2009年2月17日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

Karzai, Obama talk for 1st time since inauguration (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 01:33 AM CST

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks with the media members after a press event with U.S. Special Representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Presidents Hamid Karzai and Barack Obama spoke on the phone for the first time exactly four weeks after Obama's inauguration, Karzai's office said Wednesday.

Israel considering prisoner exchange for soldier (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 01:17 AM CST

A girl stands inside a tent set up in solidarity with Israeli soldier Cpl. Gilad Schalit, captured by Hamas-allied militants in 2006, in Jerusalem Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009. Hamas wants an end to Israel's economic blockade of Gaza, which has severely restricted the movement of goods in and out of Gaza since Hamas seized power in June 2007. It also has demanded the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel in return for Schalit. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - Israel's Security Cabinet opened debate Wednesday on a possible prisoner exchange with Hamas that could trade hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for a soldier captured in June 2007.

Drug gangs drive off cops, terrorize Mexican town (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 03:56 PM CST

Suspected members of a crime gang, allegedly extorting, kidnapping and drug trafficking in the outskirts of Mexico's capital, are shown to the press at the headquarters of the federal police in Mexico City, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009. Drug cartels that have waged bloody turf battles across northern and western Mexico have now brought their fight to the outskirts of Mexico City, federal police said Thursday in announcing the arrest of 10 members of a heavily-armed hit squad. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - For people caught inside Mexico's drug corridors, life is about keeping your head down and watching your back, especially when the sun dips behind the cactus-studded horizon.

Guadeloupe strikers block roads, close airport (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 03:05 PM CST

Burned-out cars and debris litter the street in the aftermath of a night of protests against high prices and low wages, in Point-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Dominique Chomereau-Lamotte)AP - The French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe was on the verge of rebellion, a political leader said Tuesday after stone-throwing protesters set cars and buildings ablaze, forced the international airport to close and clashed with police.

Commerzbank posts tiny 2008 profit of 3.0 mln euros (AFP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 01:43 AM CST

The second biggest German bank, Commerzbank, posted on Wednesday a 2008 net profit of 3.0 million euros (3.8 million dollars), down sharply from a profit of 1.9 billion euros a year earlier(AFP/File/John Macdougall)AFP - The second biggest German bank, Commerzbank, posted on Wednesday a 2008 net profit of 3.0 million euros (3.8 million dollars), down sharply from a profit of 1.9 billion euros a year earlier.

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

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 07:22 PM CST

The University of Wisconsin marching band entertains members of the Wisconsin Army National Guard during a send-off ceremony to Iraq on Tuesday Feb. 17, 2009 at the Dane County Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin said goodbye Tuesday to National Guard troops bound for Iraq in the largest deployment of Wisconsin National Guard forces since World War II. (AP Photo/Green Bay Press-Gazette, Corey Wilson)AP - As of Tuesday, Feb. 17, 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.

Marchers block US border to protest army presence (AP)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 10:08 PM CST

Police use a water cannon to disperse protesters in the northern industrial city of Monterrey, Mexico, Tuesday Feb. 17, 2009. Hundreds of protesters in Monterrey and in several border cities demanded that the Mexican army leave their cities. Officials say the the protests are organized by drug cartels that they say are trying to disrupt the government's anti-drug crackdown. (AP Photo)AP - Hundreds of people blocked bridges to the United States in three border cities Tuesday, demanding the army leave in another challenge for the Mexican government as it struggles to quell escalating drug violence.

'Obamarama': Bar-Cafe in Benin (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 17 Feb 2009 11:32 PM CST

McClatchy Newspapers - The second installment in this blog's occasional Obamarama feature comes from alert reader Dorothea Wartena, who sent in a photo of a colorful (if not particularly hopping) "Bar-Cafe Barack Obama" from the small West African nation of Benin.

US general visits Afghan bomb site for death claim (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 01:50 AM CST

An Afghan policeman watches a road after a Taliban attack on a convoy, near the town of Qalat, southeast Afghanistan in this September 30, 2007 file photo. The drive to stabilize Afghanistan must focus on cultivating local leaders, better training of Afghan troops and police, and pressing Kabul to fight corruption, a report by a U.S. think tank said on Tuesday. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)AP - The U.S. military says an American general has traveled to the site of a recent U.S. strike in western Afghanistan to investigate claims women and children were killed.

Australian wildfire death toll unlikely to jump (AP)

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 01:44 AM CST

A sign warns off litterers at a burnt-out plantation forest, the site where it is believed a deadly wildfire was deliberately set, in Churchill, Australia Monday, Feb. 16, 2009. Brendan Solaluk, 39, is facing one count of deadly arson and one of lighting a wildfire in connection to one of hundreds of blazes that swept southern Victoria state on Feb. 7, killing more than 180 people and destroying almost 2,000 homes.(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)AP - Police believe they have found the bodies of almost everyone killed in Australia's wildfire disaster and the current death toll of 201 is not likely to rise dramatically, a senior commander said Wednesday.

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