2009年4月29日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

WHO says swine flu pandemic is imminent (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 05:35 PM PDT

President Barack Obama leaves the White House, Wednesday, April 29, 2009, for a trip to St. Louis, Mo.. to hold a town hall meeting. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)AP - Global health authorities warned Wednesday that swine flu was threatening to bloom into a pandemic, and the virus spread farther in Europe even as the outbreak appeared to stabilize at its epicenter. A toddler who succumbed in Texas became the first death outside Mexico.

World takes drastic steps to contain swine flu (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 02:45 PM PDT

An Egyptian girl provides food for pigs at her family's private farm located in one large pig farming center north of Cairo, Egypt Wednesday April 29, 2009. Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country Wednesday, as a precaution against swine flu even though no cases have been reported, infuriating farmers who resisted the move and demanded compensation. (AP Photo/Nasser Nouri)AP - From Egypt's order that all 300,000 pigs in the country be slaughtered to travel bans and putting the kibosh on kissing, the world is taking drastic — and some say debatable — measures to combat swine flu.

Swine flu an epidemic of losses for Mexico economy (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 02:44 PM PDT

A woman sleeps on a nearly-vacant American Airlines flight from Miami to Mexico City, late Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Mexico City's Chamber of Commerce estimates that widespread closures and cancellations of events to prevent the spread of swine flu is costing the city about $57 million U.S. Dollars per day. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - The music of James Brown plays to an empty Starbucks. A woman has virtually an entire airliner to herself as she flies into Mexico City. Beach chairs go begging on Cancun's sugary sand.

Car bombs kill at least 41 in Baghdad Shiite area (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 01:13 PM PDT

People gather around the wreckage of a car destroyed in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Two car bombs exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad's main Shiite district on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, and wounding scores, Iraqi police said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Twin car bombs ravaged a popular shopping area in Baghdad's biggest Shiite district Wednesday, killing at least 41 people in another powerful strike by suspected Sunni insurgents seeking a return to sectarian chaos.

Huge ice chunks break away from Antarctic shelf (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 04:06 PM PDT

An Envisat Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) image dated April 28, 2009 and made available on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 shows the breaking away of the ice bridge of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica - The Charcot Island, visible in the upper left corner of the image, and the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the lower right corner, are connected by an ice bridge which is approximately 100 kilometers long and only a few kilometers wide. Should the ice bridge break up due to increasing temperatures in the Antarctic spring, this would remove the stabilizing factor that has been keeping the ice sheet grounded to the peninsula. (AP Photo/European Space Agency ESA)AP - Massive ice chunks are crumbling away from a shelf in the western Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday, warning that 1,300 square miles of ice — an area larger than Rhode Island — was in danger of breaking off in coming weeks.

French lawmakers reconsider Internet piracy bill (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 04:18 PM PDT

AP - French legislators reconsidered a bill Wednesday that would punish people who illegally download music and films by cutting off their Internet connections.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,278 (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 04:13 PM PDT

AP - As of Wednesday, April 29, 2009, at least 4,278 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Rights group: Mexico fails to punish army abuse (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 04:43 PM PDT

AP - Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that the Mexican army is failing to hold soldiers to account for possible human rights abuses including killings, torture and rape.

Canadian woman kidnapped still being held (AP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 02:47 PM PDT

AP - Security forces in Nigeria arrested a man for taking a Canadian woman hostage this month, but other kidnappers were still believed to be holding her, police said Wednesday.

Bomb kills 9 in Turkey, police detain 2 suicide bombers (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 05:29 PM PDT

Turkish soldiers patrol on the road near the town of Lice, southeastern Turkey, April 29, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Nine soldiers were killed in southeast Turkey in the worst attack in months and police detained two suspected suicide bombers in the capital on Wednesday in an escalation of tensions.

Australia intercepts two new refugee boats: govt (AFP)

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 02:51 AM PDT

A handout photo on April 15, 2009 from the Australian Customs & Border Protection Service shows a boat that had been carrying refugees, and later exploded. Two boats carrying almost 80 people were intercepted Wednesday off Australia's northern coast as the conservative political opposition called for an independent inquiry into refugee policy.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Two boats carrying almost 80 people were intercepted Wednesday off Australia's northern coast as the conservative political opposition called for an independent inquiry into refugee policy.

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