2009年12月18日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


Obama brokers a climate deal, doesn't satisfy all (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:10 PM PST

President Barack Obama makes a statement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Two years of laborious negotiations on a climate agreement ended Friday with a political deal brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers but denounced by poor countries because it was nonbinding and set no overall target for curbing greenhouse gas emissions.


Feds: Arrests in Africa link al-Qaida and drugs (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:10 PM PST

AP - Three accused al-Qaida associates taken to New York on Friday are charged with plotting to ferry drugs through the Sahara desert to raise money for terror attacks — evidence of what prosecutors say is a dangerous, growing alliance between terror chiefs and drug lords.

Thieves steal Auschwitz 'Work Sets You Free' sign (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:11 PM PST

This two photo combination shows above: a Polish Police handout showing the entrance to the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz Birkenau, without the Nazi infamous iron sign inscription declaring 'Arbeit Macht Frei',  German translated to  'Work Sets You Free', which was stolen from the entrance of the former Auschwitz death camp, Polish police said, in Oswiecim, southern Poland, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. The photo below shows an exact replica of the sign, produced when the original received restoration work years ago, which was quickly hung in its place, Friday Dec. 18, 2009. (AP Photo)AP - Thieves stole the notorious sign bearing the cynical Nazi slogan "Work Sets You Free" from the entrance to the former Auschwitz death camp on Friday, cutting through rows of barbed wire and metal bars before making their escape through the snow.


Needles successfully extracted from Brazil boy (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:11 PM PST

A 2-year-old boy, found with 42 needles inside his body, arrives to a hospital in Salvador, northeastern Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. Roberto Carlos Magalhaes, the boy's stepfather, has confessed to jabbing them into the toddler as part of a religious ritual, Brazilian police said Thursday. (AP Photo/Arestides Baptista, AG A TARDE, Agencia O Globo)    DO NOT USE IN BRAZILIAN WEBSITES - NAO USAR EM WEBSITES DO BRASILAP - Surgeons on Friday successfully removed four sewing needles from the lung and near the heart of a Brazilian toddler, allegedly plunged into him by his stepfather during a monthlong series of bizarre rituals.


Iraq accuses Iran of seizing oil well near border (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:10 PM PST

Map locates al-Fakkah oil field where Iranian forces seized an oil wellAP - Iranian forces crossed into Iraq and seized an oil well just over the two countries' disputed border, Iraq's government said Friday, prompting a protest from Baghdad and providing a dramatic display of the sometimes tenuous relations between the wary allies.


Yemen's Hidden War: Is Iran Causing Trouble? (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 02:00 AM PST

Time.com - Even as its economy totters, the government is pursuing a religious minority and blaming Tehran for interfering in its affairs. Iran is happy to take credit.

Three Eurostar trains stuck in Channel Tunnel (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:38 PM PST

A Eurostar train is pictured travelling through the Kent countryside in south-east England, on its way to London. Three Eurostar passenger trains are reportedly stuck in the rail tunnel between Britain and continental Europe as they broke down due to the cold weather snap affecting the region.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - Three Eurostar passenger trains were stuck in the rail tunnel between Britain and continental Europe, a spokesman for the operator said Saturday.


US on watch for Iranian meddling in Iraq voting (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 12:13 PM PST

A worker walks at Fakka oilfield, near Amara, 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad, December 8, 2009.   REUTERS/Atef Hassan/FilesAP - The top U.S. military officer quizzed Iraqi leaders Friday about the influence and motives of next-door Iran as national elections approach, but made no promises when his hosts asked for surveillance equipment and other help to keep an eye on their neighbors.


US dad's custody fight threatening ties (AP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 04:32 PM PST

David Goldman, right, of New jersey, talks to the press as US Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) looks on in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009.  Goldman is fighting for custody of his 9-year-old son and has asked Brazil's attorney general to join his battle before the nation's Supreme Court. Goldman's son Sean was taken to Brazil in 2004 by his then-wife Bruna Bianchi, who divorced Goldman and remarried before dying while giving birth to a daughter in 2008. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - A New Jersey man made an emotional plea Friday for Brazilian authorities to let him take his son home in a custody fight that is expanding into a political tussle and testing the limits of an international child abduction treaty.


FACTBOX - Main points of the Copenhagen Accord (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 05:41 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks after attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) at the Bella Center in Copenhagen December 18, 2009. Obama reached a climate agreement on Friday with India, South Africa, China and Brazil. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - U.S. President Barack Obama reached a climate agreement on Friday with India, South Africa, China and Brazil. The deal outlined fell far short of the ambitions for the Copenhagen summit.


US contractor jailed for Afghan kickback scheme (AFP)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 04:19 PM PST

An Afghan man waits by a wheel barrow on a street in Kabul on December 3. A judge in the United States sentenced a man to over a year in prison on Friday for his part in a major kickback scheme in Afghanistan, officials said.(AFP/File/Manpreet Romana)AFP - A judge in the United States sentenced a man to over a year in prison on Friday for his part in a major kickback scheme in Afghanistan, officials said.


Canada says must go in tandem with U.S. on climate (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 03:17 PM PST

Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper brushed off criticism on Friday that Canada would act on climate change only in parallel with the United States, saying this was crucial because of North America's economic integration.

Japanese whalers using 'military' sonic device: activists (AFP)

Posted: 17 Dec 2009 11:21 PM PST

The Japanese whaling vessel Shonan Maru No 2 with water cannons blasting in the seas off Antarctica. Anti-whaling activists accused Japanese fishermen Friday of using a military-type sonic device and water cannon against a helicopter as risky skirmishes among Antarctic icebergs escalated.(AFP/Sea Shepherd Society/Michael Williams)AFP - Anti-whaling activists accused Japanese fishermen Friday of using a military-type sonic device and water cannon against their helicopter as risky skirmishes in Antarctic seas escalated.


Iraq accuses Iran of seizing oil well on border (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 01:52 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Iranian forces entered southern Iraq before dawn Friday to seize control of an oil well in disputed territory on the border, a provocation that sent Iraqi security chiefs into emergency meetings, Iraqi government officials said.

Twitter hacked: 'Iranian Cyber Army' signs off with poem to Khamenei (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 08:26 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Hack attacks on Twitter and Iranian opposition websites are directing traffic to a web page created by the “Iranian Cyber Army.” The page is all black with a green flag and red lettering that reads in English: “This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army."

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