2009年4月25日星期六

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Mexico extends school closures in flu outbreak (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 06:07 PM PDT

Hiram Diaz, 8, left, gives his 6-year-old sister Adely Diaz a ride on the pegs of his bicycle while wearing protective masks near the market where their parents own a store in Mexico City, Saturday, April 25, 2009. Mexico is struggling with a new strain of swine flu that has killed 68 and sickened more than 1,000. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a 'public health emergency of international concern.' (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Julio Cortez)AP - Mexican authorities have extended school closures in the capital and two other states with swine flu outbreaks for 10 more days.


Clinton tries to reassure Iraqis during visit (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 06:26 PM PDT

In this handout photo released by the Iraqi Presidential Press Office, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, shakes hands with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, during their meeting in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, April 25, 2009. Clinton sought to assure Iraqis on Saturday that the Obama administration would not abandon their country even as it presses ahead with plans to withdraw American troops amid a recent surge in violence. Persons in background are unidentified aides.(AP Photo/Iraqi Presidential Press Office, HO)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to reassure nervous Iraqis that the U.S. won't abandon them, even as she said the American troop withdrawal would stay on schedule despite a recent surge in violence.


Early signs of win for Iceland's left-wing parties (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 04:31 PM PDT

Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir casts her ballot  in Hagaskoli,  Iceland  Saturday April 25 2009. Icelanders voted Saturday in an early parliamentary election expected to see them turn their backs on the lawmakers who were in charge when the tiny Nordic nation's financial system collapsed last year. With the country's banking system collapsed, and its national debt soaring, voters are expected to endorse the parties in the caretaker government — an alliance of Social Democrats and Left-Greens led by Sigurdardottir — turning their minority coalition into a majority in Iceland's parliament, the Althingi. ( AP Photo/Brynjar Gauti )AP - Iceland's leftist government was headed for a strong victory in the country's general election, according to preliminary results late Saturday.


Iraq raises security at Shiite shrines after bombs (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 02:58 PM PDT

An Iraqi policeman inspects children's clothes found at the scene of a suicide bombing in Baghdad's Kazimiyah neighborhood, Iraq, Friday, April 24, 2009. Back-to-back suicide bombings killed 60 people Friday outside the shrine of Imam Mousa al-Kazim, most important Shiite shrine in Baghdad, a day after the country was rocked by its most deadly violence in more than a year, police officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq tightened security Saturday at major Shiite shrines in response to two days of suicide attacks targeting worshippers — including one at a revered Baghdad tomb that was the single deadliest bombing in the country this year.


Official: Ethiopia arrests 35 for coup plot (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 04:44 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, July 20, 2007 file photo, Berhanu Nega, who was elected mayor of Addis Ababa in 2005, celebrates at his parents' Addis Ababa home after his pardon and release from prison. The Ethiopian government has arrested 35 people suspected of a coup attempt allegedly backed by an Ethiopian-American economist Berhanu Nega, now teaching at a Pennsylvania university, an Ethiopian government spokesman said Saturday, April 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Anita Powell, File)AP - The Ethiopian government has arrested 35 people suspected of a coup attempt allegedly backed by an Ethiopian economist now teaching at a Pennsylvania university, a government spokesman said Saturday.


Iceland's left wins resounding election victory (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 06:38 PM PDT

Social-Democrate Party leader and Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir celebrates in Reykjavik. Iceland's interim leftist government won a resounding victory in a snap general election as voters punished the conservative party they blame for the country's economic meltdown seven months ago.(AFP/Olivier Morin)AFP - Iceland's interim leftist government won a resounding victory in a snap general election as voters punished the conservative party they blame for the country's economic meltdown seven months ago.


US journalist jailed in Iran goes on hunger strike (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 11:39 AM PDT

This undated photo released by the family of imprisoned Iranian-American shows journalist Roxana Saberi in Tehran, Iran. The American journalist convicted of spying in Iran has gone on a hunger strike to protest her imprisonment, her father said on Saturday April, 25, 2009. Roxana Saberi, a 31-year-old dual American-Iranian citizen was convicted of spying for the United States and sentenced to eight years in prison after a swift, closed door trial earlier this month. (AP Photo/Saberi Family)AP - An American journalist jailed in Iran for allegedly spying for the U.S. was on her fifth day of a hunger strike Saturday and does not plan to stop until she is freed, her father said.


Gunmen kill police chief in Mexican border city (AP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 06:24 PM PDT

Alleged members of a criminal band known as 'Los Zetas' are presented to the media after being arrested during a police operation at a police base in Mexico City, Saturday, April 25, 2009. (AP Photo/MIguel Tovar)AP - Gunmen on Saturday killed the police chief of a town across the border from Texas — less than three weeks after he took over the local force with the aim of purging alleged corruption. Six police officers are being questioned in the attack.


Rough economy threatens Zuma's SAfrica promises (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 06:24 PM PDT

South Africa's president-in-waiting Jacob Zuma celebrates in Pretoria. Zuma on Saturday claimed a AFP - Jacob Zuma led his African National Congress to election victory with sweeping promises to help the nation's poor, but will enter office with little room to manoeuvre due to a faltering economy.


North Korea says has started extracting plutonium (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 06:30 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.


Australia intercepts new refugee boat (AFP)

Posted: 25 Apr 2009 02:04 AM PDT

A handout photo on April 15, 2009 from the Australian Customs & Border Protection Service shows a boat that had been carrying refugees, and later exploded. A boat carrying more than 50 refugees was intercepted on Saturday off Australia's coast, little more than a week after an explosion on another vessel killed five people, the government said.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - A boat carrying more than 50 refugees was intercepted on Saturday off Australia's coast, little more than a week after an explosion on another vessel killed five people, the government said.


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