2009年8月2日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News


Iraq: Ex-Saddam aide gets 7 years in Kurdish case (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:35 PM PDT

Kurdish President Masoud Barazani (L) welcomes Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki upon his arrival in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region near Sulaimaniya, 260 km (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, August 2, 2009. REUTERS/Azad LashkariAP - One of Saddam Hussein's best-known lieutenants was convicted Sunday of helping to plan the forced displacement of Kurds from northeastern Iraq and sentenced to seven years in jail.


Israelis rally after 2 murdered at gay center (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 12:32 PM PDT

Israelis participate in a protest, condemning Saturday's shooting attack on a youth club of the gay community in Tel Aviv, in downtown Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009. Hundreds of police officers scoured the streets of Tel Aviv on Sunday in a manhunt for a gunman who shot and killed two people at a youth club in the worst ever attack on homosexuals in Israel. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)AP - Reeling from the worst attack ever aimed at homosexuals in Israel, members of the country's gay community and their supporters rallied Sunday in the heart of Tel Aviv a day after a masked gunman killed two people at a center for gay youth and escaped.


American with cold misses ill-fated hike into Iran (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 03:11 PM PDT

A member of the local news media, left, attempts to speak with family of missing American Joshua Fattal at his parents home in Elkins Park Pa., on Sunday Aug. 2, 2009. The subject inside the home offered no comment. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)AP - An American linguistics student traveling in northern Iraq didn't go on an ill-fated hiking trip because he had a cold — a twist of fate that prevented him from mistakenly wandering into Iran where his three friends were reportedly detained.


Conservative seeks trials for Iran bloodshed (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 11:30 AM PDT

In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency, former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi, second from right, is seen with other defendants sit at a court room in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009. Opposition political activists and protesters stood trial in Tehran Saturday on charges of rioting and conspiring against the ruling system in the country's first trial following the disputed presidential election, Iran's state media reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Hossein Salehi Ara) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENTAP - Criticism of Iran's mass prosecution of political activists widened Sunday with the main conservative challenger to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanding authorities also seek punishment for those accused of killing protesters.


1 dead, 75 injured in Canada stage collapse (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:00 PM PDT

The main stage at the site of the Big Valley Jamboree in Camrose, Alberta Canada on Saturday, August 1, 2009.  A vicious storm ripped through an outdoor country music festival in central Alberta around suppertime on Saturday, toppling the concert stage and killing one person and injuring 15 others. Camrose Police Chief Darrell Kambeitz confirmed the one death and said all 15 injured were taken to hospitals. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press - John Ulan)AP - Organizers on Sunday canceled the closing day of a country music festival in central Alberta a day after a fierce thunderstorm caused an outdoor stage to collapse, killing one person and injuring about 75 others.


Leaving Iran While Looking Over Your Shoulder: A Reporter's Diary (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:15 PM PDT

Time.com - Recently out of Iran, a reporter for TIME recounts what daily existence was like when the Islamic Republic seemed to be ever more intrusive and coercive

Britain's historic criminal trials go online (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 04:07 PM PDT

Windsor Castle. Criminal trials in England dating back to the 18th century, including the infamous AFP - Criminal trials in England dating back to the 18th century, including the infamous "Jack the Ripper" suspect, are to go online for the first time Monday, a British website said.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,329 (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 04:27 PM PDT

AP - As of Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009, at least 4,329 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Peruvian rebels suspected in attack that kills 5 (AP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:34 PM PDT

AP - Peruvian authorities say attackers believed to be Shining Path rebels killed three police officers and two women in an assault on a remote police post in a coca-growing region.

Slain Nigerian sect members buried in mass graves (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 03:30 PM PDT

The bodies and clothes of alleged self-styled Nigerian Talibans are piled in the street in the northern city of Maiduguri. Nigerian authorities swept dozens of bodies into mass graves Sunday in the grisly aftermath of last week's Islamist uprising that killed hundreds of people, officials and residents said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Nigerian authorities swept dozens of bodies into mass graves Sunday in the grisly aftermath of last week's Islamist uprising that killed hundreds of people, officials and residents said.


Windies rescue a little pride against Bangladesh (AFP)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:54 PM PDT

West Indies bowler Nikita Miller, pictured in 2008. Bangladesh suffered the only defeat on their trip to the Caribbean, when West Indies won their Twenty20 international by five wickets on Sunday.(AFP/File/Stan Honda)AFP - Bangladesh suffered the only defeat on their trip to the Caribbean, when West Indies won their Twenty20 international by five wickets on Sunday.


Ex-world champion Gatti committed suicide: police (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 08:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Former world champion Arturo Gatti committed suicide and was not murdered as initially suspected, a Brazilian police spokesman said on Thursday.

Brazil's growing middle class powers rebound (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 03:29 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil is beginning to pull out of an economic dive triggered by the global financial crisis, but it's not the country's vaunted soybean, meat and iron ore exports that are powering the turnaround of the world's ninth-largest economy.

New Taliban code: Don't kill civilians, don't take ransom (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 Jul 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - US commanders in Afghanistan aren't the only ones worried that civilian deaths are costing them hearts and minds. The Taliban, which has planted bombs in schools and occasionally burned its opponents alive, has put out a new code of conduct for militants that appears to be an attempt to project a softer image to the Afghan people.

The Death of Corazon Aquino, Saint of People Power, 1933-2009 (Time.com)

Posted: 02 Aug 2009 02:15 PM PDT

Time.com - At a critical time in her country's history, the shy widow took up her charismatic husband's legacy and led it through a valley of the shadow of death

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