2009年6月23日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

Intensified crackdown mutes protests in Iran (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:59 PM PDT

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C), parliament speaker Ali Larijani (L) and Judiciary Chief Mahmood Hashemi Shahroodi attend Tehran's Friday prayers June 19, 2009. REUTERS/Morteza NikoubazlAP - Overwhelmed by police and left with limited alternatives, Iranian demonstrators resorted Tuesday to more subtle ways of challenging the outcome of the presidential election: holding up posters, shouting from rooftops and turning on car headlights.

Signs Mousavi's rebel stature being eroded in Iran (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 01:46 PM PDT

FILE - In this Thursday, June 11, 2009 file photo, shoppers walk past a defaced poster of leading challenger and reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, in Tadrish bazaar in northern Tehran. Mousavi is still nominally the guiding force of the fury over Iran's disputed election. But there are ample signs to suggest his rebel stature is being eroded by his hesitation to shift from campaigner to street fighter. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)AP - Mir Hossein Mousavi is still nominally the guiding force of the fury over Iran's disputed election. But there are ample signs his rebel stature is being eroded by his hesitation to shift from campaigner to street agitator as his supporters challenge security forces.

US docs save burned girl, 8, victim of Afghan war (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 12:21 PM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, June 11, 2009, Lt. Michelle Smith, of Boise, Idaho, holds hands with 8-year-old Razia at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Razia was evacuated to the hospital in May after she was severely burned when a white phosphorus round hit her home in the Tagab Valley, killing two of her sisters during fighting between French troops and Taliban militants. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - The American military doctors watched in horror as the oxygen mask on the young Afghan girl's face started to melt.

US, Kyrgyzstan reach deal on air base use (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 11:50 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 14, 2007 file photo, U.S. soldiers patrol the air base during a joint military exercise with France, at the U.S. Manas Air Base, located near the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The United States and Kyrgyzstan have reached a deal for use of a Kyrgyz airport to transport U.S. non-lethal military supplies to Afghanistan, a senior Kyrgyz official said Tuesday, June 23, 2009, four months after the country said U.S. troops would be evicted. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File)AP - The former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan tentatively approved a deal on Tuesday that should allow the U.S. to continue shipping military hardware and troops crucial to operations in Afghanistan through an air base in the Central Asian state.

Assassination in Pakistan exposes Taliban rifts (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 04:06 PM PDT

Family members of the slain Taliban faction leader Qari Zainuddin, look at his dead body in Abbotabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Zainuddin, who criticized the militant group's Pakistani head over attacks that killed civilians, was killed Tuesday, reportedly by one of his own guards. (AP Photo)AP - The assassination of the leader of a renegade Pakistani Taliban faction by one of his own men Tuesday underscores a growing rift in the ranks of the militant group as it braces for an impending army assault in the volatile northwest.

Coming to an Ex-Car Dealer Near You: Pickup Trucks From India (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 01:40 PM PDT

Time.com - In an industry first, Mumbai tractor maker Mahindra & Mahindra plans to roll out pickup trucks and SUVs in the U.S. as early as December

U.S., EU act against China on raw material exports (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 05:38 PM PDT

Reuters - The United States and European Union took action against China on Tuesday for restricting exports of industrial raw materials, intensifying a trade struggle at a delicate time for the global economy.

US nixes 40 percent cuts at climate change talks (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 05:28 PM PDT

AP - President Barack Obama's climate envoy dismissed recommendations that the United States and other developed countries reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases 40 percent by 2020.

US urges world to bolster fragile Sudan peace deal (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 03:16 PM PDT

US envoy to Sudan Scott Gration speaks during a press conference in Khartoum in May 2009. The United States on Tuesday urged the world community to help bolster a fragile 2005 peace deal between north and south Sudan as it faces AFP - The United States on Tuesday urged the world community to help bolster a fragile 2005 peace deal between north and south Sudan as it faces "very important milestones" in the next 19 months.

NKorean cargo ship could test new UN sanctions (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 05:31 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2006 file photo, North Korean ship, the Kang Nam I, is anchored in Hong Kong waters. The U.S. military is tracking the ship that may be carrying illicit weapons, the first vessel monitored under tougher new United Nations rules meant to rein in and punish the Stalinst state after it conducted a nuclear test, officials said Thursday, June 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)AP - An American destroyer tailed a North Korean ship Tuesday as it sailed along China's coast, U.S. officials said, amid concerns the vessel is carrying illicit arms destined for Myanmar.

NHL's bankrupt Coyotes to go to auction Aug or Sept (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 12:08 PM PDT

Reuters - The Phoenix Coyotes may be sold in an August or September auction after a bankruptcy judge outlined a schedule to address whether the bankrupt hockey team will play its future games in Arizona or possibly Canada.

Australians convicted in daughter's starving death (AP)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 07:11 AM PDT

AP - The parents of an autistic 7-year-old girl who weighed barely 20 pounds (9 kilograms) were convicted Tuesday of starving their daughter to death.

Iranian hard-liners attempt to shut down opposition movement (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 05:13 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - Iran's hard-line leaders moved aggressively Tuesday to silence protests over the disputed July 12 presidential election, rejecting demands for a new vote and announcing that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be sworn in for second term as early as July 26.

Bio Brief: Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, who has been Iran's supreme leader for 20 years, was born in 1939 into a large family headed by a poor but very pious cleric in Mashad, a shrine city that is Iran's second-largest. At a young age, he was enrolled at a local seminary, and as he grew older he was sent to Qom, the seat of Shiite religious education in Iran.

Iran's Crisis Posing a Problem for Its Mideast Allies (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 12:40 PM PDT

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran Iranian security personnel ride past burning debris on the streets in Tehran June 20, 2009. REUTERS via Your ViewTime.com - For years, opinion polls have found Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be the most popular leader among ordinary Arabs who decry their own rulers' authoritarianism and impotence. Iran's election debacle could dim his appeal

Guantanamo Bay Is Not the Way - Rights Expert (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 23 Jun 2009 07:17 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jun 23 (OneWorld.net) - The long-term detention of suspected terrorists at prisons like Guantanamo Bay is counterproductive to preventing terrorist attacks, testified the head of a human rights monitor, urging the United States to instead adhere to existing criminal laws and international standards.

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