Thursday, October 9, 2008

ATC World News Headlines for october 9, 2008

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  • Undated photo of missing American journalist Taylor Luck released Wednesday, Oct. 8. 2008 by the Jordan Times newspaper where he worked as a freelancer reporter, in Amman, Jordan. The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon said two Americans journalists are missing in Lebanon and is appealing for information on their whereabouts. An embassy statement Wednesday says Holli Chmela, 27, and Taylor Luck, 23, have not been heard from since Oct. 1 when they reportedly left Beirut en route to the northern port city of Tripoli. Lebanese security officials told The Associated Press they are searching for the two. The pair arrived in Lebanon on Sept. 29 from Amman, Jordan for a vacation and told a friend on Oct. 1 that they were traveling from Beirut to Tripoli that day.(AP Photo/Jordan Times/HO)
    2 missing Americans detained in Syria AP - 9 minutes ago

    DAMASCUS, Syria - Two American journalists whose disappearance prompted a U.S. Embassy alert and a wide search turned up in Syrian custody Thursday after being detained while trying to sneak into the country with smugglers, Syrian officials said.

  • Israelis stand next to a broken shop window following clashes between Israeli Arab and Jewish residents of the mixed city of Acre, northern Israel, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Israeli legislator Abbas Zakour, said several cars and shops were damaged in the fighting late Wednesday in Acre, which he says broke out after an Arab family drove in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood after the start of Yom Kippur and Jewish youths attacked the family and beat them. Israel comes to a near complete standstill during Yom Kippur, and driving is frowned upon in most communities. (AP Photo / Tomer Neuberg)
    Clashes erupt in mixed Arab-Jewish city in Israel AP - 19 minutes ago

    ACRE, Israel - Arabs and Jews traded blows and threw rocks in this northern Israeli city on Thursday, in a second day of sectarian violence that marred the somber Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

  • Relatives mourn for Iraqi lawmaker Saleh al-Auqaeili , loyal to anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, outside his home in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. Officials say Thursday's explosion occurred as Saleh al-Auqaeili's car passed about 200 yards (meters) away from an Iraqi army checkpoint in a heavily secured area near Baghdad's main Shiite district of Sadr City. (AP Photo / Hadi Mizban)
    Shiite politician assassinated in Baghdad AP - 1 hour, 15 minutes ago

    BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed a prominent member of Muqtada al-Sadr's political movement Thursday, raising fears of new internal Shiite bloodshed ahead of regional elections expected in January.

Europe News

  • Putin: US image damaged forever over economy woes AP - 12 minutes ago

    MOSCOW - The financial crisis has irreparably damaged the image of the U.S. as the leader of the free world and the global economy, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.

  • This Aug. 13, 2002 file photo is a satellite image provided by Space Imaging Asia of the Yongbyon Nuclear Center, located north of Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea announced Thursday Oct. 6, 2008 that it is preparing to restart the facility that produced its atomic bomb, clearly indicating that it plans to completely pull out of an international deal to end its nuclear program. North Korea told the International Atomic Energy Agency that it was stopping the process of disabling its main nuclear site and barring international inspectors from the Yongbyon facility, the agency said. (AP Photo/Space Imaging Asia, File)
    North Korea preparing to restart atomic facility AP - 21 minutes ago

    VIENNA, Austria - North Korea moved closer Thursday to relaunching its nuclear arms program, announcing that it wants to reactivate the facility that produced its atomic bomb and banning U.N. inspectors from the site.

  • Russia official blasts "secretive" UN-NATO deal AP - 58 minutes ago

    MOSCOW - Moscow on Thursday accused NATO and the United Nations of secretly forging an agreement that tightens their cooperation without informing Russia, a U.N. Security Council member whose relations with NATO are badly strained.

Latin America

  • File photo shows a detainee at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay being escorted by two US Army military police officers. A US federal judge has ordered a group of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs held at the Guantanamo Bay military jail in Cuba to be released in the United States, officials have said.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)
    AP Enterprise: Some at Gitmo see US as ally AP - 57 minutes ago

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Chinese Muslim locked up at Guantanamo Bay may soon be granted an improbable wish: To move to the United States.

