Rabu, 13 Januari 2010

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Quake devastates Haiti, many casualties feared (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:06 PM PST

A damaged building is seen after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. The largest earthquake ever recorded in the area rocked Haiti on Tuesday. The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and was centered about 10 miles (15 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Radio Tele Ginen)AP - A powerful earthquake struck Haiti's capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace and the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers. The dead and injured lay in the streets even as strong aftershocks rippled through the impoverished Caribbean country.

Bipartisan panel to grill Wall Street CEOs (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:30 AM PST

FILE - In this March 29, 2009, file photo, JP Morgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, left, and Goldman Sachs Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, leave the White House in Washington, after a meeting between chief executives and President Barack Obama. On Jan. 13 and 14, 2010, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission that Congress created last Spring will hold its first public hearings featuring a gallery of the nation's top bank executives including Blankfein, Dimon, John Mack of Morgan Stanley and Brian Moynihan of Bank of America. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Top bank executives can expect a grilling when they appear before a congressionally appointed panel investigating the causes of the 2008 financial collapse.

2 US troops, 4 Afghan police killed in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:35 AM PST

File photo shows US Marines on patrol with Afghan National Police in the district of Garmsir in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. Nine people were killed when shooting broke out during a mass demonstration in a Garmsir town over the alleged burning of a Koran by foreign troops, police said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)AP - Two U.S. service members died and four Afghan policemen were killed in separate explosions Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan, an area of the nation rife with violence, officials said.

White House credits stimulus with up to 2M jobs (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:42 AM PST

Women look over job listings on display in November in San Francisco, California. The White House on Wednesday said a 787-billion-dollar economic stimulus plan had saved or created up to two million jobs, but that its impact on quarterly economic growth had slowed.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Justin Sullivan)AP - President Barack Obama is trumpeting a new White House estimate that his top economist calls "stunning": His stimulus plan has already created or saved up to 2 million jobs.

Obama, congressional Democrats meeting on health (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:20 AM PST

US President Barack Obama walks to the Oval Office after disembarking from Marine One upon returning to the White House in Washington, DC. Americans are deeply divided on Obama's first year in the White House, and the president's ratings on priority issues health care and the economy have hit new lows, polls showed Tuesday.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)AP - With congressional negotiators starting to make decisions on a final health overhaul bill, top Democrats are hoping a White House session with President Barack Obama will narrow differences between the House and Senate.

Obama wants record $708 billion for wars next year (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:21 AM PST

AP - President Barack Obama will ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of a record $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned — a request that could be an especially hard sell to some of the administration's Democratic allies.

Mexico-US cooperation cited in 2nd druglord arrest (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:28 PM PST

Teodoro Garcia Simental, known as 'El Teo,' center, is guarded by federal police as he is presented to the press in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. Garcia, one of Mexico's most wanted drug traffickers, was arrested before dawn Tuesday at a home he owned in the city of La Paz on the Baja California peninsula, according to Mexican federal police authorities. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - The capture of a brutal druglord accused of ordering massacres, beheadings and the dissolving of bodies in caustic soda marks the second time in less than a month Mexico has taken down one of its most powerful traffickers.

Wii becomes third console to stream Netflix (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 09:03 PM PST

AP - It's a triple crown for Netflix. Beginning in the spring, the Wii will become the last of the three current video game consoles to get instant viewing of Netflix movies and TV shows over the Internet.

Duncan, Parker lead Spurs over Lakers, 105-85 (AP)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:55 AM PST

Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant (24) shoots as San Antonio Spurs' Tim Duncan, left, and Antonio McDyess (34) defend during the first quarter of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - Tim Duncan had 25 points and 13 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs showed they can still hang with their Western Conference rivals in a 105-85 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.

Iran blames US, Israel after bomb kills physicist (AP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 06:32 PM PST

This undated file photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency shows nuclear physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi, who was killed after a bomb blast in front of his house, in northern Tehran's Qeytariyeh neighborhood, Iran, on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. A nuclear physics professor at Tehran University was killed Tuesday by a bomb-rigged motorcycle parked outside his home in Iran's capital, state media reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency)AP - A senior physics professor who publicly backed Iran's opposition leader was killed when a bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded as he left for work Tuesday. The government blamed the U.S. and Israel for the attack.

Thousands feared dead as major quake strikes Haiti (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:14 AM PST

A major earthquake hit the impoverished country of Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing buildings in the capital Port-au-Prince and burying residents under rubble, a Reuters reporter in the city said. REUTERS/USGS.gov/HandoutReuters - A major earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and leaving the poor Caribbean nation appealing for international help.

Google may quit China over censorship (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 12:00 AM PST

Reuters - Internet giant Google Inc has made a shock threat to quit China, the world's biggest Internet market by users, after hackers accessed human rights activists' e-mail accounts.

Yemeni al Qaeda cell leader killed: state media (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:36 PM PST

Reuters - The leader of a Yemeni al Qaeda cell has been killed in clashes with security forces, Yemen's state news agency reported on Wednesday.

White House says stimulus has saved two million jobs (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:53 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama's emergency spending measures last year saved up to 2 million U.S. jobs, the White House said on Wednesday, but it warned that the outlook for the economy remained uncertain.

Cash-short North Korea opens up to U.S. tourists (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:51 PM PST

Reuters - North Korea appears ready to welcome visitors from the United States year-round, increasing the trickle of tourists from its sworn enemy who provide the reclusive state with hard cash.

Iran blames U.S. "agents" for scientist's murder (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 01:24 PM PST

This undated file photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency shows nuclear physics professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi, who was killed after a bomb blast in front of his house, in northern Tehran's Qeytariyeh neighborhood, Iran, on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. A nuclear physics professor at Tehran University was killed Tuesday by a bomb-rigged motorcycle parked outside his home in Iran's capital, state media reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency)Reuters - A remote-controlled bomb killed a Tehran University scientist on Tuesday, official media reported, in an attack Iran blamed on the United States and Israel.

U.S. urges Japan to keep commitment on military base (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:52 PM PST

Reuters - The United States urged Japan on Tuesday to keep its commitment to move a U.S. military base on Okinawa island but the two vowed not to let the row derail their security alliance in the face of rising Chinese power.

Florida citrus growers reel under prolonged freeze (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:30 AM PST

Reuters - Central Florida citrus growers, already reeling from an unusually long freeze, reported more overnight ice damage to their orange fruit and groves on Tuesday, which they feared could also hurt the 2010/11 crop.

Hundreds feared dead as 7.0 quake strikes Haiti (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 11:57 PM PST

Map locating the epicentre of a 7.0-magnitude quake that hit Haiti. A huge quake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti Tuesday toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said.(AFP graphic)AFP - The strongest earthquake to hit Haiti in over a century rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation Tuesday, toppling buildings and triggering fears that hundreds have been killed in widespread destruction.

Google threatens to quit China over activist attacks (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jan 2010 10:29 PM PST

A Chinese man, under the watchful eyes of a security guard, talks to the media after placing bouquets of flowers in front of the Google China office in Beijing. Google vowed to defy Chinese Internet censors and risk banishment from the lucrative market in outrage at AFP - Google has vowed to defy Chinese Internet censors and risk banishment from the lucrative market in outrage at "highly sophisticated" cyberattacks aimed at Chinese human rights activists.
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