2009年3月14日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

In TV confessions, curtain lifted on a narcostate (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 11:53 AM PDT

Ousmane Conte, son of Guinea Conakry's late president Lasante Conte, sits in detention at the gendarmerie headquaters in Conakry, Guinea Conacky, Wednesday, March 11, 2008. When the planes loaded with cocaine arrived, Guinea's presidential guard secured the cargo. Drug deals were conducted inside the first lady's private residence, and the drugs were carried to Europe in the country's diplomatic pouch. In their bid to reach Europe, Latin American drug traffickers have found the broken nations along Africa's West coast, easily corrupting their ruling elite. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - When the planes arrived loaded with cocaine, it was Guinea's presidential guard that secured the cargo.

Women in Congo speak out about rape despite taboo (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 09:02 AM PDT

AP - Zamuda Sikujuwa shuffles to a bench in the sunshine, pushes apart her thighs with a grimace of pain and pumps her fist up and down in a lewd-looking gesture to show how the militiamen shoved an automatic rifle inside her.

Police find 7 bodies in Mexican border city (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 06:08 PM PDT

Police and forensic officers work at the site where bodies were found in the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Saturday, March 14, 2009. Police acting on a tip found seven bodies partially buried in the desert on the outskirts of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, an official said Saturday. (AP Photo/Str)AP - Police acting on a tip found seven bodies partially buried in the desert on the outskirts of the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, an official said Saturday.

Pakistan government seeks to ease political crisis (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 12:22 PM PDT

Pakistani lawyers hold bamboo sticks as they run toward police officers during an anti-government rally in Multan, Pakistan, Saturday, March 14, 2009. Pakistan's president urged opposition parties to negotiate an end to the country's political crisis while vowing to maintain law and order 'at all cost' in the face of gathering anti-government protests.(AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)AP - Pakistan's government announced its first major concession Saturday in a monthlong political crisis, pledging to appeal a disputed court ruling against a key opposition leader, just hours after a concerned U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called both sides apparently to press for a resolution.

Petrol bombs thrown at N. Ireland police over arrests (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 04:28 PM PDT

Masked youths prepare to throw molotov cocktails as they block the railway line near the house of former Irish Republican Army man Colin Duffy in Lurgan, Northern Ireland. Three men were arrested Saturday over the killing of two British soldiers in Northern Ireland, while police warned that hundreds of dissidents were aiming to derail the province's peace process.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - Gangs of youths threw petrol bombs at police in Northern Ireland on Saturday after a prominent republican was among three people arrested over the murder of two British soldiers.

Populist Iraqi Shiite falls victim to power, money (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 12:51 PM PDT

Youssef al-Haboubi, who won the most votes in provincial elections to become the governor of Karbala, sits under a portrait of Imam Hussein at his home in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 14, 2009. The 51-year-old independent candidate won nearly 15 percent of the vote in the Jan. 31 balloting but was given only one seat on the provincial council because he ran as an independent without any political allies.(AP Photo/ Ahmed Alhussainey)AP - Iraqis seeking to punish religious parties for bad governance gave a veteran administrator the most votes in a January election in Karbala province.

UN tells Aristide party to fight in Haiti election (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 04:55 PM PDT

AP - A U.N. Security Council delegation praised the party of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Saturday for fighting to overturn the disqualification of its Senate candidates, saying it could help avert a potentially dangerous crisis.

Four aid workers released in Darfur (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 02:47 PM PDT

The four freed aid workers with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) arrive at Khartoum airport following their release by their kidnappers.(AFP/Ashraf Shazly)AFP - Three foreign aid workers arrived in Khartoum on Saturday after being released by the gunmen who kidnapped them earlier in the week.

Moderate earthquake strikes off New Zealand coast: USGS (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 03:17 PM PDT

A quake reading on a seismograph. A moderate 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of New Zealand Sunday, geologists said, but there were no reports of casualties or damage.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)AFP - A moderate 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of New Zealand Sunday, geologists said, but there were no reports of casualties or damage.

Official: Australian oil spill worse than thought (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2009 12:34 PM PDT

A nature conservation officer carries a pelican, covered in oil, from the beach on Moreton Island near Brisbane, Australia, Friday, March 13, 2009. Nearly 40 miles of Australian beaches have been blackened by oil spilled from a cargo ship caught in stormy seas this week, leading the state premier to declare the area a disaster zone and warn that the ship's operators could face legal action. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)AP - Ten times more oil than originally thought leaked from a ship to blacken miles of white sand beaches along Australia's northeast coast, a government official said Saturday.

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