2009年2月13日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Suspected US missile kills 20 in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 01:02 AM CST

A protest rally against the US missile strike in Pakistan's tribal areas. At least 20 suspected Islamic militants were killed in a suspected US missile strike on a Taliban hideout in a Pakistani tribal region on Saturday, a senior security official told AFP(AFP/File/Banaras Khan)AP - A suspected U.S. missile strike by a drone aircraft flattened a militant hide-out in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing 20 local and foreign insurgents, intelligence officials said.

Kidnappers threaten American abducted in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:50 PM CST

This is an image from mobile phone footage released by Online Photos Friday Feb. 13 2009, purportedly showing John Solecki, a seized American U.N. worker. The kidnappers have threatened to kill Solecki within 72 hours unless more than 100 prisoners are released. The threat was contained in a letter delivered with a grainy video of the hostage to a Pakistani news agency on Friday. Solecki appears blindfolded in the short clip and appeals to the world body to act quickly to secure his release. (AP Photo/Online Photos via APTN) ** NO SALES NO ARCHIVE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT IMAGE FROM VIDEO RELEASED BY ONLINE PHOTOS.AP - Kidnappers threatened on Friday to kill an American employee of the United Nations within 72 hours and issued a grainy video of the blindfolded captive saying he was "sick and in trouble." A letter accompanying the video delivered to a Pakistani news agency said the hostage, John Solecki, would be killed unless authorities released 141 women it said were being held in Pakistan.

Iraqis find mass grave north of Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 01:09 AM CST

A Shi'ite woman cries after a bomb attack targeted pilgrims in Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, February 13, 2009. A female suicide bomber killed 32 people and wounded 84 others south of Baghdad on Friday when she blew herself up on a major Shi'ite religious pilgrimage route, police said. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ)AP - An Iraqi police official says a mass grave has been found in a former Sunni insurgent stronghold north of Baghdad.

Clinton urges NKorea against 'provocative' actions (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:22 PM CST

US Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the Asia Society, Friday, Feb. 13, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, making her first major policy speech, urged North Korea Friday not to take any "provocative" actions that could undermine peace efforts. Amid press reports that North Korea might be preparing a long-range missile test, Clinton pledged to hold the communist regime to its commitments to give up its nuclear programs in return for international aid and political concessions.

Drug giant pledges cheap medicine for the poor: report (AFP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 12:31 AM CST

The head of British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline has said in a British newspaper he would cut prices for medication in developing countries and share knowledge of patented treatments.(AFP/HO/GLAXOSMITHKLINE/File)AFP - The head of drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) said in a newspaper Saturday he would cut prices for medication in developing countries and share knowledge of patented treatments.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,243 (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 07:30 PM CST

A man, who was injured in a bomb attack that targeted Shi'ite pilgrims during the Arbain ceremony, lies in a bed at a hospital in Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, February 14, 2009. A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a crowd of Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims on Friday, killing 39 people and wounding 69 others during one of the holiest events of the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, police said. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ)AP - As of Friday, Feb. 13, 2009, at least 4,243 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Wife of Ecuadorean dragged by NY van wants justice (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 08:47 PM CST

AP - The wife of the Ecuadorean man hit by a car, trapped under a van and dragged for nearly 20 miles through New York City is demanding justice for her husband's death.

Key human rights advocate dies in U.S. plane crash (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 05:15 PM CST

Reuters - A prominent human rights advocate who documented genocide in Rwanda was among the victims of Thursday's commuter plane crash near Buffalo, associates said on Friday.

Twenty dead in suspected US missile strike: Pakistani official (AFP)

Posted: 14 Feb 2009 01:15 AM CST

A protest rally against the US missile strike in Pakistan's tribal areas. At least 20 suspected Islamic militants were killed in a suspected US missile strike on a Taliban hideout in a Pakistani tribal region on Saturday, a senior security official told AFP(AFP/File/Banaras Khan)AFP - A suspected US missile strike Saturday killed at least 20 militants including two foreign Al-Qaeda operatives in a Pakistani tribal area near the Afghan border, security officials said.

Residents return to fire-destroyed town (AP)

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 10:29 PM CST

In this Feb. 7, 2009 file photo, a fire truck moves away from out of control flames from a bushfire in the Bunyip Sate Forest near the township of Tonimbuk, 125 kilometers (78 miles) west of Melbourne, Australia. In the aftermath of the most lethal wildfires in Australia's history, officials are again considering whether enough is being done to reduce the risk through controlled burns. (AP Photo/FILE)AP - Residents of the town worst-hit by Australia's wildfire disaster made a brief and emotional return there on Saturday but were not allowed to stay because the entire village is being treated as an arson crime scene.

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