2008年9月6日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Pakistani lawmakers start voting on next president (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 02:30 AM CDT

A lawmaker, center, of Pakistan's Sindh province assembly casts his vote for presidential election as others wait for their turn Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008 in Karachi, Pakistan. Lawmakers voted Saturday in Pakistan's presidential election, with the scandal-tainted, pro-U.S. widower of slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto expected to win easily. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)AP - Lawmakers were casting their votes Saturday in Pakistan's presidential election, a race where the favorite by far is the scandal-tainted pro-U.S. widower of slain ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Police: 12 dead in suicide car blast in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 03:20 AM CDT

Supporters of Pakistan People's Party celebrate the nomination of Asif Ali Zardari for presidential candidate in Multan September 1, 2008. (Asim Tanveer/Reuters)AP - Police say at least 12 people are dead after a suicide car bomber struck a security checkpoint in Pakistan's volatile northwest.

Peacekeepers, aid workers race to feed Haitians (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 02:45 AM CDT

A man unloads bottles of water donated by Word Food Program in Gonaives, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. A ship carrying 33 tons of U.N. relief supplies managed to dock Friday, the first significant aid delivery after four days without food or water for thousands of survivors from Tropical Storm Hanna. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Receding waters in the starving Haitian city of Gonaives revealed the bodies of more victims in floods from Tropical Storm Hanna, as U.N. peacekeepers and aid groups struggled to feed thousands of people.

Many flee Turks and Caicos as 'Ike' approaches (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 02:20 AM CDT

This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Ike, still a Category 4 storm on the morning of Sept. 4, 2008 when this photo was taken from the International Space Station's vantage point of 220 miles above the Earth. The season's seventh named storm was churning west-northwestward through the mid-Atlantic Ocean sporting winds of 120 nautical miles per hour with gusts to 145. Ike could hit Florida by the middle of next week. At 1100 p.m. EDT the center of Hurricane Ike was located about 360 miles northeast of Grand Turk Island with maximum sustained winds near 115 mph a Category 3 hurricane. Some strengthening is expected. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Hurricane Ike barreled toward the Turks and Caicos as a powerful Category 3 storm Saturday, prompting an exodus of tourists and locals from the normally idyllic Atlantic island chain.

Rice meets Gadhafi on historic visit to Libya (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 01:07 AM CDT

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, meets with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left in Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Rice begins a four-nation tour of North Africa in Tripoli today, meeting with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and other top officials in what the State Department is calling a landmark trip that will symbolize the opening of a new era in ties between the United States and the oil-rich country. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround after decades of terrorist killings, American retaliation, suspicions and insults with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's peacemaking visit Friday with Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's mercurial strongman.

Medvedev says Russia "nation to be reckoned with" (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 03:38 AM CDT

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shakes hands with Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi, September 4, 2008. (Irakli Gedenidze/Pool/Reuters)AP - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says the war in the Georgian region of South Ossetia show Russia is a "nation to be reckoned with."

Iraq govt reacts sharply to US spying allegations (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 01:59 AM CDT

Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's Prime Minister, arrives at a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the 2003 assassination of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, a leading opponent of Saddam Hussein, in Baghdad, Iraq, in this Saturday, July 5, 2008 file photo. The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States could be in jeopardy if the report is true. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, file)AP - The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States could be in jeopardy if the report were true.

UN sees storms add to hard-hit Haiti's food crisis (AP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2008 10:14 PM CDT

A flood victim carries a box of high energy biscuits he received from the World Food Program in a shelter as he wades through muddy water after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Hanna has killed at least 137 people in Haiti. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Flooding in Haiti from three major storms has killed scores of people and "washed away" progress toward dealing with ongoing food shortages, the top-ranking U.N. humanitarian official said Friday.

Cairo landslide kills five, toll expected to rise (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 03:42 AM CDT

Reuters - Five people were killed and eight injured when a rockslide hit a shanty town in Cairo on Saturday, with the death toll expected to rise, security sources said.

State attorney killed in Afghan suicide blast: governor (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 03:41 AM CDT

Soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force and Afghan policemen at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul in August 2008. A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a government building in southwestern Afghanistan Saturday, killing a senior state prosecutor and two other people, a provincial governor said.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AFP - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a government building in southwestern Afghanistan Saturday, killing a senior state prosecutor and two other people, a provincial governor said.

Australian state votes in poll that could bring uranium mine ban (AFP)

Posted: 05 Sep 2008 09:15 PM CDT

BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam copper and uranium operation at Roxby Downs in South Australia. Voters in Western Australia went to the polls Saturday in a ballot that could see a formal ban slapped on uranium mining in the mineral-rich state that drives the whole nation's economy(AFP/HO)AFP - Voters in Western Australia went to the polls Saturday in a ballot that could see a formal ban slapped on uranium mining in the mineral-rich state that drives the whole nation's economy.

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