2011年1月27日星期四

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Dutch MPs endorse Afghan police training mission (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 06:14 PM PST

Afghan National Police (ANP) personnel take part in a training exercise at the Police Training Centre in Helmand province on January 19, 2011. Lawmakers in the Netherlands on Friday backed a cabinet decision to send police trainers to Afghanistan, six months after Dutch troops withdrew from the conflict-torn nation.(AFP/Noor Mohammad)AFP - Lawmakers in the Netherlands on Friday endorsed a cabinet decision to send police trainers to Afghanistan, six months after Dutch troops withdrew from the conflict-torn nation.

British arrests, US raids over 'Anonymous' cyber attacks (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 05:22 PM PST

British police arrested five people and the FBI launched raids across the US as part of a probe into cyber attacks by online group AFP - British police arrested five people and the FBI launched raids across the US as part of a probe into cyber attacks by online group "Anonymous", which last year assailed websites hostile to WikiLeaks.

Second under age girl at Berlusconi parties: report (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 05:08 PM PST

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures during a press conference. Italian prosecutors investigating Berlusconi over allegations he had sex with minors have linked him to a second under-aged girl, according to newly released legal papers.(AFP/File/Filippo Monteforte)AFP - Italian prosecutors investigating Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over allegations he had sex with minors have linked him to a second under-aged girl, according to newly released legal papers.

Dutch government wins over Afghan doubters (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:22 PM PST

Afghan National Police (ANP) personnel take part in a training exercise at the Police Training Centre in Helmand province on January 19, 2011. Lawmakers in the Netherlands on Friday backed a cabinet decision to send police trainers to Afghanistan, six months after Dutch troops withdrew from the conflict-torn nation.(AFP/Noor Mohammad)AP - The Dutch government won the support early Friday of a narrow majority of lawmakers for its proposal to send troops and police to northern Afghanistan to train police recruits.

UK police charge son of Pink Floyd guitarist (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:44 PM PST

FILE -In this Thursday Dec. 9, 2010 file photo, Charlie Gilmour, the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, is seen participating in a demonstration in central London against government plans to triple tuition fees. Police filed charges against Gilmour on Thursday Jan. 27, 2011 for his role in last month's violent protest against the British government's decision to raise university tuition fees. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)AP - Police filed charges against the son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour on Thursday for his role in last month's violent protest against the British government's decision to raise university tuition fees.

NATO: Afghanistan war won't end like Vietnam (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 02:32 PM PST

Afghan National Police (ANP) personnel take part in a training exercise at the Police Training Centre in Helmand province on January 19, 2011. Lawmakers in the Netherlands on Friday backed a cabinet decision to send police trainers to Afghanistan, six months after Dutch troops withdrew from the conflict-torn nation.(AFP/Noor Mohammad)AP - The Afghan army will not collapse when international troops end their combat role, in the way that South Vietnam's did in the 1970s, NATO's top officer said Thursday.

Longtime couple push gay marriage case in France (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:50 PM PST

In this Monday Jan. 24, 2011 photo, Corinne Cestino, background, and Sophie Hasslauer, right, and their with children, Merlin, Anatole, Emilie, and Virgile, from left, are seen in the kitchen of their house in Val de Vesle, France. The two women have lived together 15 years, are raising four children together and already benefit from a French law recognizing their partnership. But still, it's not the marriage they're fighting for. On Friday Jan. 28, 2011, France's Constitutional Court will take up their case, a move that could open up the door France to join other European countries like Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands that have legalized gay marriage. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)AP - The two women have lived together 15 years, are raising four children together, and already benefit from a French law recognizing their partnership.

London urges investigation into Uganda gay activist death (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:13 PM PST

A Ugandan newspaper vendor holds a copy of The Rolling Stone newspaper -- which has no relation to the US magazine -- in Kampala in November 2010. Britain on Thursday urged Ugandan police to fully investigate the murder of a gay rights activist in the country who was killed after his name and picture were published in a homophobic tabloid.(AFP/File/Marc Hofer)AFP - London on Thursday urged Ugandan police to fully investigate the murder of a gay rights activist in the country who was killed after his name and picture were published in a homophobic tabloid.

German, Polish leaders honor Holocaust victims (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:01 PM PST

Students pass a red rose at the Gleis 17 (Track 17) memorial at the train station Grunewald on the international Holocaust remembrance day in Berlin, Germany, on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. From Oct. 1941 until Feb. 1945 the train station was one of the major sites of deportations of Berlin's Jewish community. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)AP - Rabbis chanted mournful prayers for the dead that reverberated over the crematoria, barracks and watchtowers of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Thursday, the 66th anniversary of the death camp's liberation.

