2009年4月5日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

NKorea rocket fizzles, US says; Obama urges action (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 02:27 PM PDT

A South Korean man watch a TV news program on the North Korean rocket launch at an electron market in Seoul, Sunday, April 5, 2009. North Korea fired a rocket over Japan on Sunday, defying Washington, Tokyo and others who suspect the launch was cover for a test of its long-range missile technology. The letters on the screen read, 'Japan immediately requested a Security Council meeting at the United Nation'. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - The U.S. and its allies sought punishment Sunday for North Korea's defiant launch of a rocket that apparently fizzled into the Pacific, holding an emergency U.N. meeting in response to the "provoctive act" that some believe was a long-range missile test.

Taliban threaten 2 attacks per week in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:20 PM PDT

Relatives of victims killed by a suicide bomber in a mosque, react in a hospital in Chakwal city in Punjab province, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, April 5, 2009. A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shiite mosque south of the Pakistani capital on Sunday, killing 22 people and wounding dozens more, officials said. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - A suicide bombing at a crowded Shiite mosque south of Pakistan's capital killed 22 people Sunday, the latest evidence of how security in the U.S.-allied nation is crumbling well beyond the Afghan border region where al-Qaida and Taliban fighters thrive.

Obama outlines sweeping goal of nuclear-free world (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:52 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama waves to reporters as he is accompanied by his wife Michelle upon their arrival at the Hradcanske Square where the US President delivered a public speech to thousands of people in Prague, Czech Republic, Sunday, April 5, 2009. Obama later on Sunday attends a summit with EU leaders. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)AP - Declaring the future of mankind at stake, President Barack Obama on Sunday said all nations must strive to rid the world of nuclear arms and that the U.S. had a "moral responsibility" to lead because no other country has used one.

US law fights submarine-like boats hauling cocaine (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 10:05 AM PDT

A sailor walks past homemade semi-submersible vessels, seized on land by Colombian authorities from drug traffickers, at the Bahia Malaga Navy base, on Colombia's Pacific coast, Thursday, March 26, 2009. Though 11 semi-subs loaded with cocaine were interdicted last year in international waters, the US Coast Guard believes that dozens more have delivered their cargo. (AP Photo/Christian Escobar Mora)AP - It's a game played out regularly on the high seas off Colombia's Pacific coast: A U.S. Navy helicopter spots a vessel the size of a humpback whale gliding just beneath the water's surface.

Dubai: Chechen leader's ally behind assassination (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 02:11 PM PDT

In this Sept. 16, 2007 file photo, Sulim Yamadayev, seen at Hankala airport, a military base outside Grozny, Chechnya, southern Russia. Yamadayev bitter foe of the Moscow-backed leader of Chechnya has been shot and badly wounded in Dubai, Russian news reports said Monday. The newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets said Sulim Yamadayev was attacked Saturday by an unidentified gunman near a luxury residential complex in Dubai where he lived. It quoted Yamadayev's brother as saying he was hospitalized with three gunshot wounds.(AP Photo)AP - The assassination of a Chechen renegade — the first reported political killing in this glitzy city — was masterminded by a close ally of Chechnya's president, Dubai authorities said Sunday, calling on Russia to untie "the knot of this crime."

Putin to defend handling of Russian crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:34 PM PDT

Reuters - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will defend his handling of Russia's worst economic crisis in a decade on Monday and is likely to tell lawmakers there are signs the battered economy could be on the road to recovery.

Netanyahu pledges to produce peace policy soon (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convenes the first cabinet meeting of his new government in Jerusalem Sunday April 5, 2009. Netanyahu says his new government will soon present its agenda on Mideast peace talks and defense issues. (AP Photo/Menahem Kahana, Pool)AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said his government would immediately get to work on Mideast peace issues, promising to present a diplomatic agenda in the coming weeks.

Mexico's death cult protests shrine destruction (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT

A man carries a statue of the folk saint 'Santa Muerte' or 'Death Saint' during a protest by the folk saint's followers against the destruction of their shrines in Mexico City, Sunday, April 5, 2009. Mexico's government is targeting the folk saint, destroying 'Santa Muerte' shrines in its all-out war on the cartels, saying the unofficial religion is usually a sign of something more sinister: Crime, drugs, even brutal killings. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - About 200 worshippers marched Sunday to protest the government's destruction of "Death Saint" shrines, saying Mexico's fight against drug cartels has veered into religious persecution.

Zimbabwe government sets plan to end isolation (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:37 PM PDT

Reuters - Zimbabwe's power-sharing administration will relax media laws and strive in the next 100 days to end the country's international isolation, government ministers said on Sunday.

Obama seeks to boost ties with Muslim ally Turkey (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:58 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama, disembarks Air Force One, at the Esenboga airport in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, April 5, 2009. Turkey deployed snipers and riot police and set up barricades in the capital Sunday as part of tight security measures for President Barack Obama's first visit to a predominantly Muslim country. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)Reuters - President Barack Obama will seek on Monday to shore up ties with Turkey, a Muslim country with growing clout whose help Washington needs to solve confrontations and conflicts from Iran to Afghanistan.

British teen sailor stops in Australia for repairs (AP)

Posted: 05 Apr 2009 12:20 AM PDT

AP - A 17-year-old British sailor said Sunday he was confident of beating a U.S. rival into the record books as the youngest person to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe despite a fourth repair stop in Australia about halfway through his trouble-plagued voyage.

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