2008年12月1日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

India clears last Mumbai siege site (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 02:46 AM CST

In this Nov. 26, 2008 file photo, a gunman identified by police as Ajmal Qasab walks at the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India. Qasab, the only gunman captured after a 60-hour terrorist siege of Mumbai said he belonged to a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a senior police officer said Sunday Nov. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Mumbai Mirror, Sebastian D'souza, File)AP - Authorities finished removing bodies from the bullet- and grenade-scarred Taj Mahal hotel Monday, the final site of the Mumbai siege to be cleared, as schools and businesses reopened and commuters returned to work.


Orphan of slain rabbi in Mumbai going to Israel (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 03:11 AM CST

In this undated photo released by Hillary Levin, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008, Moshe Holtzberg is shown. Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah, Moshe's parents, who ran the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Mumbai, India, were among those killed during a hostage standoff that was part of a city-wide assault by terrorists that began Wednesday evening Nov. 26, 2008. The toddler  was rescued Thursday by a Chabad-Lubavitch center employee and is now with his grandparents. (AP Photo/family photo provided by Hillary Levin)AP - Moshe Holtzberg, the 2-year-old orphan of the rabbi and his wife slain in the Mumbai Jewish center, will fly to Israel Monday on an Israeli Air Force jet with his parents' remains and the Indian woman who rescued him, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said.


Protesters move to besieged airports (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 03:16 AM CST

An anti-government protester in Bangkok. Thai protesters Monday began leaving the prime minister's offices after a three-month sit-in, moving instead to reinforce a paralysing anti-government blockade of Bangkok's two airports(AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)AP - Anti-government protesters reinforced their siege of Bangkok's two airports Monday as the politically paralyzed country struggled with more than 300,000 stranded travelers.


NATO trucks attacked in Pakistan; bomber kills 8 (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 02:56 AM CST

A Pakistani examines burnt trucks caused by insurgents' attack at the Fasial terminal in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. Insurgents attacked the terminal used by trucks ferrying supplies to NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Monday, destroying three and wounding one person, police and a witness said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)AP - Militants in northwestern Pakistan attacked trucks ferrying supplies to NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Monday, killing two people and destroying a dozen vehicles, witnesses and police said.


South Korea among countries ending Iraq deployment (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 03:18 AM CST

AP - South Korean troops are leaving Iraq, bringing to an end a mission that focused on rebuilding hospitals, roads and schools but divided South Korea's people.

Romania: early count shows president's party ahead (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 03:09 AM CST

AP - The centrist party supported by Romania's president was leading in the country's parliamentary elections, according to early results Monday.

Libyan ship carrying Gaza supplies ordered back (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 03:14 AM CST

AP - Israel's navy ordered a Libyan ship heading to Gaza with 3,000 tons of humanitarian aid to turn around Monday, ending the most high-profile effort yet to break a blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory.

Madonna, Alex Rodriguez in Mexico City (AP)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 09:59 PM CST

Baseball star Alex Rodriguez, of the New York Yankees, talks to children during a baseball clinic in Mexico City, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - Alex Rodriguez and Madonna were together — in the same city, anyway.


Nigerian town may relax curfew as violence subsides (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 02:28 AM CST

Nigerian soldiers patrol the city of Jos November 30, 2008. Residents delivered more bodies to the main mosque in the city on Sunday, bringing the death toll from two days of clashes to around 400 people. Rival ethnic and religious mobs have burned homes, shops, mosques and churches in fighting triggered by a disputed local election in a city at the crossroads of Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south. It is the country's worst unrest for years. (Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)Reuters - Authorities in the central Nigerian town of Jos may relax a curfew Monday after the army quelled clashes between Muslim and Christian gangs which killed hundreds of people.


China lifts food price controls (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2008 03:18 AM CST

AP - China has lifted price controls on food as the government wrapped up a yearlong battle to cool surging inflation.

150 whales die in stranding off Australian coast (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 07:03 PM CST

Reuters - At least 150 whales have died in a mass stranding off Tasmania's west coast, Australian authorities said on Sunday, despite the efforts of rescuers who managed to shepherd a small number back to the ocean.
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