BitGou: Morning Digest: Afghan Taliban threaten to behead U.S. soldiers; government team attacked

2012年3月13日星期二

Morning Digest: Afghan Taliban threaten to behead U.S. soldiers; government team attacked

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03/13/2012

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Afghan Taliban threaten to behead U.S. soldiers; government team attacked

KABUL (Reuters) - Suspected insurgents fired on an Afghan government delegation on Tuesday investigating the massacre of 16 civilians by a U.S. soldier, officials said, hours after the Taliban threatened to behead American troops to avenge the killings..

Syrian soldiers reported killed in ambush

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian army defectors killed at least 10 soldiers in an ambush in the northern town of Idlib on Tuesday, a rights activist said, with international efforts to ease the crisis appearing to make little headway..

Stock index futures signal gains ahead of Fed

(Reuters) Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 up 0.56 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.45 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 0.54 percent at 0949 GMT..

MTV Europe Music Awards return to Frankfurt in 2012

LONDON (Reuters) - The MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA) will be held on November 11 in Frankfurt, returning to the Germany city which also hosted the annual ceremony in 2001, the music channel announced on Monday..

Rampant Bulls overpower fading Knicks

(Reuters) - The heady days of "Linsanity" are fading further from New York fans' memories after the Knicks slumped to their sixth straight defeat with a 104-99 loss to the NBA-best Chicago Bulls on Monday..

Yahoo sues Facebook for infringing 10 patents

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc sued Facebook Inc over 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising on the Web, opening the first major legal battle among big technology companies in social media..

Progress, no big breakthrough, in hunt for HIV cure

(Reuters) - Scientists, stymied for decades by the complexity of the human immunodeficiency virus, are making progress on several fronts in the search for a cure for HIV infections, a leading medical research conference was told this week in Seattle..

That's not a salad, it's a symphony

BEIJING (Reuters) - Vendors at the local market in Beijing could be forgiven for thinking that Nan Weidong and Nan Weiping run a restaurant. But the bags stuffed full of vegetables the brothers lug back home are used for a very different purpose -- musical instruments..