2008年9月22日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

US helicopters reportedly cross into Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 03:28 AM CDT

Pakistan army troops arrive to conduct a rescue operation at the site of Saturday's massive truck bombing at Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008. The bombing devastated the luxury hotel in Pakistan's capital, killing some 40 people and injuring more than 250. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Pakistani troops and tribesmen opened fire when two U.S. helicopters crossed into the country from neighboring Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Monday.

Global financial crisis could hurt UN program (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 03:40 AM CDT

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of United Nations, is seen in his office where he met foreign leaders who arrived to attend the General Assembly debate at U.N. Headquarters Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - World leaders meeting at the U.N. General Assembly this week face a global financial crisis that threatens the United Nation's efforts to generate billions of dollars to fight poverty, especially in Africa.

Nearly 53,000 Chinese children sick from milk (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 03:43 AM CDT

A farmer pours the fresh milk at a dairy farm in Shenyang, China Saturday Sept. 20, 2008. China is seeking to shore up public confidence weakened by a milk safety scandal, with the president scolding officials for negligence and government agencies promising adequate supplies of uncontaminated milk. (AP Photo)AP - The number of children in China sickened by dairy products tainted with the banned industrial chemical melamine has jumped to nearly 53,000, the government said as it vowed to crack down on those responsible for one of China's worst food safety scandals in years.

Iran moves closer to nuke weapons capacity (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 02:41 AM CDT

AP - Two years? One? Even less?

South Africa's Mbeki resigns afer power struggle (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 11:47 PM CDT

In this image from a live national television broadcast South African President Thabo Mbeki tells his nation on Sunday Sept. 21 2008 that he has formally tendered his resignation, effective as soon as a new president is chosen. A day earlier, his African National Congress had called on him to resign and he had bowed to the order. He is leaving before his second and last constitutionally allowed term expires next year. (AP Photo/ SA Govt via APTN)AP - South African President Thabo Mbeki told the nation Sunday that he had resigned, having lost a power struggle to a rival tainted by allegations of corruption but poised now to lead the country.

London stocks gain ground at open (AFP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 03:30 AM CDT

The FTSE rose 0.18 percent in initial trade, as investors responded to a massive US rescue plan for the distressed financial sector.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The FTSE rose 0.18 percent in initial trade on Monday, as investors responded to a massive US rescue plan for the distressed financial sector.

Family of US Embassy attack victim in shock (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 02:10 AM CDT

Hanah Ali, 17, Susan Elbaneh's best friend, finishes her remembrances during a memorial tribute at Lackawanna High School in Lackawanna, N.Y. on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. Elbaneh was the only American killed in the US Embassy attack in Yemen on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Don Heupel)AP - Exactly one month before the bombing that would take her life, a young Yemeni-American left an upstate New York city with her trousseau and wedding dress to marry a man she'd never met and eventually settle down in the ancestral country she'd never visited.

Chavez begins 5-nation tour with visit to Castro (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2008 11:16 PM CDT

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, embraces Cuba's President Raul Castro as he arrives to Jose Marti airport in Havana, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office)AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez began a five-nation tour Sunday with a stop in Cuba to visit ailing former leader Fidel Castro.

Thabo Mbeki: the fall of Africa's Shakespearean figure (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 03:00 AM CDT

The Christian Science Monitor - In exile, Thabo Mbeki excelled at the secretive work of building left-wing support for his liberation movement, the African National Congress.

Scores more die in Sri Lanka fighting: military (AFP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 03:42 AM CDT

Sri Lankan soldiers stand guard in Colombo in August 2008. Heavy fighting across Sri Lanka's war-torn north has left at least 59 rebels and eight soldiers dead.(AFP/File/Ishara S. Kodikara)AFP - Heavy fighting across Sri Lanka's war-torn north has left at least 59 rebels and eight soldiers dead, the defence ministry said Monday.

Australian conservatives bounce on change of leader (AFP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 02:34 AM CDT

File photo shows Malcolm Turnbull canvassing support for Australian republican event in Sydney. A change in the leadership of Australia's opposition conversatives, which saw Turnbull elected to head the party, has paid dividends with a boost to his party's standing in opinion polls.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - A change in the leadership of Australia's opposition conversatives paid dividends Monday, with new leader Malcolm Turnbull increasing his party's standing in opinion polls.

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