2009年5月8日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Pakistani army vows to oust Taliban militants (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 05:05 PM PDT

A local resident of Buner in Pakistan's troubled Swat valley walks past the destruction caused by fights between Taliban militants and government security forces on Friday, May 8, 2009. Pakistani jets screamed over a Taliban-controlled town Friday and bombed suspected militant positions as hundreds of thousands fled in terror and other trapped residents appealed for a pause in the fighting so they could escape. (AP Photo)AP - Pakistan's army vowed Friday to eliminate militants from a northwestern valley but warned that its under-equipped troops face thousands of Taliban extremists who have seized towns, planted bombs made from pressure cookers, and dragooned children to be suicide bombers.

British MPs expense X-rated movies, horse manure (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 02:41 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown attends a ceremony to unveil a memorial to murdered police officer Sharon Beshenivsky in Bradford, England, Friday May 8, 2009. Brown claimed thousands of pounds for a cleaner while other ministers claimed for gardeners, beds and television sets, a newspaper report revealed Friday, a disclosure certain to fuel public outrage over lawmaker excess. Brown's office immediately defended the expenses, published in Britain's Daily Telegraph, arguing that no rules were broken. The newspaper reported that some ministers used public money to furnish or upgrade their homes.(AP Photos/John Giles-pa)AP - It has all the makings of a Monty Python sketch — prim British lawmakers caught in a farce over expense claims for everything from X-rated movies to a bathtub plug.

Hong Kong lifts hotel quarantine where flu found (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:10 PM PDT

Hotel residents wait for release from quarantine at the Metropark Hotel where they were held for a week in Hong Kong Friday, May 8, 2009. Hong Kong on Friday lifted its weeklong quarantine on a downtown hotel where a Mexican swine flu patient stayed, releasing some 280 guests and employees who were isolated in the building. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)AP - Hong Kong lifted a weeklong quarantine Friday of an upscale hotel where Asia's first swine flu case was traced, allowing 280 guests and workers to end an isolation that was criticized as overkill by some but a medical necessity by authorities.

Brazilians flee flooding, stay in cow pens (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:16 PM PDT

A family, displaced by the floods, stay in a shelter in Bacabal, in the Brazilian northeastern state of Maranhao, Friday, May 8, 2009. Northern Brazil's worst floods in decades have driven tens of thousands from their homes to seek refuge wherever they can, packing onto flatbed trucks and braving rivers teeming with deadly reptiles in a scramble for higher ground.(AP Photo/ Andre Penner)AP - Brazilians huddled in cow pens converted into emergency shelters Friday, as swollen rivers continue to rise and northern Brazil's worst floods in decades boosted the number of homeless to nearly 300,000. The death toll rose to 39, and coffins started popping out of the soaked earth.

US denies 147 civilians killed in Afghan violence (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 12:39 PM PDT

Soldiers from the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry return to their base Camp Restrepo in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar Province on Friday May 8, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - Video of the aftermath of a disputed incident involving American forces and the Taliban shows bloodied bodies of children laid out with other corpses, confirming international Red Cross findings at the two remote villages in western Afghanistan.

Demjanjuk appeals German arrest warrant (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 02:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 28, 2005 file photo, John Demjanjuk arrives at the federal building in Cleveland for an immigration hearing. A German lawyer for suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk is seeking to block his client's deportation from the United States, a spokesman said Monday May 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)AP - John Demjanjuk's German attorney on Friday challenged a Munich arrest warrant charging the suspected Nazi death camp guard with 29,000 counts of accessory to murder, in the hope of stopping his deportation from the U.S.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,285 (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 05:16 PM PDT

AP - As of Friday, May 8, 2009, at least 4,285 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Angry mob lynches 2 robbery suspects in Ecuador (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 05:05 PM PDT

AP - Police say an angry mob dragged two suspected robbers from a police station in Ecuador and burned them to death.

Zimbabwe PM: Get over obsession with Robert Mugabe (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:21 PM PDT

AP - In an impassioned appeal Friday, Zimbabwe's long-suffering Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai called for people to get over their obsession with his longtime enemy, President Robert Mugabe.

Pakistan president sees 'war' against Taliban (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:52 PM PDT

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, seen here on May 6, 2009, listens as US President Barack Obama speaks after a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC. Zardari pledged Friday to mount an all-out war against Taliban extremists, pledging to kill the militants in a military offensive.(AFP/File/Jim Watson)AFP - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari pledged Friday to mount an all-out war against Taliban extremists, pledging to kill the militants in a military offensive.

NZ police retrieve officer's body; siege continues (AP)

Posted: 08 May 2009 04:36 PM PDT

Armed policemen are fitted with bullet proof vests at the scene in Napier New Zealand, on Friday May 8, 2009 after a deadly shooting that left at least one dead and three wounded. The shooting spree that killed one and wounded three more began after three unarmed officers arrived at the property with a warrant to search for cannabis. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Alan Gibson)AP - Police set off an explosion early Saturday at the home of a man who has held them at bay for more than two days after allegedly killing a officer.

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