2008年10月14日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

Syria establishes diplomatic ties with Lebanon (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:24 AM CDT

AP - Syria's president issued a decree Tuesday establishing diplomatic relations with Lebanon, and a foreign ministry official said the country will have an embassy in Beirut by the end of the year.

Russian spacecraft docks with orbital station (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:14 AM CDT

U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott crew member of the 18th mission to the International Space Station (ISS) gestures prior the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. Garriott, a computer game designer, reached space Sunday aboard a Russian rocket, fulfilling a long-deferred childhood dream as his astronaut father watched with pride. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)AP - A Russian Soyuz craft carrying an American computer game designer and two crewmates docked with the international space station Tuesday.

NKorea defectors drop leaflets condemning leader (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 02:03 AM CDT

An unidentified North Korean defector prepares to launch a huge helium balloon containing some leaflets, seen at bottom of balloon, condemning North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, during an anti-North Korea campaign in water near Yeongjong Island, South Korea. Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. The group of North Korean defectors sent airborne leaflets to their former communist homeland on Saturday, a move expected to further anger North Korea amid lingering tensions on the divided Peninsula.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - The North Korean trembled when he spotted the leaflet that had fluttered down from a balloon dispatched from the South. He snatched it, stuffed it into his pocket and ran to the bathroom to read it.

Canada PM, rival go coast to coast before election (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 03:22 AM CDT

Conservative leader and Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during a campaign rally at the airport in Fredericton, New Brunswick October 13, 2008. Canadians will head to the polls in a federal election October 14. REUTERS/Chris Wattie (CANADA)AP - Canada's Conservative prime minister appeared poised to retain his job in Tuesday's national election but he faced a greater challenge in winning a parliamentary marjority to bolster his power.

North Korea to resume nuclear dismantlement (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:10 AM CDT

South Korean protesters burn defaced portraits of North Korean Leader Kim Jon Il during a rally against the United States which removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist near the U.S. embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 13, 2008. North Korea said Sunday it will resume disabling its main nuclear facilities, hours after the United States removed the communist country from a list of states Washington says sponsor terrorism.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - North Korea planned to resume dismantling its nuclear program Tuesday for the first time in two months, days after the United States removed the communist regime from a terrorism blacklist as a reward under a disarmament pact.

Gonzalez-Foerster's Tate Modern: a futuristic safe haven (AFP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:37 AM CDT

French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster poses during a photocall at her exhibition in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern gallery in London. Gonzalez-Foerster has transformed the vast turbine hall at London's Tate Modern museum into a refuge from futuristic climate chaos, with beds laid out under oversized works of art.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has transformed the vast turbine hall at London's Tate Modern museum into a refuge from futuristic climate chaos, with beds laid out under oversized works of art.

Hamas says striking Gaza teachers won't return (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:27 AM CDT

AP - The Hamas government in Gaza says it will not permit thousands of striking teachers to return to their jobs.

Mexican town helps migrants flee police (AP)

Posted: 13 Oct 2008 10:25 PM CDT

AP - An angry crowd in central Mexico attacked police and helped nearly three dozen illegal Central American immigrants escape from custody after hearing that officers had allegedly sold the migrants to human smugglers, officials said Monday.

Africa fears contagion from rich world's money woes (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 03:30 AM CDT

Penda Ndiaye,10, carries her cousin across her backyard, flooded with nauseating water infested with rats and bugs, in Thiaroye, near Dakar September 29, 2008. (Normand Blouin/Reuters)Reuters - Diery Gueye doesn't have a bank account, a car or a house of his own, let alone a mortgage.

Cambodia: Thailand withdraws troops from border (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:42 AM CDT

Thai soldiers stand guard near a pagoda close to Preah Vihear temple in Cambodia. Cambodia has warned of the risk of a large-scale armed conflict with Thailand as ministers from the two neighbours failed to reach a breakthrough in talks on their border dispute.(AFP/File/Tang Chhin Sothy)AP - Thai troops retreated from a disputed border zone Tuesday, a Cambodian general said, averting a possible military clash after Cambodia's prime minister issued an ultimatum to Thailand to withdraw by midday.

US sailor charged with assaulting Sydney woman (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2008 04:20 AM CDT

AP - A U.S. Navy sailor has been charged with assaulting a prostitute while on shore leave in Australia's biggest city last weekend, police and the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday.

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