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Yahoo! News: World News

Pakistan: Kidnappers extend deadline on US captive (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 01:19 AM CST

Pakistani policemen stand guard near Peshawar in September 2008. Taliban militants have released a Chinese engineer six months after he was abducted in violence-wracked northwest Pakistan, security officials said Sunday.(AFP/File/Tariq Mahmood)AP - A spokesman for kidnappers holding an American captive in Pakistan says the deadline to negotiate for his life has been extended a "few days."

Australian wildfire suspect named (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 01:13 AM CST

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd meets CFA (Country Fire Authority) members, Sandra O'Connor, left, and an unidentified woman at Wandong north of Melbourne, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009. Extremely hot, dry and windy conditions on Feb. 7 fanned dozens of fires into raging infernos that reduced entire towns to ashes. The confirmed death toll is 181 but is expected to exceed 200. More than 1,800 homes were destroyed and 7,500 people displaced.(AP Photo/Julian Smith, Pool)AP - A court lifted the ban Monday on identifying the only arson suspect so far in Australia's recent deadly wildfires, and authorities urged people not to target him in their rage over the disaster's almost 190 deaths.

Asian stocks fall as Japan's recession deepens (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 12:44 AM CST

A trader watches a stock monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange February 13, 2009. (Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)AP - Most Asian stock markets fell Monday, as new figures showed Japan's economy contracted the most in 35 years and Group of Seven finance ministers warned the global slump will drag on through most of the year.

Chavez wins vote to scrap term limits in Venezuela (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 10:42 PM CST

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez gestures as he leaves the polling station after voting on a constitutional amendment referendum in Caracas, Sunday Feb. 15, 2009. Chavez, already a decade in power, is trying for a second time to win the right to seek re-election far into the future with a referendum Sunday. (AP Photo/Howard Yanes)AP - President Hugo Chavez won a referendum to eliminate term limits Sunday and vowed to remain in power for at least another decade to complete his socialist revolution. Opponents accepted defeat but said Chavez is becoming a dictator.

Gaza man killed in recycling accident (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 12:32 AM CST

Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem February 15, 2009. REUTERS/Emil Salman/JINI/PoolAP - Palestinian hospital officials say a 25-year-old Gaza man has been killed and five people have been wounded in a blast along the border with Israel.

Argentina win IRB Sevens rugby final (AFP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 11:53 PM CST

Argentina celebrates winning the USA Rugby Sevens, on the second and final day of the USA Sevens Rugby Tournament at Petco Park in San Diego, California, on February 15. Argentina won 19-14.(AFP/Robyn Beck)AFP - Argentina beat England 19-14 in the final of the US round of the International Rugby Board Sevens to throw the world series wide open.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,245 (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 06:14 PM CST

U.S. soldiers from 1st Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Pennsylvania Army National Guard dig through hay in search of weapon caches during Operation Bonzai XL in Baghdad's Adhamiya district February 13, 2009. Picture taken February 13, 2009. REUTERS/U.S. Army/Spc. Colton Allred/Handout (IRAQ)AP - As of Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009, at least 4,245 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

British say Gitmo inmate on strike fit for release (AP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 02:02 PM CST

AP - A British team visiting a hunger-striking detainee at Guantanamo Bay concluded he is medically fit to return to the U.K., authorities announced Sunday.

Zimbabwe's MDC undecided on response to arrest (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 12:58 AM CST

Reuters - Zimbabwe's MDC has not decided how to respond if one of its senior officials is not freed from jail, but an economic crisis discourages the party from quitting the unity government, a top party official said on Monday.

NKorea marks birthday of 'great father' Kim (AFP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 01:04 AM CST

Undated image shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il inspecting a Korean People's Army Unit at an undisclosed place. North Korea marked the birthday of leader Kim Monday with effusive praise for its AFP - North Korea marked leader Kim Jong-Il's birthday Monday with effusive praise for a "peerlessly great man," renewed threats against South Korea and an apparent vow to go ahead with a rocket launch.

Australia arson case in court, day of mourning called (AFP)

Posted: 15 Feb 2009 09:52 PM CST

A forensic team from Darwin and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory sifts through the ashes of a house looking for the remains of a family in Phesant Creek some 100km north of Melbourne on February 12, 2009. Australian police called for calm Monday as a suspected arsonist was due in court on charges of lighting one of a swarm of wildfires that killed more than 180 people.(AFP/File/Paul Crock)AFP - Australian police called for calm as a suspected arsonist was named in court Monday, while a day of mourning was called for victims of rampaging wildfires that killed more than 180 people.

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