2009年2月16日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

Pakistan inks truce deal with militants in NW area (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 11:23 PM CST

Representatives of Islamic militants arrive to attend a peace meeting with Pakistani government officials in Peshawar, Pakistan on Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. At the meeting, regional government officials say Pakistan will impose Islamic law in parts of its northwest where Taliban fighters increasingly hold sway.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Pakistan agreed Monday to suspend military offensives and impose Islamic law in part of the restive northwest, making a gesture it hopes will help calm the Taliban insurgency while rejecting Washington's call for tougher measures against militants.

First wave of U.S. troops in Afghan surge engages in combat (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 11:38 PM CST

US Army soliders set out on a patrol in Paktika province, along the Afghan-Pakistan border, in 2008. During the previous Bush administration, the Pentagon put off sending reinforcements to Afghanistan in order to keep more troops in Iraq, where there are now 146,000 troops.(AFP/File/David Furst)AP - Close to 3,000 American soldiers who recently arrived in Afghanistan to secure two violent provinces near Kabul have begun operations in the field and already are seeing combat, the unit's spokesman said Monday.

Clinton warns NKorea on missile launch (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 12:31 AM CST

Japan's Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone, right, speaks as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens during their joint news conference at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo, Japan Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Tomohiro Ohsumi, POOL)AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday warned North Korea against following through on a threatened missile launch, saying it would damage its prospects for improved relations with the United States and the world.

Asian stock markets slump amid financial fears (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 12:44 AM CST

Traders work in the crude oil futures trading pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange, February 12, 2009. (Mike Segar/Reuters)AP - Asian stock markets fell Tuesday, with benchmarks in Hong Kong and South Korea off 3 percent or more, as renewed financial fears sent banks across the region tumbling.

British, French nuclear subs collide in Atlantic (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 03:15 PM CST

In this Oct. 25, 1992 file photo, sailors are seen aboard the HMS Vanguard, in Holy Loch, Scotland. Nuclear-armed submarines from Britain and France collided deep under the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month, causing damage to both vessels but releasing no radioactivity, a British official said Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. The HMS Vanguard, Britain's first Trident class nuclear-armed submarine, and the French Le Triomphant submarine, which was also carrying nuclear missiles, both suffered minor damage. (AP Photo/PA, Chris Bacon, File)AP - Nuclear submarines from Britain and France collided deep in the Atlantic Ocean this month, authorities said Monday in the first acknowledgment of a highly unusual accident that one expert called the gravest in nearly a decade.

Kissing: It really is all about chemistry (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 01:22 AM CST

Reuters - Valentine Lotharios beware: There's a lot riding on a kiss, new studies on the science of smooching suggest.

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

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 07:13 PM CST

General David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, flew into Uzbekistan Tuesday for top-level talks with the government in Tashkent, US and Uzbek officials said.(AFP/File/Karim Jaafar)AP - As of Monday, Feb. 16, 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.

Mexican news media protest photographer's killing (AP)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 09:53 PM CST

Mexico's Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna, left, speaks during a press conference in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. Garcia Luna said that about 60 percent of the country's violence is concentrated in three northern cities: Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez and Culiacan. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Mexican journalists demanded an investigation Monday into the death of a crime photographer gunned down while riding a motorcycle to an assignment.

Sudan, Darfur rebel faction in first step to talks (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Feb 2009 04:25 PM CST

Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir listens to a question during an interview with Reuters in Istanbul August 20, 2008. (Osman Orsal/Reuters)Reuters - The Sudanese government and a Darfur rebel faction have agreed on confidence-building measures at talks in Qatar, Qatari media said on Monday -- a step that may eventually lead to negotiations on a peace deal.

Poland presses Pakistan over beheaded kidnap victim (AFP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 01:21 AM CST

Poland has pressed Pakistan to retrieve the body of a Polish man who was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants and to track down his killers, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.(AFP/File/John Thys)AFP - Poland has pressed Pakistan to retrieve the body of a Polish man who was kidnapped and beheaded by Islamic militants and to track down his killers, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Monday.

Australia wildfire death toll reaches 200 (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 01:21 AM CST

File image of the singer Pink who has donated 250,000 dollars (163,000 US) to Australia's wildfire victims as the disaster relief fund tops 100 million dollars.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Frederick M. Brown)AP - Police say the confirmed death toll from Australia's deadly wildfires has reached 200 and will rise further.

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