2009年5月4日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

Some fear flu rebound as Mexico seeks 'normalcy' (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 06:39 PM PDT

A couple embraces as they wear masks as a precaution against swine flu in the subway in Mexico City, Monday, May 4, 2009. Mexican officials lowered their swine flu alert level in the capital on Monday and said they will allow universities, cafes, museums and libraries to reopen this week. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - Mexico announced a return to "normalcy" on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,400 people in 20 countries. World health officials said the global epidemic is still in its early stages, and that a pandemic could be declared in the days to come.

45 killed in attack on engagement party in Turkey (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 06:33 PM PDT

Forty-one people were killed when unidentified gunmen attacked a wedding party in southeastern Turkey on Monday, the acting governor of Mardin province said. REUTERS/GraphicAP - Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the bodies of slain friends fell on top of them during the onslaught.

Swine flu leaves Southern Hemisphere out in cold (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:46 PM PDT

A man and a woman wearing masks as a precaution against swine flu wait for relatives arriving from the US at the Sao Paulo international airport, Monday, May, 4, 2009. The swine flu epidemic has largely spared the Southern Hemisphere. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)AP - The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change when winter starts in coming weeks with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out in the cold.

Iraq insists on US leaving cities by June 30 (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 06:33 PM PDT

FILE - In this March 13, 2009 file photo, an Iraqi Army soldier and a U.S. Army soldiers from Delta Co., 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment stand guard during a joint patrol in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. The Feb. 24, 2009 shooting, which killed a U.S. solider and an interpreter and wounded five others, was an alarming inside job that reinforced what many fear: insurgents and sympathizers possibly infiltrating the ranks of Iraq's security forces. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, file)AP - Iraq's government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that Iraqi forces cannot cope with the security challenge following a resurgence of bombings in recent weeks.

Afghan president chooses warlord as running mate (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 06:38 PM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, speaks to media as his first vice president Mohammad Qasim Fahim, left, and his second vice president Karim Khalili are seen with him following his registration at the election commission office in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, May 4, 2009. Karzai has registered as a candidate for Afghanistan's August presidential election. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in Washington with President Barack Obama and Pakistan's president.

Israeli president: Iran threatens US, Europe (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 05:16 PM PDT

Israeli President Shimon Peres pauses during a speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee 2009 policy conference on Monday, May 4, 2009 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - Israel's president charged Monday that Iran's nuclear program threatens the United States, Europe and Arab nations, as well as Israel.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,284 (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:24 PM PDT

AP - As of Monday, May 4, 2009, at least 4,284 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Dictatorship-era official reappears in Paraguay (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 04:51 PM PDT

AP - A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the disappearance and killings of government opponents in the 1970s and 1980s.

SKorean warship rescues NKorean vessel off Somalia (AP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 12:20 PM PDT

In this photo released by South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, sailors of North Korean vessel Dabaksol wave their hands to South Korea's Lynx helicopter in 37 kilometers (23 miles) south of Aden port, in Yemen, Monday, May 4, 2009. A South Korean navy warship has rescued the North Korean freighter by driving away a pirate ship chasing it off Somalia. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday the 4,500-ton-class South Korean warship sent a Lynx helicopter to assist the North Korean vessel after receiving a distress call earlier Monday that it was being chased by the pirate ship. (AP Photo/South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, HO)AP - South Korean snipers hovering in a helicopter Monday chased away pirates pursuing a North Korean freighter, a rare instance of recent cooperation between the two Koreas.

Australian, UK WWI dead to get military funeral (AFP)

Posted: 04 May 2009 07:31 PM PDT

Australian soldiers chat in Fromelles, northern France, ahead of a solemn operation to exhume hundreds of fallen Australian and British soldiers from a World War I mass grave. Forensic experts will begin to exhume up to 400 servicement from a patch of land. The Australians and Britons, lost in the Battle of Fromelles in 1916, are thought to have been buried in pits by German forces.(AFP/Denis Charlet)AFP - Pilgrims and local people are to gather Tuesday in northern France to witness the solemn start of work to dig hundreds of fallen Australian and British troops from a World War I mass grave.

Australia delays carbon trade, may toughen target (Reuters)

Posted: 04 May 2009 06:58 AM PDT

The Sydney city skyline sits under a hazy sky May 4, 2009. Australia's government announced a one-year delay to its carbon emissions trading scheme on Monday, promising more support to big industry but opening the door to a tougher 2020 target in a bid to win its approval. REUTERS/Tim WimborneReuters - Australia's government put back its much-vaunted carbon-emissions trading scheme by a year on Monday, bowing to industry demands for more relief amid a recession while opening the door to an even deeper long-term reduction.

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