2009年4月2日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News

Madonna visit sheds light on Malawi's poverty (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 02:12 PM PDT

In a March 28, 2009  photo,  children eat sugar cane outside their home in Kumbali, Malawi, near the lodge were pop star Madonna is staying. Madonna is in Malawi in a bid to adopt a girl according to a social welfare official in Malawi.   Until recently,  r Madonna's name meant little to those in this southern African country that has only had television since 1999. (AP Photo/Riccardo Gangale)AP - "Madonna, Madonna!" the barefoot boys in tattered T-shirts call out. Until recently, the pop star's name meant little in a country that didn't even have TV until a decade ago.


Obama's scorecard: Some setbacks but a good summit (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 04:04 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama gives a press conference following the G20 summit at the ExCel centre in east London. Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hailed Obama as AP - At his summit debut, President Barack Obama failed to persuade foreign counterparts to commit to fresh and lavish spending to boost economic revival. And the success he did achieve in finding common ground was as much the result of modified goals as swaying other countries to bend to U.S. priorities.


Summiteers OK big loans, no econ rescue stimulus (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 03:38 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama,left.  smiles with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, centre, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a group photo  at the G20 Summit in  the Excel centre in London, Thursday, April 2, 2009. The objective of the London Summit is to bring the world's biggest economies together to help restore global economic growth through enhanced international coordination. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - Anxiously assembled at the most perilous moment for the global economy since the Great Depression, the world's financial powers pledged more than $1 trillion Thursday for emergency loans to contain the contagion. But they rebuffed President Barack Obama's bid for new stimulus spending and made no guarantees of success.


Police use tear gas on hundreds of NATO protesters (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 01:27 PM PDT

Masked anti-NATO demonstrators are seen during clashes with riot police in the southern suburbs of Strasbourg April 2, 2009. Strasbourg and the German cities of Baden-Baden and Kehl will host the NATO member states summit on April 3 and 4.   REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE) ++ EDITORS NOTE THAT FRENCH LAW REQUIRES THAT FACES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ARE MASKED IN PUBLICATIONS WITHIN FRANCE ++ (MILITARY POLITICS CONFLICT)AP - Riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to beat back a crowd of several hundred anti-NATO protesters in Strasbourg on Thursday as the city in eastern France, host of the alliance's 60th anniversary summit, readied for the arrival of world leaders.


Michelle Obama charms queen away from protocol (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 11:15 AM PDT

Michelle Obama, wife of U.S. President Barack Obama, left, walks with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at the reception at Buckingham Palace in London Wednesday, April 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Daniel Hambury, pool)AP - Michelle Obama's meeting with Queen Elizabeth II began with a handshake and ended in a hug.


16 presumed dead in North Sea helicopter crash (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 04:13 PM PDT

A map locating where the Super Puma helicopter crashed in the North Sea. Coastguards called off late Thursday the search for eight people missing after a helicopter crash in the North Sea, from which eight bodies had already been recovered.(AFP/Graphic)AFP - Coastguards called off late Thursday the search for eight people missing after a helicopter crash in the North Sea, from which eight bodies had already been recovered.


Washington shows no interest in Chavez Gitmo offer (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 02:02 PM PDT

AP - Washington expressed no interest Thursday in an offer by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to take in any of the 240 remaining Guantanamo detainees after they are released from the U.S. military prison.

Mexico catches top drug baron from Juarez cartel (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 04:15 PM PDT

Alleged Mexican drug trafficker Vicente Carrillo Leyva looks on during his presentation to the media in Mexico City, Thursday, April 2, 2009. Carrillo Leyva, one of Mexico's most wanted drug suspects who allegedly was the second-in-command of the powerful Juarez cartel, was caught while exercising in a park in a posh Mexico City neighborhood early Wednesday, the Attorney General's office said Thursday. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - An heir to one of Mexico's most notorious narcotics empires was grabbed by police as he exercised in a city park, officials announced Thursday, shortly before U.S. and Mexican Cabinet officials met to coordinate attacks on escalating drug violence.


Suspect denies targeting Morocco government (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 12:15 PM PDT

Belgo-Moroccan Abdelkader Belliraj (C), the alleged mastermind of a terrorist networkm is pictured at the Sale courthouse in 2008. Belliraj, a Belgian-Moroccan national suspected of spearheading a presumed 35-member terrorist ring, denied in court Thursday that he undertook actions intended to target the Moroccan government.(AFP/File/Abdelhak Senna)AFP - A Belgian-Moroccan national suspected of spearheading a presumed 35-member terrorist ring denied in court Thursday that he undertook actions intended to target the Moroccan government.


Signs that NKorea fueling rocket: US official (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 04:12 PM PDT

This DigitalGlobe handout image received March 30, 2009 shows the northeast coastal Musudan-ri launch pad in North Korea. There are indications North Korea is fueling a rocket ahead of a planned launch that could come as early as this weekend, a US defense official said on Thursday.(AFP/DIGITALGLOBE)AFP - There are indications North Korea is fueling a rocket ahead of a planned launch that could come as early as this weekend, a US defense official said on Thursday.


International donors meet in ETimor (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 09:13 AM PDT

East Timor policemen parade during a ceremony in Dili in March 2009. International donors to East Timor kicked off a three-day meeting Thursday to discuss how to lock in security gains and promote development in the young nation, one of the world's poorest.(AFP/File/Mario Jonny Dos Santos)AFP - International donors to East Timor kicked off a three-day meeting Thursday to discuss how to lock in security gains and promote development in the young nation, one of the world's poorest.


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