2009年5月7日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News

Pakistan army fights, but can it win? (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 03:00 PM PDT

Soldiers of the Pakistan army on their way to the troubled valley of Swat where government security forces are fighting with Taliban militants, in Mardan near Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 6, 2009. Helicopter gunships and mortar teams pounded militant strongholds, killing dozens outside emerald mines, the military said, as Taliban reinforcements poured down from their mountain hide-outs and seized homes and government buildings. (AP Photo / Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Pakistan's army has a rare window of support for its latest campaign against Taliban militants near the Afghan border, and U.S. hopes are pinned on the military for bringing stability to both countries.

Afghan official: 147 dead in fighting (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:28 PM PDT

An Afghan boy places dirt over the grave of one of his family members after air strikes in Ganj Abad of Bala Buluk district, in Farah province, May 5, 2009. REUTERS/StringerAP - Sobbing relatives showed U.S. and Afghan investigators the demolished buildings and graves in two western villages where a local official said Thursday he collected the names of 147 people killed in a disputed incident involving American forces and Taliban militants.

Thousands of civilians flee Pakistani war zone (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:01 PM PDT

Residents of Mingora capital of Pakistani troubled Swat valley flee Thursday, May 7, 2009. Thousands of terrified Pakistanis dodged Taliban roadblocks to flee a northwestern valley on Thursday as the army stepped up ground and air assaults on the guerrillas applauded by the U.S., witnesses said. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)AP - Thousands of Pakistanis skirted burning military trucks Thursday as they fled clashes between Taliban militants and the army in the northwest, adding a humanitarian emergency to the nation's daunting challenges.

Brazilians flee anacondas, alligators amid floods (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 01:50 PM PDT

Manu Santoslooks out from a window at her house now sitting in a flooded area in Rosario, in the Brazilian northeast state of Maranhao, Thursday, May 7, 2009. Floods have killed at least 32 and left nearly 200,000 homeless across a vast region stretching from the Amazon jungle to the northeastern Atlantic coast as meteorologists predict the bad weather could last for weeks.(AP Photo/ Andre Penner)AP - The dirt road that runs in front of her house is a river. Her fields of rice and manioc lie ruined underwater. And with water seeping into her mud-brick, thatched-roof home, Maria do Remedio Santos knows it's time to join her neighbors.

"The Simpsons" get the (postal) stamp of success (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2009 04:55 PM PDT

Reuters - Even Homer might have more to say than "D'oh".

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

Posted: 07 May 2009 04:07 PM PDT

AP - As of Thursday, May 7, 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.

Brazil, Argentina confirm first cases of swine flu (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 04:16 PM PDT

AP - Brazil and Argentina have confirmed five swine flu cases within their borders as the virus affects more nations in South America.

SAfrican village remembers president's boyhood (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 02:32 PM PDT

Elizabeth Shange sits in yard of her homestead in KwaNxamalala, South Africa, Thursday May 7, 2009. In the rural village where Jacob Zuma grew up, elders marvel at how the boy they remember herding livestock by day and learning to read by candlelight at night has risen to become the President-elect of South Africa. For the youngsters who take their father's cattle out to pasture every dawn and fetch them after school at dusk, Zuma's life is a lesson in perseverance and hope. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)AP - Some of Ngobela Magwaza's fondest memories of his youth are of herding livestock through the lush Zululand wilderness of South Africa with Jacob Zuma, the man who is to become president of Africa's economic powerhouse.

Unsafe, salvaged cars cause havoc in Kabul (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2009 05:06 PM PDT

Reuters - More than seven years after the fall of the Taliban, the streets of Kabul are gridlocked with cars, many of them so rickety they failed roadworthy tests at home and were shipped off to Afghanistan instead.

New Zealand cops lock down city in gunman standoff (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2009 01:31 PM PDT

AP - Volleys of gunfire from a house kept police from retrieving the body of an shot officer early Friday as an hourslong standoff with the suspected gunman continued.

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