2009年1月22日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News

2 death sentences given in China milk scandal (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 02:27 AM CST

A woman, whose child died from drinking tainted milk, holds a sign reading AP - A Chinese court condemned two men to death Thursday and handed a life term to a former dairy boss in the first sentences for those involved in the country's contaminated milk scandal.


Analysis: US, Israel could coax Hamas to moderate (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 02:32 AM CST

Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot front-page shows a picture of U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle waving, as a man speaks on his phone, in a store in the center of Jerusalem, Wednesday Jan. 21, 2009. Obama's inauguration became the lead story in Israeli and Palestinian media Wednesday, which had been dominated by coverage of the Gaza offensive that began with a massive air bombardment on Dec. 27. The headline in Hebrew reads 'Good morning America'. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - Postwar Gaza could become a test of President Barack Obama's inauguration speech offer to Muslims to "extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."


Pakistan arrests man linked to 2005 London bombs (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 02:21 AM CST

File photo of NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who was in Islamabad on Thursday for talks with Pakistani leaders focused on the battle against Islamist militants, a foreign ministry official said.(DDP/AFP/File/Michael Urban)AP - Pakistani police acting on a tip from U.S. intelligence agents arrested an al-Qaida suspect believed linked to the 2005 London transit bombings, two Pakistani security officials said Thursday.


First war tally: 1,284 Gazans dead, 4,336 wounded (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 04:59 PM CST

Palestinian human rights researcher Yasser Abdel Ghafar, second from left, takes notes while talking to Rami Najar, left, in front of his family's destroyed house in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009. Three members of Rami's family were killed in an Israel Army attack. The job of counting Gaza's dead is a painstaking endeavor carried out under chaotic and confusing conditions.   (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - Squatting in the rubble, his briefcase perched atop his knees, the human rights researcher interviewed residents of a house shelled by Israel as he compiled a list of Gazans killed and wounded during Israel's offensive against Hamas.


Iran: Obama must seek 'new' Mideast foreign policy (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 04:07 PM CST

An Egyptian newspapers vender wearing a niqab, a veil that exposes only her eyes, sits in front of newspapers fronted by pictures of  the  inauguration of Barack Obama,  in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009. Obama used a few words in his inaugural address to reach out to the Muslim world, saying the U.S. was seeking 'a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect.'. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)AP - Iran said Wednesday it is "ready for new approaches" from President Barack Obama as, across the Islamic world, countries cautiously welcomed his promise of mutual respect between the U.S. and Muslims.


French official household spending slides 0.9 percent in December (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 02:34 AM CST

One of Paris's top department stores, Le Printemps. French household spending on manufactured goods fell 0.9 percent in December from the November level and by 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter, the national statistics institute INSEE reported on Thursday.(AFP/File/Bertrand Guay)AFP - French household spending on manufactured goods fell 0.9 percent in December from the November level and by 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter, the national statistics institute INSEE reported on Thursday.


Medic: Israeli gunboat fire wounds 2 Gazans (AP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 12:43 AM CST

Palestinian youths drive past a bullet and shrapnel-riddled mosque in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. Israel's war on Gaza killed 1,330 people, at least half of them civilians, and wounded 5,450 others, Palestinian medics said on Thursday in a final toll of the offensive.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AP - A Palestinian medical official says an Israeli gunboat firing off the shores of Gaza City has wounded a man and a girl.


Argentine prez: Fidel Castro `believes in Obama' (AP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 10:51 PM CST

Cuba's President Raul Castro, right, speaks to students from his car after visiting the Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Fidel Castro watched the U.S. inauguration on television and said Wednesday that Barack Obama seems "like a man who is absolutely sincere," Argentina's president said after meeting with the ailing Cuban icon.


S.Africa to host new summit on Zimbabwe crisis in Pretoria (AFP)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 01:31 AM CST

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (L) welcomes South African President Kgalema Motlanthe at Harare international airport January 19. South Africa will host the next emergency summit on Zimbabwe, the foreign ministry said Thursday, as regional leaders were trying to save a Zimbabwean unity deal and stem a humanitarian crisis there.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)AFP - South Africa will host the next emergency summit on Zimbabwe, the foreign ministry said Thursday, as regional leaders were trying to save a Zimbabwean unity deal and stem a humanitarian crisis there.


China sentences two to death over tainted milk (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Jan 2009 02:55 AM CST

A woman, whose granddaughter died from drinking tainted milk, cries outside Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, January 22, 2009. (Jason Lee/Reuters)Reuters - A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced two men to death for their role in the production and sale of melamine-tainted milk that killed at least six children and made nearly 300,000 ill.


Australia asks Thailand to pardon jailed writer (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 06:44 PM CST

Australian Harry Nicolaides arrives at a court in Bangkok on January 19, 2009. The Australian government has asked Thailand to pardon the writer jailed for insulting the royal family, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said.(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)AFP - The Australian government has asked Thailand to pardon a writer jailed for insulting the royal family, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said.


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