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Yahoo! News: World News


Tens of thousands flee raging wildfires in Greece (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:32 PM PDT

A soldier uses a spade to fight flames, in Agios Stephanos, a suburb north of Athens, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009. Thousands of local residents were involved in evacuations as the wind-driven fires destroyed homes and threatened several residential areas. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)AP - A partial drop in gale-force winds early Monday offered hard-pressed Greek firefighters a brief respite after wildfires raged for two days north of Athens, burning houses and swathes of forest while forcing thousands to evacuate their homes.


Scottish leader defends Lockerbie bomber release (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:22 PM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, center, is helped down the airplane steps on his arrival at an airport in Tripoli, Libya. Britain has condemned the 'upsetting' scenes of jubilation in Tripoli at the return of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and considered canceling a royal visit to Libya as a sign of displeasure. (AP Photo)AP - Scotland's government defended itself Sunday against unrelenting criticism from the U.S. over the decision to free the Pan Am Flight 103 bomber on compassionate grounds.


Police urge fugitive reality TV star to surrender (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 04:31 PM PDT

This photo provided by TMZ, shows Ryan Alexander Jenkins and Jasmine Fiore's March 18, 2009 wedding in Las Vegas. Jenkins, a reality TV contestant, is charged with killing his wife, a former swimsuit model.  (AP Photo/TMZ)AP - Canadian investigators said Sunday they had information that a fugitive reality TV star accused of murdering a former swimsuit model and mutilating her body was in Canada, and urged him to surrender peacefully.


Even in death, Kim Dae-jung unites Koreas (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 09:08 AM PDT

A vehicle putting up a portrait of late former South Korean Presiden Kim Dae-jung leads a hearse during the state funeral for Kim Dae-jung, at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009.  Tens of thousands of mourners filled the lawn outside parliament for the funeral Sunday of ex-President, a longtime defender of democracy and advocate of reconciliation who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to reach out to communist North Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - In death as in life, Kim Dae-jung managed to bring the two rival Koreas together.


Iraqi suspect: It cost $10,000 to pass checkpoints (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 11:01 AM PDT

In this image shot off of a television screen and broadcast for reporters on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009 at a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, a Sunni man, identified by security officials as the mastermind of one of two suicide truck bombings targeting government buildings, confesses to the attacks. The 57-year-old man identified himself as Wisam Ali Khazim Ibrahim and said he was a former police officer from the Diyala province city of Muqdadiyah, north of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Attackers paid $10,000 to get a bomb-laden truck past checkpoints and next to the Iraqi Finance Ministry in last week's attacks, one of the suspected masterminds said in a confession broadcast Sunday.


Russia's Moves Raise Doubts About Obama's Diplomatic 'Reset' (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 11:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Earlier this year, Obama declared a reset in the relations with Russia. But Russia continues to push its interests in Ukraine and Georgia -- a snub to the U.S. that could put the reset at risk

2 French teens killed in California van crash (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:29 PM PDT

AP - Two French teenagers were killed and five other French nationals were injured when the driver of their van fell asleep, causing the vehicle to veer off the road and roll over, the California Highway Patrol said Sunday.

Healthy looking Fidel Castro meets Ecuador leader (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 01:02 PM PDT

In this Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, photo taken and released Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009, by Cuba's newspaper Juventud Rebelde, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, right, and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa meet in Havana. Castro, 83, wore a white shirt instead of the sports apparel he had worn in recent photos. (AP Photo/Juventud Rebelde)AP - Cuba's Communist Youth newspaper is showing a photo of a healthier-looking Fidel Castro talking with the visiting Ecuadorean president.


US envoy praises Libya for Darfur crisis mediation (AFP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 03:23 PM PDT

US special envoy to Sudan Scott Gration speaks to reporters after witnessing the inking of a deal by former civil war foes from north and south Sudan in the southern Sudanese capital Juba on August 19, 2009. Gration praised Libya's role in resolving the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan at a meeting with Egyptian, Libyan and Sudanese officials in Cairo Sunday.(AFP/File/Peter Martell)AFP - US envoy Scott Gration praised Libya's role in resolving the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan at a meeting with Egyptian, Libyan and Sudanese officials in Cairo Sunday.


Obama facing hard choices on Afghanistan war plans (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 05:31 PM PDT

A U.S. soldier from 3-71 Cavalry fires his machine gun during a gun-battle with Taliban fighters in the village of Bargematal, Nuristan province, August 23, 2009.  REUTERS/Oleg Popov  (AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT)AP - As public support for the war in Afghanistan erodes, President Barack Obama soon may face two equally unattractive choices: increase U.S. troops levels to beat back a resilient enemy, or stick with the 68,000 already committed and risk the political fallout if that's not enough.


Hurricane Bill brings rain, wind to eastern Canada (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 07:19 AM PDT

Reuters - Hurricane Bill brought rain and heavy winds to Nova Scotia in eastern Canada on Sunday, which could flood and damage coastal areas and possibly impact offshore oil and gas facilities.

Plugging Australian oil leak could take weeks (AP)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 06:21 AM PDT

In this image taken from a footage shot by AuBC/CH7/CH9 as pool and distributed via APTN, white smoke billows from an oil rig 2 off northwest coast in Australia, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2009. A plane loaded with chemical dispersants rushed Saturday toward a slick spilling from an oil rig in remote waters off Australia's northwest coast. (AP Photo/AuBC/CH7/CH9, POOL via APTN)AP - Plugging a leak at an offshore drilling rig that has caused an oil slick off Australia will take weeks, the operator said Sunday, though officials said there was little threat of environmental damage.


Nigerian amnesty plan for oil militants falls flat (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 23 Aug 2009 01:56 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria's latest plan to end militant attacks in the volatile Niger River Delta that have cut oil production to a 20-year low appears to have collapsed.

Karzai, Abdullah both claim victory in Afghan election (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The top two candidates in Afghanistan's presidential race both claimed to be on their way to victory after Thursday's vote.

In Drought, India's Economy is Feeling the Heat (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Aug 2009 11:20 PM PDT

Time.com - As this year's drought hits the country's rural economies hard, India looks for solutions to better prepare itself for the next one

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