2009年6月14日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

Ahmadinejad opponents shout protests from rooftops (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 04:35 PM PDT

Iranian supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi are followed by Iranian riot-police in front of Tehran university during riots in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 14, 2009. Iranian youth opposed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took to the streets Sunday, setting trash dumpsters and tires on fire, in a second day of clashes triggered by voter fraud claims. (AP Photo)AP - Protesters battled police over Iran's disputed election and shouted their opposition from the rooftops Sunday, but President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the unrest as little more than "passions after a soccer match" and drew his own huge rally of support.

Iran puts curbs on media after disputed election (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 03:29 PM PDT

An Iranian riot police officer attacks a man with a stick near Tehran University. Several foreign news organisations complained Sunday that Iranian authorities were blocking their reporters from covering protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election.(AFP)AP - Iranian authorities criticized international media reports and took steps to control the flow of information from independent news sources as anti-government protests raged in the country for a second day Sunday.

Netanyahu endorses Palestinian independence (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 03:26 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv, Sunday, June 14, 2009. Netanyahu on Sunday called for creation of a limited Palestinian state for the first time, saying it would have to be disarmed.Netanyahu made the call during a major policy speech about his Mideast peacemaking intentions. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed a Palestinian state beside Israel for the first time on Sunday, reversing himself under U.S. pressure but attaching conditions such as having no army that the Palestinians swiftly rejected.

Pakistan orders army to go after Taliban chief (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 04:56 PM PDT

A child, who was injured in a bomb explosion in a market, is helped by his relatives after receiving initial treatment at a local hospital in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Sunday, June 14, 2009. A government official said the blast appeared to have been caused by a planted explosive device. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)AP - Pakistan ordered its army to go after the country's top Taliban commander, a feared al-Qaida-allied militant whose remote stronghold could prove a difficult test for troops but whose demise would remove a major threat to the country's stability.

NKorea warns of nuclear war amid rising tensions (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 11:02 AM PDT

South Korean protesters burn North Korean national flags during a rally, denouncing the ninth anniversary of the June 2000 summit between former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in front of Kim Dae-jung's house in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, June 14, 2009. North Korea's communist regime has warned of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula while vowing to step up its atomic bomb-making program in defiance of new U.N. sanctions. Banners read: 'Support U.N. sanctions.' (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - South Korea's president ordered his top security officials Sunday to deal "resolutely and squarely" with new North Korean warnings of a nuclear war on the eve of his U.S. visit. In Washington, Vice President Joe Biden said "God only knows" what North Korea wants from the latest showdown.

In a Lurch Toward the Center, Netanyahu Endorses Palestinian State (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 12:45 PM PDT

Time.com - But the hardliner leaves himself lots of wiggle room with the nettlesome settlers. Another surprise: scant mention of Iran

Murray ready to step up a level at Wimbledon (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 05:32 PM PDT

Britain's Andy Murray lifts the trophy after beating James Blake of the U.S in at Queen's Club in London. Murray won 7-5, 6-4(AFP/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Andy Murray admits he will have to produce the form of his life to follow his Queen's triumph with victory at Wimbledon.

In Argentina, dissident Cuban doctor has no grudge (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 05:40 PM PDT

Cuban doctor Hilda Molina, center, is greeted by her grandsons Juan Pablo, second left, and Roberto, right, and her son Roberto Quinones, left, as she arrives at the Buenos Aires international airport Sunday, June 14, 2009. Cuba has abruptly dropped its refusal to let Dr. Molina, a prominent physician who defied Fidel Castro by criticizing the communist-run island's health care system, leave the country, allowing her to visit family in Argentina after years of denials. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - A dissident Cuban surgeon said Sunday that she harbors no grudge against Fidel Castro upon arriving in Argentina for an emotional family reunion after being denied permission to leave Cuba for more than a decade.

Aphrodisiac-fuelled sex on rise in northern Nigeria (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 04:51 PM PDT

Herbal aphrodisiacs are displayed on June 6, 2009 outside the Sabon-Gari market in Kano, northern Nigeria's commercial capital. Men trying to keep several wives happy and women competing with co-wives for their husbands' attentions has led to a boom in the sale of herbal aphrodisiacs in predominantly Moslem northern Nigeria.(AFP/File/Aminu Abubakar)AFP - Men trying to keep several wives happy and women competing with co-wives for their husbands' attentions has led to a boom in the sale of herbal aphrodisiacs in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria.

Strong aftershock rattles Philippines: seismologists (AFP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 03:14 PM PDT

The southern Philippines was rattled early Monday by a strong aftershock of 5.3 magnitude, seismologists said, a day after a powerful quake hit the same area.(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)AFP - The southern Philippines was rattled early Monday by a strong aftershock of 5.3 magnitude, seismologists said, a day after a powerful quake hit the same area.

Australia tries tough love to heal Aboriginal woes (AP)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 09:51 AM PDT

In this May 29, 2009, photo, locals sit on the street side in downtown Wadeye in the Northern Territory in Australia. Wadeye, with a population of 2,500, the largest Aboriginal community in Australia's remote Northern Territory, is a reminder of the tortured relationship with its oldest inhabitants, and the government's endless failed attempts to right the wrongs it's wrought.(AP Photo/Kristen Gelineau)AP - Along the dusty red road that leads from the lonely airstrip into town, the signs flash by: "No alcohol," says one. "Petrol sniffing kills," admonishes another. "Don't bring gunja into our town," warns a third.

Netanyahu sets conditions for new peace talks (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 03:33 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — In a speech seen as a test of Obama administration influence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday offered conditional support for the establishment of a Palestinian state and refused to bring a halt to divisive expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank

Ahmadinejad's reelection prompts mass protests in Iran (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran on Saturday to protest the re-election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, clashing with riot police over the surprise result and crying fraud.

The Power Behind Ahmadinejad's Disputed Win: Ayatullah Khamenei (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Jun 2009 12:45 PM PDT

Time.com - By immediately backing a controversial election result, Khamenei dispenses with three decades of the Islamic Republic's limited "democracy"

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