2008年12月28日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

Missile from Gaza deepest strikeyet in Israel (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2008 02:18 AM CST

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli air strike in the southern town of Rafah. Israel hammered Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 210 people in retaliation for rocket fire in one of the bloodiest days of the decades-long Middle East conflict.(AFP/Said Khatib)AP - Israeli police say a missile from Gaza hit near the city of Ashdod in the deepest missile strike inside Israel yet.

Tens of thousands mark anniversary of Bhutto death (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2008 07:42 PM CST

Supporters of Pakistan's slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto chant slogans as they arrive at her mausoleum to pay homage, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008 in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Pakistan. More than 150,000 Pakistanis flocked to the mausoleum of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Saturday after some walked hundreds of miles (kilometers) to offer flowers and kiss her grave on the first anniversary of her assassination. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP - Wailing and beating their chests, tens of thousands of people paid homage to Benazir Bhutto Saturday on the one-year anniversary of her assassination — an event that dashed U.S. hopes the moderate Muslim politician would regain power and galvanize the campaign against al-Qaida.

Volunteers spend a week on horse rescue in Canada (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2008 09:53 PM CST

In this photo provided by Marc Lavigne via The Canadian Press, rescuers lead the horses down the 1 km long trench that volunteers dug in six feet of snow near McBride, B.C., Tuesday Dec. 23, 2008. Two frostbitten, emaciated horses spent Christmas inside a warm barn after being they were rescued from deep snow in northeastern B.C. Volunteers spent days digging the animals out of the snow. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press/HO)AP - Two frostbitten, emaciated horses were recovering inside a warm barn on Saturday thanks to volunteers who spent the week before Christmas digging the animals out of snow in the mountains of northeastern British Columbia.

Arab world condemns Israeli attack on Gaza (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2008 06:06 PM CST

A Palestinian holding a weapon and others shout anti-Israeli slogans during a protest in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008. Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of airstrikes Saturday, killing at least 155 and wounding more than 310 in the single bloodiest day of fighting in recent memory. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)AP - The Arab world reacted with outrage at Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip on Saturday, launching scattered protests and calls for retaliation against Israel.

As Taliban nears Kabul, shadow gov't takes hold (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2008 02:20 PM CST

This June 26, 2008 file frame grab from television footage reportedly shows Afghan militants holding weapons next to the burning wreckage of a vehicle in Wardak province, Afghanistan. Over the past year in Wardak province alone, Taliban fighters have taken over district centers, set up checkpoints on rural highways and captured Afghan soldiers. The Taliban in Wardak has its own governor and military chief, its own pseudo court system and its own religious leaders who act as judges. Bands of armed militants in beat-up trucks cruise the countryside, dispensing their own justice against accused spies and thieves. (AP Photo / APTN, File)AP - Two months ago, Mohammad Anwar recalls, the Taliban paraded accused thieves through his village, tarred their faces with oil and threw them in jail.

Brown deeply concerned' by Gaza violence (AFP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2008 12:50 AM CST

Palestinian men rush at the site of the former office of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas after it was hit in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday said he was AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday said he was "deeply concerned" by rocket attacks into Israel and retaliatory air strikes by the Jewish state, and called for restraint from both sides.

UN calls on Israel, Palestinians to halt violence (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2008 01:46 AM CST

Palestinians walk past closed shops in a market during a general commercial strike in the West Bank city of Nablus to protest the Israeli air strikes in Gaza December 28, 2008. Israel launched air strikes on Gaza for a second successive day on Sunday, piling pressure on Hamas after 229 people were killed in one of the bloodiest 24 hours for Palestinians in 60 years of conflict with the Jewish state. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK)AP - The U.N. Security Council has issued a statement expressing serious concern at the escalating violence in Gaza and is calling on Israel and the Palestinians to immediately halt all military activities.

Venezuela rejects Israel's attacks on Gaza (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2008 09:45 PM CST

AP - President Hugo Chavez says Venezuela condemns Israel for its attacks on Hamas-ruled Gaza.

Voting starts in Ghanaian presidential run-off (AFP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2008 03:00 AM CST

Nana Akufo-Addo (right), presidential candidate of the ruling New Patriotic Party and John Attah Mills, candidate of the main opposition National Democratic Congress. The election runoff pits against one another candidates from the 2 parties that have each ruled the country for 8 years since the advent of democracy in Ghana, a country widely seen as an oasis of calm in a generally volatile region.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Ghanaians turned out Sunday to choose a successor to outgoing president John Kufuor in the second round of an election seen as a test of just how stable the west African nation is.

Pakistan warned against neglecting terror front (AP)

Posted: 28 Dec 2008 03:06 AM CST

A Pakistan army soldier stands alert at a bazaar in Mingora, the main town of Pakistan's troubled Swat Valley, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008. Pakistan moved thousands of troops from the Afghan border toward India, officials and a witness said, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors Saturday and possibly undermining the U.S.-backed campaign against al-Qaida and the Taliban. (AP Photo/Sherin Zada)AP - Pakistan risks a rise in terrorist activity if it lets tensions with India divert its attention and troops away from battling Taliban and al-Qaida militants along the Afghan border, leading Pakistani newspapers warned Sunday.

Killer Australian shark will not be hunted: police (AFP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2008 10:09 PM CST

File photo shows a White Pointer shark. Australian authorities have said thay will not attempt to hunt down a shark believed to have killed a swimmer, as reports said the victim would not have wanted the predator to die.(AFP/File/Theo Ferreira)AFP - Australian authorities said Sunday they will not attempt to hunt down a shark believed to have killed a swimmer, as reports said the victim would not have wanted the predator to die.

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