2008年10月30日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News

Official: Pakistan quake death toll rises to 215 (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 02:42 AM CDT

Pakistani villagers look at children who were killed by the earthquake in Ziarat, about 130 kilometers, 80 miles, south of Quetta, Pakistan on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck before dawn Wednesday in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 150 people, injuring scores more and leaving an estimated 15,000 homeless, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)AP - The death toll from an earthquake that devastated an impoverished valley in southwestern Pakistan rose to 215 on Thursday, a provincial official said, as authorities scrambled to help survivors sleeping in the frigid mountains.

UN: 9 dead in Congo violence, soldiers loot homes (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:45 AM CDT

Graphic updates the situation in Congo;AP - Congolese soldiers pillaged, raped and also killed at least nine people in overnight violence that terrorized residents of this eastern provincial capital besieged by rebels, according to U.N. radio.

Suicide blast inside Afghan government building (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:00 AM CDT

Afghan policemen secure the area after a suicide attack in Kabul October 30, 2008. Up to three people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the information ministry in the heart of the Afghan capital on Thursday, police said. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN)AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture on Thursday, killing at least three people, officials and witnesses said. The Taliban claimed responsibility.

At least 30 killed in blasts in northeast India (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:21 AM CDT

AP - At least 13 blasts ripped through cities across India's northeastern state of Assam on Thursday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens more, police and witnesses said.

Syrian riot police form ring around US Embassy (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 02:48 AM CDT

AP - Hundreds of Syrian riot police have ringed the closed U.S. Embassy in Damascus ahead of a demonstration to protest a deadly U.S. raid near the Iraqi border.

Hover chair hopes to rise above woes (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:34 AM CDT

Reuters - A "Star Wars" inspired hover chair, a 125 mph electric motorbike and hi-fi speakers that cost as much as a small house are among the attractions at Britain's biggest gadget show in London this weekend.

Auditors: Private security in Iraq costs over $6B (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:23 AM CDT

An Iraqi policeman searches men during a patrol with U.S. troops in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, Oct. 24, 2008. U.S. officials believe that improving the police force is the best way to ensure security in Mosul and other Iraqi cities. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)AP - No one knows for sure, but auditors think the U.S. has paid well over $6 billion to private security companies who've been guarding diplomats, troops, Iraqi officials and reconstruction workers in Iraq.

Cuba expects new US president to lift embargo (AP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:16 AM CDT

Cuba's President Raul Castro and prima ballerina and director of Cuba's National Ballet Alicia Alonso, center right, attend a ballet's presentation of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's 'The Sleeping Beauty' on the second day of the Havana International Ballet Festival in Havana, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/ Ismael Francisco, Prensa Latina)AP - Cuba's foreign minister says his government expects the next U.S. president to respond to overwhelming international demand and lift the 47-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba.

Zambians vote in hotly contested presidential poll (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 02:46 AM CDT

Supporters of Zambia's opposition Patriotic Front party leader Michael Sata carry his posters outside the Supreme Court of Zambia in Lusaka September 23, 2008, after Sata filed in his nominations for the presidential by-election. (Mackson Wasamunu/Reuters)Reuters - Zambians began voting for a successor to the late President Levy Mwanawasa on Thursday in what was expected to be a hotly contested election in the stable and increasingly prosperous southern African nation.

Bombs kill at least 25 in India's Assam state (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 03:40 AM CDT

Damaged cars are seen at a bomb blast site in Guwahati, the main city of India's troubled northeastern Assam state, October 30, 2008. (Utpal Baruah/Reuters)Reuters - Eighteen bomb blasts in quick succession shook the main city of India's troubled northeastern Assam state and three other towns on Thursday, killing at least 25 people, police said.

Australians charged over attack on 75-year-old blind flamingo (AFP)

Posted: 30 Oct 2008 02:01 AM CDT

An Adelaide Zoo photo shows the injured almost blind greater flamingo, estimated to be more than 75 years old, which was attacked at the zoo on October 29. Four Australian teenagers have been charged with attacking the flamingo at the zoo leaving its head and beak injured and bleeding from one eye.(AFP/Adelaide Zoo/Ho/Brett Backhouse)AFP - Four Australian teenagers were charged Thursday with attacking an almost blind greater flamingo that is believed to be the oldest bird of its kind in the world, police and zoo officials said.

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