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Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:50:00 +0800 zh-TW http://www.chinapost.com.tw/rss/images/china_post.gif http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/europe/2012/02/11/331301/Greece-strikes.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - The leader of a small partner in Greece's coalition government said Friday his party would vote against the latest round of austerity measures required for a massive new bailout deal — despite having backed the measures a day earlier. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/europe/2012/02/11/331301/Greece-strikes.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/middle-east/2012/02/11/331306/Explosions-rock.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - Two explosions struck security compounds in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday, killing 25 people and wounding 175, state media reported, in a major city that has largely stood by President Bashar Assad in the nearly 11-month-old uprising against his rule. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/middle-east/2012/02/11/331306/Explosions-rock.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/middle-east/2012/02/11/331308/Explosions-rock.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - Two explosions struck security compounds in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday, killing 25 people and wounding 175, state media reported, in a major city that has largely stood by President Bashar Assad in the nearly 11-month-old uprising against his rule. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/middle-east/2012/02/11/331308/Explosions-rock.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331288/US-regulators.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - The first new U.S. nuclear power plant in a generation won approval Thursday as federal regulators voted to grant a license for two new reactors in the southern state of Georgia. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331288/US-regulators.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331289/Marines-will.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - The Marine Corps once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS — a special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331289/Marines-will.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331290/Marines-will.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - The Marine Corps once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS — a special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331290/Marines-will.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/europe/2012/02/11/331318/Arab-Spring.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/europe/2012/02/11/331318/Arab-Spring.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331291/Mexicans-protest.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331291/Mexicans-protest.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331292/US-House.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed new curbs on insider trading by lawmakers and other government officials despite complaints from Democrats and some Republicans that key anti-corruption provisions were dropped. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331292/US-House.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/europe/2012/02/11/331321/Court-convicts.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - The superstar Spanish judge who won global fame for aggressively taking on international human rights cases has been convicted of overstepping his jurisdiction in a domestic corruption probe and barred from the bench for 11 years, marking a spectacular fall from grace for one of the nation's most prominent citizens. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/europe/2012/02/11/331321/Court-convicts.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331323/Obama-praises.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - U.S. President Barack Obama gave Italy's reformist premier a strong vote of confidence Thursday, praising his efforts to lead his country out of its fiscal quagmire and noting he has boosted faith in Italy and the European marketplace. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331323/Obama-praises.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331326/Steve-Jobs.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - FBI background interviews of some people who knew Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reveal a man driven by power and alienating some of the people who worked with him. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331326/Steve-Jobs.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331293/NASA-budget.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - U.S. President Barack Obama's budget proposal to be submitted next week for 2013 will cut NASA's budget by 20 percent and eliminate a major partnership with Europe on Mars exploration, scientists said Thursday. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331293/NASA-budget.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331294/Marine-sergeant.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - A military jury on Thursday found a Marine sergeant not guilty after authorities charged him with hazing a lance corporal who later committed suicide in Afghanistan. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/11/331294/Marine-sergeant.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/europe/2012/02/11/331328/Sarkozy-refuses.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy is refusing to shut down an aging nuclear plant that has become a symbol of growing resistance to atomic energy in the country. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/europe/2012/02/11/331328/Sarkozy-refuses.htm Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331235/Rio-de.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - Rio state police officers voted at a rally Thursday night to begin a strike that could prompt violence during the globe's biggest Carnival bash in spite of government approval of a pay raise earlier in the day. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331235/Rio-de.htm Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:23:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331217/Romanian-charged.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - A Romanian man accused of hacking into NASA computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles under the online moniker “Iceman” has been indicted on a federal charge, prosecutors said on Wednesday. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331217/Romanian-charged.htm Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:33:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331215/New-York.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - Large New York hotels plan to equip their housekeepers and staff with portable alarms so they get help quickly in case of trouble, officials said Wednesday. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331215/New-York.htm Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:32:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331216/Israeli-citizen.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - An Israeli citizen accused of negligence which started a massive forest fire in a Chilean national park in Patagonia has reached an agreement in court to pay a US$10,000 fine and to perform community service. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331216/Israeli-citizen.htm Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:32:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331214/Washington-state.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - Washington state lawmakers voted to approve gay marriage Wednesday, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331214/Washington-state.htm Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:31:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331213/US-charges.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - Young housewives and older mothers who bought assault rifles from Texas gun dealers are among nearly two dozen charged in an alleged weapons smuggling ring that armed Mexican cartels before the scheme was broken up, U.S. federal agents said Wednesday. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331213/US-charges.htm Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:30:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331212/Judge-dismisses.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday threw out an animal rights group's lawsuit accusing SeaWorld for enslaving captive killer whales, ruling that orcas had no standing to seek the same constitutional rights as people. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331212/Judge-dismisses.htm Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:23:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331210/Pentagon-to.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - Defense Department rules are catching up a bit with reality after a decade when women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331210/Pentagon-to.htm Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:22:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331211/Mexican-army.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - Mexican troops have made an historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, the Mexican army said in a statement released late Wednesday. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331211/Mexican-army.htm Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:22:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331209/GOP-hits.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - The top Republican in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday denounced U.S. President Barack Obama's new rule on contraceptives as an assault on “religious freedom” and vowed to overturn it, as the White House sought to prevent the issue from becoming an election-year liability. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331209/GOP-hits.htm Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:21:00 +0800 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331204/Nepali-aims.htm (ChinaPost.com.tw) - Pilloried by neighbors, laughed at in freak shows and spurned by the women he admired from afar, Chandra Bahadur Dangi has always seen his tiny stature as a curse. http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2012/02/10/331204/Nepali-aims.htm Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:13:00 +0800