2009年4月5日星期日

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Obama outlines sweeping goal of nuclear-free world (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:52 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama waves to reporters as he is accompanied by his wife Michelle upon their arrival at the Hradcanske Square where the US President delivered a public speech to thousands of people in Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday, April 5, 2009. Obama later on Sunday attends a summit with EU leaders. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - Declaring the future of mankind at stake, President Barack Obama on Sunday said all nations must strive to rid the world of nuclear arms and that the U.S. had a "moral responsibility" to lead because no other country has used one.


NKorean missile launch tests Obama (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 07:54 AM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about North Korea at Prague Castle, Sunday, April 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - North Korea's defiant rocket launch has confronted President Barack Obama with his first global security crisis and a difficult diplomatic challenge for his young administration.


Treasury chief puts bailed-out bank CEOs on notice (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 12:24 PM PDT

In this photo provided by CBS, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and daughter Elise, center, talk with CBS correspondent Lara Logan, right, and her son Joseph, 14-months-old, outside the makeup room before Geithner appears on CBS's 'Face the Nation' in Washington, Sunday, April 5, 2009. (AP Photo/CBS Face the Nation, Karin Cooper)AP - The government may require new faces in executive suites at banks requiring "exceptional assistance" in the future, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Sunday.


Obama urges EU to accept Turkey as member (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 04:26 AM PDT

A group of Turkish leftist shout slogans while protesting against NATO in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, April 4, 2009. The banner with a photo of U. S. President Barack Obama reads: 'No soldier for Afghanistan! Obama go back home!' (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - President Barack Obama is urging the European Union to accept Turkey as a member, saying it would be a positive sign to the Muslim world.


Poll: Voters back force in N. Korea (Politico)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 08:07 AM PDT

Politico - American voters across lines of age, party and gender support a military approach to eliminate North Korea's nuclear capabilities, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey released Sunday morning — and conducted in the two days prior to North Korea's test missile launch on Saturday.

US wants limits on Antarctic tourism (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:36 AM PDT

In this February 2009 file photo, the Antarctic landscape is seen near the Troll Research Station, Antarctica.  The Obama administration is pushing to protect Antarctica's fragile environment by imposing mandatory limits on the size of cruise ships sailing there and the number of passengers they bring ashore.  (AP Photo/Charles Hanley, File)AP - The Obama administration is pushing to protect Antarctica's fragile environment by imposing mandatory limits on the size of cruise ships sailing there and the number of passengers they bring ashore.


Ex-Rep. Simmons noisily taking on Conn. Sen Dodd (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 07:06 AM PDT

Rob Simmons, who will challenge Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., for his Senate seat, talks to the Associated Press during an interview in Washington, Tuesday, March 31, 2009.  Two years after losing his House seat by just 83 votes to Dodd, a feisty Simmons is back in Washington taking aim at Dodd amid the financial tumult. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - The staid Capitol Hill Club dining room was quiet. Except for Rob Simmons.


US wants jailed journalists in NKorea freed soon (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 09:40 AM PDT

AP - The U.S. envoy to the United Nations says the Obama administration hopes two American journalists detained in North Korea will be released swiftly and safely. But Ambassador Susan Rice acknowledges there are no guarantees.

GM CEO softens company's opposition to bankruptcy (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 10:42 AM PDT

The General Motors world headquarters building in Detroit, Michigan. Embattled General Motors is preparing for bankruptcy if necessary but will emerge AP - General Motors Corp. is softening its opposition to bankruptcy reorganization a little more.


Analysis: Obama visit to Turkey no afterthought (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 07:20 AM PDT

Demonstrators protest at Taxim square in Istanbul on Sunday April 5, 2009 against the visit of US President Barack Obama. The posters read  'Obama go home'. President Barack Obama arrives in Ankara Monday for a two day visit to Turkey. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - President Barack Obama's stop in Turkey is hardly an afterthought, a "while I'm in the neighborhood" visit.


Obama seeks to boost ties with Muslim ally Turkey (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:58 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama, disembarks Air Force One, at the Esenboga airport in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, April 5, 2009. Turkey deployed snipers and riot police and set up barricades in the capital Sunday as part of tight security measures for President Barack Obama's first visit to a predominantly Muslim country. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)Reuters - President Barack Obama will seek on Monday to shore up ties with Turkey, a Muslim country with growing clout whose help Washington needs to solve confrontations and conflicts from Iran to Afghanistan.


Obama Faces First Foreign Test Over North Korean Missile Launch (Bloomberg)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:37 PM PDT

Bloomberg - April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton raised the question in a television ad last year of whether she or campaign rival Barack Obama was better suited to answer the inevitable 3 a.m. phone call about a crisis somewhere in the world.

N. Korea launch reignites debate (Politico)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:31 PM PDT

Politico - PRAGUE — As foreign crises go, this one wasn't exactly unexpected.

Geithner denies White House sidestepping CEO pay limits (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:08 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner (L) attend the plenary session at the G20 summit at the ExCel centre, in east London April 2, 2009. World leaders are set to declare an end to unfettered capitalism at a G20 summit on Thursday after France and Germany demanded they act fast on promises to prevent a repeat of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s.  REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer  (BRITAIN POLITICS BUSINESS)Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner denied on Sunday the Obama administration was crafting bailout initiatives to allow companies to evade limits on executive pay and other restrictions imposed by Congress.


Text of President Obama in Prague (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 01:06 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama smiles as he meets the Czech crowd at the end of his speech at Hradcanske square in Prague. Obama pledged Sunday to lead a quest for a world purged of nuclear weapons, denouncing AP - Text of President Barack Obama's remarks in Prague, Czech Republic, on Sunday, as prepared for delivery and provided by the White House.


WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama's Czech impresses (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 10:17 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama walks with his wife first lady Michelle Obama, right, before delivering a public speech to thousands of people on the Hradcany Square in Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday, April 5, 2009. Obama has kicked off the Prague leg of his European tour by meeting with Czech leaders in the capital's picturesque medieval castle.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - It's not easy to say "Velvet Revolution" in Czech, but President Barack Obama came off sounding almost like a native speaker.


Obama sets out plan for nuclear-free world (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 09:30 AM PDT

US President Barack Obama, left, and his wife Michelle greet the crowd prior to his speech in front of the Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday, April 5, 2009. Obama will also attend a summit between the United States and the 27-member European Union in Prague on Sunday. Seen in background left is the St. Nicholas church, on right is the statue of of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, the first President of former Czechoslovakia.  (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)Reuters - President Barack Obama set out his vision for ridding the world of nuclear arms on Sunday, declaring the United States ready to lead steps by all states with atomic weapons to reduce their arsenals.


First lady Michelle Obama tours Prague (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 08:06 AM PDT

US first lady Michelle Obama looks on an altar in the St. Vitu's Cathedral in Prague, Sunday, April 5, 2009, while her husband, US President Barack Obama, was meeting European Union leaders in the Czech capital. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)AP - Michelle Obama's whirlwind tour of Prague turned into a love affair with a city and its people. "I'll be back," she said.


GM planning for bankruptcy (Politico)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 08:04 AM PDT

Politico - Fritz Henderson, GM’s new president and CEO, said for the first time Sunday that the automaker is planning for the possibility of restructuring within bankruptcy, although he said he still hoped to avoid that public-relations nightmare.

VIDEO: Newt: I would've disabled missile (Politico)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 07:40 AM PDT

Politico - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told “Fox News Sunday” that he would have disabled the long-range missile before North Korea launched it, saying too many people “do not appreciate the scale of the threat that is evolving on the planet.”

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