  • Mexico's President Felipe Calderon speaks at the Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Wednesday Oct. 8, 2008. Calderon is proposing $4.4 billion in emergency spending next year to boost growth and jobs despite the world financial crisis. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
    Mexico unveils emergency spending to combat crisis AP - Thu Oct 9, 12:47 AM ET

    MEXICO CITY - President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday unveiled plans for 53 billion pesos ($4.4 billion) in emergency spending on roads, schools, hospitals and an oil refinery next year to help Mexico combat the world financial crisis.

  • Forensics carry the body of a dead man at the crime scene where two men were shoot in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. The Baja California state prosecutor's office said seven people were shot to death in the border city of Tijuana in four separate gunbattles. Another man was found handcuffed with a bag over his head and two other bodies wrapped in blankets were dumped in a residential neighborhood. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
    Mexico: 16 killed in rough border state AP - Thu Oct 9, 12:05 AM ET

    TIJUANA, Mexico - Mexican authorities said Wednesday that 16 people were killed in 24 hours in the northern state across the U.S. border from California.

Africa News

  • Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir speaks during a press conference in September 2008. Beshir rejected the allegations of war crimes against him as "made up" and said mass rape "does not exist" in Darfur, in an interview broadcast here Thursday.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)
    Sudan's Beshir rejects 'made up' warcrimes claims AFP - 19 minutes ago

    LONDON (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir rejected the allegations of war crimes against him as "made up" and said mass rape "does not exist" in Darfur, in an interview broadcast here Thursday.

  • Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, pictured in September 2008, current chairman of the African Union, expressed concern Thursday that the global financial crisis may curtail foreign aid to the continent.(AFP/Ashraf Shazly)
    AU chairman worried financial crisis could curb aid to Africa AFP - 44 minutes ago

    DAR ES SALAAM (AFP) - Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, current chairman of the African Union, expressed concern Thursday that the global financial crisis may curtail foreign aid to the continent.

  • Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir addresses representatives of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) during a visit at the South Sudan Legislative Assembly in Juba August 27, 2008. (Tim McKulka/UNMIS/Handout/Reuters)
    Sudan leader says allegations against him "fabricated" Reuters - 53 minutes ago

    LONDON (Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said Thursday that war crimes allegations against him were fabricated and the people would decide in elections next year if the country's rulers were criminals.

Asia News

  • Dalai Lama hospitalized following checkup AP - 4 minutes ago

    NEW DELHI - The Dalai Lama's spokesman says the Tibetan spiritual leader has been hospitalized in New Delhi.

  • South Korean Marine Corps' amphibious vehicles take part in a re-enactment of the Incheon Landing in September 2008. US officials on Thursday urged North Korea to avoid missile launches and other acts that could raise tension with South Korea, amid deadlocked negotiations for Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament.(AFP/File/Won Dai-Yeon)
    North Korea preparing to restart atomic facility AP - 21 minutes ago

    VIENNA, Austria - North Korea moved closer Thursday to relaunching its nuclear arms program, announcing that it wants to reactivate the facility that produced its atomic bomb and banning U.N. inspectors from the site.

  • An electoral comission officer calls a person to vote in a polling station in Male on October 8. The first-ever democratic presidential battle in the Maldives is to go into a second round after Asia's longest-serving leader failed to deliver a knock-out blow to his rivals, officials said Thursday.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)
    Maldives leader faces runoff in 1st free election AP - 36 minutes ago

    MALE, Maldives - Maumoon Abdul Gayoom celebrated his top showing Thursday in the Maldives' first democratic election, but the nation's longtime ruler failed to win a majority and will now face his chief nemesis in a runoff.

Canada

  • Toronto stocks plunge as confidence fades anew Reuters - 11 minutes ago

    TORONTO (Reuters) - The main index of the Toronto Stock Exchange plunged almost 5 percent on Thursday as mounting gloom over the state of the economy and the U.S. financial sector sent investors fleeing the market in a broad rout.

  • Prime Minister Stephen Harper address the media following the French language debate at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, October 1, 2008. Routing out insurgents from Afghanistan and rebuilding the war-torn nation has so far cost Canada up to an estimated 10.5 billion dollars (Canadian), an official said Thursday.(AFP/File/Geoff Robins)
    Canada's Afghan war costs higher than estimated Reuters - 2 hours, 31 minutes ago

    VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canada's Afghanistan mission has cost much more than publicly stated, a government report estimated on Thursday, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged troops will stay until 2011 no matter who wins next week's Canadian election.

