2008年12月17日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

Iraqi police: Baghdad bombs kill 6, wound 41 (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:08 AM CST

The wreckage of a vehicle used in a bomb attack lies on a road in Baghdad December 16, 2008. A car bomb exploded in central Baghdad on Tuesday targeting a convoy of Iraq's Minister of Science and Technology, police sources said. REUTERS/Saad Shalash (IRAQ)AP - Iraqi police say a double-bombing in eastern Baghdad targeting traffic police has killed at least 6 and wounded 41 people.

New party in South Africa mounts challenge to ANC (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 03:43 PM CST

Supporters of Cope, Congress of the People, react as Mosiuoa Lekota, a former defense minister, and co-founder of Cope, breakaway faction of South Africa's African National Congress, is named the leader of the new party, at the final session of Cope's three-day founding conference in Bloemfontein, South Africa, Tuesday Dec. 16, 2008. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - A splinter group of prominent African National Congress politicians launched a new party Tuesday in the first major challenge to the movement since it took power nearly 15 years ago after toppling South Africa's apartheid government.

UN gives OK to land, air attacks on Somali pirates (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 05:21 PM CST

A member of the Dutch special forces stands guard near the bridge of Dutch cargo ship MV Jumbo Javelin as it passes near the Gulf of Aden on Monday, Dec. 8, 2008. The Dutch warship De Ruyter, seen in the background, was escorting the cargo ship through the Gulf of Aden, which has become the world's top piracy hotspot this year. Pirates have made an estimated $30 million hijacking ships for ransom this year, seizing 40 vessels off Somalia's 1,880-mile coastline. Fourteen ships remain held along with more than 250 crew members, according to maritime officials.(AP Photo/Tom Maliti, file)AP - On the same day Somali gunmen seized two more ships, the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize nations to conduct land and air attacks on pirate bases on the coast of the Horn of Africa country.

Gondola tower collapses at Canada resort (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 12:13 AM CST

Passengers are trapped inside two gondolas after a tower partially collapsed at the ski resort in Whistler, British Colombia, Canada on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. Police said there were no serious injuries in the accident about 2:30 p.m. local time. But the passengers remained stranded as emergency officials worked on a plan to evacuate them from the gondolas on the Excalibur lift. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press)AP - More than 50 people were evacuated from about 30 gondola cars after a tower supporting the cables partially collapsed Tuesday at Canada's Whistler ski resort.

Greek youths hang protest banners from Acropolis (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:31 AM CST

Students light candles in the shape of the peace symbol in front of the Greek Parliament in central Athens, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008. Greece has seen its worst riots in decades after 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos died Dec. 6 in a police shooting. The riots quickly spread from Athens to more than a dozen cities and for a week, youths smashed and burned stores and cars, and hurled petrol bombs and rocks at riot police, who responded with stun grenades and large amounts of tear gas. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Protesters hung two giant banners off the Acropolis on Wednesday, with slogans calling for mass demonstrations and 'resistance' after days of violent protest sparked by the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Athens.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,209 (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 07:43 PM CST

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R) shakes hands with a British soldier on arrival in Baghdad, in Iraq December 17, 2008. Brown arrived in Baghdad for an unannounced visit on Wednesday and was received by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Iraqi state television said. (Peter Macdiarmid/Pool/Reuters)AP - As of Tuesday, Dec. 16 , 2008, at least 4,209 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Gitmo prosecutors file charges against 2 (AP)

Posted: 16 Dec 2008 07:39 PM CST

AP - A spokesman for the Office of Military Commissions says prosecutors have filed war-crimes charges against two Guantanamo detainees, accusing them of training al-Qaida recruits in Afghanistan.

Mozambique says half million need food aid (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:34 AM CST

Reuters - Nearly half a million people need food aid in Mozambique because food prices are high and crops have been badly hit by poor rains, the government said on Wednesday.

Malaysia denies any plan to close Catholic paper (AP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 03:41 AM CST

AP - Malaysia's Muslim-majority government denied any plan Wednesday to shut down a Catholic newspaper accused of flouting publication rules by running articles deemed political and insulting to Islam.

Aborigines win court fight against Swiss miner (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2008 12:44 AM CST

The logo of the Anglo-Swiss mining company Xstrata. Australian Aborigines won a court fight Wednesday against Anglo-Swiss mining giant Xstrata's plans to divert a river and expand one of the world's biggest zinc mines.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AFP - Australian Aborigines won a court fight Wednesday against Anglo-Swiss mining giant Xstrata's plans to divert a river and expand one of the world's biggest zinc mines.

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