2008年9月8日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

Ike hits Cuba as dangerous Category 3 hurricane (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 02:42 AM CDT

This Sepetmebr 7, 2008 NASA GOES satellite image shows Hurricane Ike seen at 1610 GMT. Barely a week after Hurricane Gustav devastated western Cuba, the island was battening down the hatches again Sunday for another killer storm, with more than half a million people evacuating Cuba's northeast coast, officials said.(AFP/HO NASA/Ho)AP - Hurricane Ike's winds and massive storm surge ripped apart houses and toppled trees Monday as the deadly storm roared across Cuba toward Havana and its historic but decaying old buildings.

Several explosions in Pakistan's northwest kill 6 (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 02:35 AM CDT

Pakistani youngsters and employees of a private school, damaged in the Saturday's suicide bombing, collect useful stuff from the rubble of buildings in the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan's militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for the widower of assassinated ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to take over as president. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)AP - Several explosions, reportedly caused by missile strikes from unmanned U.S. drone aircraft, hit a house and seminary linked to a key Taliban commander in northwestern Pakistan, officials said.

Flooding from Ike kills 58 in rain-soaked Haiti (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 02:01 AM CDT

Flood victims push past security to enter a food distribution center in Gonaives, Haiti, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Haiti's overall death toll has risen to 306 from four tropical storms in recent weeks. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - Hurricane Ike's torrential rains swelled rivers across Haiti and sent floodwaters gushing into homes in the dead of night in one eastern town, killing at least 58 people.

US re-examines Afghan civilian deaths from attack (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 08:29 PM CDT

In this Aug. 23, 2008 file photo, an Afghan woman shouts anti-U.S. slogans in front of her destroyed home in Azizabad, the village in Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. Disillusionment is widespread in Afghanistan, feeding an insurgency that has killed 195 foreign soldiers so far this year, 105 of them Americans. Afghans are deeply bitter about American and NATO forces because of errant bombs, heavy-handed searches and seizures and a sense that the foreigners do not understand their culture. (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa, File)AP - The U.S. military said Sunday it has new evidence about civilian casualties from an American attack that Afghanistan says killed scores of women and children and it is sending a senior officer to the country to review its initial finding that no more than seven civilians died.

6 Afghan civilians killed in explosion (AP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 03:18 AM CDT

A labourer's face is covered with flour at a flour market in Kabul September 8, 2008. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN)AP - A roadside blast in southern Afghanistan killed six civilians Monday, and a Canadian soldier died in another explosion in the same region, officials said.

French fake plastic surgeon gets 3-year jail term (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 03:49 AM CDT

Reuters - A French court sentenced a doctor on Monday to three years in jail for posing as a plastic surgeon and endangering patients by operating on them illegally in a derelict Marseille clinic.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,155 (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 09:08 PM CDT

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, seen here in Athens earlier this year. Kuwait's premier has accepted an invitation to visit Iraq, in what would be a first since the forces of dictator Saddam Hussein invaded the Gulf emirate 18 years ago.(AFP/File/Louisa Gouliamaki)AP - As of Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008, at least 4,155 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

A look at death toll from Atlantic storms (AP)

Posted: 07 Sep 2008 09:02 PM CDT

AP - A look at deaths so far from the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season:

Mbeki to meet Zimbabwe parties in Harare (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 02:44 AM CDT

South African President Thabo Mbeki listens during the summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Johannesburg August 17, 2008. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters)Reuters - South African President Thabo Mbeki will meet Zimbabwe's rival parties in Harare on Monday in a new attempt to secure a power-sharing deal amid growing doubts over his chances of success.

Japan PM contenders clash over spending and taxes (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 03:41 AM CDT

A combination photo shows possible candidates to become Japan's next prime minister. Former foreign minister Taro Aso, frontrunner to become Japan's next leader, faced a growing field of would-be rivals on Friday, a development that was helping the ruling party dominate media ahead of a possible general election. Clockwise from top L: former foreign minister Taro Aso, former defence minister Yuriko Koike, former transport minister Nobuteru Ishihara, and Economics Minister Kaoru Yosano. (Kyodo/Reuters)Reuters - The frontrunner to become Japan's next leader will pledge tax cuts and bigger government spending to boost the economy, a newspaper said on Monday, a contrast with rivals worried about the country's huge debt.

ConocoPhillips to pay $8 bln for stake in Origin gas scheme (AFP)

Posted: 08 Sep 2008 03:25 AM CDT

A ConocoPhillips petrol station in Pasadena, California. US oil giant ConocoPhillips will pay up to US$8 billion for a half share of a coal seam gas venture with Australia's Origin Energy in a deal that could thwart a hostile bid by Britain's BG Group.(AFP/Getty Images/File/David Mcnew)AFP - US oil giant ConocoPhillips will pay up to 9.6 billion dollars (8.0 billion US dollars) for a half share of a coal seam gas (CSG) venture with Australia's Origin Energy in a deal that could thwart a hostile bid by Britain's BG Group.

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