2009年2月5日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News

Somali pirate says colleagues quit Ukrainian ship (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2009 01:10 AM CST

In this Sept. 29, 2008, file photograph originally provided by the U.S. Navy, the pirated merchant ship MV Faina is seen from a U.S. Navy guided-missile cruiser in the Indian Ocean. A ransom has been delivered to Somali pirates who seized the Ukrainian ship which was carrying tanks, heavy weapons and about 20 crew members, a spokesman for the ship's owners said Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/U.S.Navy, Petty Officer Jason Zalasky)AP - A Somali pirate says some pirates have left a Ukrainian ship carrying tanks they have held for five months.

Israeli troops kill militant leader in West Bank (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2009 01:06 AM CST

Children stand on the rubble following Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip. Al-Jazeera now gleans news from citizen journalists, including those in Gaza(AFP/Mahmud Hams)AP - The military says Israeli troops on an arrest raid in the West Bank have killed a top Islamic Jihad militant.

Reports: Most-wanted Nazi died in Cairo in 1992 (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 11:32 PM CST

In this 1950 file photo released by the State Office of Criminal Investigation in Stuttgart, southern Germany, Dr. Aribert Heim, a former Nazi concentration camp doctor and wanted war criminal, is seen at unknown location. Documents have surfaced in Egypt showing the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminal, concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim, died in Cairo in 1992, Germany's ZDF television and The New York Times reported Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. The report said Heim was living under a pseudonym and had converted to Islam by the time of his death from intestinal cancer. (AP Photo/State Office of Criminal Investigation of Baden-Wuerttemberg) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY *AP - Documents have surfaced in Egypt showing the world's most-wanted Nazi war criminal, concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim, died in Cairo in 1992, Germany's ZDF television and The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Vatican turnaround: Holocaust denier must recant (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 05:16 PM CST

This undated image from video shows British-born Bishop Richard Williamson, center, conducting a Mass at an unknown location. On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009, the Vatican distanced itself from Williamson, a prelate who denied the Holocaust, and demanded that he recant. The Vatican also said that Pope Benedict XVI didn't know about Bishop Richard Williamson's views when he agreed to lift the bishop's excommunication last month. (AP Photo/Courtesy SVT)AP - The Vatican, bowing to the growing furor over Pope Benedict XVI's decision to accept a return to the church of a prelate who denied the Holocaust, made a dramatic turnaround Wednesday and demanded the bishop recant.

Recessionistas in and fashionistas out in bad economy (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Feb 2009 01:19 AM CST

Reuters - Move over fashionistas -- there's a new girl in town.

Iraq: Sunni tribal leader says he can prove fraud (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 06:56 PM CST

An Iraqi soldier stands near a damaged vehicle after a candidate for the provincial council was targeted in a roadside bomb attack in Basra, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. Ahmed al Yasiri, a candidate for the al-Fadhila party list and an administrative official at the Basra provincial headquarters, was headed to work when a roadside bomb struck his convoy, police said. No one was injured in the attack. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)AP - A senior Sunni tribal leader claimed Wednesday to have hundreds of documents proving fraud in weekend elections in Anbar province, escalating a crisis that has threatened to reignite violence in the former insurgent stronghold.

Fidel Castro criticizes Obama's economic plans (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 09:19 PM CST

AP - President Barack Obama intends to print "enormous sums of money" to keep American society from grinding to a halt, Fidel Castro said in his second critical essay of the U.S. leader, released Wednesday.

Beckham wants Milan move and another World Cup (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 06:00 PM CST

AC Milan's David Beckham crosses the ball during their friendly soccer match against Rangers at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, February 4, 2009. REUTERS/Russell CheyneReuters - A rejuvenated David Beckham, who has made a big impact in Serie A on loan with AC Milan, sees a permanent move to Italy as giving him every chance of playing one more World Cup with England in South Africa next year.

Sri Lanka vows not to let up offensive (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2009 01:09 AM CST

This undated picture provided by independent observers in Sri Lanka on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009, shows two Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil boys lying at a hospital in Puthukkudiyiruppu, about 275 kilometers (170 miles) north of Colombo, Sri Lanka. After days of shelling sent patients fleeing the Puthukkudiyiruppu hospital, the Red Cross evacuated the staff and wounded Wednesday, effectively closing the last remaining medical facility in the war zone, the aid group said. (AP Photo)AP - Sri Lanka's prime minister said Thursday government forces will not suspend an offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels despite reports of a growing number of civilian casualties in the northern war zone.

Crocs, snakes feared in flooded Australian region (AP)

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 11:55 AM CST

AP - As if torrents washing through homes and sweeping away furniture wasn't scary enough. Authorities in storm-battered northeastern Australia warned residents Wednesday to beware of crocodiles roaming the floodwaters covering large parts of Queensland.

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