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Yahoo! News: World News

Australian fire zone declared a crime scene (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 12:05 AM CST

Firefighters are engulfed in smoke as they battle a bush fire approaching the town of Peats Ridge, north of Sydney.(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)AP - Suspicions that the worst wildfires ever to strike Australia were deliberately set led police to declare crime scenes Monday in towns incinerated by blazes, while investigators moving into the charred landscape discovered more bodies. The death toll stood at 130.

Israeli aircraft hit 2 militant targets in Gaza (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 12:37 AM CST

A Palestinian girl carries her sister in front of a destroyed house in Jabalya, in the northern Gaza Strip, February 4, 2009. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)AP - Israeli aircraft attacked two Palestinian militant targets in the Gaza Strip early Monday in response to rocket fire from the territory a day earlier, the military said. No injuries were reported.

Former reformist Iranian president will run again (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 02:29 PM CST

Iran's former reformist President Mohammad Khatami, smiles during a ceremony organized a group of pro-reform clerics in his party, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. Mohammad Khatami says he'll challenge hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the country's upcoming presidential elections set for June 12. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami declared Sunday he would run again for president, setting the stage for a major political showdown in coming months between the popular reformist leader — who made dialogue with the West a centerpiece of his eight years in office — and the country's ruling hard-liners.

Official: Yemen releases 170 al-Qaida suspects (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 05:17 PM CST

AP - Yemen released 170 men it had arrested on suspicion of having ties to al-Qaida, security officials said Sunday, two weeks after the terror group announced that Yemen had become the base of its activities for the whole Arabian peninsula.

Death threats against mother of murder victim (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 01:12 AM CST

File photo of Fiona Mackeown, mother of British national Scarlet Keeling who was found dead on Goa's Anjuna beach in February 2008(AFP/File/Sajjad Hussain)AFP - The mother of a British teenager who was found dead on an Indian beach nearly a year ago has been advised not to return to the country because of death threats, her lawyer said Monday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,239 (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 05:55 PM CST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai looks on during a reception of the 45th Munich Security Conference in Munich. The United States warned its allies that fighting the insurgency in Afghanistan could prove tougher than in Iraq and appealed, along with Britain, for more troops and equipment.(DDP/AFP/Lennart Preiss)AP - As of Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, at least 4,239 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Reports: Argentine seminary ousts Holocaust denier (AP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 11:38 PM CST

AP - A Roman Catholic bishop whose denials that the Holocaust ever happened led to Vatican demands he recant has been removed as the head of an Argentine seminary, local media reported Sunday, citing a Catholic official.

Donovan among stars called home for US clash with Mexico (AFP)

Posted: 08 Feb 2009 04:00 PM CST

Landon Donovan, pictured in 2008. US coach Bob Bradley is pulling out all the stops as America hosts arch-rivals Mexico on Wednesday to open the final phase of regional qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Bradley named a 20-man squad on Sunday packed with European-based talent, including Donovan, midfielder DaMarcus Beasley, defender Oguchi Onyewu and goalkeeper Tim Howard.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Victor Decolongon)AFP - US coach Bob Bradley is pulling out all the stops as America hosts arch-rivals Mexico on Wednesday to open the final phase of regional qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

US surgeon faces negligence charges in Australia (AP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 01:33 AM CST

U.S. doctor Jayant Patel, right, arrives with his wife Kishoree at the Brisbane Magistrates court for a preliminary hearing in Brisbane, Australia Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. The trial of Patel charged with manslaughter over the deaths of three patients has opened in Australia with prosecution allegations that he repeatedly botched operations. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)AP - An American doctor charged with manslaughter in the deaths of three patients at a rural Australian hospital repeatedly botched operations and performed surgeries he was not capable of handling, a prosecutor said Monday.

Australian wildfires rage on after killing 131 (AFP)

Posted: 09 Feb 2009 01:02 AM CST

Country Fire Authority volunteers prepare to move to save another house as a barn burns in the background close to Labertouche, west of Melbourne. Troops and firefighters battled raging Australian wildfires Monday that have left at least 131 people dead amid a landscape of charred homes, bodies and devastated communities.(AFP/William West)AFP - Troops and firefighters battled raging Australian wildfires Monday that have left at least 131 people dead amid a landscape of charred homes, bodies and devastated communities.

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