2008年10月4日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

US military: Mastermind of Baghdad bombings killed (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:03 AM CDT

File picture shows Turkish soldiers on patrol near the Turkey-Iraq border in September 2008. Fifteen Turkish soldiers and 23 Kurdish rebels were killed after an audacious rebel attack on a military post near the Iraqi border which prompted a crushing military air and ground response(AFP/File/Mustafa Ozer)AP - The U.S. military says it has killed a senior al-Qaida in Iraq leader suspected of masterminding deadly bombings in Baghdad.


US nuclear envoy holds NKorea talks in Beijing (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 03:19 AM CDT

U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill, right, shakes hands with his South Korean counterpart Kim Sook after their meeting at Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. The chief U.S. envoy at six-nation talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament met with Kim Friday after spending three days in the North trying to persuade it to resume dismantling its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - The top U.S. nuclear envoy held talks with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Saturday, an embassy spokesman said, after a trip to North Korea failed to stop the communist regime from restoring its atomic facilities.


Rice lauds nuclear deal as key to US-India future (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:04 AM CDT

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, during a meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in the Indian capital Saturday to commemorate — but not put her signature to — a historic deal that opens up U.S. nuclear trade with the Asia giant.


Suspected US strikes kill 20 in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 01:34 AM CDT

Pakistani men offer funeral prayers for those killed in a suicide attack in Charsadda, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. A blast on Thursday killed four people in a failed bid to assassinate a prominent anti-Taliban politician in the region. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)AP - Suspected U.S. missiles hit buildings in two Pakistani villages close to the Afghan border, killing 20 people, most of them alleged militants, officials said Saturday.


Kurdish attack kills 15 Turkish soldiers (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:30 AM CDT

AP - Turkey's military says 15 of its soldiers have been killed in an attack by Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.

Money soothes tensions in Bosnian city before vote (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:11 AM CDT

Milorad Dodik, the Prime Minister of Bosnia's Serb republic (C), toasts with local residents after opening a new water supply system in Ljubija October 3, 2008. When Dodik first became prime minister a decade ago, the U.S. hailed him as 'a man of courage and conviction'. Now some diplomats and experts warn his separatist tendencies in a country still badly scarred by war could represent the greatest threat to stability in the Balkans. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)Reuters - In the 1990s, Milorad Maglajcevic fought for Bosnia's Serbs, whose wartime goal was to clear Muslims from areas they wanted for Serbs alone.


Analysis: Stable Iraq could influence Mideast (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 09:54 PM CDT

A U.S. Army soldier from Ironhawk Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, patrols in Mosul, 360 kilometers (224 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - As violence in Iraq recedes, neighboring states are pondering how to deal with an unwieldy country that could re-emerge as a key player along with Saudi Arabia and Iran in one of the world's most strategic regions.


Hurricane Marie drifts far off Mexico's coast (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 11:33 PM CDT

This NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008 at 1:15 PM EDT shows cloudiness over the Great Lakes and the Northeast as a trough of low pressure instigates rain development. To the north, Tropical Storm Laura is located about 315 miles east of Cape Race Newfoundland. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)AP - Hurricane Marie formed off western Mexico and drifted through the Pacific Ocean on a path that forecasters said would keep it well away from land.


Somalia deaths climb, insurgents reject aid groups (AP)

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 11:29 PM CDT

This file photo, originally supplied by the U.S.Navy, shows the commanding officer of a U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser monitors the pirated Ukrainian cargo ship Faina in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, while one of his helicopters provides aerial surveillance.  Several U.S. Navy ships are monitoring the situation. The ship is carrying a cargo of Ukrainian T-72 tanks and related equipment. The hijacked ship was attacked on Sept. 25 and forced to proceed to an anchorage off the Somali Coast. (AP Photo.U.S. Navy,Petty Officer 2nd  Class Jason R. Zalasky)AP - Help for hundreds of thousands of Somalis is in jeopardy, two international aid groups said Friday after Islamic insurgents forced one to suspend some operations and threatened the other.


Fifteen Turkish soldiers killed in clashes with PKK (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 04:14 AM CDT

Turkish troops patrol a road in the south-eastern Turkish province of Sirnak, bordering Iraq, February 29, 2008. Fifteen Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdish PKK separatist rebels in southeast Turkey on Friday, Turkey's General Staff said, in one of the deadliest attacks on the military this year. (Fatih Saribas/Reuters)Reuters - Fifteen Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdish separatist PKK rebels in southeast Turkey on Friday, Turkey's General Staff said, in one of the deadliest attacks on the military this year.


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