2014年12月15日 星期一

2014-12-16 U.K. World


BBC News
   
Sydney cafe siege: Australian media   
BBC News
The siege of a cafe in the Australian city of Sydney has ended, with two hostages dying when police stormed the premises. Australian media have been pondering the hostage-taker's motives and wondering how the incident was able to happen, but it also ...

Sydney siege: Australia wakes up to mourn and pay tribute to two dead hostages   The Independent
Sydney hostages reveal how they managed to escape   Daily Mail
Gunman and Two Others Dead in Sydney Hostage Crisis   ABC News
Toronto Star   
Washington Post   
Los Angeles Times   
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BBC News
   
Anti-Islam 'Pegida' march in German city of Dresden   
BBC News
About 10,000 people have taken part in a march against "Islamisation of the West" in the east German city of Dresden. A large counter-demonstration of more than 5,000 people was also held. No major incidents were reported. Dresden is the birthplace of a ...

Estimated 15000 people join 'pinstriped Nazis' on march in Dresden   The Guardian
German Leader Denounces Anti-Immigrant Surge   New York Times
Merkel warns Germans not to be duped by far right rhetoric   Irish Independent
The Independent   
The Times (subscription)   
Times of India   
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Fox News
   
Man arrested in Belgium for false claims in Ghent hostage case   
Zee News
Brussels: An 18-year-old man has been detained on charges of filing a false report over an alleged hostage situation in the northern Belgian city of Ghent Monday. Police were called to the scene of the alleged hostage situation Monday morning following a ...

Belgian police storm apartment to end Ghent siege   Reuters
Belgian police detain 3 after apartment siege   Businessweek
Four armed men taking hostage in northern Belgium   Xinhua
Belfast Telegraph   
IBNLive   
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BBC News
   
Police clear final Hong Kong protest site at Causeway Bay   
BBC News
Hong Kong police have arrested several people as they cleared the last remaining pro-democracy protest site. For more than two months activists have staged sit-ins in the centre of the shopping district of Causeway Bay, along with two other areas.
Hong Kong police clear a few final protesters from streets   Los Angeles Times
Hong Kong's protests are over, but the fight over free speech has just begun   Quartz
China 'voids' Hong Kong rights   The Australian
Xinhua   
Telegraph.co.uk   
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Sydney Morning Herald
   
Sydney siege ends: Family of ex-wife Noleen Hayson Pal furious gunman on bail   
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney siege ends: live updates · Mother-of-three killed in Lindt cafe · Sydney gunman identified as Man Haron Monis · Martin Place siege: what we know and don't know · Australia and the world transfixed. The family of Noleen Hayson Pal, the slain ex-wife ...


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Fox News
   
Dems, GOP press Obama to back Russian sanctions   
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats spoke with one voice on Monday in pressing President Barack Obama to sign legislation that would slap new sanctions on Russia while providing weapons and other assistance to Ukraine. The widely popular ...

White House Still Deciding Whether to Approve Russian Sanctions Bill   Sputnik International
UN rights watchdog accuses Kiev forces of torture, inhumane treatment of civilians   RT
UPDATE 3-White House has not yet decided on Russia sanctions bill   Reuters
Voice of America   
AsiaOne   
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BBC News
   
US marine charged with murder in Philippines transgender death   
BBC News
Prosecutors in the Philippines have charged a US marine with murder in connection with the death of a Filipina transgender woman. Pte First Class Joseph Pemberton is suspected of killing Jennifer Laude, who was found dead in a hotel bathroom in the port ...

Philippines murder could complicate Obama's big plans for Asia (+video)   Christian Science Monitor
Philippine prosecutors charge US Marine with murder   DAWN.com
Tension builds as Marine charged with murder   South China Morning Post (subscription)
NBCNews.com   
Wall Street Journal   
Atlanta Journal Constitution   
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Reuters
   
EU urges rapid reforms in Ukraine in return for new financial aid   
Xinhua
BRUSSELS, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- The European Union said on Monday that Ukraine needs to "rapidly finalize" its national reform strategy before it continues to provide a new financial aid package to Kiev. "We will continue to provide an unprecedented level of ...

What is Vladimir Putin doing in the skies of the Baltics?   Telegraph.co.uk
How Russia is bolstering its arsenal amid tensions with the West: Fighter jets ...   Daily Mail
Ukrainian PM appeals for help from NATO, EU   Deutsche Welle
Reuters Canada   
Channel News Asia   
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WA today
   
Three injured in knife attack in China's restive Xinjiang   
WA today
Police stand guard in a Uighur neighbourhood in Xinjiang in July. Photo: New York Times. Beijing: Police in the capital of China's unruly far western region of Xinjiang have detained a man after three people were injured in a knife attack, state media said, ...

Global Times Says 300 “Chinese Extremists” Fighting Alongside ISIS   China Digital Times
300 Chinese fighting for Baghdadi militia   Oman Tribune

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New York Times
   
CIA, on Path to Torture, Chose Haste Over Analysis   
New York Times
WASHINGTON — Almost immediately after transferring the first important prisoner they had captured since the 9/11 attacks to a secret prison in Thailand, officials of the Central Intelligence Agency met at the agency's headquarters to debate two questions ...

Majority of Americans side with Dick Cheney, say torture was justified (+video)   Christian Science Monitor
Blair ready to answer questions about Britain's part in torture   The Times (subscription)
Was what CIA did after 9/11 appropriate?   Ashland Daily Tidings
Yibada (English Edition)   
Daily Mail   
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