2009年4月16日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News

Obama says Cuba should make next move on relations (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:19 PM PDT

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, and Cuban President Raul Castro, left, wave during the official photo of the ALBA Summit in Cumana, Venezuela, Thursday, April 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)AP - President Barack Obama wants Havana to make the next move to improve U.S.-Cuba relations, saying Thursday that he needs to see signs of changes on the island before he makes any more overtures.

Singing `spinster' strikes chord in talent contest (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:25 PM PDT

Susan Boyle, who's performance on the television show 'Britain's Got Talent' wowed the judges, poses singing with a hairbrush at her home in Blackburn, Scotland, Thursday April 16, 2009. The frumpy 47-year-old, who says she's never been kissed, has gained celebrity fans and millions of admirers - including a fair number of men - since appearing on the show. Her fame has been fueled by new technology, with a clip of her performance viewed more than 12 million times on YouTube.(AP Photo)AP - Susan Boyle lives alone in a row house with her cat Pebbles, a drab existence in one of Scotland's poorest regions. She cared for her widowed mother for years, never married and sang in church and at karaoke nights at the pub.

15 gunmen, 1 soldier killed in Mexican shootout (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:50 PM PDT

AP - A shootout between Mexican troops and a convoy of gunmen left 15 assailants and one soldier dead hours before President Barack Obama arrived in the country to show his support for the fight against drug cartels.

Convoys: the solution to the Somali piracy crisis? (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 03:43 PM PDT

FILE - This March 15, 1941, file photo shows a World War II convoy as it steams along the east coast of England, with supplies for London, on March 15, 1941. Some say the strategy of using convoys should be employed against pirates off the Horn of Africa. NATO hasn't ruled the idea out, but maritime experts say there are too few military resources, too many ships to protect and the cost would be too high. (AP Photo)AP - The U.S. employed them during World War II: armed convoys on the high seas to protect Allied shipping lanes from German subs. Could the same work with pirates?

Russia ends Chechen counterterrorism operation (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 01:46 PM PDT

Young people dance celebrating the cancellation of the counterterrorism regime in Chechnya, in the regional capital Grozny, Chechnya, Thursday, April 16, 2009. Russia on Thursday ordered an end to its counterterrorism regime in Chechnya, a move that could lead to the withdrawal of tens of thousands of troops from the southern republic battered by two separatist wars in the past 15 years. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)AP - Chechens danced in the streets and waved flags to celebrate Russia's decision Thursday to end its decadelong counterterrorism operation in the war-weary southern region.

Sweden: Fire forces evacuation of ferry (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 05:01 PM PDT

AP - Hundreds of people living aboard a docked passenger ferry were evacuated Thursday after a fire broke out in the engine room, police said. There were no reports of injuries.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,273 (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:40 PM PDT

A shadow of a US marine, is seen on a bullet-riddled wall during a foot patrol in the Sunni city of Fallujah, in 2005. A US federal judge Thursday sentenced an Iraqi-born Dutch citizen to 25 years in prison for conspiring to kill Americans in Iraq in the first case of its kind, the US Justice Department said.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)AP - As of Thursday, April 16, 2009, at least 4,273 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 opposes Americas Summit declaration (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:33 PM PDT

Bolivia's President Evo Morales, Cuba's President Raul Castro, center, and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, wave during the official photo of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, or ALBA, Summit in Cumana, Venezuela, Thursday, April 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)AP - President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that Venezuela will vote against the declaration of the Summit of the Americas in a gesture of protest against the United States.

Somali leader: Give us resources to pursue pirates (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:08 PM PDT

Somalia's Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday April 16, 2009. Somalia's prime minister says his government has identified many pirate leaders but needs more resources to go after them. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)AP - The United States pressed Somalia on Thursday to root out the pirates menacing the seas off the Horn of Africa, and its prime minister said he could go after them if other nations give him the resources he needs.

China presses U.S. to engage North Korea: report (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 04:57 PM PDT

North Korea's nuclear sites including the Yongbyon nuclear facility. The United States said Thursday that a committee under the UN Security Council was meeting on expanding sanctions against North Korea in the wake of its rocket launch.(AFP/Graphic)Reuters - China wants the United States to engage North Korea directly in a bid to ease escalating tensions over Pyongyang's renewed nuclear weapons activities, China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told Japan's Nikkei newspaper.

Blast on asylum seekers' boat off Australia; 3 die (AP)

Posted: 16 Apr 2009 06:32 AM PDT

AP - Afghan asylum seekers being escorted to an Australian detention center doused their boat in gasoline before an explosion killed three people Thursday and left two others missing at sea, officials said.

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