2009年4月1日星期三

Yahoo! News: World News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World News

US, Russia call for nuke cuts in sweeping agenda (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT

President Barack Obama meets with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev at Winfield House in London, Wednesday, April 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The United States and Russia set a newly ambitious course for global cooperation Wednesday as presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev ordered negotiators into immediate action on a treaty to further reduce nuclear weapons.


Mexico trying harder to catch smuggled US guns (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:35 PM PDT

File photo of a United States-Mexican border gate at Tecate. Tariffs Mexico has slapped on US products for some 2.4 billion dollars equal the trade lost by trucks no longer allowed into the United States, an official said here.(AFP/File/Hector Mata)AP - Try to bring a refrigerator into Mexico in the back of your pickup, and you are almost certain to get stopped by Mexican customs officials.


Europeans look to welfare, not stimulus, in crisis (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT

A protestor blows bubbles up to into the sky in London's City financial district, Wednesday April 1, 2009. World leaders are gathering in London for the Group of 20 summit amid an unprecedented security operation to protect the meeting from violent protests. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)AP - Europeans and Americans don't always see eye to eye — and how to solve the global financial crisis is no exception.


Iran denies US reports of warm talks at conference (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:14 PM PDT

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Mehdi Akhondzadeh, left, is seen with unidentified members of his delegation at the Afghanistan Conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday March 31, 2009.  A 72-nation conference on Afghanistan will launch a broader international commitment to the security of the region, including neighboring Pakistan, special U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke said Monday. The hastily convened conference brings together all the countries bordering Afghanistan, including Iran, and all nations contributing troops to the NATO-led international force fighting Taliban insurgents. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - Iran dismissed American government reports that senior U.S. and Iran envoys had a cordial — and promising — face-to-face exchange at an international conference, saying Wednesday that no "talks" took place. The competing accounts of Tuesday's encounter in the Netherlands appeared to reflect the different approaches to overtures to end the United States' and Iran's nearly 30-year diplomat standoff.


Newly trimmed Terry a cut above for England (AFP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:26 PM PDT

John Terry of England (C) celebrates scoring his goal against Ukraine during their 2010 World Cup qualifying, group six international match at Wembley Stadium in London. England won 2-1.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - England captain John Terry revealed a hair cut from Wayne Rooney helped get him in the right frame of mind to keep his country on course for the World Cup finals.


US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,264 (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:14 PM PDT

In this US army handout taken in 2005, a US soldier stands guard in the vicinity of a stepped mud brick ziggurat temple (temple of the moon god), in Ur a 4,000 year-old city located near Nasiriyah. Iraq will reopen ancient Ur, the Biblical birthplace of Abraham, to the public after the US military hands back the archaeological site next month, the government said on Wednesday.(AFP/US ARMY/File)AP - As of Wednesday, April 1, 2009, at least 4,264 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


Honduran journalist killed (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 02:52 PM PDT

AP - Two unidentified gunmen killed a journalist who reported on the wave of violent crime in Honduras, police said Wednesday.

Madonna's African adoptions part of growing trend (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:10 PM PDT

In this photograph made available by Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, Madonna holds her adopted son David as they meet with the boy's biological father, Yohane Banda, left, at a lodge where the pop star is staying in Malawi, Monday March 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Tom Munro)AP - Madonna's efforts to adopt two youngsters from Malawi have put her in the media spotlight. But she isn't alone: a growing number of Americans are bringing home children from Africa as countries like China and Russia cut back on adoptions by foreigners.


China to honor revolutionary martyrs online (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:19 PM PDT

Reuters - China is encouraging people to pay respects to the martyrs of the Communist revolution on a new website set up ahead of a traditional holiday to remember the dead, state media said on Thursday.

Australian woman killed man over her barking dog (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 06:49 AM PDT

AP - A woman was convicted Wednesday of fatally stabbing a neighbor who complained about her barking dog in Australia's biggest city.
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