2009年3月27日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Suicide attack kills 48 at Pakistani mosque (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 05:02 PM PDT

A Pakistani tribesman security personnel holds his weapon next to the rubble of a destroyed mosque after a blast in Jamrud, in the Khyber region, about 25 km (16 miles) from the Afghan border with Pakistan, Friday, March 27, 2009. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers for Friday prayers in Jamrud, a town near the Afghan border, killing at least 48 people and injuring scores more, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - A suicide bomber demolished a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers attending Friday prayers near the Afghan border, killing at least 48 people and injuring scores more, in the bloodiest attack in Pakistan this year. The bomber struck at the climax of the service, as the mosque leader was starting the communal prayer, witnesses said.

Cuba boosts retirement age as population goes gray (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 02:35 PM PDT

Josefina Petrona,87, a member of a circle of elderly adults, exercises in Old Havana, Monday, March 23, 2009. Cuba's government raised the retirement age by five years, to 60 for women and 65 for men. Sweeping poverty forces most of Cuba's 2.2 million retirees to do the same: Retire, collect a small pension, then get a new job that allows them to keep a steady income in old age. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Like much of Cuba's work force, Alfredo Congas is going gray.

Dam bursts near Indonesian capital, killing 58 (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 09:35 AM PDT

Residents stand near a burst dam in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, March 27, 2009. The dam burst before dawn Friday, sending a flash flood into a crowded residential neighborhood, submerging hundreds of houses and killing at least 50 people, officials said.(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)AP - Survivors say when the dam gave way in the middle of the night, water surged through their neighborhood outside Jakarta like a tsunami, demolishing hundreds of houses, tossing cars and uprooting trees. At least 58 people were killed and dozens remained missing Friday.

Fallujah is test case for post-US Iraq (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 02:09 PM PDT

A man stands in front of a new chicken restaurant 'King of Kentucky Chicken Restaurant,' with two large images of Colonel Sanders in Fallujah, Iraq, Monday, March 23, 2009. Iraqis have taken full control of Fallujah, the cradle of the insurgency, a major step in taking responsibility for their country. But war damage remains, a new $46 million hospital is barely functioning and officials are worried that militants being released from U.S. custody may come back to settle old scores. The restaurant is inspired by -- but not connected to -- the American-based KFC. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The Americans are gone from Fallujah, but the "King of Kentucky Chicken Restaurant" is open for business in a bullet-pocked building.

Experimental vaccine used in Ebola exposure case (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 05:03 PM PDT

In this Oct. 2007 photo provided by the Hamburg University hospital (UKE) on March 17, 2009 a quarantine unit at the hospital is shown during a disaster control exercise. Hours after a 45-year-old scientist accidentally pricked her finger with a needle used for injecting the Ebola virus into mice, leading members of the tight research community huddled over a trans-Atlantic telephone conference to plot a course of action. Within 24 hours of the March 12 accident, an experimental vaccine that had never before been tried on humans was on its way via international courier from a lab in Canada to Germany. The patient was treated in the pictured quarantine unit. (AP Photo/UKE, Jochen Koppelmeyer)AP - It was a nightmare scenario: A scientist accidentally pricked her finger with a needle used to inject the deadly Ebola virus into lab mice. Within hours, members of a tightly bound, yet far-flung community of virologists, biologists and others were tensely gathered in a trans-Atlantic telephone conference trying to map out a way to save her life.

Czech PM's Obama criticism inspired by rock'n'roll (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 03:56 PM PDT

AP - Czech Republic Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek surprised people around the world this week when he slammed President Barack Obama's nearly $2 trillion economic plan as "the road to hell."

Iraq to move Iranian opposition group: official (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 04:32 PM PDT

The bridge over Euphrates river in Fallujah, Iraq, is seen Monday, March 23, 2009, through a building destroyed in an airstrike during the war. Iraqis have taken full control of Fallujah, the cradle of the insurgency, a major step in taking responsibility for their country. But war damage remains, a new $46 million hospital is barely functioning and officials are worried that militants being released from U.S. custody may come back to settle old scores. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Iraq plans to move members of an Iranian opposition group from a camp north of Baghdad to remote areas elsewhere in the country as it steps up efforts to rid itself of a major source of tension with Tehran, a top government official said Friday.

Jury clears Puerto Rico police in Marine's beating (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 04:08 PM PDT

Defense attorney Lorenzo J. Palomares, left, walks with one of his clients defendant police officer Lt. Johnny Cruz Gonzalez, after a day in the trial of Cruz Gonzales and two other police officers, in front of the Federal Court Building, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Cruz Gonzalez, and the others, Luis Diaz Ruiz and Karimar Peraza Salgado, were acquitted by a jury of federal civil rights charges in the beating of Dominican-born U.S. Marine Yonatta Crispin during a baseball game in 2007. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - A jury acquitted three Puerto Rican police officers of federal civil rights charges Friday in the beating of a Dominican-born U.S. Marine at a baseball game between the two Caribbean rivals.

Madonna to adopt Malawian girl (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 02:36 PM PDT

Italian auto giant Fiat workers stage a demonstration against job cuts outside the 'Lingotto' congress center, during a shareholders meeting with FIAT and Ferrari Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne and Fiat Vice President John Elkann in Turin, northern Italy, Friday, March 27, 2009. Sign says: 'A miracle in Turin; the Madonna [Virgin Mary] has appeared to Marchionne. ' In background says: 'Respect Workers Rights. No to Layoffs.' (AP Photo/Massimo Pinca)AP - An official and another person close to the case say that Madonna is to adopt a Malawian girl, offering more detail on the second child the star hopes to adopt from the impoverished African country.

Official: Intel predicts rising Afghan violence (AP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 05:00 PM PDT

The body of a suspected Taliban militant lies lifeless on the back of a police vehicle with his heavy machine gun after he was killed in a battle with the Afghan forces on the outskirts of Ghazni province west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 26, 2009. Taliban militants attacked a police convoy in central Ghazni province Thursday, wounding six policemen, said regional police spokesman Iqbal Gul Sapan. Four militants were also killed in the clash in Nani village near the provincial capital, he said.(AP Photo/Rahmat Naikzad)AP - U.S. intelligence suggests that violence in Afghanistan will rise through 2009 despite the Obama administration's new strategy for combatting the Taliban and shoring up the Afghan government, a top intelligence official said Friday.

E.Timor swears in new police chief (AFP)

Posted: 27 Mar 2009 09:04 AM PDT

East Timorese police march during a ceremony to mark country's Independence Day in Dili in 2008. East Timor swore in a civilian Friday as the new head of its deeply factionalised police force, despite criticism from the opposition and some officers that he was unsuitable for the job.(AFP/File/Mario Johny Dos Santos)AFP - East Timor swore in a civilian Friday as the new head of its deeply factionalised police force, despite criticism from the opposition and some officers that he was unsuitable for the job.

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