2008年9月28日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

Gains for far right predicted in Austria (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 02:50 AM CDT

Top candidate of the Alliance for the Future of Austria, BZOE, for Sunday's national elections in Austria, Joerg Haider, center, signs autographs during a final election campaign in Voelkermarkt in the Austrian province of Carinthia, on Friday, Sept. 26, 2008. The latest polls, without specifying a margin of error, show the Social Democrats clinging to a three point lead over the People's Party in their quest for the top spot. The far-right Freedom Party is expected to come in a resounding third.  (AP Photo/Gert Eggenberger)AP - Austrians began voting in parliamentary elections Sunday that analysts said could bolster the standing of the country's two right-wing parties.


Israeli officials: US sends radar to Israel (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 01:30 AM CDT

In this photo released by the Mennonite Central Committee, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, addresses the audience during an event billed as an international dialogue on the role of religion in building peace, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Mennonite Central Committee, Melissa Engle)AP - Israeli officials say the U.S. has provided Israel with an advanced radar system that will give early warning in case of an Iranian missile attack.


US destroyer watching hijacked ship off Somalia (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 11:51 PM CDT

In this May 28, 2008 file photo, the U.S. Navy destroyer, USS Howard, sails off the coast of Hawaii during sonar exercises, on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. The Howard, off the coast of Somalia closed in Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008, on a hijacked Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks and ammunition, watching it to ensure the pirates who seized it do not try to remove any cargo or crew.  (AP Photo/Hugh E. Gentry, File)AP - A U.S. destroyer off the coast of Somalia closed in Saturday on a hijacked Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks and ammunition, watching it to ensure the pirates who seized it do not try to remove any cargo or crew.


Afghan police: 3 civilians die in coalition strike (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 02:30 AM CDT

Police in Kabul. Gunmen shot dead the most high-profile female police officer in Afghanistan as she left her home in the southern city of Kandahar for work Sunday(AFP/Shah Marai)AP - A coalition operation apparently targeting a suicide bomb cell in eastern Afghanistan killed three civilians but no militants, a police official said Sunday.


Ecuadoreans go to polls to vote on constitution (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 01:52 AM CDT

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, top, gestures as he rides in a van at a rally on the last day to campaign for proposed changes to the constitution in an upcoming referendum in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008.  Ecuadoreans will decide on Sept. 28, 2008 whether to approve proposed changes to the constitution which would grant Correa the power to dissolve Congress and run for office through 2017.  (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)AP - Ecuadoreans go to the polls Sunday to vote on a constitution that would significantly broaden President Rafael Correa's powers and let him run for two more consecutive terms.


Conservative poll lead halved: survey (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 03:12 AM CDT

Conservative party leader David Cameron is seen here in April 2008. The Conservative Party has seen its opinion poll lead over the governing Labour Party halved on the eve of its annual conference, according to a new survey published in The Sunday Telegraph.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The Conservative Party has seen its opinion poll lead over the governing Labour Party halved on the eve of its annual conference, according to a new survey published Sunday.


No interim peace deal with Israel, Saudi says (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 07:53 PM CDT

AP - Arab nations will totally reject any partial or interim solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because historically such arrangements have become permanent, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Saturday.

Chavez lands in Cuba, meets with Castro brothers (AP)

Posted: 27 Sep 2008 11:32 PM CDT

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez tries a Magalhaes (Magellan) laptop computer for school children while Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, right, looks over his shoulder, before the signature of several agreements between the two countries and Portuguese private companies Saturday, Sept. 27 2008, in Lisbon. The Venezuelan government will buy one million of the Magalhaes computers manufactured in Portugal. Officials valued the total of the signed contracts in more than three billion dollars. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a surprise visit to Cuba late Saturday and wasted little time heading into a closed-door meeting with President Raul Castro and his ailing brother Fidel.


Kidnapped tourists back in Sudan: foreign ministry (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 01:46 AM CDT

Tourists visit the Elephantine temple on the island of the same name in the River Nile. Bandits who kidnapped 19 tourists and Egyptians in the desert have taken their hostages back to Sudan but are now heading towards Egypt, Sudanese officials said on Sunday(AFP/Khaled Desouki)AFP - Bandits who kidnapped 19 tourists and Egyptians in the desert have taken their hostages back to Sudan but are now heading towards Egypt, Sudanese officials said on Sunday.


Indian police detain a dozen over Delhi blast (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2008 03:09 AM CDT

Relatives of a bomb blast victim mourn at a hospital in New Delhi September 27, 2008. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters)Reuters - Indian police have detained about a dozen people in connection with a bomb blast in a crowded New Delhi market that killed two people and wounded 22, a spokesman said on Sunday, the second attack in the capital this month.


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