2008年9月23日星期二

Yahoo! News: World News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World News

Pakistan army says 50 suspected militants killed (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 03:58 AM CDT

Pakistani policemen stand in front of a crater left by a powerful bomb blast that devestated the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. Pakistani investigators have scrambled to track down an Islamabad-based Al-Qaeda cell believed to have carried out the attack, security officials have said.(AFP/Pedro Ugarte)AP - An army spokesman says security forces backed by helicopter gunships and artillery have killed more than 50 suspected militants in volatile northwest Pakistan.


UN focuses on Africa ahead of annual meeting (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 09:37 PM CDT

Ban Ki-moon, right, Secretary General of United Nations met with Nkosazana C. Dlamini Zuma, left, Foreign Minister of South Africawho arrived to attend the General Assembly debate at U.N. Headquarters Monday, Sept.  22,  2008  (AP Photo/David Karp)AP - African leaders warned Monday that a lingering global financial crisis coupled with the collapse of talks on a world trade agreement could significantly harm the U.N. campaign to improve life for hundreds of millions of the world's poorest.


US allowing first family visits to Afghan prison (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 11:34 PM CDT

AP - The U.S. military scheduled the first family visits at its Afghanistan detention center Tuesday, allowing the international Red Cross to transport the relatives of prisoners to the main American base at Bagram.

Police say gunman opens fire in Finnish school (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 04:47 AM CDT

AP - Finnish police say the have disarmed a gunman at a school for adults in western Finland after he opened fire on students.

Georgia says it shot down Russian drone (AP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 04:17 AM CDT

Hansjoerg Haber, the Head of European Union Observers Mission in Georgia, speaks to the media in Tbilisi, September 22, 2008. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA)AP - A Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman says Georgian forces have shot down a Russian drone near the breakaway province of South Ossetia.


Gunman arrested after Finnish school shooting: police (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 04:44 AM CDT

Map locating Kauhajoki where a gunman went on the rampage in one of the town's schools.(AFP Graphic)AFP - Police said they had arrested a gunman Tuesday who went on a rampage inside a Finnish school.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,169 (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 08:28 PM CDT

South Korean Army Cpl. Lee Hong-jae, center, who will be dispatched to Iraq holds hands of his daughter Lee Jung-hyun during a farewell ceremony at a military unit in Gwangju, east of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008. South Korea will completely withdraw its remaining troops from Iraq by December, ending five years of military deployment aimed at helping to rebuild the war-torn country.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - As of Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, at least 4,169 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


Gitmo judge enlists help from 9/11 mastermind (AP)

Posted: 22 Sep 2008 07:12 PM CDT

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, is seen shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan in this file photo from March 1, 2003 in this photo obtained by the Associated Press. Mohammed and three co-defendants return to a military courtroom Monday Sept. 22, 2008 to ask the judge to allow them access to telephones and other resources. (AP Photo-File)AP - Confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed offered Monday to help persuade one of his co-defendants to leave his prison cell for a pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay.


Kidnappers threaten to kill hostages: Egypt official (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 04:34 AM CDT

Reuters - The kidnappers who seized 19 hostages including European tourists in a remote desert area of Egypt have threatened to kill them if attempts are made to find them by plane, an Egyptian official said on Tuesday.

BA cancels Pakistan flights indefinitely (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 04:37 AM CDT

A soldier stands at the devastated Marriott Hotel in Islamabad following a suicide bombing. British Airways has AFP - British Airways has "indefinitely" cancelled all flights to the Pakistani capital Islamabad amid security concerns after the bombing of the Marriott hotel, the airline said Tuesday.


400 sheep killed in Australian road crash: police (AFP)

Posted: 23 Sep 2008 02:17 AM CDT

File photo shows a sheep as it pauses from grazing on a livestock farm. Four hundred sheep have died in a road accident in Australia, prompting animal rights activists to repeat their call for an end to the long distance transportation of livestock for slaughter.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AFP - Four hundred sheep died in a road accident in Australia, prompting animal rights activists on Tuesday to repeat their call for an end to the long distance transportation of livestock for slaughter.


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