  • Liberal leader Stephane Dion speaks during the French language debate at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, October 1, 2008. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper acknowledged Thursday his Conservatives could lose next Monday's parliamentary election, in the face of global financial turmoil and the cross-border impact of the US economic downturn.(AFP/Pool/File/Tom Hanson)
    Harper says he could lose election Reuters - 1 hour, 59 minutes ago

    RICHMOND, British Columbia (Reuters) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper, battered over his response to the worldwide financial crisis, acknowledged on Thursday he could lose the October 14 election that he had seemed set to win handily only two weeks ago.

Australia/Antarctica News

  • A Qantas aircraft at Sydney International Airport. A computer glitch may have caused a Qantas jet to plunge mid-flight, an investigator said Wednesday as passengers told how they were slammed against the cabin roof in the terrifying drama.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)
    Qantas plane had glitch before altitude plunge AP - Thu Oct 9, 5:29 AM ET

    SYDNEY, Australia - Qantas Airways said Thursday it will financially compensate all passengers who were on board a plane that made a terrifying plunge this week, tossing people around the cabin and injuring dozens.

  • A map locating Learmonth airbase in Western Australia where a Qantas jetliner made an emergency landing following a mid-air incident that caused injury to 36 passengers and crew members. A computer glitch may have caused a Qantas jet to plunge mid-flight, an investigator said Wednesday as passengers told how they were slammed against the cabin roof in the terrifying drama.(AFP/Graphic/Martin Megino)
    Computer glitch may have caused Qantas plunge: investigator AFP - Wed Oct 8, 9:23 AM ET

    PERTH, Australia (AFP) - A computer glitch may have caused a Qantas jet to plunge mid-flight, an investigator said Wednesday as passengers told how they were slammed against the cabin roof in the terrifying drama.

  • File photo shows asylum seekers on board their boat near East Timor where many people pass en route to Australia. The Australian Navy has detained 17 suspected asylum seekers at sea, officials have said.(AFP/File/Antonio Dasiparu)
    Australia intercepts 17 more suspected asylum seekers at sea AFP - Tue Oct 7, 2:57 AM ET

    SYDNEY (AFP) - The Australian Navy has detained 17 suspected asylum seekers at sea just a week after a boatload of Afghans, Iranians and Indonesians was intercepted off the country's coast, officials said Tuesday.

Most Popular World News

  • A man walks out of a branch of Landsbanki in Reykjavik, Iceland Tuesday Oct. 7, 2008 . Iceland nationalized its second-largest bank Landsbanki on Tuesday under day-old legislation and negotiated a euro4 billion (US$5.4 billion) loan from Russia to shore up the nation's finances amid a full-blown financial crisis. The moves came a day after trading in shares of major banks was suspended, the Icelandic krona lost a quarter of its value against the euro, and the government rushed through emergency legislation giving it new powers to deal with the financial meltdown. Prime Minister Haarde warned late Monday that the heavy exposure of the tiny country's banking sector to the global financial turmoil raised the spectre of 'national bankruptcy.' (AP Photo/Arni Torfason)
    Iceland teeters on the brink of bankruptcy AP - Tue Oct 7, 3:40 PM ET

    REYKJAVIK, Iceland - This volcanic island near the Arctic Circle is on the brink of becoming the first "national bankruptcy" of the global financial meltdown.

  • This is a Feb. 2008 file photo of French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio who won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Jessica Gow/file)
    France's Le Clezio wins Nobel literature prize AP - Thu Oct 9, 7:26 AM ET

    STOCKHOLM, Sweden - French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio won the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for his poetic adventure and "sensual ecstasy."

  • A combination photo of handout photographs released by the U.S. embassy in Beirut October 8, 2008 shows U.S. Citizens Holli Chmela (L) and Taylor Luck. (Handout/Reuters)

    DAMASCUS, Syria - Two American journalists whose disappearance prompted a U.S. Embassy alert and a wide search turned up in Syrian custody Thursday after being detained while trying to sneak into the country with smugglers, Syrian officials said...


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