Monday, September 6, 2010

Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program (AP)

Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program (AP)

Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:46 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, leaves Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for a trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Monday, Sep. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)AP - A combative President Barack Obama has rolled out a long-term jobs program before a cheering Labor Day crowd and coupled it with a campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.

Hurricane watch issued for coasts of Mexico, Texas (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:43 AM PDT

Tropical storm Hermine is seen in this satellite image courtesy of the National Hurricane Center. REUTERS/National Hurricane Center/HandoutAP - Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while officials in Texas distributed sandbags and warned of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine headed toward the northwestern Gulf coast on Monday.

Lawyer says Iranian woman could be stoned soon (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:53 PM PDT

FILE - This undated file image made available by Amnesty International in London on Thursday, July 8, 2010, shows Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a mother of two who was sentenced to death by stoning in Iran on charges of adultery. Ashtiani is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman's son said Monday. (AP Photo/Amnesty International, File)** EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES**AP - The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 10:27 AM PDT

FILE - Jefferson Thomas in 1957, one of nine African American who integrated Little Rock Central High School while federal troops patrolled the campus, is seen in an 1957 file photo. Jefferson Thomas died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio, said fellow Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Trickey Brown. He was 68. (AP Photo, File)AP - Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation's first major battle over school segregation, has died. He was 68.

NKorea prepares for biggest convention in 30 years (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 09:14 AM PDT

A large campaign poster is posted in a street, promoting a Workers' Party conference early this month in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. North Korea's ruling communist party members gathered in Pyongyang ahead of their largest political conference in 30 years, state media reported Monday, amid predictions that leader Kim Jong Il would use the meeting to give a key ruling party position to one of his sons. The campaign slogans in the poster reads: 'Let us mark the representatives' meeting of the Workers' Party of Korea as a celebration that will shine in the history of our party and our country.' (AP Photo/APTN)AP - Huge posters plastered across the North Korean capital hailed the nation's biggest political convention in 30 years as a historic event as the world watched Monday for signs that the country's next leader was making his public debut.

Death toll 44 in Guatemala mudslides; more missing (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:25 PM PDT

Residents carry a coffin containing the remains of a mudslide victim to be buried in Santa Maria Ixtahuacan, Guatemala, Sunday Sept. 5, 2010. Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)AP - Searchers on Monday pulled more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and people trying to save them. Yet more mudslides helped raise Guatemala's official death toll to 44 after days of torrential rains.

Rare color footage of London blitz found (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:33 AM PDT

AP - Rare color footage of the bomb damage inflicted on London during World War II has surfaced on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Blitz.

Bahamas drops charges in Travolta extortion case (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 09:29 AM PDT

US actor John Travolta (R) promotes his film AP - A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the actor decided he no longer wanted to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son on the island chain.

Philly cyclists bare all to promote cleaner air (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:30 AM PDT

People on a double-decker tour bus react upon seeing cyclist make their way through the streets of center city Philadelphia during a naked bike ride on Sunday Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)AP - Hundreds of naked and partially nude cyclists have pedaled their way through Philadelphia to promote bicycling awareness and cleaner air.

Monfils, Cibulkova gain spots in US Open quarters (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:35 AM PDT

Venus Williams of the United States returns the ball to Shahar Peer of Israel at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - The U.S. Open welcomed two new faces to the quarterfinals — France's Gael Monfils and Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova.

Hermine strengthens off Mexico (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:16 PM PDT

Reuters - Tropical Storm Hermine strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, threatening to become a hurricane before landfall, but no damage was reported to U.S. or Mexican oil facilities.

U.S. commander seeks 2,000 new troops for Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:26 PM PDT

U.S. Army personnel work on a Chinook transport chopper in Kandahar's NATO airfield May 2, 2010. REUTERS/Yannis BehrakisReuters - The U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan has requested another 2,000 troops for the foreign force fighting the Taliban insurgency, despite waning support for the war in troop-contributing nations, NATO officials said.

Iran boosts atom work, bomb fears remain: IAEA (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:37 PM PDT

A general view of Bushehr nuclear power plant, 1,200 km (746 miles) south of Tehran in this August 21, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Raheb HomavandiReuters - Iran is pushing ahead with its nuclear program in defiance of tougher sanctions, the U.N. atomic watchdog said in a new report that Washington called "troubling" but Tehran dismissed as "not balanced."

Afghans protest U.S. church's plans to torch Koran (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 06:55 AM PDT

Afghan protesters shout slogans during a protest in Kabul September 6, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammad IshaqReuters - Several hundred Afghans chanting "Death to America" rallied outside a mosque in the Afghan capital on Monday to protest against an American church's plan to burn a copy of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Israel PM sees deal possible in year: spokesman (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 11:16 AM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looks on at the State Department in Washington September 2, 2010. REUTERS/Jim YoungReuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told visiting U.S. congressmen he thinks it could be possible to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians in a year despite huge differences, his spokesman said.

Nineteen killed in suicide bombing in Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 07:29 AM PDT

Pakistanis help injured blast victims at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Quetta on September 3. Anti-terror police were on high alert in Pakistan on Saturday as mass burials took place for the victims of a suicide bomber who killed at least 59 people at a Shiite Muslim rally.(AFP/File/Banaras Khan)Reuters - A Taliban suicide bomber rammed his car into a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday killing at least 19 people, police said, in a new wave of attacks by al Qaeda-linked militants.

Guatemala resumes rescue work after landslide (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 08:00 AM PDT

Rescue workers carry a landslide victim on a stretcher in La Cumbre de Alaska September 5, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Emergency services in Guatemala on Monday resumed their search for victims of landslides that killed and buried dozens of people, as further rain was predicted for the Central American country.

Blair cancels book-signing over protests (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 06:59 AM PDT

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (4th L) is greeted by Conor Whelen (L), Managing Director of Eason book store in Dublin, Ireland September 4, 2010. REUTERS/Niall Carson/PoolReuters - Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday he had canceled a book-signing in London this week to mark the launch of his memoirs, over fears the event would be hit by protests.

Spain rejects ETA truce, demands permanent disarming (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:17 PM PDT

A screen grab taken from the website of pro-independence Basque newspaper Gara shows an image of ETA members declaring a ceasefire in the northern Spanish town of Guernica. Spain's government has rejected a ceasefire by Basque fighters ETA as totally inadequate and demanded it renounce guns and bombs forever in its battle for an independent homeland.(AFP/BBC/GARA)AFP - Spain's government Monday rejected a ceasefire by Basque fighters ETA as totally inadequate and demanded it renounce guns and bombs forever in its battle for an independent homeland.

Iran stoning woman's son fears execution after Ramadan (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2010 12:31 PM PDT

A demonstrator holds an image of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's portrait during a support rally in front of the Iranian Embassy in Rome on September 2. The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said Monday that he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.(AFP/File/Filippo Monteforte)AFP - The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said Monday that he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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