2008年10月11日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Diplomats: North Korea coming off terror blacklist (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 02:36 AM CDT

South Korean protesters burn a portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during a rally against North Korea's nuclear programs in Seoul, South Korea Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. North Korea marked the anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party on Friday amid questions about leader Kim Jong Il's health and indications that Washington was close to convincing the North to resume dismantling its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - The United States is ready to drop North Korea from a terrorism blacklist, the Associated Press has learned, in the latest attempt by the administration to salvage a nuclear deal with Pyongyang before President Bush's term ends.

Police say Austrian rightist Haider dead at 58 (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 02:44 AM CDT

This Aug. 9, 2008, file photo shows Joerg Haider, top candidate of the Alliance for the future of Austria, BZOE, for Sunday's national elections in Austria in Klagenfurt. Haider died in a car accident early Saturday morning Oct. 11, 2008 in the south of the country police said. Haider, 58, was governor of Carinthia and leader of the far-right Alliance for the Future of Austria at the time of his death. (AP Photo/Gert Eggenberger, file)AP - Austrian politician Joerg Haider, whose far-right rhetoric at times cast a negative light on the Alpine republic, has died in a car accident at age 58.

US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 02:51 AM CDT

In this June 5, 2008 file photo, chickens look out of their pen in a downtown neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia. When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. out of fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it 'the nuttiest thing' he'd ever heard. Yet buried deep inside an 86-page supplement to U.S. export regulations is a single sentence barring U.S. exports of vaccines for avian bird flu for the same reason. (AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyiah, File)AP - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.

Turkey's military attacks rebels in northern Iraq (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 02:30 AM CDT

The opposition National Action Party leader Devlet Bahceli, right, listens to Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Ilker Basbug as he speaks to the media after his visit to Bahceli at his headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Turkey's parliament have voted in favor of extending the military's mandate to carry out operations against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - Turkey's military says its warplanes and artillery units have bombed dozens of Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq.

Dozens of slain anti-Taliban tribesmen mourned (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 11:49 PM CDT

A Pakistani boy, wounded during a suicide attack in Hadeezai area of Orakzai tribal agency, is attended by doctors in a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. A suicide bomber attacked an anti-insurgent group in a northwest tribal area, killing at least 22 and wounding around 100 people. The Orakzai area tribesmen had gathered to plan the demolition of a militant base. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)AP - Hundreds of mourners attended funerals Saturday for more than 30 anti-Taliban tribesmen killed in a brazen suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan.

Ireland's economy ends long winning run (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 11:47 PM CDT

Ray Grehan, property developer, is shown at his development called 'The Grange' in Dublin, Ireland, on Sept. 26, 2008. Tens of thousands of Irish face a financial white-knuckle ride because Europe's longest-running winning streak, the vaunted Celtic Tiger economy, has come to an inglorious end. Last month, Ireland became the first country in the 15-nation euro zone to fall into recession. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Davey McKeever was down to his last bet slip of the night, crumpled in a sweaty fist, at the Shelbourne Park greyhound track. The remnants of McKeever's first unemployment check would rise or fall on the ironically named Nest Egg.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,180 (AP)

Posted: 10 Oct 2008 08:28 PM CDT

A boy removes debris from a burnt shop after a car bomb attack in Baghdad October 11, 2008. A car bomb exploded in a busy commercial area in southern Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 22, police said. REUTERS/Bassim Shati (IRAQ)AP - As of Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, at least 4,180 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Hurricane Norbert nears Mexico's Baja California (AP)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 03:13 AM CDT

Fishermen look out to sea as hurricane Norbert approaches Puerto San Carlos in Mexico's southern Baja California, Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. Hurricane Norbert is expected to hit land early Saturday. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Fishermen pulled in their boats and hotels warned tourists away from beaches Friday as Category 2 Hurricane Norbert bore down on Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula.

Mugabe hands key ministries to own party, angers MDC (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 03:33 AM CDT

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe listens during the summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in Johannesburg, August 17, 2008. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters)Reuters - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has allocated three important government ministries to his ZANU-PF party, angering the opposition and threatening a power-sharing deal.

Turkish planes hit PKK targets in N.Iraq: army (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 03:29 AM CDT

Reuters - Turkish war planes and artillery have pounded bases of the Kurdish separatist group PKK in a big operation in northern Iraq, the military said on Saturday.

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