2009年4月10日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

US hostage fails in escape bid from Somali pirates (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 04:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this family file photo released on Wednesday, April 8, 2009, Capt. Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vt., is seen. Phillips, the American captain held hostage by four Somali pirates made a desperate escape attempt Friday April 10, 2009, but was recaptured, and officials said other pirates sought to reinforce their colleagues by sailing hijacked ships with other captives aboard to the scene of the standoff. (AP Photo)AP - An American skipper held hostage by pirates tried to swim to freedom Friday but was recaptured seconds later when the bandits opened fire within view of a U.S. destroyer.

Tears, tributes as Italy mourns its quake dead (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 03:58 PM PDT

A woman reacts as she touches the white coffin of a child, during the funeral service for quake victims in L'Aquila, central Italy, Friday, April 10, 2009. Four days after the major earthquake that made L'Aquila and many nearby towns and villages uninhabitable, the official death toll has reached 287, and most of the victims are here, in L'Aquila. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - It was a scene that moved a nation: mourners clinging to one another and sobbing over neat rows of more than 200 coffins, some with the tiny caskets of children resting on top.

Pope presides over Way of the Cross procession (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 02:25 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) torchlight procession on Good Friday in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Friday, April 10, 2009. The evening Via Crucis procession at the ancient Colosseum amphitheater is a Rome tradition that draws a large crowd of faithful, including many of the pilgrims who flock to the Italian capital for Holy Week ceremonies before Easter Sunday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Pope Benedict XVI presided over a torch-lit Way of the Cross procession at the Colosseum on Good Friday and said he was praying so that people who suffered losses in Italy's devastating quake can see the light of hope in their dark hour.

Analysis: Horn of Africa beset by troubles (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 01:44 PM PDT

A map of the Horn of Africa, showing Ethiopia's troubled Ogaden region. Ethiopia's ethnic Somali rebels, who are based in the Ogaden, on Thursday refuted government claims that they had been weakened by a military offensive.(AFP/Graphic/Anibal Maizcaceres)AP - The pirate standoff with the U.S. Navy has burned Somalia into the West's consciousness as a base for lawlessness and terror, but the hostage crisis illuminates a potentially dangerous picture confronting a far greater area.

Suicide blast kills 5 US soldiers, 2 Iraqi police (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 05:47 PM PDT

Map locates Mosul, Iraq, where a suicide truck bomb killed U.S. soldiers and Iraqi policemenAP - A suicide truck driver detonated a ton of explosives near a police headquarters in the northern city of Mosul on Friday, killing five American soldiers in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in more than a year.

Gearbox failure caused British helicopter crash (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 03:55 PM PDT

A map locating where the Super Puma helicopter crashed in the North Sea on April 01, 2009. An initial report into the crash which killed 16 people off the Scottish coast found Friday that the aircraft suffered a AFP - An initial report into the crash of a North Sea helicopter which killed 16 people off the Scottish coast found Friday that the aircraft suffered a "catastrophic failure" in its main gearbox.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,271 (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 05:01 PM PDT

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (R) shakes hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Moscow. Iraq and Russia's leaders on Friday sought to revive political and economic ties disrupted by the US invasion six years ago and to position Moscow for future energy deals in the country.(AFP/POOL/Sergei Karpukhin)AP - As of Friday, April 10, 2009, at least 4,271 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Venezuela's Chavez sees 'good signals' from US (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 02:27 PM PDT

In this photo released by Venezuela's Miraflores Palace, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, embraces Cuba's President Raul Castro upon Chavez's arrival at the Jose Marti airport in Havana, early Friday, April 10, 2009.(AP Photo/Press Miraflores Palace/HO)AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he sees "good signals" from the United States after Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles was charged with lying about his involvement in a series of 1997 bombings in Cuba.

Ships held by Somali pirates (AP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 02:42 PM PDT

AP - At least a dozen ships and more than 200 crew members are currently being held by pirates off the coast of Somalia, according to the International Maritime Bureau and NATO.

Fiji president reappoints coup leader as PM (AFP)

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 05:35 PM PDT

Fiji President President Ratu Josefa Iloilo. Fiji's military chief Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama has been reappointed as interim prime minister by Iloilo, a day after the President of the Pacific island state set off fresh turmoil by repealing the constitution.(AFP/File/Naashon Zalk)AFP - Fiji's military chief Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama was reappointed as interim prime minister by the president Saturday, a day after Ratu Josefa Iloilo set off fresh turmoil by repealing the constitution.

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