2008年9月16日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

NATO chief: Enlargement will continue (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:36 AM CDT

AP - NATO's chief says the alliance will continue to expand despite Russian opposition.

Ukraine governing coalition collapses (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 02:32 AM CDT

Russian soldiers talk to each other at a checkpoint in Kareleti on September 13. The governing coalition in Ukraine has collapsed in a crisis brought on by Russia's war with Georgia that raises the prospect of the country being knocked off its pro-Western course.(AFP/File/Vano Shlamov)AP - The speaker of the Ukrainian parliament has announced the collapse of the pro-Western governing coalition.

720 Afghan police killed in 6 months (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 03:37 AM CDT

AP - Insurgent attacks have killed around 720 Afghan police in the last six months as militants have increased the pace of bombings and ambushes, an official said Tuesday.

4 dead as Hamas, clan battle in Gaza City (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:11 AM CDT

AP - Hamas police waged a fierce gunbattle against members of a heavily armed Palestinian clan in a crowded neighborhood Tuesday, leaving three clan members and one policeman dead, officials said Tuesday.

Chinese agencies prepare for more sickened babies (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:45 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 - Medical agencies prepared Tuesday to treat more sickened babies as an investigation by China's Health Ministry linked contaminated milk powder to the deaths of two infants and the illnesses of more than 1,200 others.

BoE pumps £20bln into the money markets (AFP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:44 AM CDT

The Bank of England, seen here, has injected 20 billion pounds into money markets, four times the amount it had offered on Monday after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The Bank of England on Tuesday injected 20 billion pounds into the money markets, four times the amount it had offered Monday after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Iran gives full powers to hard-line Guards in Gulf (AP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:19 AM CDT

AP - The official IRNA news agency says Iran's top leadership has given full powers to the elite Revolutionary Guards as the sole military force in charge of defending the country's territorial Persian Gulf waters.

South American presidents back Morales (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 11:33 PM CDT

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa speaks upon his arrival at Santiago's airport, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. Correa is in Chile to attend the Union of South American Nations meeting, called to seek a peaceful solution to a political crisis in Bolivia that has seen about 30 people killed in clashes between supporters and foes of Bolivia's President Evo Morales. (AP Photo/Santiago Llanquin)AP - South American presidents agreed Monday to work urgently to prevent a political collapse in Bolivia, where the government said it would charge a rebellious governor with genocide for allegedly ordering the machine-gunning of peasants.

Briton kidnapped in Nigerian oil hub (AFP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:40 AM CDT

A motocyclyst rides past a school in Port Harcourt. Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a British national overnight in southern Nigeria's oil hub Port Harcourt, a Nigerian army officer has said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Unidentified gunmen kidnapped a British national overnight in southern Nigeria's oil hub Port Harcourt, a Nigerian army officer said Tuesday.

Ailing Suu Kyi accepts food rations: Myanmar official (AFP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 04:44 AM CDT

Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, seen here in 2002, has accepted food rations after her doctor found her so weak that he placed her on a drip.(AFP/File/Stephen Shaver)AFP - Myanmar's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has accepted food rations for the first time in a month, an official said Tuesday, after her doctor found her so weak that he placed her on a drip.

Australian republic plans boosted by party leader switch (AFP)

Posted: 16 Sep 2008 02:44 AM CDT

File combo photo shows former Australian opposition Liberal party leader Brendan Nelson (left) and new party leader Malcolm Turnbull. The chances of Australia dumping the British monarch as head of state have firmed after Turnbull, a staunch republican, took the Liberal Party top post, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has indicated.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - The chances of Australia dumping the British monarch as head of state firmed Tuesday as a staunch republican was elected leader of the opposition, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd indicated.

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