2009年1月24日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

US, Afghan villagers differ over 15 killed in raid (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 01:06 AM CST

Soldiers with the U.S. Army's 6-4 Cavalry take up a hilltop position during a patrol near Combat Outpost Keating in eastern Afghanistan January 21, 2009. (Bob Strong/Reuters)AP - The U.S. coalition said Saturday that an overnight raid killed 15 Taliban militants but village elders who quickly traveled to speak with government officials said the dead were all civilians.

Afghan students back in class after acid attacks (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 02:05 AM CST

Afghan school girls study in their class room at Mirwais Mena school in Kandahar province, south of Kabul,Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan 17, 2009. Teenage girls in blue and green burqas pour into the yard Mirwais Mena school, where they pull off their coverings, stuff them in their bags and head to class. On the surface, it's almost as if the acid attacks never happened, except for the scars some girls hide under their scarves — and the pervading sense of fear.(AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - Teenage girls in blue and green burqas pour into the schoolyard, where they pull off their coverings, stuff them in their book bags and head to class. It almost seems as if the acid attacks never happened.

Family survives Gaza war, returns to destruction (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 02:40 AM CST

AP - Mohammed Zayid returned to his northern Gaza neighborhood after the war to find nothing as it was.

Hamas says it's back in control of the Gaza Strip (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 12:42 AM CST

Palestinian children sit on empty cooking canisters waiting to get them refilled in the outskirts of Deir El Balah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009. Hamas may have emerged stronger from the war but ordinary Palestinians suffer from increased shortages including of cooking gas. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP - Bearded Hamas activists on Friday delivered an envelope with five crisp $100 bills to a veiled woman whose house was damaged during Israel's invasion of Gaza, the first of promised relief payments by the militant group.

Chinese FM, Clinton talk about bilateral relations (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 12:37 AM CST

China's Foreign minister Yang Jiechi attends a meeting with Brazil´s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, unseen, at the presidential palace in Brasilia, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. Yang Jiechi accomplishes a three-day official visit to Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi has renewed China's resolve to work with the United States to strengthen bilateral ties during a telephone call to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Vatican 2.0: Pope gets his own YouTube channel (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 12:48 AM CST

This screenshot downloaded from YouTube in London on Friday, Jan. 23, 2009 shows the Vatican's channel on YouTube, the video-sharing Website. Pope Benedict XVI joined U.S. President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II on Friday by launching his own YouTube channel, the latest Vatican effort to reach out to the digital generation. The Vatican said it was launching the channel to broaden Benedict's audience while also giving the Holy See better control over the papal image online. (AP Photo)AP - Puffs of smoke, speeches in Latin and multipage encyclicals have all been used by the Vatican to communicate with the faithful.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,230 (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 07:48 PM CST

Cecilia Bakula, director of Peru's National Cultural Institute, right, and Ameera Idan Hlaihel, head of Iraq's National Institute of Antiques, look at Iraqi cuneiform tablets which Peruvian police retrieved from smugglers in Lima, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. The archaeological pieces were seized by Peru's authorities on Feb. 2008 at Lima's airport, when they were on their way to the U.S. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)AP - As of Friday, Jan. 23, 2009, at least 4,230 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Alleged acid disposal man for Mexico gang nabbed (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2009 10:43 PM CST

Santiago Meza Lopez, 45, center, aka 'el pozolero del Teo', who allegedly worked for Teo, a drug lord from the Tijuana area, is escorted by Mexican soldiers and Federal police agents as he is shown to the media in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. Meza Lopez, the number 20th on the FBI most wanted list, allegedly helped a drug cartel dispose of hundreds of victims by dissolving them in acid. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - A man accused of helping a Mexican drug kingpin dispose of hundreds of victims by dissolving their bodies in acid was arrested in the border city of Tijuana, authorities said Friday.

Somali pirates free a chemical tanker (AP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 02:35 AM CST

The Biscaglia, a Liberia-flagged oil and chemical tanker ship is pictured after being hijacked, in November 2008 in the Gulf of Aden. Somali pirates have released a Liberian-flagged tanker Biscaglia and its 28 crew after holding it for almost two months, a non-governmental organisation said Friday.(AFP/HO/File)AP - A diplomat says Somali pirates have freed a Liberian-flagged chemical tanker with 28 crew onboard.

China reports new bird flu death (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 02:40 AM CST

A vendor shows a slaughtered chicken to a customer at a poultry market in Beijing January 21, 2009. (David Gray/Reuters)Reuters - China reported another human death from the H5N1 bird flu on Saturday, this time in the far northwest region of Xinjiang.

One whale survives mass Australian beaching (AFP)

Posted: 24 Jan 2009 02:40 AM CST

File photo shows a dead sperm whale on the north coast of Tasmania. Three more sperm whales from a group of almost 50 that beached en masse in Australia's south have died, with just two survivors sandwiched among the dead, rescuers have said.(AFP/THE EXAMINER/File/Tim Hughes)AFP - Just one sperm whale from a group of almost 50 that beached en masse in Australia's south has survived, and remains sandwiched among the dead, officials said Saturday.

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