2009年1月18日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

Israel unilaterally halts fire, rockets persist (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2009 01:54 AM CST

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, left, shakes hands with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, right, at a press conference following a meeting of the security cabinet at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009. Israel's leaders voted late Saturday to halt an offensive that has killed nearly 1,200 people, turned the streets and neighborhoods of the Gaza Strip into battlegrounds and dealt a stinging blow to the Islamic militants of Hamas. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)AP - Israel declared a unilateral cease-fire in the Gaza Strip on Sunday meant to end three devastating weeks of war against Hamas militants, but just hours later militants fired a volley of rockets into southern Israel, officials said, threatening to reignite the violence.


Russia and Ukraine reach gas deal (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2009 12:57 AM CST

A pipeline is seen at a gas compressor station in Sudzha in Russia's Kursk region January 11, 2009. International monitors arrived on Sunday at a gas compressor station near the Ukrainian-Russian border to observe gas flows to Europe, a Reuters photographer said. (Gleb Garanich/Reuters)AP - Negotiations dragged into the early hours Sunday, but in the end the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine announced a deal to settle the gas dispute that has drastically reduced supplies of Russian gas to Europe for nearly two weeks.


Pakistan: 15 militants, 1 soldier killed (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2009 01:23 AM CST

A member of bomb disposal squad tries to detect an explosive planted at road side near Bannu, Pakistan, on Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. Pakistani security forces are engaged with militants and Taliban in the northern Pakistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Ejaz)AP - Security forces killed 15 militants during a raid in a northwest Pakistani tribal region where troops have battled al-Qaida and Taliban insurgents, the military said in a statement Sunday.


Sri Lanka military: Troops seize Tamil rebel camp (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2009 03:07 AM CST

A civilian injured during combat between Tamil Tigers and government soldiers in rebel territory, about 260 kms (160 miles) north of Colombo. Sri Lankan troops have cornered the Tamil Tigers in their northeastern jungle hideout of Mullaittivu and the guerrillas have nowhere left to run except into the Indian Ocean, the army chief said(AFP/File/Str)AP - Sri Lankan soldiers captured a Tamil Tiger rebel camp and a factory in the north as government forces closed in on the beleaguered rebels, pushing them into a shrinking northeastern enclave, the military said Sunday.


Gaza civilians struggle with bombardments (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2009 03:54 PM CST

Bahar Abu al-Hussein, 12, is comforted by his uncle Ali Abu al-Hussein, after learning that his father Hamir Attiya had been killed by tank fire, according to a police officer, outside the an-Najar hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza strip, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009. Israel bombarded dozens of Hamas targets Saturday hours before a government vote on an Egyptian brokered cease-fire, prompting Egypt to demand an immediate halt to the 3-week-old Gaza offensive.  Hamas sent mixed signals about whether it will accept the cease-fire proposal. Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman linked to the group's leadership-in-exile in Syria, said militants would keep fighting. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - The group of boys gather defiantly to play soccer each day, war-weary after three weeks of near-constant shelling and dearly in need of some childhood release.


Brown urges banks to come clean over bad assets (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2009 03:20 AM CST

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, pictured on January 15, 2009, told British banks Saturday they must own up to the extent of their bad assets amid more reports his government could launch a fresh bail-out of the struggling sector.(AFP/DDP/File/Clemens Bilan)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown has told banks that they must own up to the extent of their bad assets amid more reports his government could launch a fresh bailout of the struggling sector.


Iraq: Electoral commission investigates fraud (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2009 03:22 AM CST

In this Nov. 5, 2008 file photo U.S. Army Sgt. Kyle Whalen, 22, from Plover, Wis., playfully taps his helmet with an Iraqi boy's donated toy football helmet during a visit to the boy's school in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. When 21st-century Americans contemplate their place on the planet, they confront a complex history of isolationism and engagement, a deep instinct to live and let live that co-exists with an equally fervent desire to be a robust beacon of freedom — sometimes by any means necessary. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, file)AP - Iraq's electoral commission says it is investigating allegations that nearly 60 candidates for the Jan. 31 provincial elections have submitted fraudulent certificates for their educational degrees.


US moves 6 Gitmo detainees, rejects hearing delays (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2009 10:25 PM CST

In this photo reviewed by the U.S. Military, relatives of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York disembark from a plane upon their arrival at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba January 17, 2009. They will observe the upcoming U.S. Military Commission hearing for September 11 defendants. The individuals are (from bottom to top) Lorraine Arias Believeau, who lost her brother Adam Arias, Jim Riches, who lost his son Jimmy, Joe Holland, who lost his son Joseph, and Andrew Aria, who lost his brother Adam. REUTERS/Brennan Linsley/Pool  (CUBA)AP - The U.S. Department of Defense announced Saturday that it transferred six detainees out of Guantanamo, leaving about 245 at the offshore prison as President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office.


Mugabe says opposition must accept power-sharing deal (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2009 03:21 AM CST

Zimbabwe opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai looks on during a media briefing in Johannesburg January 15, 2009. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)Reuters - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has said the country's opposition MDC should accept a power-sharing deal signed last September or end talks over the implementation of the agreement, state media reported on Sunday.


"Erroneous" Western democracy not for China: official (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2009 03:16 AM CST

A Chinese soldier looks into the camera at the India-China trade route at Nathu-La, 55 km (34 miles) north of Gangtok, capital of India's northeastern state of Sikkim, January 17, 2009. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)Reuters - China must build defenses against "erroneous" ideas involving Western-style democracy, a top government official said in comments published on Sunday, shooting down recent calls by dissidents for political reform.


Australia lists world's largest sea turtle as endangered (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2009 10:53 PM CST

Leatherback turtle hatchlings. Australia on Sunday listed the world's largest sea turtle, the leatherback, as endangered due to the threats posed by overfishing and the unsustainable harvesting of its eggs and meat(AFP/File/Jimin Lai)AFP - Australia on Sunday listed the world's largest sea turtle, the leatherback, as endangered due to the threats posed by overfishing and the unsustainable harvesting of its eggs and meat.


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