2009年4月30日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News

Flu brings less crime, blue sky to Mexico City (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 03:37 PM PDT

A man wearing a protective mask to prevent infection from swine flu exits a subway station to an empty plaza in downtown Mexico City Thursday April 30, 2009. Mexico is telling citizens to stay home, urging businesses to close for five days and suspending government services as the World Health Organization warns the swine flu outbreak is on the brink of becoming a global epidemic.(AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - The sound of leaves rustling in the wind replace a cacophony of commuter car horns. The lone bark of a dog echoes from a far-off balcony into the normally bustling restaurant district, suddenly empty of lunchtime crowds and late-night revelers.

AP Investigation: Mexico's first flu death (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 02:56 PM PDT

Doctors look at the charts of a patient who is suspected of having swine flu at a hospital in Oaxaca, Mexico, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with the first person to die of swine flu. The 39-year-old woman arrived at their hospital gasping for air, her hands and feet blue from oxygen-starved blood.

Car hits crowd watching Dutch queen, kills 5 (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 01:38 PM PDT

A car ploughs through spectators in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Thursday, April 30, 2009. Dutch authorities say a speeding car that raced toward an open bus carrying Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family during a holiday parade has killed four people and injured 13 others. Prosecutors said the incident was deliberate, but not an act of terrorism. The small black car was heading at high speed toward the royal bus and passed within a few meters of it before plowing into a stone monument. Police declined to identify the driver beyond saying he was a white Dutch male, aged 38, who had no police record or history of mental illness. (AP Photo/Robin Utrecht, Pool)AP - A Dutch driver careened through police barriers and plowed into a crowd of merrymakers cheering their popular queen Thursday, in a premeditated assault on the royal family that killed five bystanders and injured 12, authorities said.

Iraqi refugees stay put despite relative calm (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 12:25 PM PDT

Iraqi men gather in a street in al-Sayda Zeinab, an area in southern Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, April 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Ola Rifai)AP - The vast majority of Iraqis who fled their country have no plans to return even though violence is way down, many hoping instead to resettle in the West.

Schoolgirl feeling 'rotten' as flu cases grow (AFP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:01 PM PDT

A passenger arrives at Gatwick Airport on a flight from Cancun in Mexico. Three more cases of swine flu were confirmed in Britain Thursday, bringing the total number to eight including one 12-year-old schoolgirl described as feeling AFP - Three more cases of swine flu were confirmed in Britain Thursday, bringing the total number to eight including one 12-year-old schoolgirl described as feeling "rotten".

British forces end combat operations in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:13 PM PDT

In this photo made available by the British Ministry of Defence, Brigadier Tom Beckett, right, the commander of the British army 20th Armoured Brigade, U.S. army Maj. Gen. Michael Oates, second right, and unidentified military personnel salute, as British Secretary of State for Defence, John Hutton, left, looks on during a handover ceremony in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 30, 2009. British forces handed over military control of the Basra area to U.S. commanders Thursday to clear the way for America's main battlefield ally to exit Iraq after more than six years of war. (AP Photo/Cpl. Dylan Browne, MoD)AP - The Iraq war formally ended for British forces on Thursday as America's main battlefield ally handed control of the oil-rich Basra area to U.S. commanders and prepared to ship out most of its remaining 4,000 troops.

Veneuzla asks Interpol to go after 2nd Chavez foe (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 03:10 PM PDT

AP - Venezuela has sought Interpol's help in seeking the arrest of Alfredo Pena, a political opponent of President Hugo Chavez who is facing corruption allegations, the Attorney General's Office said Thursday.

U.N. extends peacekeepers' mandate in southern Sudan (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:46 PM PDT

Reuters - The Security Council on Thursday extended for another year the mandate of U.N. peacekeepers in southern Sudan who monitor compliance with a peace deal that ended Sudan's two-decade-long civil war.

(AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:43 PM PDT

AP - Japan says its jobless rate rose to 4.8 percent in March.

Jet takeoff in Australia marred by bad weight data (AP)

Posted: 30 Apr 2009 04:23 AM PDT

AP - A jetliner struggled to liftoff and only took flight after slamming its tail into the runway in March because someone entered the wrong weight for the plane into the flight's computer, Australian investigators said Thursday.

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