2009年4月26日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

World governments race to contain swine flu outbreak (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 06:20 PM PDT

Passenger Maria Pia, of Uruguay, wears a protective face mask as she waits for her flight at the airport in Mexico City, Sunday, April 26, 2009. Health workers are screening airports and bus stations for people sickened by a new strain of swine flu that experts fear could become a global epidemic. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP - The world's governments raced to avoid both a pandemic and global hysteria Sunday as more possible swine flu cases surfaced from Canada to New Zealand and the United States declared a public health emergency. "It's not a time to panic," the White House said.

Mexico City locks itself in amid swine flu fears (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 06:13 PM PDT

A family wearing surgical masks to prevent infection wait for a relative to arrive at the airport in Mexico City, Sunday, April 26, 2009. Health workers screened airports and bus stations Sunday for people sickened by a new strain of swine flu that experts fear could become a global epidemic. The sign reads in Spanish 'We are waiting Carmen Aria Gamboa.'(AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP - The cardinal said Mass in a shuttered cathedral. Soccer teams played to empty stadiums. A televised variety show filled its seats with cardboard cutouts. Mexico's overcrowded capital locked itself indoors Sunday, terrified by a new strain of swine flu that was spreading around the world.

Swine flu fears prompt quarantine plans, pork bans (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 05:07 PM PDT

Axel Sanchez wears a protective face mask as he waits for his flight at the airport in Tijuana, Mexico, Sunday, April 26, 2009. In Mexico, 86 deaths are suspected to be from a new strain of swine flu, with 22 of those confirmed, and nearly 1,400 people are believed infected. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Canada became the third country to confirm human cases of swine flu Sunday as global health officials considered whether to raise the global pandemic alert level.

Iraq: US raid 'crime' that breaks security pact (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 05:30 PM PDT

In this photo taken Sunday, April 19, 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gestures as he speaks at a meeting at the Iraqi Interior Ministry in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Maliki denounced a deadly U.S. raid on Sunday April 26, 2009 in the southern Shiite city of Kut, which left at least one person dead and six arrested, as a 'crime' that violated the security pact with Washington and demanded American commanders hand over those responsible to face possible trial in Iraqi courts. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Iraq's prime minister denounced a deadly U.S. raid on Sunday as a "crime" that violated the security pact with Washington and demanded American commanders hand over those responsible to face possible trial in Iraqi courts.

Sri Lankan rebels declare unilateral cease-fire (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 10:45 AM PDT

Internally displaced Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil civilians gather around a truck to receive food at a camp for the displaced in Manic Farm in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, Sunday, April 26, 2009. (AP Photo/ Sanath Priyantha)AP - Facing imminent battlefield defeat, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels declared a unilateral cease-fire Sunday and called on the government to halt its offensive to spare the tens of thousands of civilians trapped by the fighting.

Swiss heartland voters ban nude hiking in Alps (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 05:48 PM PDT

People in Appenzell Inner Rhodes, Switzerland, vote by raising their hands on Sunday, April 26, 2009. Voters have banned naked hiking after dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their picturesque region. By a show of hands citizens of the tiny canton of Appenzell Inner Rhodes voted overwhelmingly at their traditional open-air annual assembly to impose a 200 Swiss franc ($176) fine on violators. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE/Ennio Leanza)AP - Voters in the heart of the Swiss Alps on Sunday passed legislation banning naked hiking after dozens of mostly German nudists started rambling through their picturesque region.

Egypt unveils ancient necropolis south of Cairo (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 11:08 AM PDT

An Egyptian worker brushes an ancient Pharaonic sarcophagus of Illahun mayor's daughter dated to the 22nd Dynasty (ca. 931-725 BC) inside a rock-cut tomb which has been discovered by an Egyptian archaeological mission sponsored by the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) southeastern part of the pyramid field of Illahun, Sunday April 26, 2009, in Egypt's Fayoum region. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)AP - Egyptian archaeologists on Sunday unveiled mummies, brightly painted sarcophagi and dozens of ancient tombs carved into a rocky hill in a desert oasis south of Cairo.

Ecuador's Correa declares re-election victory (AP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 06:21 PM PDT

AP - President Rafael Correa, a leftist champion of the poor, declared re-election victory Sunday just moments after the polls closed — a win that breaks sharply with Ecuador's history of political instability.

Malaysia seizes smuggled cobras, tortoises: report (AFP)

Posted: 26 Apr 2009 05:57 PM PDT

An Indian Star tortoise crawls over its fellow tortoises as it jostles for space in a holding box at the Wildlife Protection and National Parks Department headquarters in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur in 2007. Malaysian authorities seized 814 tortoises and 160 king cobras as they were being smuggled out of the country on its northern border, according to a report Sunday.(AFP/File/Tengku Bahar)AFP - Malaysian authorities seized 814 tortoises and 160 king cobras as they were being smuggled out of the country on its northern border, according to a report.

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