2008年9月7日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

Ike blasts Turks and Caicos as Category 4 storm (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:26 AM CDT

In this satellite image provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Hurricane Ike is seen moving across the Atlantic Ocean as Tropical Storm Hanna bears down on the US on September 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna barreled across the southeastern United States, battering the coast with waves, rain and wind and prompting thousands of people to seek refuge inland.(AFP/NOAA/File)AP - Hurricane Ike roared across the Turks and Caicos on Sunday as a ferocious Category 4 storm, as people sought refuge from its howling winds in emergency shelters or in their homes.

Haitians flee Gonaives before Ike reaches island (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:25 AM CDT

A man walks through flood waters as he pulls a wheelbarrow loaded with a coffin containing the body of a man who died from hypertension triggered during flooding after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Hanna has killed 166 people in Haiti. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Hundreds of people fled this waterlogged city Saturday for higher ground as powerful Hurricane Ike threatened to unleash heavy rain and compound a disaster caused by a previous storm. At the local jail, emaciated inmates waited for food to stave off starvation.

Pakistan suicide blast death toll reaches 35 (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 02:52 AM CDT

Local residents look at a victim on a bed at the site of the suicide bombing on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. A pickup truck packed with a large amount of explosives blew up a security checkpoint in Pakistan's volatile northwest Saturday, killing at least 13 people and injuring nearly 60 in an attack that may have been intended for a more important target, police said. The suicide attack occurred on the outskirts of Peshawar on the day Pakistani lawmakers voted for a new president, underscoring the challenges facing a country the U.S. has pressured to crack down on insurgents. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan's militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president.

US holds off on civilian nuclear pact with Russia (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:12 AM CDT

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, left, greets U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Algiers, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Rice's three-day visit to North Africa, including Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, is her first as Secretary of State in this region of increasing strategic importance in terms of oil resources, emigration and fighting terrorism. (AP Photo/Ouahab Hebbat)AP - Now is not the right time for the U.S. to move forward on a once-celebrated deal for civilian nuclear cooperation with Russia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday.

Thai leader dismisses talk of military coup (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 02:01 AM CDT

Anti-government demonstrators shout slogans and sing songs early Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008, at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand. Thousands continue to illegally occupy Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's office complex as the political standoff continues into its second week. The standoff stems from a campaign by the People's Alliance for Democracy, a loose-knit group of royalists, wealthy and middle-class urban residents, and union activists, to oust Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his government, accusing it of corruption and violating the constitution. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)AP - Thailand's embattled prime minister denied a rift with the army Sunday and dismissed the possibility of a coup when he travels to the U.N. General Assembly in New York later this month.

Urgent inquiry as more personal data missing (AFP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 11:21 PM CDT

File photo shows a prison van transporting inmates from Lincoln jail. An urgent inquiry was underway in Britain on Sunday after a disc containing the personal details of 5,000 justice staff, including prison officers, went missing in yet another embarrassing data loss blunder.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - An urgent inquiry was underway on Sunday after a disc containing the personal details of 5,000 justice staff went missing in yet another embarrassing data loss blunder.

Rock slide in Cairo shantytown kills 24 (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 10:02 PM CDT

Egyptians search for victims at site where a massive rock slide buried many dwellings at an Egyptian shanty town south of the capital Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. The massive boulders smashed down onto the shantytown killing at least 18 people and injured 22. (AP Photo)AP - Massive boulders crashed down on a shantytown on the outskirts of Cairo Saturday, killing at least 24 people and burying many more under tons of rubble, Egyptian authorities said.

Fierce Hurricane Ike approaches Turks and Caicos (AP)

Posted: 06 Sep 2008 07:21 PM CDT

A diner at the Antojitos Mexicanos restaurant watches the progress of Hurricane Ike on the Weather Channel Saturday Sept. 6, 2008 in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/David Adame)AP - The National Hurricane Center in Miami says an "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Ike is roaring toward the Turks and Caicos islands as a fierce Category 4 storm.

Rebels: Government assault in Darfur thwarted (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:20 AM CDT

A Sudanese woman wears a robe with the image of St. Bakhita at the St. Bakhita parish church in Jeberona displacement camp on the outskirts of Khartoum August 24, 2008. Josephine Bakhita, a former slave who died in 1947, has risen from obscurity to become the first saint from Darfur in western Sudan, a region convulsed by war for the past five years. Picture taken August 24, 2008. To match feature SUDAN-SAINT/ REUTERS/Andrew Heavens (SUDAN)AP - A Darfur rebel group says it has successfully repelled a government assault in North Darfur, but the Sudanese government denies it carried out any operations in the area.

Fresh clashes in Indian Kashmir (AFP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 03:34 AM CDT

Indian protestors throw stones towards police during a demonstration in Srinagar on September 6. Indian police clashed with stone-throwing protesters in the Kashmiri summer capital on Sunday, a day after a demonstrator died in similar anti-India rallies.(AFP/Rouf Bhat)AFP - Indian police clashed with stone-throwing protesters in the Kashmiri summer capital on Sunday, a day after a demonstrator died in similar anti-India rallies.

Power in Australia's biggest state on knife-edge after poll (AFP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 01:08 AM CDT

Central Perth is pictured in this file photo, in Western Australia, known as one of the most isolated state capital cities in the world. Government in resource-rich Western Australia state, the driver of the national economy, remained on a knife-edge Sunday after no political party secured a majority in elections, officials said.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Government in resource-rich Western Australia state, the driver of the national economy, remained on a knife-edge Sunday after no political party secured a majority in elections, officials said.

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