2009年1月20日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

Pakistani militants kill 6 suspected US spies (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:36 AM CST

Pakistani police officers examine a police vehicle damaged in a bomb blast in Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. Pakistani police say the bomb blast has wounded five officers in the country's northwest. The bomb was planted by unidentified assailants in a section of under construction gas pipeline. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Suspected Taliban militants killed six alleged U.S. spies in a lawless region of northwest Pakistan where U.S. missile attacks have targeted al-Qaida hideouts, police said Tuesday.

Plans to close Gitmo anger 9/11 victims' families (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:32 AM CST

Jim Riches, center, who lost his son Jimmy Riches in the Sept. 11, 2001 attack in New York, speaks in front of other family members of other victims during a press conference following a hearing at the U.S. Military Commissions court for war crimes, at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. Behind him are, left to right, Joe Holland, who lost his son Joseph Holland, and siblings Andrew, Lorraine and Donald, who lost their brother Adam Arias. Two alleged organizers of the 2001 attacks on America casually declared their guilt on Monday in what may perhaps be the final session of the Guantanamo war crimes court. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)AP - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.

Russia restarts gas supplies to Europe via Ukraine (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:39 AM CST

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, rear right, and his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko, rear left, watch as Russia's state-run natural gas monopoly Gazprom chief Alexei Miller, foreground right, and Oleh Dubina the head of Ukrainian state energy firm Naftogaz, foreground left, sign documents in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009, shortly after their talks. Russia and Ukraine on Monday signed a deal that restores natural gas shipments to Ukraine and paves the way for an end to the nearly two-week cutoff of most Russian gas to a freezing Europe. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Russia's Gazprom gas monopoly says it has restarted gas shipments through Ukrainian pipelines to Europe after halting them nearly two weeks ago amid a pricing dispute.

US: 22 militants killed in Afghan clashes (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:38 AM CST

An Afghan security officer steps on a wreckage of the suicide attacker's car near U.S. Forward Operating Base Chapman in the city of Khost, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. A suicide car bomb attack near the gates of a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Monday killed one Afghan and wounded several more, officials said. (AP Photo/Nishanuddin Khan)AP - U.S. coalition troops used hand grenades and airstrikes in a series of clashes across Afghanistan, killing 22 militants and detaining 11 others, the coalition said Tuesday.

Hamas fighters seek to restore order in Gaza Strip (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 11:13 PM CST

A Palestinian searches his house for belongings, destroyed during the Israeli army operations, in Gaza City, Monday Jan. 19 , 2009. At least 1,259 Palestinians were killed in Israel's air and ground onslaught, more than half of them civilians, according to the United Nations, Gaza health officials and rights groups. Thirteen Israelis died, including four soldiers killed inadvertently by their own forces' fire. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Uniformed Hamas security teams emerged on Gaza City's streets Monday as leaders of the Islamic militant group vowed to restore order in the shattered Palestinian territory after a three-week pummeling by the Israeli military.

France gears up for auto industry summit (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 03:00 AM CST

AP - French auto industry chiefs gathered in Paris on Tuesday for a government-sponsored meeting designed to address collapsing car sales.

Iraqi education official escapes assassination (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 03:02 AM CST

General David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, flew into Pakistan on Tuesday for top-level talks with the government in Islamabad, embassy and security officials said.(AFP/File/Vyacheslav Oseledko)AP - A government statement says a senior Iraqi education official has escaped assassination while traveling through central Baghdad.

Mexican mogul Slim sees opportunity in NY Times (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2009 11:01 PM CST

In this file photo, Carlos Slim speaks during a panel discussion at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007, in New York. The New York Times Co. says it has approved a $250 million investment bythe Mexican telecommunications billionaire. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)AP - A Latin American billionaire looks to expand his empire in the United States in a deal that could make him the largest shareholder of The New York Times Co.

Rwandan troops enter Congo to hunt rebels (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 03:01 AM CST

Reuters - Rwandan troops crossed the border into eastern Congo on Tuesday under a December agreement between the two countries to hunt down Rwandan Hutu rebels, a Western diplomat in the east Congo city of Goma said.

Worldwide, well-wishers mobilize for inauguration (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 03:06 AM CST

Guests stand together with a wax figure depicting U.S. President-elect Barack Obama at Madame Tussauds, a waxworks museum, Tuesday Jan. 20, 2009 in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - Hula dancers readied for the stage in a small Japanese city that coincidentally bears his name. Children from his former school in Indonesia were to sing for a gathering of well-wishers. And in Hong Kong, Americans prepared to party into the night.

Fishermen saved off Australia after 25 days at sea (AP)

Posted: 20 Jan 2009 02:28 AM CST

In this image provided by the Australian Customs Service, two men believed to be from Myanmar floating in an ice box in the Torres Strait Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009. The pair, aged in their 20s, were rescued from the Torres Strait by a helicopter on Saturday and taken to an Australian hospital on Thursday Island off the coast of Queensland state, Australia. They told authorities they had spent 25 days adrift after their fishing boat sank with the loss of 18 other crew members, an official said Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Australian Customs Service, HO)AP - Two desperate, dehydrated men found bobbing in an ice box off Australia told authorities they spent 25 days adrift after their fishing boat sank, officials said Tuesday. There was no sign of 18 other crew members.

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