2009年4月24日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Mexico swine flu deaths spur global epidemic fears (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 07:18 PM PDT

People wearing surgical masks stand in line to enter the General Hospital in Mexico City, Friday, April 24, 2009. Federal health authorities closed schools Friday across this metropolis of 20 million after at least 16 people have died and more than 900 others fell ill from what health officials suspect is a strain of swine flu new to Mexico. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - A unique strain of swine flu is the suspected killer of dozens of people in Mexico, where authorities closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters in the capital on Friday to try to contain an outbreak that has spurred concerns of a global flu epidemic.


South Africa's ANC wins voter majority (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 07:57 PM PDT

Observers of the Electoral Commissions of the Southern African Development Community visit the Independent Election Commission results center in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, April 24, 2009. South Africa's long-dominant governing party was racing against itself Friday, leaving its opponents far behind and closing in on its goal of doing as well or better than in the last elections. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)AP - South Africa's African National Congress easily won a parliamentary majority, according to voting results Saturday, setting the stage for the controversial Jacob Zuma to ascend to the presidency. But the near-complete tally leaves the ruling party's cherished two-thirds majority in doubt.


UN panel agrees to blacklist 3 North Korean firms (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:20 PM PDT

North Korea's nominal No.2 leader and technical head of the state Kim Yong-nam (C, first row) and other officials participate in a ceremony to commemorate the 77th anniversary of establishment of (North) Korean People's Army at the 4.25 Culture Centre in Pyongyang, April 24, 2009. REUTERS/KCNAAP - Three major North Korean companies were targeted for new U.N. sanctions Friday in response to the communist nation's April 5 rocket launch.


Iraqi blasts stir worries of insurgent push (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:34 PM PDT

Blood-stained stretchers are seen after victims of a suicide bombing were brought into the Kazimiyah hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 24, 2009. Back-to-back suicide bombings killed 60 people Friday outside the most important Shiite shrine in Baghdad, a day after the country was rocked by its most deadly violence in more than a year. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - It's been a season of jarring flashbacks in Iraq: a spate of major suicide bombings, including more than 145 dead over two days of bloodshed capped by a blast Friday outside a Shiite shrine.


Pakistani Taliban end push, but questions remain (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 02:02 PM PDT

Pakistani Taliban leave Buner on Friday, April 24, 2009 in Pakistan. Taliban militants began pulling out of a recently seized district of northwestern Pakistan on Friday and returning to a stronghold where they have signed a peace deal with the government, a local official and the insurgents said. (AP Photo/Abdullah Khan)AP - Taliban militants packed up their grenade launchers Friday and vacated a district they overran outside the country's capital last week. The move did little, however, to quell the alarm of the U.S. and Western allies.


Chelsea stars in line for pre-Barca breather (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 05:37 PM PDT

Chelsea's Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech, seen April 22. Amid the disappointment at failing to return the English Premier League title to Stamford Bridge for the third consecutive year, Chelsea might also feel a twinge of relief as they limber up for the season's final weeks.(AFP/File/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Amid the disappointment at failing to return the English Premier League title to Stamford Bridge for the third consecutive year, Chelsea might also feel a twinge of relief as they limber up for the season's final weeks.


Suicide blasts kill 66 at Baghdad Shiite shrine (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 03:24 PM PDT

Relatives of Muiessar Anam, a victim of a suicide bombing, mourn before his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, April 24, 2009. On Thursday, nearly 80 people were killed in two suicide bombings in the deadliest day in Iraq in more than a year. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Two female suicide bombers hiding explosives in their purses struck worshippers streaming into Baghdad's most important Shiite shrine for Friday prayers, killing at least 66 people a day after Iraq's most deadly violence in more than a year.


9 found dead in and around Mexican resort (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:18 PM PDT

AP - The bullet-riddled bodies of nine men were found Friday in and around the Mexican resort of Acapulco.

ANC wins absolute majority in SAfrica polls (AFP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:29 PM PDT

South Africa's ruling party leader Jacob Zuma. More than half of South Africa's registered voters cast ballots for the ruling ANC, according to the election commission's count, clearing the way for party leader Zuma to become president.(AFP/Alexander Joe)AFP - More than half of South Africa's registered voters cast ballots for the ruling ANC, according to the election commission's count, clearing the way for party leader Jacob Zuma to become president.


North Korea says has started extracting plutonium (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 08:32 PM PDT

North Korea's nominal No.2 leader and technical head of the state Kim Yong-nam (C, first row) and other officials participate in a ceremony to commemorate the 77th anniversary of establishment of (North) Korean People's Army at the 4.25 Culture Centre in Pyongyang, April 24, 2009. REUTERS/KCNAReuters - North Korea has started to extract plutonium from spent fuel rods at its nuclear arms plant, its foreign ministry said on Saturday, further raising regional tensions already stoked by its defiant rocket launch this month.


Chinese man shot 34 times in head with nail gun (AP)

Posted: 24 Apr 2009 06:49 PM PDT

In this undated photo released by the New South Wales Police on Friday, April 24, 2009, an X-ray image of the skull of Chinese man Chen Liu is shown. Liu's badly decomposed body was found in marshland in Sydney's south, Nov. 1 2008, after being shot repeatedly in the head with a high-powered nail gun. (AP Photo/New South Wales Police, HO)AP - Australian police appealed to the public Friday for help in solving the gruesome killing of a Chinese man who was shot 34 times in the head and neck with a nail gun before being dumped in a river.


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