Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Safety concerns raised about China crash runway (AP)

Safety concerns raised about China crash runway (AP)

Safety concerns raised about China crash runway (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 12:36 AM PDT

Chinese paramilitary policemen stand guard near the damaged Henan Airlines plane which has crashed on landing in Yichun in northeast China's Heilongjiang province Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010. A Chinese passenger jet crashed while trying to land on a fog-shrouded runway in the country's northeast and burst into flames late, killing 42 people and injuring 54 others, state media said Wednesday. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - At least one airline had questioned the safety of nighttime landings at the relatively new airport in northeast China where a passenger jet crashed and burned while trying to land at night on a fog-shrouded runway, killing 42 people and injuring 54.

2 days of food stretched more than 2 weeks in mine (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 12:21 AM PDT

Alberto Segovia shows a photograph of his brother Dario Segovia, 48, one of 33 miners trapped in the collapsed San Jose mine, outside the mine in Copiapo, Chile, Tuesday Aug. 24, 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. The T-shirt reads in Spanish 'We're okay in the shelter all 33,' referring to a hand written message retrieved from the miners on Sunday. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Their self-imposed rations were meager: Two spoonfuls of tuna, a sip of milk, a bite of cracker and a morsel of peach every other day.

13 dead in string of attacks in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 01:01 AM PDT

File picture shows an Iraqi policeman at a checkpoint in Baghdad. A suicide attacker blew up his vehicle at a police station in northeast Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 11 people, including women and children, and wounding dozens, security and medical officials said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AP - A string of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces killed 13 people and left scores wounded on Wednesday, police and hospital officials said.

Marines find 72 bodies in northern Mexico (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 11:41 PM PDT

File picture shows Mexican soldiers after an anti-drug operation. Troops uncovered at least 72 bodies, including those of 14 women, on a ranch in northeastern Mexico after a clash with gunmen, the Mexican military said early Wednesday(AFP/File/Hector Guerrero)AP - Mexican marines found the dumped bodies of 72 people at a rural location in northern Mexico following a shootout with suspected drug cartel gunmen that left one marine and three suspects dead, the Navy reported late Tuesday.

Other isolated survivors tell what kept them alive (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 12:06 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 25, 1997, file photo, astronaut Jerry Linenger, who spent 132 days on the Russian Space Station Mir from Jan. 15 1997 to May 17, 1997, answers a question during a news conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Linenger knows what the trapped Chilean miners are living through and the remarkable quality that keeps them going: the immense power of hope. Thirteen years ago, Linenger was only a month into his four-month expedition on an aging Russian Mir space station when a near-deadly fire broke out. That was only the beginning of harrowing experiences that included a near-crash and an oxygen system that kept breaking down. A return was months away. It was the space equivalent of what the miners are going through. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)AP - Astronaut Jerry Linenger and architect Eduardo Strauch know the remarkable quality that keeps the trapped Chilean miners going: the immense power of hope.

Iran: How Effective Is Ahmadinejad's New Drone? (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 12:30 AM PDT

Time.com - Almost no one, it seems. Revealed to dramatic effect, the weapon may fly but it is unlikely to deliver any real strategic punch

Poorest hit hardest by Budget: IFS (AFP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 01:01 AM PDT

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne holds Gladstone's red box outside 11 Downing Street, on June 22. The poorest people in society will be the hardest hit by the government's austerity drive, a leading economic think tank said Wednesday, describing George Osborne's Budget as AFP - The poorest people in society will be the hardest hit by the government's austerity drive, a leading economic think tank said Wednesday, describing George Osborne's Budget as "regressive".

Iran says it test-fires new missile (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 12:37 AM PDT

US Vice President Joe Biden has pointed out that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, seen here on August 8, and his rival for the premiership, Iyad Allawi, were both deemed AP - Iran says it has successfully test-fired a new generation of a short-range surface-to-surface missile.

UN: Mexico most dangerous in Americas for press (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 07:39 PM PDT

AP - Mexico is the most dangerous country in the Americas for journalists and the violence against reporters may increase, investigators from the United Nations and the Organization of American States said Tuesday.

Attacker attempts to blow up Mauritanian barracks (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 11:17 PM PDT

File picture shows Mauritanian soldiers in Nouakchott. Mauritanian troops early Wednesday killed a suicide bomber trying to ram a vehicle crammed with explosives into a military barrack at Nema in the country's east, a senior military official told AFP.(AFP/File/Seyllou)AP - A suicide bomber attempted to drive a truck loaded with explosives into an army barracks but was shot and killed when he refused to stop the car before dawn on Wednesday, an army official said.

2 Spanish police killed in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 01:05 AM PDT

An Afghan National Army soldier patrols the outskirts of Kabul. The head of the US Marine Corps said Afghan government army and police forces in key southern provinces will not be ready to take over from foreign troops for at least AP - Spain's interior minister says an Afghan policeman taking part in a training course has opened fire on his instructors, killing two Spanish police officers and their interpreter.

Canada province, aboriginals in mine revenue deal (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:41 PM PDT

Reuters - British Columbia signed an agreement on Tuesday that will see Canada's westernmost province share tax revenue from the mining industry with aboriginal groups, the first such deal in the mineral-rich region.

Australian teacher rapped over terror assignment (AFP)

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 01:00 AM PDT

File photo of one of the main shopping streets in old Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. An Australian teacher was reprimanded after giving students an assignment to plan an extremist attack designed to inflict maximum casualties, officials said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Tony Ashby)AFP - An Australian teacher was reprimanded after giving students an assignment to plan an extremist attack designed to inflict maximum casualties, officials said Wednesday.

Task force: Military suicide prevention inadequate (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 03:08 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A Defense Department task force devoted to preventing suicide in the military presented a grim picture of the trend Tuesday, with suicides rising at a near steady pace even as commanders apply various balms to soothe a stressed, exhausted fighting force.

Wyclef Jean appealing Haiti election ruling, says 'trickery' used (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 01:51 PM PDT

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How the trapped Chilean miners survived on limited supplies (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Aug 2010 12:30 AM PDT

Chile's Health Minister Jaime Manalich holds a capsule with a message that will be sent to the 33 miners trapped underground in a copper and gold mine, at Copiapo some 725 km (450 miles) north of Santiago August 24, 2010. Rescuers sent Chilean miners still alive 18 days after a cave-in supplies of saline and glucose through a narrow drill hole on Monday, and now face a months-long, half-mile dig to save them. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (CHILE - Tags: SOCIETY POLITICS ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)Time.com - Though the size of the shelter may have given the men a leg up, stretching emergency supplies that were intended to last just 48 to 96 hours is a feat credited entirely to the resourcefulness of the miners

Explorer-Journalist Franz Schurmann Dies (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 24 Aug 2010 02:58 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 23 (New America Media) - Franz Schurmann, the foremost scholar of communist China during the Cold War, an early opponent of the U.S. war in Indochina, and the co-founder of Pacific News Service, died at his home in San Francisco on Aug. 20. The cause was advanced Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84.
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