2008年10月5日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

Rice says US not trying to undermine Russia (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 02:54 AM CDT

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gestures during a joint press conference with Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008. Rice arrived in the Indian capital Saturday to commemorate, but not sign, a historic deal that opens up U.S. nuclear trade with the Asian giant. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday rejected any suggestion that U.S. efforts to build closer ties to this former Soviet republic are meant to undermine Russian influence in Central Asia.

Officials say Taliban mad over alleged US strike (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 02:44 AM CDT

American al Qaeda militant Adam Gadahn speaks in this video grab from an Internet video posted October 4, 2008. Gadahn described Pakistan's new leaders as U.S. puppets in a war against Islamic militants, in an Internet video posted on Saturday. Gadahn, born Adam Pearlman, is a California-born convert to Islam and the first American to be charged with treason since the World War Two era. REUTERS/IntelCenter/Handout. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.AP - The Taliban are unusually angry about the latest suspected U.S. missile strike in Pakistan, a sign a top militant may have died in the attack, officials and residents said Sunday amid reports the death toll rose by two to 24.

Bomb attack on British convoy injures Iraqi (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 03:07 AM CDT

Iraq director of antiquities and museums, Amira Eidan, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad September 24, 2008. In Iraq's national museum, a frieze shows an Assyrian king, whose former capital is now in modern Iraq, besieging what looks like a walled town as soldiers pile decapitated heads at his feet. Picture taken September 24, 2008. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)AP - Officials say a roadside bomb attack on a British convoy in Basra has injured an Iraqi civilian.

Developed countries push back vs. pirates (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 02:35 AM CDT

In this picture released by U.S. Navy, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008, Somali pirates in small boats are seen alongside the hijacked 'Faina'. Armed pirates aboard fast-moving skiffs have increasingly turned the shipping lanes off Somalia into a lucrative hunting grounds: commandeering vessels large and small and leaving the world's maritime powers frustrated about how to stop the seafaring bandits. Now, however, momentum is growing for coordinated international action to back up the sharp response after the stunning seizure late last month of a Ukrainian cargo ship laden with tanks and heavy weaponry as the pirates quickly found themselves encircled by U.S. warships and receiving only silence to their demands for millions of dollars in ransom. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy)AP - Armed pirates aboard fast-moving skiffs have increasingly turned the shipping lanes off Somalia into a lucrative hunting grounds: commandeering vessels large and small and leaving the world's maritime powers frustrated about how to stop the seafaring bandits.

Report: North Korean leader watches soccer game (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 11:50 PM CDT

In this Oct. 28, 2005, file photo released by China's official Xinhua news agnecy, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao before their talks in Pyongyang, North Korea. Peering through the North Korean political mist, lately thickened by Kim Jong Il's reported illness and a resurgent nuclear crisis, analysts have begun looking at the North Korean leader's brother-in-law as part of a possible succession. But if Jang Song Taek were to emerge on top, it would likely be as the head of a collective leadership, rather than as an absolute ruler like Kim Jong Il or his father, North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, experts in Seoul say. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yao Dawei, File)AP - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il watched a university soccer game, a state-run news agency said from Pyongyang on Saturday, reporting on the leader's first public appearance in nearly two months.

EU leaders to seek early release euro funds: Brown (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 03:16 AM CDT

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, German chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speak after a meeting at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris. European leaders have agreed to ask for the early release of 32 billion euros in European funds to help small businesses weather the global finance crisis, Brown said Saturday.(AFP/Gerard Cerles)AFP - European leaders have agreed to ask for the early release of 32 billion euros (25 billion pounds) in European funds to help small businesses weather the global finance crisis, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.

Al-Qaida: US economic crisis equals Muslim victory (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 11:15 PM CDT

Kim Hall, left, and Jocelyn Clark hold up signs in protest of the government's $700 billion financial rescue plan, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008, in Cleveland. They were collecting the shirts off pedestrian's backs. Stocks surged while credit markets remained strained Friday ahead of an expected House vote on the government's $700 billion financial rescue plan. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - An American member of al-Qaida pointed to economic troubles in the United States as proof that "the enemies of Islam" face defeat, in an English-language video released Saturday.

World's heaviest man helps another obese man diet (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 10:46 PM CDT

Manuel Uribe, 43, speaks on the phone with Jose Luis Garza as he lies in bed in his home in Monterrey, Mexico, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. Uribe, who has been fighting to lose his title as the world's heaviest man, is giving dieting advice to bed-ridden Garza. (AP Photo/Monica Rueda)AP - When critically obese, bedridden Jose Luis Garza pleaded for help in shedding a few hundred pounds, he landed the world's biggest weight watcher.

Up from apartheid, Soweto millionaire a role model (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 03:00 AM CDT

Richard Maponya smiles during an interview at his Johannesburg residence Tuesday Sept. 23, 2008. When Maponya was a boy, he dammed a stream in the northern South African hills where his family raised dairy cattle, drew water from his pool for a vegetable plot, then sold the cabbages and tomatoes to earn extra money.Today, the 81-year-old owns supermarkets and car dealerships, as well as the biggest mall in Soweto.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - When Richard Maponya did well as a clothes salesman, his white boss could not promote him under the rules of apartheid.

At least 25 killed in ethnic violence in Assam (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 03:11 AM CDT

Reuters - At least 25 people were killed and thousands left homeless in ethnic violence between tribal people and Bangladeshi settlers in the troubled northeast Indian state of Assam at the weekend, police and hospital authorities said.

Australian interest rates set to fall amid crisis: economists (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 01:28 AM CDT

The Reserve Bank Australia in Sydney. Australia's central bank is expected to cut interest rates by up to 50 basis points due to the global financial crisis when its board meets on Tuesday, economists have said.(AFP/File/Anoek de Groot)AFP - Australia's central bank is expected to cut interest rates by up to 50 basis points due to the global financial crisis when its board meets Tuesday, economists said.

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