2009年4月13日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

Italian Jews aid World War II saviors hit by quake (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 11:24 AM PDT

From left, Italia Tagliacozzo, Ester Di Segni, Emma Di Segni, earthquake survivor Nello De Bernardinis and Alberto Di Consiglio, pose for a group photo in the Casentino tent-camp, near L'Aquila, central Italy, Monday, April 13, 2009. Italian Jews and Holocaust survivors are rushing to aid communities that sheltered them during World War II and were hit by last week's devastating earthquake. Di Consiglio found Nello De Bernardinis, 74, the son of a couple who sheltered Di Consiglio's father and eight other relatives during the war. (AP Photo/Sandro Perozzi)AP - More than 65 years after villagers provided shelter to Italian Jews fleeing from the Nazis, a group of those who evaded capture rushed to repay that sacrifice in rural communities hard-hit by an earthquake.


21 people killed in Poland homeless shelter blaze (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 12:55 PM PDT

Smoke billows out of a shelter for people waiting for social housing, in Kamien Pomorski, northwestern Poland, Monday, April 13, 2009. A fast-moving fire tore through a three-story building housing homeless people in northwestern Poland early Monday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 20 more, including an infant, officials said. (AP Photo)AP - Survivors of a fire that killed 21 people at a three-story shelter for homeless families in Poland on Monday described a fast-moving inferno that forced some to jump from windows into trees.


Pakistan president signs off on Islamic law deal (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 12:47 PM PDT

U.S. Sen. John Kerry, right, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, shakes hands with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi prior to their meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, April 13, 2009. Kerry arrived in Pakistan to hold talks with Pakistani officials and leaders regarding regional security, and economics issues. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Pakistan's pro-U.S. president signed a regulation late Monday to put a northwestern district under Islamic law as part of a peace deal with the Taliban, going along after coming under intense pressure from members of his own party and other lawmakers.


Freeing US skipper wins praise, escalation feared (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 02:36 PM PDT

President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, says that the U.S. will seek to halt the increasing threat of piracy off the Horn of Africa as he also praised the U.S. military's successful rescue of merchant Capt. Richard Phillips, who had been held hostage for several days by Somali pirates, Monday, April 13, 2009, during remarks at the Transportation Department in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - President Barack Obama and the U.S. military drew high praise Monday for the liberation of an American sea captain held by Somali pirates, but some military experts fear the fatal shooting of three pirates will lead to an escalation of the conflict off Somalia's coast.


Teen piracy suspect raises legal, moral issues (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT

AP - U.S. officials, in deciding how to handle the lone surviving pirate from the hostage-taking of an American ship captain, must weigh the violence of the suspect's actions against his surprisingly young age.

Mexico slams Burger King for 'whopper' of insult (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 04:44 PM PDT

AP - Mexico is protesting what it says is a whopper of an insult.

Congressman escapes injury in Somali mortar attack (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 04:47 PM PDT

U.S. congressman Donald Payne arrives at the airport in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, April 13, 2009. REUTERS/Ibrahim MohamedAP - Assailants fired mortar shells at the Mogadishu airport as a plane carrying an American congressman took off, a police officer said Monday. The plane departed safely, but 19 Somalis were reported wounded in surrounding residential areas.


Obama welcomes UN action on NKorea missile launch (AP)

Posted: 13 Apr 2009 04:43 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama is welcoming the U.N. Security Council's action condemning North Korea's recent missile launch.
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