2009年1月3日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Israel blasts Hamas targets, diplomacy gains steam (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 04:10 AM CST

A rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the northern Gaza Strip flies towards an Israeli target Friday, Jan. 2, 2009. Israel showed no sign of slowing a blistering seven-day offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza, destroying homes of the group's leaders and bombing one of its mosques a day after a deadly strike on a prominent Hamas figure killed him and most of his family. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - Israeli warplanes and gunboats blasted more than two dozen Hamas targets Saturday, including weapons storage facilities, training centers and leaders' homes as Israel's offensive against Gaza's Islamic militant rulers entered a second week.


Sri Lanka bombs rebels after seizing their HQ (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 04:09 AM CST

Sri Lankan army soldiers stand on a road in the town of Kilinochchi January 2, 2009. Picture taken January 2, 2009. Sri Lankan attack helicopters bombed Tamil Tiger positions in the north of the island on Saturday, the military said, a day after ground forces seized the rebel headquarters town of Kilinochchi. REUTERS/Ministry of Defence/Handout    (SRI LANKA)  QUALITY FROM SOURCEAP - Sri Lankan air force jets and helicopters bombed a series of rebel targets in the north and northeast, the military said Saturday, as soldiers pressed deeper into Tamil Tiger territory a day after capturing the insurgents' de facto capital.


Opposition leader wins presidency in Ghana (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 05:32 AM CST

AP - Ghana's Electoral Commission says opposition leader John Atta Mills has won the presidency of this West African nation.

US: Soldiers shoot, wound woman in Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 03:47 AM CST

Iranian Vice-President Parviz Davoodi, left, shakes hands with Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. during his official visit in Tehran on Saturday Jan. 3, 2009. (AP photo/Fars news agency/Hossein Fatemi)AP - The U.S. military says American soldiers have shot and wounded an Iraqi woman after she failed to heed warnings to stop near a Baghdad checkpoint.


Australia tells US it won't accept Gitmo detainees (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 03:33 AM CST

AP - Australia has told the United States for a second time that it will not resettle detainees freed from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, the acting prime minister said Saturday.

Russia gas row disruption spreads to Bulgaria (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 05:05 AM CST

A pressure gauge is seen at a Ukrainian gas compressor station in the village of Boyarka near the capital Kiev, January 1, 2009. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)Reuters - Russian gas flows to Bulgaria dropped on Saturday in a fresh sign that Moscow's decision to cut off its neighbor Ukraine in a row over pricing was disrupting supplies to some European Union members.


Iraqi premier visits Iran to discuss US-Iraq pact (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 05:04 AM CST

AP - Iraq's prime minister is visiting Iran where the newly implemented security deal between the United States and Baghdad is expected to top his agenda.

Autopsy planned in death of John Travolta's son (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 03:48 AM CST

Actor John Travolta and actress-wife Kelly Preston arrive at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film in this Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007 file photo taken in Santa Barbara, Calif. Travolta's teenage son has died after injuring himself at the actor's vacation home. Police spokeswoman Loretta Mackey says 16-year-old Jett Travolta hit his head in a bathtub Friday Jan. 2, 2009. She said he was declared dead at Rand Memorial Hospital on Grand Bahama Island. (AP Photo/Michael A. MariantAP - An autopsy is planned for John Travolta's teenage son, who died after apparently hitting his head on the bathtub while the family was vacationing at their home in the Bahamas, authorities said.


Mugabe prepares to form unity government and fires ministers: media (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 03:20 AM CST

President Robert Mugabe, seen December 20, is preparing to form a unity goverment after firing a number of ministers from his ZANU-PF party who lost in the March 2008 elections, state media has said.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)AFP - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is preparing to form a unity goverment after firing a number of ministers from his ZANU-PF party who lost in the March 2008 elections, state media said on Saturday.


Officials: Pakistan arrests senior Taliban figure (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 05:33 AM CST

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said he hopes Pakistan would show AP - Security officials say Pakistan has arrested a former Taliban spokesman released by Afghanistan in 2007 in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist.


Australia rejects Guantanamo resettlement requests (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2009 12:34 AM CST

A U.S. flag flies above a razorwire-topped fence at the 'Camp Six' detention facility at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in this December 10, 2008 file photo. Australia has rejected all U.S. requests so far to resettle detainees from Guantanamo Bay, the most recent being on Friday night, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Saturday. (Mandel Ngan/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - Australia has rejected all U.S. requests so far to resettle detainees from Guantanamo Bay, the most recent being on Friday night, Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Saturday.


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