2009年3月11日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

Teen kills 15 in Germany before taking own life (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 04:11 PM PDT

Pupils place flowers and candles in front of the Albertville school in Winnenden near Stuttgart, southern Germany, on Wednesday, March 11, 2009. A 17-year-old gunman dressed in black opened fire inside his former high school in southwestern Germany on Wednesday killing 15 people before he turned the gun on himself, authorities said.  (AP Photo/Daniel Roland)AP - A 17-year-old wielding a Beretta 9 mm pistol burst into classrooms at his former high school Wednesday and gunned down students — some of whom died with their pencils still in hand — in a rampage that ended with 15 dead before he took his own life, authorities said.


Tariq Aziz, Saddam-era official, gets 15-year term (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 12:50 PM PDT

In this image made from television Saddam Hussein's former foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, stands in a court in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March. 11, 2009, and is convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for his role in the 1992 execution of 42 merchants accused of price gouging while Iraq was under U.N. sanctions. The conviction was the first against Aziz, who for years was the former regime's public face to the West.  (AP Photo/APTN)AP - For years he was the urbane, cigar-smoking face of Saddam Hussein's regime, who argued his boss' case in the international corridors of power.


Pakistan bans rallies, arrests 100s before march (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 11:36 AM PDT

From left to right,  Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon,  Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, arrive to attend in a summit of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Tehran, Iran on Wednesday March, 11, 2009. Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are the members of ECO. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)AP - Pakistan rounded up hundreds of opposition activists Wednesday and banned protests in two provinces hoping to thwart an anti-government march on the capital, saying it would not allow "the law of the jungle" to cause instability.


France puts a cork in alcohol sales to youth (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 01:28 PM PDT

Youths drink beer in a Paris cafe, Tuesday  March 10, 2009. Lawmakers in the National Assembly, the lower house, voted Monday March 9, 2009 to approve an amendment to a vast hospital bill that would ban the sale of alcohol to teens under the age of 18 and fine violators up to euro7,500 ($9,400). They also voted to forbid the overnight sale of alcohol at gas stations, thought to be a prime source of booze for the young. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - A spot of Calvados, the apple brandy, in the bottle to help baby sleep. Champagne for all at the family fete. And wine anytime, well, because we're French.


Sarkozy: France should rejoin key NATO command (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 05:11 PM PDT

In this Feb.12, 2009 file photo, Republican Guards watch the car of NATO's secretary-general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris. Top French officials on Wednesday March 11, 2009 were holding a high-level conference with European and U.S. officials over President Nicolas Sarkozy's proposal for France to rejoin NATO's military command after a 43-year absence. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy forcefully defended his intention to return France to the heart of NATO's military command after 43 years away and insisted Wednesday that staying outside the alliance's highest echelons any longer would weaken France.


Germany issues warrant for Nazi guard suspect (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 05:22 PM PDT

Reuters - German prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for 88-year-old U.S. resident John Demjanjuk on suspicion he helped in the murders of at least 29,000 Jews as a Nazi death camp guard, they said Wednesday.

Saudi hosts Arab leaders to try to undermine Iran (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 01:33 PM PDT

A Saudi official welcomes the Emir of Kuwait Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, right, on his arrival for a meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Saudi Arabia is hosting the leaders of Egypt and Syria on Wednesday in an effort to persuade Damascus to move away from Iran and instead work with U.S.-allied Arab countries to blunt Tehran's influence.Saudi Arabia hopes the one-day mini-Arab summit will help improve the frayed relations with Syria ahead of a larger Arab summit in Qatar later this month.(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)AP - Saudi Arabia hosted the leaders of Egypt and Syria on Wednesday in an effort to persuade Damascus to move away from Iran and join with U.S.-allied Arab countries in working to blunt Tehran's influence.


Argentina bombing whistleblower allegedly tortured (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 05:25 PM PDT

Claudio Lifschitz, a former legal investigator of the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association, attends an interview with The Associated Press in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Lifschitz appeared in court Wednesday to testify about his alleged kidnapping and torture last week by men who claimed they were members of the government's SIDE intelligence agency and carved the initials on his back and used a blowtorch to burn some numbers onto his left forearm. (AP Photo Natacha Pisarenko)AP - A criminal attorney who accused former President Carlos Menem of covering up the nation's worst terrorist attack testified Wednesday that he was kidnapped and tortured last week by masked gunmen seeking information about the case.


Khadafi urges Mauritania to look beyond coup (AFP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 02:37 PM PDT

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi speaks during a seminar in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott. Kadhafi on Wednesday urged Mauritanians to look beyond past hostilities to a future after presidential elections, after meeting rival sides of a coup-sparked crisis.(AFP/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - African Union chairman Moamer Kadhafi on Wednesday urged Mauritanians to look beyond past hostilities to a future after presidential elections, after meeting rival sides of a coup-sparked crisis.


Jobless China graduates mired in gloom amid slowdown (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 05:30 PM PDT

Reuters - Down-at-heel Xiaojiahe in Beijing's university district seems an unlikely haven for China's aspiring elite, but its reeking alleys and dank rooms offer a low-budget bolthole for graduates battling to find work.

Ship loses oil, fertilizer in storm off Australia (AP)

Posted: 11 Mar 2009 12:57 AM PDT

AP - More than 30 shipping containers of ammonium nitrate fell off a ship in stormy seas off Australia early Wednesday, damaging the ship's hull and leaking up to 30 tons of oil.

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