2009年6月13日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Election battles turn into street fights in Iran (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 03:34 PM PDT

A supporter of Iranian reformist presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, holds a piece of stone and with his covered his face with green scarf symbolizing his party's color as the others burn a trash bin in Tehran, Saturday, June 13, 2009. Supporters of the main election challenger to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with police and set up barricades of burning tires Saturday as authorities claimed the hard-line president was re-elected in a landslide. The rival candidate said the vote was tainted by widespread fraud and his followers responded with the most serious unrest in the capital in a decade. (AP Photo)AP - Opponents of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with police in the heart of Iran's capital Saturday, pelting them with rocks and setting fires in the worst unrest in Tehran in a decade. They accused the hard-line president of using fraud to steal election victory from his reformist rival.

World reacts cautiously to Iranian's re-election (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 03:04 PM PDT

Iranians stop to look at the morning's newspapers at a street kiosk in central Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 13, 2009. Hard-line incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was heading for a surprise landslide with nearly 80 percent of votes counted in Iran's stormy presidential elections, the Interior Ministry said early Saturday, but his pro-reform rival Mir Hossein Mousavi countered that he was the clear victor and accused authorities of fraud. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)AP - The U.S. and Canada challenged Iran's claims that hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election, but much of the rest of the world remained silent Saturday despite claims of fraud and scenes of clashes on the streets of Tehran.

Defying sanctions, NKorea vows to make more nukes (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 02:47 PM PDT

Visitor looks at a collage of images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on display at a unification observation post near the border village of Panmunjom, which separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea, Saturday, June 13, 2009. North Korea vowed on Saturday to embark on a uranium enrichment program and 'weaponize' all the plutonium in its possession as it rejected the new U.N. sanctions meant to punish the communist nation for its recent nuclear test. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - North Korea responded to new U.N. sanctions with more defiance, promising Saturday to step up its nuclear bomb-making program by enriching uranium and threatening war on any country that dares to stop its ships on the high seas.

Iraqi leaders rally after murder of Sunni lawmaker (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 10:33 AM PDT

Men cry over the coffin of Iraqi lawmaker Harith al-Obeidi, the leader of the largest Sunni bloc in parliament, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 13, 2009. Iraq's top leaders in a show of solidarity attended the funeral Saturday of a prominent Sunni lawmaker assassinated outside a mosque, in an attack seen as an attempt to destabilize sectarian relations in the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - The government Saturday blamed al-Qaida in Iraq for killing a prominent Sunni lawmaker as leaders across the sectarian divide rallied together, deploring the murder and pledging to prevent a new wave of religious violence that once plunged the country to the brink of civil war.

US suspect says she saw slain woman as a friend (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 01:00 PM PDT

US murder suspect Amanda Knox smiles as she sits for a hearing in the Meredith Kercher murder trial, in Perugia, Italy, Saturday, June 13, 2009. Knox and her former Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, are on trial for the murder of Knox's British roommate, student Meredith Kercher, found dead in the house they shared in Nov. 2007. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)AP - PERUGIA, Italy — An American student who denies murdering her British roommate testified Saturday that she was shocked by the death of a woman she considered her friend, and said a "crescendo" of police pressure led her to accuse an innocent man.

After a Disputed Election, Tehran's Streets Become a Battleground (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 11:00 AM PDT

Time.com - Protests last through the night, as opponents of Ahmadinejad cry foul after the incumbent is declared the winner of Iran's presidential vote

Britain to unveil Iraq inquiry this week: reports (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:35 PM PDT

British soldiers pose for a photograph along the parade ground in Baghdad's fortified AFP - The British government will announce an inquiry into the war in Iraq this week, media reported.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,312 (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:31 PM PDT

AP - As of Saturday, June 13, 2009, at least 4,312 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Air France jet sent message on rudder problem (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:27 PM PDT

In this photo taken through a window glass, Brazilian legal police officers carry a body, recovered from the ocean during search operations for the missing Air France flight 447, at the Recife's airport, Brazil, Saturday, June 13, 2009. Almost two weeks after the crash, Brazil's military said that June 25 has been set as a tentative date for halting efforts and that starting Monday officials will meet every two days to evaluate when to stop the search, depending on whether they are still recovering bodies or debris. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - A burst of automatic messages sent by Air France Flight 447 before it crashed includes one about a problem with a rudder safety device but lacks decisive clues as to what sent the jet plunging into the Atlantic Ocean two weeks ago, an aviation expert said Saturday.

Tribal fighters attack South Sudan food barges (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 02:20 PM PDT

Reuters - Armed tribesmen attacked barges carrying U.N. food aid in south Sudan, leaving an unknown number of casualties in the latest in an outbreak of ethnic violence, officials said on Saturday.

Clinton praises UN penalties against North Korea (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 05:09 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in the center of the Rainbow Bridge which connects the USA with Canada at Niagara Falls, N.Y. on Saturday, June 13, 2009. In brief remarks in Canada, Clinton cited 'the enthusiasm and the very vigorous debate and dialogue' in the run-up to the vote, in Iran. (AP Photo/Robert Kirkham)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday new U.N. penalties against North Korea provide the necessary tools to help check the communist nation's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Canada decries "rising tide" of U.S. protectionism (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 12:58 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada decried on Saturday a "rising tide of protectionism" in the United States, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the "Buy American" provisions in an economic stimulus package will not interfere with U.S. trade obligations.

S.African expat denies $1.2 bln 'Ponzi' scheme (AFP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 04:33 AM PDT

The Simonsberg mountain outside Cape Town. An expatriate South African businessman accused of a massive pyramid scheme fraud that cost wealthy investors up to 1.2 billion US dollars has denied any wrongdoing, reports said(AFP/File/Anna Zieminski)AFP - An expatriate South African businessman accused of running a massive pyramid scheme that cost wealthy investors up to 1.2 billion US dollars has denied any wrongdoing, reports said Saturday.

Pakistan Taliban leader faces threat from fellow tribesman (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 03:59 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A new Islamic militia leader has emerged in Pakistan to openly challenge al Qaida-affiliated warlord Baitullah Mehsud for the first time from within his own tribe, marking the start of a bloody confrontation in the wild Waziristan region that could have profound consequences for both Pakistan and the West.

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