2014年8月14日 星期四

2014-08-15 U.S. World

  NBCNews.com   
Iraq conflict: Nouri al-Maliki steps aside as prime minister, supports successor ...  ABC Online
Nouri al-Maliki has finally bowed to intense pressure to stand down as Iraq's prime minister, a move which paves the way for a new coalition which many hope can quash the Sunni Islamist insurgency threatening Baghdad. Mr Maliki's dramatic decision came ...

Iraq's Maliki steps aside as PM, backs replacement   USA TODAY
Maliki steps aside, easing Iraq's political crisis   Washington Post
Iraq's al-Maliki agrees to step down as prime minister   Fox News
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  RT   
Russians Start Paying the Price For Putin's Ukraine Adventure  TIME
For most Russians, indeed nearly all of them, the crisis in Ukraine has had a distant, almost virtual quality. It has been something they watched on TV, or debated in their kitchens, rooting for the pro-Russian rebel militias and cursing the Ukrainian government ...

Meanwhile, Ukraine insisting checks on 'suspicious' Russian aid convoys   Daily Mail
Putin to Meet With Finnish President as Threat of Cold War Grows   Businessweek
Putin no-show dashes Crimean hopes   euronews
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  National Post   
Most Yazidis have been rescued from a besieged mountain in northern Iraq  Washington Post
FISHKHABOUR, Iraq — The flood of Yazidi refugees across the bridge spanning the Iraqi-Syrian border had slowed to a drip by Thursday. Most of the tens of thousands who scrambled up Mount Sinjar to escape advancing militants have now climbed down.
Iraq: UN sounds alarm on humanitarian crisis   BBC News
ISIS Advance Turns the Spotlight on Weak Kurdish Forces   TIME
US Pulls Back on Plans for a Mountain Rescue   New York Times
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  Reuters   
India's Modi vows to fix government muddle  Reuters
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi voiced dismay on Friday at the government in-fighting he found on assuming office in May and vowed to fire up the bureaucracy to deliver results. Delivering his first Independence Day speech, ...

LIVE: Highlights from PM Narendra Modi's speech on I-Day   Hindustan Times
Rapes make country's head hang in shame: Modi   The Hindu
Stop female feticide: Modi   Times of India
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Pope Holds First Mass in South Korea  Wall Street Journal
DAEJEON, South Korea— Pope Francis celebrated Mass at South Korea's World Cup stadium before a rousing audience on the second day of a five-day trip that will see him meet with Asian youth. The mass, celebrating the feast of the Assumption, was held ...

N. Korea fires rockets as Pope arrives in South...   New Vision
Pope kicks off S Korea visit, North fires rockets   The Nation
Pope warns S Koreans of affluence 'cancer'   Aljazeera.com
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  Reuters India   
Japan PM sends offering to war dead shrine, cabinet ministers visit  Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday sent a ritual offering to a Tokyo shrine to war dead but did not join cabinet ministers in a visit, seen as an effort to avoid further inflaming ties with China as he seeks a summit with Beijing.
Feature: Yasukuni's heart beats for brutality, pumps blood of militarism   Xinhua
2 Japan Cabinet ministers visit Yasukuni Shrine   Chron.com
PM Abe sends ritual offering, 2 ministers visit war-linked shrine   GlobalPost
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  Irish Independent   
Cliff Richard denies child sex claims as home raided  Irish Independent
Detectives are making arrangements to interview Cliff Richard following a search of his €4m penthouse apartment over an alleged sex crime against a boy at an evangelist event at a Sheffield stadium in 1985. Share. Go To. Comments. Richard (73), who is in ...

Police search Richard's property in crime probe   The Nation
Sir Cliff Richard police raid and A-level results on front pages   BBC News
Cliff Richard faces sexual assault allegations   ABC Online
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  BBC News   
Ukraine crisis: Shells hit Donetsk amid Russia convoy row  BBC News
Heavy shelling has hit the rebel-held Ukrainian city of Donetsk, amid a continuing row over a controversial Russian aid convoy. People poured out of offices in the city centre after an evacuation warning sounded. At least one person has died. Donetsk has ...

200-truck-plus Russian convoy stops at Ukraine border amid tensions   Dallas Morning News
A Ukraine City Under Siege, 'Just Terrified of the Bombing'   New York Times
Ukraine conflict: Separatist leader Igor 'the Terrible' Strelkov resigns   ABC Online
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  Irish Independent   
UN Pursues Bid to Stifle Rebels in Iraq  New York Times
Galvanized by the brutality of Islamist militants marauding through Iraq, the United Nations Security Council appeared set to approve a resolution on Friday aimed at severely weakening them by choking their sources of money, weapons and foreign recruits.
Fox News poll: Slim majority continues to oppose ObamaCare   Fox News
Obama vacation punctured by international, domestic strife   Boston Globe
Obama could be mired in Iraq for the duration   Business Recorder
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  The Electronic Intifada (blog)   
Top Middle East scholars call for academic boycott of Israel  The Electronic Intifada (blog)
The letter's organizers referred to the list of signatories — which includes many of the world's best-known scholars of the history, literature, anthropology and politics of the Middle East — as an “unprecedented expression of solidarity with the Palestinian ...


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