2009年12月30日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News


Yemeni forces raid al-Qaida hideout, clashes erupt (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 06:03 PM PST

A sign explains the procedure for going through the whole body scan machine, or millimeter wave machine as passengers wait in line at a security check point at the Salt Lake International Airport in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 10, 2009. REUTERS/George FreyAP - Yemeni forces raided an al-Qaida hideout and set off a gunbattle Wednesday as the government vowed to eliminate the group that claimed it was behind the Christmas bombing attempt on a U.S. airliner.


Somali arrested at airport with chemicals, syringe (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 06:03 PM PST

A Somali soldier stands guard. Heavy fighting erupted Thursday in Somalia's capital Mogadishu between African peacekeepers and hardline Islamists killing at least 11 and injuring 25, officials and witnesses said.(AFP/File/Jose Cendon)AP - U.S. officials are investigating a Somali man's alleged attempt to board a flight bound for Djibouti and Dubai last month carrying chemicals, liquid and a syringe in a case bearing chilling echoes of the plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day.


State Department: 8 Americans die in Afghan attack (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 06:00 PM PST

An Afghan demonstrator weeps, as he chants anti American slogans while the label on his headband reads ' Don't kill more'   during a protest against the recent killings of 10 civilians allegedly by coalition forces in Kunar province on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The head of a presidential delegation investigating the deaths in eastern Afghanistan concluded Wednesday that civilians, including schoolchildren, were killed in the attack involving foreign troops, disputing NATO reports that the dead were insurgents. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Separate bomb explosions Wednesday in Afghanistan's volatile east and south killed eight Americans and five troops and a journalist from Canada, U.S. and NATO officials said.


Briton held for over 2 years in Iraq freed (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:02 PM PST

FILE - This file image made from from an Arab satellite news network broadcast on Feb. 26, 2008  purportedly shows Peter Moore who was taken hostage in May 2007 by militants disguised as Iraqi policemen. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Wednesday Dec. 30, 2009 that Moore, held hostage in Baghdad for more than two years, has been released alive. (AP Photo/Al Arabiya, Via AP Television News, File)AP - A British contractor was freed Wednesday and in good health more than two years after he was abducted, apparently the only survivor of a group of five Britons abducted in a daring raid outside Iraq's Finance Ministry in 2007.


The Palestinian Woman in the Way of a Gilad Shalit Deal (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 02:30 AM PST

Time.com - Sentenced to life for a crime that shocked Israel, Amneh Muna is high on the list of prisoners Hamas wants released in exchange for the soldier Gilad Shalit

Iceland approves Icesave compensation (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 05:05 PM PST

A woman enters a branch of Iceland's second largest bank, Landsbanki in 2008 in Rejkjavik. Icesave, an online subsidiary of the Landsbanki bank had to be rescued in October 2008. Iceland parliament's approved by a narrow majority on Wednesday compensation for Britain and the Netherlands, which had compensated more than 320,000 savers in an Icelandic bank which failed.(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)AFP - Iceland parliament's approved paying nearly four billion euros to Britain and the Netherlands, which had compensated more than 320,000 of their savers in a failed Icelandic bank.


Bombs kill 23 in Iraq's western Anbar province (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 01:24 PM PST

Map showing Ramadi in Iraq. Blasts in central and western Iraq killed 30 people and wounded the Anbar provincial governor, the latest in a series of attacks in recent months against government targets in Iraq.(AFP/Graphic)AP - Twin bombings — one an assassination attempt against an Iraqi provincial governor — killed 23 people and wounded the governor Wednesday in the worst violence in months to hit the western province that was once al-Qaida's top stronghold in Iraq.


Venezuela's Chavez says coup attempt would fail (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 06:03 PM PST

In this photo released by Miraflores Press Office, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez delivers a year end speech at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009. In background, a painting depicting Venezuela's independence hero Simon Bolivar. (AP Photo/Miraflores Press Office, Marcelo Garcia)  NO SALESAP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is looking to 2010 facing a recession, trying to prevent widespread power outages, and warning his opponents against a coup attempt. Chavez said in a televised speech Wednesday that any action like the failed military rebellion against him in 2002 wouldn't have a chance.


3 men indicted on narcotics-terrorism charges (AP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:21 PM PST

AP - Three men suspected of being al-Qaida associates have been indicted on charges they plotted to ferry drugs through the Sahara Desert to raise money for terrorist attacks.

Blast kills 5 Canadians in southern Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 05:24 PM PST

Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang is seen in a handout photo released to Reuters on December 30, 2009. REUTERS/Colleen De Neve/Calgary Herald /CANWEST NEWS SERVICE/HandoutReuters - Four Canadian soldiers and a Canadian journalist were killed when their armored vehicle was hit by a bomb in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, the Canadian Defense Ministry said.


Blast kills 5 Canadians in southern Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 04:59 PM PST

Reuters - Four Canadian soldiers and a Canadian journalist were killed when their armored vehicle was hit by a bomb in southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, the Canadian Defense Ministry said.

Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires (AFP)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 01:39 PM PST

A fire-damaged building near Toodyay, about 85 kms northeast of Perth in Western Australia. Residents in Western Australia fled a raging wildfire that incinerated nearly 40 homes in the country's worst blaze since AFP - Residents in Western Australia fled a raging wildfire Wednesday that incinerated nearly 40 homes in the country's worst blaze since "Black Saturday" fires killed 173 in February.


China ruling portends more trade action in 2010 (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 03:32 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A ruling Wednesday by the U.S. International Trade Commission in favor of domestic steelmakers and against Chinese exporters of tubular steel points to a likely trend in 2010 — more trade action against the export powerhouse.

Lula Movie: Brazil's President as a Cinema Superhero (Time.com)

Posted: 30 Dec 2009 02:30 AM PST

Time.com - An all-too-lovingly hagiographic movie about Luiz InÁcio Lula da Silva is about to open in his home country, causing his opposition much consternation

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