2008年11月30日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

Aide: India's home minister offers resignation (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:41 AM CST

In this July 27, 2008 file photo, Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil poses for photographs after addressing the media in New Delhi, India. Patil sent his resignation to the prime minister Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008 to take responsibility for the attacks on Mumbai. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi, File)AP - India's top security official offered his resignation Sunday, a senior aide said, as the government struggled under growing accusations of security failures following the Mumbai attacks that left at least 174 people dead.


51 protesters wounded in Bangkok explosions (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:51 AM CST

An injured anti-government protester is carried on a stretcher after an explosion during a protest at government house Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. An emergency official says an explosion inside the Thai prime minister's besieged office compound has wounded 33 people.  The protesters, who have occupied government house, the prime minister's compound, since August, upped the stakes this week by overrunning Bangkok's international and domestic airports and bringing them to a halt in their campaign to oust the government. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)AP - Attackers set off explosions at anti-government protest sites Sunday, wounding 51 people and raising fears of widening confrontations in Thailand's worst political crisis that has strangled its economy and shut down its main airports.


India terror begins with corpses on train platform (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:11 PM CST

Sister Meeta Gohil, green dress and relatives and neighbors mourn as they attend the funeral of Haresh Gohil, a 16 year old boy who was killed by gunmen near Chabad-Lubavitch center,also known as Nariman House in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. Indian commandos killed the last remaining gunmen holed up at a luxury Mumbai hotel Saturday, ending a 60-hour rampage through India's financial capital by suspected Islamic militants that rocked the nation.(AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)AP - 9:21 p.m. Wednesday, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus __ Two young men walk casually through Mumbai's main railway station, a worn Victorian hulk bustling with late commuters heading home, scurrying past small food stands and juice bars and vendors selling newspapers.


Economic crisis top issue in Romanian elections (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:07 AM CST

Women walk in front of electoral posters downtown Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008, a day before the country holds parliamentary elections. With 18 million eligible to vote, turnout is expected to be low due to widespread distrust in politicians, perhaps the lowest since communism was overthrown in bloody revolt in 1989. For the first time, Romanian vote for individual candidates not party lists in the 452 bicameral parliament. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)AP - Romanians fearful that the global economic crisis will bring layoffs and painful belt-tightening went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament, a vote expected to deliver a rebuke to pro-Western leaders many see as out of touch.


US training Iraqis to defeat deadly roadside bombs (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 01:51 AM CST

Iraqi soldier practices using a robot during a bomb disposal training for the Iraqi security forces at a Besmaya range complex just outside Baghdad, Iraq on Monday, Nov. 17,  2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Two Iraqi soldiers acting as insurgents hook up a cellular phone detonator to a 155mm artillery shell with a coiled red wire, bury the mock bomb in a pile of dirt next to a rusty electricity pole and then disappear down the street.


Troops shoot Afghan policeman dead: military (AFP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:02 AM CST

A British soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force talks to Afghan policemen on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan in October. British soldiers in a NATO-led force shot and killed an Afghan policeman in a vehicle that approached a convoy, despite warnings to keep away, and was seen to be a threat, the military said Sunday.(AFP/File/Bronwen Roberts)AFP - British soldiers in a NATO-led force shot and killed an Afghan policeman in a vehicle that approached a convoy, despite warnings to keep away, and was seen to be a threat, the military said Sunday.


Traditional tomb of Abraham stirs emotion (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 07:22 PM CST

AP - In the divided city of Hebron, Jews toss slips of paper with handwritten prayers into a room over the traditional burial place of Abraham. At the same site, Muslims raise their hands into the air invoking the name of Ibrahim. Both are revering the same forefather.

Betancourt in Colombia, begins South America trip (AP)

Posted: 29 Nov 2008 11:09 PM CST

In this photo released by the Presidency of Colombia, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe, right, talks to Colombia's former hostage of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, Ingrid Betancourt during a meeting at a military airport in Bogota, Saturday, Nov. 29. 2008. Betancourt returned Saturday to Colombia from France, where she flew after she was rescued from the FARC on July 2, 2008 during a military operation.(AP Photo/Presidency of Colombia, Cesar Carrion)AP - Ingrid Betancourt, back home in Colombia for the first time since her July rescue, said Saturday that she would spend the week visiting South American leaders to thank them for their efforts to secure her release.


Zimbabwe minister warns cholera still spreading (AFP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:44 AM CST

A man pushes a relative in a wheelbarrow to a Cholera Polyclinic in Harare, Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's health minister insisted Sunday that the country's crumbling medical system was taking all necessary measures to combat a cholera epidemic, even as more than 1,000 new cases were reported.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)AFP - Zimbabwe's health minister insisted Sunday that the country's crumbling medical system was taking all necessary measures to combat a cholera epidemic, even as more than 1,000 new cases were reported.


Minister resigns, India probes Pakistan attack links (AFP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 02:56 AM CST

India's interior minister Shivraj Patil resigned Sunday as anger grew over intelligence failures leading up to the attacks on Mumbai and investigators focused on a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group.(AFP/File/Raveendran)AFP - India's interior minister resigned Sunday as anger grew over intelligence failures leading up to the attacks on Mumbai and investigators focused on a Pakistan-based Islamic militant group.


150 whales die in stranding in Australia (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 01:18 AM CST

In this photo released Monday, Nov. 24, 2008 by the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industry and Water via AAPImage, shown are wildlife officers attaching a satellite tracking device to a pilot whale after a mass beaching at Anthony's Beach near Stanley, Tasmania, Australia, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. Rescuers tagged five of eleven pilot whales they plucked from the beach in southern Tasmania state on Sunday with satellite tracking devices so they could follow the animals' progress. Whales that become beached are sometimes known to return in confusion to dangerously shallow waters after being freed, dismaying rescuers. (AP Photo/Tasmanian Department of Primary Industry and Water via AAPImage, HO)AP - A group of 150 whales that became stranded on a remote coastline in southern Australia were battered to death on rocks before rescuers could save them.


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