2009年5月11日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

Brazil boosts flood aid for 308K left homeless (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 04:23 PM PDT

Homes are flooded in Boa Vista do Gurupi in Brazil's northeastern state of Maranhao, Monday, May 11, 2009. Flooding has killed 40 and forced nearly 300,000 Brazilians from their homes. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)AP - Brazil intensified efforts to get food and other aid to people isolated by severe flooding as waters continued rising Monday in a jungle state nearly the size of Alaska, and the number of homeless rose to 308,000.

American kills 5 fellow soldiers at clinic in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 04:07 PM PDT

FILE - This Sept. 11 2008, file photo, shows U.S. Army soldiers saluting American flags at a ceremony at Camp Liberty in Baghdad on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. A U.S. soldier opened fire on fellow troops Monday, May 11, 2009, killing five before being taken into custody, the U.S. command said. The shooting occurred at the camp, a sprawling U.S. base on the western edge of Baghdad. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, file)AP - An American soldier opened fire at a counseling center on a military base Monday, killing five fellow soldiers before being taken into custody, the U.S. command and Pentagon officials said.

Analysis: Hint of moderation in American's release (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 02:59 PM PDT

Reza Saberi, center, father of US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, arrives at home where he is surrounded by media, after his daughter was freed Monday after four months in jail, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 11, 2009. Her parents said they would bring her home to the U.S. within days. Roxana has yet to be seen in public since her release.(AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - The judicial reversal that led to the release of an Iranian-American from prison in Tehran on Monday could now offer hints of moderation by Iran's ruling Islamic clerics — making room for possible overtures by the Obama administration.

Demjanjuk's health a key issue for any trial (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 04:53 PM PDT

FILE - A World War II-era military service pass for John Demjanjuk is seen in this exhibit released by the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002. A federal judge stripped Demjanjuk of his U.S. citizenship for a second time Thursday, saying that World War II documents, including a military service pass, prove Demjanjuk worked in Nazi camps in Sobibor, Trawniki, Majdanek in Poland, and Flossenburg in Germany. A Berlin court on Monday May 11, 2009, rejected an appeal by suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk aimed at preventing his deportation to Germany. (AP Photo/Department of Justice, HO)AP - John Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker who was deported Monday to Germany, is accused of being a guard at a death camp were 29,000 Jews and others were killed.

Refugees flood camps as Pakistan presses Taliban (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 03:20 PM PDT

Children wait to get food at a refugee camp in Mardan, in northwest Pakistan, Monday, May 11, 2009. The U.N. said 360,600 refugees had fled Swat and neighboring Dir and Buner districts since Pakistan's army launched a new offensive against Taliban militants last week. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)AP - Men lined up in the baking sun and children held empty food bowls as hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis fled the battle between the army and the Taliban, raising the risk Monday that public support could turn against an offensive Washington sees as a must-win battle.

Ex-Nazi camp guard set for deportation flight (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 04:15 PM PDT

A picture taken in 1993 shows John Demjanjuk, then aquitted of being the Nazi death camp guard Ivan the Terrible, eating breakfast aboard his El Al flight from Tel Aviv to New York. Demjanjuk was taken from his Ohio home Monday for deportation to Germany where he faces charges of helping murder 29,000 Jews in World War II.(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)AFP - Former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was taken from his Ohio home Monday for deportation to Germany where he faces charges of helping murder 29,000 Jews in World War II.

US journalist freed by Iran, reunited with parents (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Reza Saberi and his wife Akiko, parents of US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, wait before their daughter Roxana leaves jail outside of Evin prison in Tehran on Monday May 11, 2009. A lawyer for a U.S. journalist jailed in Iran says she has been freed from prison after an appeals court suspended her eight-year jail sentence. Roxana, a 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen, was convicted last month of spying for the U.S. and sentenced to eight-years in prison, but an appeals court reduced her jail term on Monday to a two-year suspended sentence. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)AP - An American journalist imprisoned on espionage charges in Iran for four months was freed Monday and reunited with her smiling, tearful parents — a move that clears a major obstacle to President Barack Obama's attempts at dialogue with the top U.S. adversary in the Middle East. The United States had said the charges against Roxana Saberi, a 32-year-old dual Iranian-American citizen, were baseless and repeatedly demanded her release.

Venezuela seizes 2 tons of cocaine, arrest 3 (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 02:16 PM PDT

AP - Venezuelan authorities have seized nearly two tons of cocaine and arrested three suspects in their largest drug bust in months, the country's top counter-drug official said Monday.

Libya reports prison suicide of top Qaeda man (Reuters)

Posted: 11 May 2009 01:42 PM PDT

Reuters - A Libyan Islamist whose fabricated testimony about al Qaeda was used by the United States to justify its 2003 invasion of Iraq has killed himself in his Libyan jail cell, a Libyan newspaper reported on Monday.

US fires top general in Afghanistan as war worsens (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 04:51 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (L) and U.S. Army General David McKiernan (R), Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, listen to Afghan governors and local officials during their visit to Forward Operating Base Airborne in the mountains of Wardak Province, Afghanistan, May 8, 2009. REUTERS/Jason Reed (AFGHANISTAN MILITARY)AP - President Barack Obama fired the top U.S. general in Afghanistan on Monday, replacing him with a former special forces commander in a quest for a more agile, unconventional approach in a war that has gone quickly downhill.

Australia's Iraq mission to formally end July 31 (AP)

Posted: 11 May 2009 07:20 AM PDT

Iraqi prison guards celebrate their graduation in the U.S. military Camp Bucca, near Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 7, 2009. About 280 prison guards graduated from a course organized by the Iraqi justice department at Camp Bucca Thursday. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)AP - Australia will formally end its military mission in Iraq at the end of July, the armed forces chief announced Monday, bringing the country's involvement in one war to a close even as it prepares to send more troops to Afghanistan.

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