2009年8月8日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News


Taliban leader's death disputed, shootout claimed (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 04:09 PM PDT

In this image taken Friday, Aug. 7, 2009, from a footage shot by the Pakistani news channel Express News, Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud meets press in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan's Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, who led a violent campaign of suicide attacks and assassinations against the Pakistani government, has been killed in a U.S. missile strike, a militant commander and aide to Mehsud said Friday.(AP Photo/Express Channel)AP - Senior Taliban commanders denied that their leader, Baitullah Mehsud, had been killed in a CIA missile strike, while conflicting reports emerged late Saturday of a clash between rival Taliban factions during a meeting to chose a successor.


French woman, embassy staff confess in Iran trial (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 04:09 PM PDT

French language teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss (R) sits next to an Iranian policewoman and other defendants in a court room in Tehran August 8, 2009. Iran put on trial Reiss and and a local employee of the French embassy in Tehran on Saturday following the country's disputed June presidential election, the semi-official Fars news agency said. Reiss was arrested at Tehran airport on July 1 on charges of espionage when leaving the country after spending five months as a French language teaching assistant in the central city of Isfahan.   REUTERS/Fars News/Ali Rafiei (IRAN POLITICS)AP - A young French academic and local staff of the British and French embassies stood trial Saturday with dozens of Iranian opposition figures and confessed to being involved in the country's postelection unrest.


Police: Suspect planned attack on Indonesia leader (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 11:51 AM PDT

Indonesian police officers regroup following a raid on a house where suspected terrorists were holed up in Bekasi, West Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009. Indonesian police hunting the terrorists behind last month's attacks on hotels in the capital raided one house and besieged another Saturday, killing two suspected militants, arresting five and seizing explosives and a car bomb, a senior officer said. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)AP - A leading Southeast Asian terrorist suspect reportedly killed Saturday in a gunbattle with police at a village hide-out was planning a suicide car bomb attack on Indonesia's president, the national police chief said.


93 people missing in Tongan ferry disaster (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 04:02 PM PDT

Map shows Tongan capital Nuku’alofa and outlying islands where more than 85 people may have died in a ferry sinkingAP - Police say the number of people missing and feared dead after a ferry capsized and sank off Tonga has risen to 93 — eight more than previously thought.


Safety of Russian planes in Afghan war questioned (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 08:44 AM PDT

FILE **In this Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007 file photo, one of the Leopard tanks Canada has leased from Germany disembarks from an Antonov transport aircraft upon its arrival in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Faced with a shortage of helicopters, NATO countries are turning to cheap, Eastern European operators, particularly Russian, to ferry supplies and civilian contractors in wartorn Afghanistan, as well as recover downed choppers in the country. (AP Photo/CP, Martin Ouellet/File)AP - More than a year ago, the U.N. dropped the Russian air transport company Vertikal-T from its approved list of vendors after a fatal helicopter crash in Nepal.


Tehran's Trials: Blaming the West, Google and Twitter (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 06:15 AM PDT

Time.com - The judicial proceedings appear to be an attempt to consolidate the regime's support among conservatives by blaming old enemies: foreigners

Britain warned on torture complicity (AFP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 04:05 PM PDT

A woman puts a blindfold over her eyes during a protest organised by Amnesty International, outside no 10 Downing St in 2005. The government was warned Sunday by a body of lawmakers that regularly using information gained through torture could be legally construed as complicity.(AFP/POOL/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - The government was warned Sunday by a body of lawmakers that regularly using information gained through torture could be legally construed as complicity.


Yemen welcomes US detainee release, calls for more (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 11:48 AM PDT

AP - The Yemeni government welcomed on Saturday the release of two Yemenis jailed in the U.S. over terrorism charges, and called for the return of those still held in Guantanamo Bay prison.

Venezuela orders ambassador back to Colombia (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 04:46 PM PDT

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez looks on as he waits for the Colombia's Former President Ernesto Samper at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)AP - President Hugo Chavez announced the return of his ambassador to Colombia, but said Venezuela still intends to take a stand against negotiations to lease seven Colombian military bases to the U.S.


Making a meal out of mice in Malawi (AP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 04:34 PM PDT

In this June 20, 2009 photo mice are sorted according their size after being captured in a maize field near Lilongwe, Malawi. Cooked, salted or dried, field mice are strung on sticks and sold as a popular delicacy in Malawi in markets or at roadside stalls. The rodents are hunted in corn fields after the harvest when they have grown plump on a diet of grains, fruits, grass and insects. Malawi, with a population of 12 million, is among the poorest countries in the world, with rampant disease and hunger, aggravated by periodic droughts and crop failures. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)AP - Cooked, salted or dried, field mice strung on sticks are sold as a popular delicacy in Malawi markets and roadside stalls. The mice are hunted in corn fields after the harvest when they have grown plump on a diet of grains, fruits, grass and the odd insect. The most widely eaten species is known locally as Kapuku, gray in color and with a shorter tail than the more common rat.


Guantanamo Uighers to move to Palau by January: president (AFP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 04:41 PM PDT

This photo reviewed by the US military and taken in June 2009 shows Chinese Uighur Guantanamo detainees, trying to talk to visiting members of the media at the Camp Iguana detention facility at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba. Up to nine Chinese Muslims held in Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years will be moved to the remote Pacific territory of Palau by the end of the year.(AFP/POOL/File/Brennan Linsley)AFP - Up to nine Chinese Muslims held in Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years will be moved to the remote Pacific territory of Palau by the end of the year, President Johnson Toribiong has confirmed.


Hong Kong firm to pay Australia $21m for toxic oil spill (AFP)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 08:01 AM PDT

Heavy machinery removes contaminated sand in Coolum, Queensland in March after up to 100 tonnes of fuel spilled from the Hong Kong-flagged Pacific Adventurer amid cyclonic conditions. A Hong Kong-based shipping company will pay Australia US$25 million in compensation for a massive toxic oil spill during a wild storm, officials have said.(AFP/File/Paul Harris)AFP - A Hong Kong-based shipping company will pay Australia 25 million dollars (21 million US) in compensation for a massive toxic oil spill during a wild storm, officials said Saturday.


Iran resumes trials of opposition leaders, but could they backfire? (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 11:09 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - CAIRO, Egypt — Iranian state-run television Saturday announced that a trial had resumed for more than 100 opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but most of the day's programming consisted of parenting shows, nature footage accompanied by French meditations and a documentary on the North Pole.

The Case for Leaving Iraq -- Now (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 06:15 AM PDT

Time.com - Why even some U.S. officials are arguing that there's no point staying because Washington has lost its ability to influence events on the ground

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