2008年11月9日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

Iranian economists criticize Ahmadinejad (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2008 03:24 AM CST

AP - Iranian newspapers are reporting that 60 economists criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over his economic policies.

Collapsed Haiti school owner arrested; toll at 88 (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2008 03:13 AM CST

Rescue workers take a break at the 'La Promesse' school one day after it collapsed in Petionville, Haiti, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008. The school, where roughly 500 students crowded into several floors, collapsed Friday during classes killing at least 75 people and injuring many more. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Haitian police on Sunday were holding the owner of a school that collapsed, killing at least 88 people and setting off a desperate search for survivors trapped in tons of rubble.

Russian nuke sub returns to base after 20 killed (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2008 03:30 AM CST

The Russian nuclear sumbarine AP - Russia's navy says the nuclear-powered submarine involved in an accident in the Sea of Japan that killed at least 20 people has returned to its base.

Congolese pack church services amid violence (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2008 03:11 AM CST

A child covers himself from the rain while standing roadside at the entrance to a camp for Internally Displaced People on the outskirts of the provincial city of Goma. The United Nations accused rebels and pro-government militia Saturday of war crimes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as government troops reinforced their front-line positions.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)AP - Thousands in eastern Congo have packed church services after rebels and pro-government militiamen executed civilians this week in two waves of terror that the top U.N. envoy to Congo says amount to war crimes.

Hurricane Paloma becomes Category 1 over Cuba (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2008 03:22 AM CST

Two men wade through a flooded street toward a bus during the passing of Hurricane Paloma in Camaguey, Cuba, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008. Hurricane Paloma slammed into southern Cuba on Saturday as authorities scrambled to move hundreds of thousands of people to safer ground and protect crops on an island still reeling from two other storms. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Hurricane Paloma continues to weaken as is crawls across Cuba, but forecasters warn that life-threatening flash floods and mud slides are still possible.

Calzaghe dominates Jones to remain unbeaten in New York boxing showdown (AFP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2008 02:40 AM CST

Welshman Joe Calzaghe stands inside the ring prior to his light heavyweight showdown with Roy Jones jnr of the US at Madison Square Garden, on November 8, in New York. The undefeated Calzaghe recovered from ta first-round knockdown and pummeled Jones until the final bell to earn a a unanimous 12-round decision.(AFP/Don Emmert)AFP - Undefeated Welshman Joe Calzaghe recovered from a first-round knockdown and pummeled Roy Jones jnr until the final bell Saturday to earn a unanimous 12-round decision in a light heavyweight showdown at Madison Square Garden.

Mideast mediators meet in Egypt (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2008 02:11 AM CST

Kadim Party leader Tzipi Livni speaks during a memorial rally marking the 13th anniversary of the assassination of late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, seen in poster, at Rabin square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008. Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered Saturday night at the square where Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, to remember the man and his legacy 13 years after his killing. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Mideast mediators have begun meeting in a bid to preserve U.S.-backed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks despite their looming failure to produce a deal by year's end.

In food crisis, Mexican valley offers lessons (AP)

Posted: 08 Nov 2008 09:31 PM CST

A man pauses while working a corn field near Ciudad Obregon, northern Mexico Oct. 7, 2008. After the pioneering agronomist, Norman E. Borlaug, introduced his 'green revolution' of hardier seeds and chemicals in this region more than 60 years ago, he was credited with saving hundreds of millions from starvation worldwide. Today, in a global food crisis of lagging productivity and punishing prices, world leaders are calling for a second revolution, but it wont be that easy this time, experts say.(AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - On the walls of some farmhouses here, a photo of a one-time Iowa farm boy hangs along with a portrait of the pope. The American long ago wrought a kind of miracle in the wheat fields of this valley, one that today's world hungers for anew.

Bin Laden's son deported from Egypt (AFP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2008 02:50 AM CST

Osama bin Laden's son Omar, pictured in September, was deported from Egypt on Sunday after returning from a failed bid for political asylum in Spain, his English-born wife Zaina Alsabah bin Laden told AFP(AFP/File/Claude Stemmelin)AFP - Osama bin Laden's son Omar was deported from Egypt on Sunday after returning from a failed bid for political asylum in Spain, his English-born wife Zaina Alsabah bin Laden told AFP.

Reporter recounts being held in Afghan cave (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2008 02:46 AM CST

This undated file photo shows journalist Mellissa Fung, a Canadian reporter kidnapped in Afghanistan who was set free after nearly a month in captivity, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008. Fung, a reporter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., was seized Oct. 12 near a refugee camp north of the Afghan capital of Kabul. (AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS/ CBC)AP - Afghan kidnappers held a Canadian journalist for four weeks blindfolded in an underground cave in which she could barely stand, the journalist said in a videotape released Sunday.

New Zealand enters new era of conservative rule (AP)

Posted: 09 Nov 2008 02:09 AM CST

Prime Minister elect John Key celebrates the National Party's victory during the New Zealand General election in Auckland, New Zealand, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/NZPA, Ross Setford)AP - New Zealand entered a new era of conservative rule Sunday, with incoming Prime Minister John Key promising to be a moderate amid fears some of the country's policies on global warming and indigenous people could be rolled back.

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