Son of Pink Floyd star charged over student protest (AFP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:54 PM PST

The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, Charlie Gilmour(R) seen here during protest in London in 2010, was charged Thursday with violent disorder and theft of a mannequin leg after he was pictured swinging off Britain's national war memorial during a student riot.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour was charged Thursday with violent disorder and theft of a mannequin leg after he was pictured swinging off Britain's national war memorial during a student riot.

Bill Clinton attacks Republicans (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:47 PM PST

Former U.S. President William J. Clinton pauses before addressing a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Focus shifts on Thursday to the future of the euro and the issue of climate change. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)AP - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton criticized the Republicans for their small-government policies Thursday, saying America has to stop "conducting its public policy as if it was in a parallel universe divorced from reality."

Berlusconi prostitution probe widens in Italy (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:29 PM PST

In this Sunday Sept. 27, 2009 file photo, Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi gestures as he delivers his speech at a meeting in Milan, Italy. A furious Silvio Berlusconi has called into a TV show, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011, discussing his alleged prostitution scandal, traded insults with the host and said the program was like a 'brothel.'' His supporters said Tuesday Jan. 25, 2011 that the Italian premier had a right to defend himself from accusations made during the show. Critics said the call was a show of aggression from an increasingly desperate man. (AP Photo/Alberto Pellaschiar, File)AP - Prosecutors investigating Premier Silvio Berlusconi on suspicion he paid for sex with a 17-year-old Moroccan girl have provided 200 more pages of documentation to lawmakers who must decide whether to authorize police searches of the premier's properties.

Police eye Caucasus suspects in Moscow bombing (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 11:55 AM PST

Several dozen liberal Yabloko party members picket in downtown Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, demanding information on the investigation into the Moscow airport blast. The poster reads: 'Jan. 24, 2011, Airport Domodedovo, 35 Killed, 110 Injured, Who is to Blame ?' (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP - Russian investigators probing the deadly bombing at Moscow's largest airport were focusing on up to 10 people from the volatile Caucasus region as possible suspects, a state news agency reported Thursday.

UK fighter crashes in the sea; crew rescued (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 11:53 AM PST

AP - Officials say a British Tornado fighter jet has crashed off the west coast of Scotland and its two crew members have been rescued.

UN climate talks in focus at Davos forum (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 11:34 AM PST

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, left, and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon participate in a session on Climate Change at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Focus shifts on Thursday to the future of the euro and the issue of climate change. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)AP - Businesses, especially U.S. ones, must get more involved in the global effort to slow climate change and help pressure politicians to enact policies that promote green growth, international leaders said Thursday.

Governments and business are bullish on Africa (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:37 AM PST

AP - Asia's still the economic darling, but it's hard to find anybody in government or business who isn't optimistic about Africa as the hot new continent for trade and investment.

Balkan TV mogul claims he's been poisoned (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:24 AM PST

FILE - Sept. 18, 2007 file photo of Zeljko Mitrovic, the Balkan's biggest TV mogul who has been hospitalized in Germany amid claims that he has been intentionally poisoned. Mitrovic's TV Pink said Thursday Jan 27 2011 that he suffers from aplastic anemia, a potentially fatal blood disorder in which the body's bone marrow doesn't produce enough new blood cells. Mitrovic, a former ally of late Serbian autocratic leader Slobodan Milosevic, has expanded his TV empire throughout former Yugoslavia with programs that mostly airs the so-called turbo-folk music. (AP Photo/Djordje Jovanovic, file)AP - The Balkans' biggest TV mogul announced Thursday that he has been intentionally poisoned, and Serbian police said they are investigating the claim.

Spain urged to probe alleged baby trafficking (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:02 AM PST

A man wearing a t-shirt of ANADIR, an association of people looking for lost children or parents, reacts while listening to a news conference on allegations of decades of baby trafficking, in Getafe, Spain Thursday Jan. 27, 2011. Spain's top law enforcement official has been asked to probe allegations that newborn babies were taken from their mothers and sold to other families for decades, including as recently as the mid-1990s. The petition was filed Thursday with Attorney Candido Conde-Pumpido by ANADIR, an association of people looking for lost children or parents.(AP Photo/Paul White)AP - A Spanish association of people searching for lost children or parents filed a petition Thursday with the attorney general to investigate allegations that newborns were stolen from their mothers and sold to other families for decades, including as recently as the mid-1990s.

In UK, Cameron's new foe has cunning — and fur! (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 08:07 AM PST

AP - Britain's David Cameron has a new group of foes to contend with: They have cunning, stealth and look determined to force their way into his home on London's famous Downing Street.

Belarusian leader: Poland wants to recarve border (AP)

Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:52 AM PST

AP - The authoritarian president of Belarus accused neighboring Poland on Thursday of plotting to overthrow him in order to recarve the border between the two countries.

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