2008年11月16日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

US military: 10 militants killed in Afghan raids (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 02:34 AM CST

An Afghan police officer inspects the wreckage of a car used by a bomber after a suicide attack on a U.S. convoy in Heart, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. convoy on Sunday, wounding two troops and damaging two of their vehicles, said Col. Greg Julian, the spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. (AP Photo)AP - A raid by U.S. coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan killed five al-Qaida associated fighters and detained eight others, including a militant leader, the U.S. military said in a statement Sunday. Two U.S. troops were wounded in a suicide attack in the west.


4 Gaza militants killed in retaliatory airstrike (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 02:23 AM CST

Palestinians transfer the body of a Palestinian militant following an Israeli airstrike into Shifa hospital in Gaza City Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinians launching mortars at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian officials said, just hours after another group of militants struck Israel in a separate rocket attack. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinian militants launching mortars at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian officials said, just hours after another group of militants struck Israel in a separate rocket attack.


Truck halt on Pakistan pass could dent US supply (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 01:41 AM CST

Pakistan's top finance official Shaukat Tareen speaks during a press conference in Karachi, Pakistan on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. Pakistan has agreed to borrow $7.6 billion from the International Monetary Fund to avoid adding an economic crisis to its struggle against Islamic militants, Tareen said. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)AP - Pakistan temporarily suspended oil tankers and trucks with sealed containers from using a key passage into Afghanistan, an official said Sunday, a move that will likely impact supplies heading to U.S. and NATO troops.


Iraq's Cabinet to vote on security pact with US (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 11:07 PM CST

Smoke rises over the Karrada area of central Baghdad, Iraq after a car bomb attack on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Iraq's Cabinet will vote Sunday on a security pact with Washington that would keep U.S. forces in the country for another three years, a major step in efforts to balance Iraqi demands for national sovereignty with the security concerns of the two allies.


Pirates seize cargo ship with 23 crew off Somalia (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 02:50 AM CST

AP - Gunmen have hijacked a cargo ship with 23 crew off the coast of Somalia, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Sunday, as Somali pirates freed another vessel after being paid a ransom.

French Socialists fail to agree on new leader (AFP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 02:07 AM CST

Former French Socialist presidential candidate Segolene Royal speaks at a three-day conference for France's opposition Socialists. The meeting failed to agree on a party platform and new leader during a night of negotiations, party members said Sunday.(AFP/Denis Charlet)AFP - France's opposition Socialists failed to agree on a new leader and a platform, leaving the party more divided than ever as a congress drew to a close on Sunday.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,200 (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 07:32 PM CST

Deminers arrive to clear a mine field in Halabja in northern Iraq November 9, 2008. Iraq is littered with an estimated 25 million landmines, the Environment Ministry says. Many lie in areas bordering Iran, a legacy of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war that killed a million people.     Mines claimed 14,000 victims in Iraq between 1991 and 2007, the United Nations development Programme says. More than half died from their wounds. For survivors, life is a daily struggle. To match feature IRAQ/MINES.  REUTERS/Aseel Kami (IRAQ)AP - As of Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008, at least 4,200 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


Doctors lead Tijuana march against violence (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 10:02 PM CST

A woman holds a sign that reads in Spanish: 'God save us', during a protest against the tide of killings, kidnappings and shootouts in Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - More than 1,500 demonstrators marched through the violence-plagued border city of Tijuana on Saturday to protest the current of killings and kidnappings.


Somali Islamists publicly whip dancers (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 02:38 AM CST

AP - A spokesman for a Somali Islamic group says they have publicly whipped 32 tradional dancers because it is "Un-Islamic" for men and women to dance together.

23 missing as bridge collapses in Indian Kashmir (AP)

Posted: 16 Nov 2008 03:00 AM CST

AP - A bridge under construction over an icy Himalayan river in Indian-controlled Kashmir collapsed Sunday, leaving at least 23 workers missing and feared dead, police said.

New NZ government will have Maori ministers (AP)

Posted: 15 Nov 2008 11:53 PM CST

AP - The party representing New Zealand's indigenous Maori people will get its first Cabinet posts under a multiparty deal Prime Minister-elect John Key signed Sunday to form a center-right minority government.

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