2008年9月15日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

China makes first arrests in tainted milk probe (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 03:11 AM CDT

A grandmother looks after her fifteen-month-old Tian Yaowen from Henan province, who is suffering from kidney stones, in a hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Saturday Sept. 13, 2008. China's health minister has blamed the company for a delay in warning the public about tainted milk powder linked to the sickening of 432 babies and at least one death. (AP Photo)AP - Chinese police arrested two men as part of an investigation into contaminated milk powder blamed for sickening almost 600 infants, state media reported Monday.

Official: Women among 32 dead in Pakistan clashes (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 02:32 AM CDT

Armed supporters of an outlawed militant group 'Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan,' left, guard kidnapped security personnel, right, as they are presented to the media on the outskirts of Matta, an area of Pakistan's Swat district, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. Militants paraded some 38 security personnel, who were abducted from a post in Pakistan's troubled northwest Swat valley. Swat lies in a swath of northwestern Pakistan that has increasingly come under the sway of Islamic militants opposed to Pakistan's alliance with Washington in the war with terrorist groups. (AP Photo/Sherin Zada)AP - Security forces backed by helicopter gunships and heavy artillery struck suspected militant hide-outs in northwest Pakistan, killing 32 people, including three women, an official said Monday.

Bomb kills 2 in western Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 01:37 AM CDT

Afghan girls walk to school past flowers on the outskirts of Kabul September 15, 2008. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN)AP - A roadside bomb killed two people in western Afghanistan on Monday in the same province where insurgents also attacked two Americans training the police force, officials said.

23 Indonesians dead in crush for cash handout (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 02:09 AM CDT

AP - Residents of a town in eastern Indonesia surged forward to receive $4.25 in handouts from a wealthy family, crushing to death 23 people, officials said.

Petraeus: more than troops needed in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 12:02 AM CDT

In this March 1, 2008 file photo, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, center left, talks to players during a youth soccer tournament in central Baghdad, Iraq. Amid a debate about U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus says experience in Iraq shows that political and economic efforts are needed as well as military action. 'You don't kill or capture your way out of an industrial strength insurgency,' he tells The Associated Press in an interview Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. Petraeus is assuming control of the U.S. Central Command after handing over the reins in Iraq on Tuesday. (AP photo/Dusan Vranic)AP - U.S. Gen. David Petraeus said Sunday that experience in Iraq shows it will take political and economic progress as well as military action to tackle increased violence in Afghanistan.

Parents to be alerted about paedophiles (AFP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 03:16 AM CDT

Parents in England will be able to ask whether a person with access to their child is a convicted sex offender, under a new pilot scheme launched on Monday.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Parents in England will be able to ask whether a person with access to their child is a convicted sex offender, under a new pilot scheme launched on Monday.

Ferry sinks off Turkey's coast; at least 1 dead (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 02:48 AM CDT

AP - Military divers on Monday searched for five truck drivers reported missing after a ferry sank in the Sea of Marmara with about 100 people aboard. One person died.

Morales struggles to control Bolivia amid violence (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 12:04 AM CDT

Supporters of Bolivia's President Evo Morales hold sticks and stones as they stand guard at a road blockade, 50 km (some 31 miles) south of Santa Cruz, eastern Bolivia, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008. Bolivia's government said Sunday that the number of people killed in Pando state rose at least 28 and blamed an opposition governor for the violence, which prompted a state of emergency in the region. (AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)AP - President Evo Morales struggled to assert control over a badly fractured Bolivia on Sunday as protesters set fire to a town hall and blockaded highways in opposition-controlled provinces, provoking gasoline and food shortages.

Militants attack Shell facility in Nigeria (AFP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 03:05 AM CDT

Picture shows armed members of an ethnic group known as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). The group claimed responsibility Monday for attacking a Shell facility in Nigeria's restive southern Delta region, a day after MEND declared an AFP - Militants on Monday attacked a Shell facility in Nigeria's restive southern Delta region, a day after an armed group declared an "oil war," a military official said.

India now a big world player thanks to nuclear nod: minister (AFP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 03:07 AM CDT

File picture of India's Minister of State for Industry Ashwani Kumar. The decision by nuclear supplier nations to end a decades-old ban on civilian nuclear trade with India has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's major global political powers, Kumar has said.(AFP/File/Alexander Joe)AFP - The decision by nuclear supplier nations to end a decades-old ban on civilian nuclear trade with India has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's major global political powers, a key minister says.

6 found guilty of terrorism charges in Australia (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 02:20 AM CDT

AP - A jury Monday convicted a Muslim cleric and five of his followers of forming a terrorist group in Australia that allegedly considered assassinating the prime minister and attacking major sporting events.

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