AP - The EU called on the U.S. on Friday to upgrade trans-Atlantic relations, insisting that when it comes to crafting a new world order, Europe is a more significant ally than China and other emerging economies.

British soldier killed by grenade in Afghanistan (AFP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 01:48 PM PDT

Soldiers take their position during a patrol in Qari Saheb village in the Helmand province. A British soldier has died in a grenade attack while out on foot patrol in Afghanistan, officials said Friday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AFP - A British soldier has died in a grenade attack while out on foot patrol in Afghanistan, officials said Friday.

New sex charges against French priest (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 01:15 PM PDT

FILE - In this April 8, 2005 file photo, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, blesses the coffin containing the body of Pope John Paul II, during the funeral mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. The Vatican is facing one of its gravest crises of modern times as sex abuse scandals move ever closer to former Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI - threatening not only his own legacy but also that of his revered predecessor Pope John Paul II. Benedict took a much harder stance on sex abuse than John Paul II when he assumed the papacy five years ago, disciplining a senior cleric championed by the Polish pontiff and defrocking others under a new policy of zero tolerance. But the impression remains of a woefully slowfooted church and of a pope who bears responsibility for allowing pedophile priests to keep their parishes. In an editorial Friday March 26, 2010, the National Catholic Reporter in the United States called on Benedict to answer questions about his role 'in the mismanagement' of sex abuse cases, not only in the current crisis but during his tenure in the 1980s as archbishop of Munich and then as head of the Vatican's doctrinal and disciplinary office. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, FILE)AP - A priest in a town southeast of Paris was hit with sexual assault and child pornography charges after a 22-year-old former choirboy accused him of abuse, and a police search found pictures of a young parishioner in his home, a prosecutor said Friday.

Govt hails Russia-US nuke deal, eyes own cuts (AFP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 12:53 PM PDT

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates(R) announcing a landmark nuclear arms treaty. The government hailed Friday a Russia-US deal to cut long-range nuclear arms as AFP - The government hailed Friday a Russia-US deal to cut long-range nuclear arms as "an important further step" towards a nuclear-free world -- and vowed to include its own atomic arsenal in future negotiations.

Correction: Big Bang Machine story (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 12:04 PM PDT

AP - In a story March 23 about the Big Bang Machine, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the record attempt would be at energy 3 1/2 times higher than the previous record in the Large Hadron Collider. The comparison should have said three times higher, not 3 1/2 times higher.

Glance at church abuse cases handled by pope (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 11:08 AM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI gestures from his popemobile as he leaves a youth gathering, in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, Thursday, March 25, 2010. The Vatican on Thursday strongly defended its decision not to defrock an American priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin and denounced what it called a campaign to smear Pope Benedict XVI and his aides. Church and Vatican documents showed that in the mid-1990s, two Wisconsin bishops urged the Vatican office led by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger now the pope, to let them hold a church trial against the Rev. Lawrence Murphy. The bishops admitted the trial was coming years after the alleged abuse, but argued that the deaf community in Milwaukee was demanding justice from the church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - In his time as an archbishop in Germany, a cardinal at the Vatican and then after becoming Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger has overseen at least four cases involving allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy and church workers. A glance at the cases.

Strikes bedevil Brits again, but unions weaker now (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 09:10 AM PDT

Striking civil servants from the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union protest outside the Houses of Parliament in, London, during a one-day strike in a dispute over redundancy pay, Wednesday March 24, 2010. Inside parliament the government announced that it would cut its deficit forecasts and announced a 2.5 billion pound ($3.7 billion) one-off growth package for the economy as the centerpiece of its annual budget - its last before an anticipated tough national election.,(AP Photo/Ian Nicholson-pa) **UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE:**AP - Planes grounded. Trains sidetracked. Civil servants staying home. And a Labour Party government twisting slowly in the wind, its re-election hopes hobbled by spreading strikes and work stoppages.

Putin warns about spring floods across Russia (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 09:06 AM PDT

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin seen during a televised meeting with emergency officials in Moscow, Friday, March 26, 2010. Putin says thousands of Russian villages and towns could be affected by 'unusually strong' floods across the world's largest nation as snow melts after the harshest winter in years. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)AP - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says thousands of Russian towns and villages could be affected by "unusually strong" spring floods as record snowfall melts after the harshest winter in years.

Officials say US and Russia to seal arms deal (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 06:05 AM PDT

Graphic shows estimated number of deployed nuclear warheads and current and new limits for nuclear warheadsAP - President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are within hours of an agreement on the final details of a historic new treaty that would drastically slash the nations' nuclear arsenals, U.S. and Russian officials said Friday.

Regional voting held across Italy (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 04:36 AM PDT

AP - Premier Silvio Berlusconi faces a significant test in regional voting to be held across Italy on Sunday and Monday — and danger is all around him.

Kidnapper of Finnish heiress given 9-year sentence (AP)

Posted: 26 Mar 2010 04:28 AM PDT

AP - A Finnish court has convicted a corporate lawyer of kidnapping an heiress and holding her captive for two weeks until her family paid a multimillion euro (dollar) ransom.

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