Monday, August 30, 2010

New video shows emotional trapped Chilean miners (AP)

New video shows emotional trapped Chilean miners (AP)

New video shows emotional trapped Chilean miners (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 06:31 PM PDT

This TV grab taken from a video released Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, by Chile's Government shows some of 33 trapped miners inside the San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. The miners, who have been trapped since the shaft they were working in collapsed on Aug. 5, were confirmed to be alive Sunday when they were reached by rescue teams via a small hole through which they could pass messages and see the miners with a camera. (AP Photo/Chile's Government Video)AP - A new video released Sunday of 33 men trapped in a mine under Chile's Atacama Desert shows them sending greetings to their families, talking about how they are doing better since receiving food and breaking into tears as they talk about loved ones.

Indonesian volcano erupts again, spewing hot ash (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 01:02 AM PDT

Mount Sinabung spews volcanic smoke in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. The volcano spewed hot lava and sand high into the sky early Sunday in its first eruption in 400 years causing thousands of people living around its slope to evacuate their homes. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)AP - An Indonesian volcano that had been dormant for more than four centuries erupted for the second day in a row Monday, spewing out towering clouds of ash and forcing the evacuation of more than 21,000 people.

Growing Hurricane Earl threatens north Caribbean (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:29 AM PDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 01:45 PM EDT shows Category 1 Hurricane Danielle, located about 500 nautical miles northeast of Bermuda, moving northeastward at 23 knots. Danielle is beginning to weaken as it picks up speed in forward motion. Scattered moderate and isolated strong convective activity continues to accompany Danielle. To the south, Category 1 Hurricane Earl, centered about 165 nautical miles east of Antigua, is moving northwestward at 15 knots. Earl is forecast to strengthen over the next couple of days and could reach major hurricane status by Tuesday. Meanwhile, an area of low pressure located midway between the west coast of Africa and the Lesser Antilles has a high chance, 80 percent, of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next couple of days. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Hurricane Earl lashed northern Leeward Islands with heavy rain and strong winds Monday after strengthening into a Category 2 storm. Hotels were shut tightly overnight as tourists sought shelter inside their rooms.

Russian nursing home fire kills 9 people (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 11:53 PM PDT

AP - A blaze at a Russian nursing home killed nine people early Monday, and emergency officials said it may have been started by a resident setting himself on fire.

Historic city in south Pakistan saved from floods (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:43 AM PDT

Flood survivors struggle for relief good distributed at a roadside in Pabbi near Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Thousands of people streamed back to this historic southern city Monday where new levees hastily built from clay and stone held back floodwaters that have inundated much of Pakistan.

China Reviews Death Penalty for Nonviolent Crimes (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:45 AM PDT

Time.com - For the first time in 30 years, China's top legislature proposed this week to reduce the number of crimes punishable by execution by up to 20%

Infineon sells wireless group to Intel (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:28 AM PDT

German chip maker Infineon said Monday it had sold its wireless division to US technology giant Intel in a deal valued at approximately 1.4 billion dollars (786 million euros).(DDP/AFP/File/Timm Schamberger)AFP - German chip maker Infineon said Monday it had sold its wireless division to US technology giant Intel in a deal valued at approximately 1.4 billion dollars (786 million euros).

Egypt: Dissident signs pro-Gamal Mubarak petition (AP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:18 AM PDT

AP - An Egyptian-American dissident and former advocate against heredity succession in Egypt has signed a petition backing the president's son to run in next year's elections.

New video shows emotional trapped Chilean miners (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 11:24 PM PDT

Chile's Mining Minister Laurence Golborne, center, holds a pipe used to communicate with 33 miners trapped alive in the collapsed San Jose mine in Copiapo, Chile, Sunday Aug. 29, 2010. The trapped miners half mile underground will have to aid their own escape clearing tons of rock that will fall as the rescue hole is drilled, the engineer in charge of drilling said Sunday. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - A new video of 33 men trapped in a mine under Chile's Atacama Desert shows them sending greetings to their families, talking about how they are doing better since receiving food and breaking into tears as they talk about loved ones.

Two Russian pilots abducted in Darfur (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:11 AM PDT

File photo shows a donkey cart passing a convoy of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) south of the city of Nyala, in southern Darfur. Two Russian pilots operating in Darfur have been abducted by unknown gunmen, an army spokesman said on Monday, the second kidnapping of foreigners in the war-torn region of western Sudan this month.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)AFP - Two Russian pilots operating in Darfur have been abducted by unknown gunmen, an army spokesman said on Monday, the second kidnapping of foreigners in the war-torn region of western Sudan this month.

Afghan district chief killed in bombing: officials (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:47 AM PDT

Afghan policemen inspect the wreckage of a police vehicle at the site where an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated in Jalalabad on August 24. A bomb blast in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad Monday killed a district chief and injured up to five others, an official and the interior ministry said.(AFP/File/Khalid Alokozay)AFP - A bomb blast in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad Monday killed a district chief and injured up to five others, an official and the interior ministry said.

David Jones sex case widens (AFP)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:16 AM PDT

Guests prepare to take their seats prior to the start of the David Jones autumn winter 2010 fashion show in Sydney. Up to 16 women could take part in a 33 million US dollar sexual harassment case involving David Jones, Australia's most exclusive department store, lawyers for the chief complainant said Monday.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Up to 16 women could take part in a 33 million US dollar sexual harassment case involving David Jones, Australia's most exclusive department store, lawyers for the chief complainant said Monday.

How moderate Muslims in Africa view NYC mosque debate (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 11:41 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Suburban Point E, on whose cobblestone backstreets Senegalese-American R&B roué Akon passed his boyhood years, already has a mosque. Several, actually, each megaphoning prayer songs across balmy Ramadan soirées. So, locals wonder, why shouldn't downtown New York City get another mosque, too?

In Chechnya, A Blood Feud Ends--and a Despot Digs In (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:45 AM PDT

Time.com - The men of gun-loving Chechnya, long Russia's most rebellious province, are not known for turning the other cheek. So many observers were baffled last week when the region's most notorious feud ended without a fight.

Outrage Grows Over Failure to Protect DRC Civilians (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 09:09 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28 (IPS) - As details emerged this week of the U.N.'s knowledge of rebel activity in the villages where nearly 200 women were systematically gang raped by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month, human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the U.N.'s failure to prevent the raid from occurring.
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