2008年11月7日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Pakistan officials: Missile strike kills 8 or more (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 03:33 AM CST

Pakistani people from the Bajur tribal region are seen at the Katcha Garhi camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. Nearly 200,000 people have fled the fighting in Bajur regency to camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A bomb exploded amid a gathering of anti-militant Pakistani tribesmen Thursday, killing eight and wounding 45 in a northwest region where the military has clashed with insurgents for months, officials said. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least eight people near the Afghan border Friday, security officials said, the latest in a surge of attacks that a top American general said has eliminated three militant leaders.


NKorea: 'Ready to deal with' Obama administration (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 03:51 AM CST

North Korea's nuclear negotiator Ri Gun speaks to media after he met U.S. nuclear envoy in New York, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. North Korea is ready for dialogue or confrontation with the United States following Barack Obama's election to the presidency, the Pyongyang diplomat said as talks over dismantling the nation's nuclear weapons program continued. (AP Photo/ Yonhap, Kim Hyun-jun)AP - A North Korean diplomat says the communist country is ready to deal with any new U.S. administration following Barack Obama's election to the presidency as talks continued over dismantlement of its nuclear weapons program.


UN official hopes for US role in climate change (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 03:53 AM CST

A Chinese man cycles past chimney of a coal-burning power plant in Shenyang, north China's Liaoning province, Friday, Nov. 7, 2008. The head of the U.N.'s climate change body said Friday he hopes the United States will take a more active role in fighting global warming once Barack Obama becomes president in January. (AP Photo)AP - The head of the U.N.'s climate change body said Friday that he hopes the United States will take a more active role in fighting global warming once Barack Obama becomes president.


Maori Party may hold key to New Zealand election (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 02:21 AM CST

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark shakes hands with a supporter on a walkabout at a shopping center in Auckland, New Zealand, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. New Zealand goes to the polls on Saturday, Nov. 8. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald Photograph, Martin Sykes)AP - A party representing New Zealand's indigenous Maori may hold the key to power in elections Saturday that could also end the rule of one of the world's longest-serving elected women leaders.


China envoy's Taiwan trip highlights differences (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2008 07:42 PM CST

China's top negotiator with Taiwan, Chen Yunlin, center, is escorted by security to his waiting car after being forced to stay for some hours in the Regent Hotel in Taipei, Taiwan, early Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008. Chen was trapped in the hotel during a dinner meeting with ruling party leaders due to a raging protest of over a thousand pro-Taiwan supporters outside the hotel, denouncing his visit. Chen, chairman of China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), is on a five-day visit to Taiwan. (AP Photo)AP - He stepped off the plane with a mission: Make history by becoming the most senior Chinese official to visit Taiwan. Sign a landmark trade deal. Draw the wayward island closer to motherland China.


Luxury carmaker BMW drops 2008 sales goal (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 04:20 AM CST

Imported German-made BMW's are parked at the North East Auto Terminal Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008 in Jersey City, N.J. Carmaker BMW AG said Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, net profit for the third quarter dropped 63 percent as the global economic turmoil made consumers more reluctant to shell out for its sports and luxury cars and credit costs made it difficult for consumers and the company to borrow. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)AP - Automaker BMW AG said Friday that it no longer expects to report record sales for 2008 because of consumers' growing reluctance to spend on new cars amid fears of a recession.


Bush punts unfinished Mideast peace deal to Obama (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 02:29 AM CST

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice holds a joint press conference with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, not seen, at the U.S. ambassador to Israel's residence in Herzliya, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008.  The Bush administration conceded Thursday that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by a year-end deadline is no longer possible. (AP Photo/Pavel Wolberg, Pool)AP - The Bush administration has conceded that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is no longer possible by the end of its term and is preparing to hand the fragile, unfinished U.S.-backed peace effort to President-elect Obama.


Paloma gains strength, approaches Cayman Islands (AP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 03:14 AM CST

This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, Nov. 7, 2008 at 1:45 a.m. EST shows Hurricane Paloma located about about 125 miles southwest of Grand Cayman. Paloma is a Category 1 hurricane and is moving northward at about 8 mph. The system continues to generate strong winds, heavy rainfall and severe thunderstorms. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND)AP - Forecasters say Hurricane Paloma is gaining strength, with winds increasing to 80 mph as it approaches the Cayman Islands.


SAfrica's Zuma calls for SADC to resolve Zimbabwe crisis (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 03:55 AM CST

African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma, seen here in October 2008, has urged regional leaders to push Zimbabwe's feuding political rivals into an agreement to salvage the country's power-sharing deal.(AFP/File/Paballo Thekiso)AFP - Regional leaders must push Zimbabwe's feuding political rivals to agreement at the weekend to salvage the country's power-sharing deal, South Africa's ruling party chief Jacob Zuma said on Friday.


Kidnapped Dutch journalist freed: employer (AFP)

Posted: 07 Nov 2008 04:14 AM CST

A soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on patrol on the outskirts of Kabul in July, 2008. A Dutch journalist kidnapped by suspected Taliban rebels in Afghanistan a week ago was freed Friday and is in good health, her employer said.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - A Dutch journalist kidnapped by suspected Taliban rebels in Afghanistan a week ago was freed Friday and is in good health, her employer said.


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