2009年2月19日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News

Clinton hammers home Obama message in Asia (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 12:29 AM CST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, is greeted by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prior to their meeting at the palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham on Thursday relentlessly hammered home the Obama administration's message that America is under new management and ready to listen and engage the world.

China warns Tibet clergy against demonstrations (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 12:53 AM CST

AP - A Communist Party official in Tibet has warned Buddhist clergy against political activity in the run-up to the first anniversary of last year's massive anti-government protests.

Australia's child survivors struggle to cope (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 04:08 PM CST

Nine-year-old Phillip Watt shows his drawings of recent wildfires that ripped through his community at the Buxton Primary School in Buxton, north of Melbourne, Australia Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009.He remembers what he saw on that day when his town, his house, his beloved bicycle were destroyed in Australia's deadliest wildfires. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - The crayon colors on the page were bright — orange, red, sunny yellow. But the drawings were as dark as the blackened remains of the landscape near the tiny Australian schoolhouse.

UN accused of failing to protect Congo civilians (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 03:14 PM CST

U.N. humanitarian aid chief John Holmes, center,visits the pediatric ward of a hospital in Dorouma, Congo, near the border with Sudan, on Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. Holmes vowed Monday to do everything he could to protect people in eastern Congo from the 'diabolical attacks' by rebels that have killed hundreds of residents since late December.(AP Photo/T.J. Kirkpatrick, Pool)AP - Early in the morning the warnings came: Rebels notorious for vicious attacks on civilians were advancing on this eastern Congolese town of thatched roof huts along the winding Kibali River.

Zimbabwe to pay soldiers, teachers in US dollars (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 12:48 PM CST

Demonstrators protest outside the court in Harare, Zimbabwe Wednesday Feb. 18, 2009 and call for the release of political prisoners being held by the ruling ZANU-PF party. Even as a new coalition government took its first steps, members of the Movement for Democratic Change party said efforts were being undermined by a terrorism case against one of their own. A judge on Wednesday judge ordered Roy Bennett, the MDC's nominee for deputy agriculture minister in the unity government jailed at least another two weeks pending trial on terrorism charges. Bennett has already been jailed a week, and the Movement for Democratic Change's leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called Bennett's arrest an attempt by factions in President Robert Mugabe's party to derail the country's unity government. (AP Photo)AP - Zimbabwe tried to combat the world's highest inflation by widening the use of foreign currency Wednesday — the first act of a coalition government that gave the longtime opposition control of much economic policy.

Testimony continues in soldier's court-martial (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:21 AM CST

AP - The court-martial of a U.S. soldier accused of taking part in the execution-style killings of four Iraqi prisoners continued Thursday with more witnesses to be called to the stand.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,245 (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 07:19 PM CST

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waves as she takes a tour in a slum in Jakarta February 19, 2009. Clinton's visit to Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, highlights President Barack Obama's desire to forge a better U.S. relationship with the Muslim world, where many of the policies of former president George W. Bush's administration, including the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, were deeply unpopular. REUTERS/Bay Ismoyo/Pool (INDONESIA)AP - As of Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009, at least 4,245 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Death threats against police appear in border city (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 09:28 PM CST

A body is seen at the crime scene where it was found in Ciudad Juarez, northern Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009. Violence still continues in Ciudad Juarez, where police found several bodies apparently killed in separate incidents. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - Police were on alert Wednesday after several signs appeared across this violent border city warning that more officers would be killed unless the police chief resigns, a day after the second-in-command and three other officers were slain.

Rape, war, climate to top UN chief's African tour (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 08:01 PM CST

AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will embark on a wide-ranging African tour next week in a bid to shore up Congo's struggling peacekeeping mission, show support for victims of war in Congo and Rwanda and press for progress on climate change.

U.S. seeks to improve image in Muslim Indonesia (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Feb 2009 01:31 AM CST

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) waves she takes a tour in a slum in Jakarta February 19, 2009. (Bay Ismoyo/Pool/Reuters)Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made small talk on a popular music TV show and toured U.S.-funded aid projects on Thursday as she tried to improve America's image in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Remains of boy, five, found in Australian crocodile (AFP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 03:52 AM CST

A small town in northern Queensland is flooded after torrential rain. The remains of a missing five-year-old boy have been found in the stomach of a crocodile caught after floods ravaged northern Australia, police said Tuesday.(AFP/HO/Herbert River Express/File/Brooke Baskin)AFP - The remains of a missing five-year-old boy have been found in the stomach of acrocodile caught after floods ravaged northern Australia, police have said.

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