2009年12月22日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

Yahoo! News: World News


Abducted Colombian state governor found dead (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:12 PM PST

In this photo released by Colombia's Presidential Press Office, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe talks to the press at the presidential palace in Bogota, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009.  At least 10 men in military uniforms abducted Gov. Luis Francisco Cuellar from his home in Florencia, capital of the southern state of Caqueta, late Monday, killing a police guard and blasting open the governor's door with explosives, according to the state's top security official Edilberto Ramon Endo. Uribe ordered soldiers and police to rescue Cuellar. (AP Photo/Cesar Carrion, Colombia Presidential Press Office)AP - The governor of a southern Colombian state was found dead Tuesday less than 24 hours after being abducted by leftist rebels, a top state security official and the victim's wife said. It was the first kidnapping of a major Colombian politician since 2002.


Brazil justice rules for US dad in custody battle (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 05:20 PM PST

David Goldman speaks to the Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009. The US man fighting to regain custody of his 9-year-old son Sean in Brazil told the AP he will accept no other outcome other than being fully reunited.  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/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - Brazil's chief justice on Tuesday ruled in favor of a U.S. man who has pursued a five-year court battle to gain custody of his son.


Ahmadinejad dismisses US deadline for nuclear deal (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:10 PM PST

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes a point as he delivers his speech in the plenary of the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)AP - Iran's president on Tuesday dismissed a year-end deadline set by the Obama administration and the West for Tehran to accept a U.N.-drafted deal to swap enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. The United States warned Iran to take the deadline seriously.


Suicide bombing kills 3 at NW Pakistan press club (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:15 PM PST

Pakistani policemen inspect a bomb blast site in Peshawar in November 2009. A suicide bomber attacked a club for journalists in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing one policeman and wounding seven other people, a police official said.(AFP/File/A Majeed)AP - A suicide bombing that killed three people and wounded 17 outside a press club in the northwestern city of Peshawar has underscored the danger to journalists trying to cover Pakistan's Taliban-led insurgency.


Slaying of drug war hero's family shocks Mexico (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:15 PM PST

Soldiers carry the coffin of fellow soldier Melquisedet Angulo during his funeral in Pariaso, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009.  Gunmen open fire late Monday on the family of Angulo, who died during a raid that took down powerful drug kingpin Arturo Beltran Leyva, after the family returned from the funeral, killing his mother, two siblings and aunt. (AP Photo/Carlos Sobrino)AP - Assailants on Tuesday gunned down the mother, aunt and siblings of a marine killed in a raid that took out one of Mexico's most powerful cartel leaders — sending a chilling message to troops battling the drug war: You go after us, we wipe out your families.


Dear President Obama: What North Korea Might Say (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:35 AM PST

Time.com - President Obama has written a secret letter to Kim Jong-il urging him 
to change his ways. Here's a look at how the 'Dear 
Leader' might respond

Man United's 'Busby Babe' Scanlon dies aged 74 (AFP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 05:29 PM PST

Manchester United's football team winger Albert Scanlon rests in a hospital bed in 1958 in Munich. Scanlon, one of the survivors of the Munich air disaster, has died aged 74, the club said on Wednesday.(AFP/File)AFP - Former Manchester United player Albert Scanlon, one of the survivors of the Munich air disaster, has died aged 74, the club said on Wednesday.


Egyptian court upholds 4 years jailing of blogger (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 12:38 PM PST

AP - Egypt's High Appeal Court has upheld the four-year prison sentence given to an Egyptian blogger who was convicted of insulting Islam and Egypt's president.

Gunmen fire at Mexican eatery with US mayor inside (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:46 PM PST

AP - Gunmen sprayed bullets at a restaurant Tuesday where the mayor of a Texas border town was eating with a Mexican state attorney general and other officials, police said. A woman leaving the building was killed.

Police scatter protesters in Madagascar capital (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:13 PM PST

AP - Security forces in Madagascar's capital used tear gas Tuesday to scatter hundreds of protesters angered by the military-backed leader's rejection of international attempts to mediate a political resolution.

Leading China dissident set for trial (AFP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 05:07 PM PST

A protestor holding a picture of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo marches to the US consulate in Hong Kong in November 2009. Liu was due to go on trial Wednesday on subversion charges, in a case criticised by the United States, the European Union and rights groups as politically motivated.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - Leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was due to go on trial Wednesday on subversion charges, in a case criticised by the United States, the European Union and rights groups as politically motivated.


Harper rules out raising taxes to cut deficit (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 09:58 AM PST

Reuters - The Canadian government will not raise taxes to rein in its budget deficit after a stimulus package ends next year but will focus instead on restraining spending to balance its books, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.

2 New Zealand farmers guilty on cow cruelty charge (AP)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 10:39 PM PST

AP - A New Zealand court convicted two farmers on an animal cruelty charge Tuesday for impaling a live cow with a tractor's fork.

In Russia, foreboding about U.S. Afghan war (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 12:52 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - MOSCOW_ Thirty years ago this week, the Red Army began its invasion of Afghanistan, a move that sank the Soviet Union in a decade of guerrilla war and hastened the collapse of the Cold War empire.

Iran opposition energized by Montazeri funeral in Qom, say eyewitnesses (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 12:53 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - As host to the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Iran’s holy city of Qom today witnessed pro-government vigilantes directly taking on key opposition leaders â€" with violence and with stealth; reformist activists reinvigorated by a reason to take to the streets again; and attempts by the regime to dismiss the importance of Iran’s chief clerical dissident.

Despite U.S. Help, Yemen Faces Growing Al-Qaeda Threat (Time.com)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:35 AM PST

Time.com - A U.S.-backed raid on a suspected al-Qaeda base in Yemen may have made the situation more precarious, not better, for global and regional security

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