2009年4月17日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Obama 'seeks a new beginning' with Cuba, direct talks (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 05:23 PM PDT

President Barack Obama attends the inauguration of the 5th Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Friday April 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - Trading their warmest words in a half-century, the United States and Cuba built momentum toward renewed ties on Friday, with President Barack Obama declaring he "seeks a new beginning" — including direct talks — with the island's communist regime. As leaders of the Americas gathered for a summit in this Caribbean nation, the head of the Organization of American States even said he'll ask his group to invite Cuba back after 47 years.


Navies ask: What do you do with a captured pirate? (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 01:54 PM PDT

FILE - This file photo taken Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009 originally provided by French Defense Ministry,  shows suspected pirates arrested by marine commandos of the French navy in the Gulf of Aden, off Somalia coasts. French government officials say the Jean de Vienne,background, intercepted and captured 19 pirates as they tried to take over two cargo ships.  Many captured Somali pirates once were freed because nations feared the complications of putting them on trial. But the world is now grappling with how to prosecute the bandits -- and even considering a special tribunal.   (AP Photo/French Navy-French Defense Ministry,HO)AP - The scrawny teenage pirate stormed the Maersk Alabama hoping for a share of a $3 million ransom. He was attacked by its sailors, stabbed in the hand and tied up, and later arrested by the U.S. Navy.


Vatican decries reaction to pope's condom remarks (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 04:11 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, March 19, 2009 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful as he leaves following a special mass at the Amadou Ahidjo stadium, in Yaounde, Cameroon. The Vatican on Friday, April 17, 2009 says some negative reactions to the pope's comments about condoms and AIDS during a trip to Africa were an 'unprecedented'' attempt to intimidate him. Pope Benedict XVI said last month that condoms weren't the answer to Africa's AIDS epidemic and could make the problem worse. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, file)AP - Critics of the Catholic Church's social teachings are trying to intimidate Pope Benedict XVI into silence, the Vatican charged Friday in responding to attacks on the pontiff's remarks about AIDS and condom use.


British spy agency searches for `Q' (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:51 PM PDT

FILE -  In this Monday  Nov. 18 2002 file photo  John Cleese, centre,   who plays  MI5's Q in the current James Bomd films, stands with Madoona as they wait for  Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at the World Premiere of the James Bond film 'Die Another Day'  at the Royal Albert Hall in central London . Q was James Bond's go-to guy for inventions that included dagger-embedded shoes, radioactive lint and a deadly sofa that swallowed people.  Now, Britain's domestic spy agency  MI5  is hunting for its very own 'Q,' of sorts.  (AP Photo/ Daily Express, Tim Clarke/Pool )AP - He was James Bond's go-to guy for inventions that included dagger-embedded shoes, radioactive lint and a deadly sofa that swallowed people.


Activists paint graffiti letter on West Bank wall (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 12:35 PM PDT

Palestinian Faris Arouri, second left, and Yousef Nijem, left, paint on a section of Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank town of Aram, on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Friday, April 17, 2009. A South African scholar and human rights activist, Farid Esack has written an open letter, which will be painted onto Israel's separation barrier and will supposedly reach a length of 2,625 metres. The letter states that the for Palestinians are far worse off than what was experienced in South Africa under apartheid. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)AP - Palestinian activists climbed wooden ladders leaning against Israeli's West Bank separation barrier Friday and carefully spraypainted in English "My dear Palestinian brothers" — the first words of what they say will turn into a letter stretching over 1.6 miles long.


Court convicts Tamil in new blow for rebels (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 02:13 PM PDT

A masked demonstrator carrying the portrait of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in Colombo in February 2009. A British Tamil leader was convicted Friday of supplying bomb-making equipment to the LTTE in a new blow for the rebels battling Sri Lankan troops trying to end a three-decade-long civil war.(AFP/Ishara S. Kodikara)AFP - A British Tamil leader was convicted Friday of supplying bomb-making equipment to the Tamil Tigers, in a new blow for the rebels battling Sri Lankan troops trying to end a three-decade-long civil war.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,274 (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 05:18 PM PDT

Iraqi students wearing Iraqi folkloric outfits dance during a graduation party at the Baghdad IT and Technology University. They went off to university fearing car bombs and death squads -- now Iraq's class of 2009 is celebrating in style, and hoping to find their place in a more peaceful country.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AP - As of Friday, April 17, 2009, at least 4,274 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


Cuban media covers Castro's comments, not Obama's (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 05:40 PM PDT

AP - Raul Castro's offer to talk with Washington about anything — even such sticky subjects as human rights, press freedom and political prisoners — was big news in Cuba on Friday.

Mugabe says no farm invasions in Zimbabwe (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 03:37 PM PDT

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe speaks in March 2009 at the funeral church service for Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wife Susan at a local church in Harare. Mugabe on Friday denied that farm invasions were taking place in Zimbabwe but vowed to continue land reforms, as the country's unity government launched a probe into fresh grabs.(AFP/File/Desmond Kwande)AFP - President Robert Mugabe on Friday denied that farm invasions were taking place in Zimbabwe but vowed to continue land reforms, as the country's unity government launched a probe into fresh grabs.


US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 606 (AP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 05:27 PM PDT

A Canadian soldier from the 1st battalion Royal 22nd Regiment C company 7th platoon of the NATO-led coalition patrols on top of a hill in the stronghold of Panjwaii in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, April 11, 2009. REUTERS/Stefano RellandiniAP - As of Friday, April 15, 2009, at least 606 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Wednesday at 10 a.m. EDT.


Australia says arsonists could face 25 years in jail (AFP)

Posted: 17 Apr 2009 03:12 AM PDT

A ferocious 10km firefront southeast of Melbourne on February 14, 2009. Australia on Friday revealed plans to introduce national arson laws with a maximum penalty of 25 years behind bars in the wake of deadly wildfires that claimed 173 lives.(AFP/File/Paul Crock)AFP - Australia on Friday revealed plans to introduce national arson laws with a maximum penalty of 25 years behind bars in the wake of deadly wildfires that claimed 173 lives.


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