2009年7月5日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

From Haiti, a surprise: good news about AIDS (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 04:07 PM PDT

In this May 11, 2009 photo, Pierre Raul Nazair, a patient with HIV/AIDS, reads the bible at the St. Nicolas hospital in St. Marc, Haiti, Monday. Haitian infection rates dropped from 6.2 percent to 3.1 percent among expectant mothers in the last 15 years. Researchers recently switched to a new methodology that tests all adults, which puts Haiti's official rate at 2.2 percent, according to UNAIDS. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - When Micheline Leon was diagnosed with HIV, her parents told her they would fit her for a coffin.

Iran: British-Greek reporter held for weeks freed (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 10:58 AM PDT

FILE-- This is an undated handout image from Global Radio News issued on Thursday June 25, 2009 of Global Radio News freelance correspondent and The Washington Times reporter Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden, known as Jason Fowden, who is holds Greek and British dual nationality . Iran's state television is reporting that a Greek journalist that had been held for more than two weeks has been released. State television Sunday July 5, 2009 quoted a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Hasan Qashqavi, as saying that Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden had been released in, what he described as the framework of Tehran-Athens ties. Athanasiadis-Fowden was arrested on or around June 19. He has dual Greek and British citizenship and was believed to be the only foreigner being held by Iranian authorities in the post-election crackdown that has swept the country. (AP Photo/ Global Radio News, FILE )AP - Iran said Sunday it has released a British-Greek journalist detained for two weeks during its postelection crackdown as opposition forces pressing their claims of fraud called for parliament to dismiss President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Obama backs Medvedev's judicial reforms (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 04:57 AM PDT

Russian traditional wooden dolls, Matreshkas, depicting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barak Obama, are displayed by a street vendor in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, July 3, 2009. Obama is to visit Russia on July 6-8. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)AP - President Barack Obama said strengthening human rights and the rule of law in Russia should be a part of the much-heralded "reset" in U.S.-Russian relations, according to an interview with an embattled Russian opposition newspaper.

Zimbabwe vows to pull troops out of diamond fields (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 09:05 AM PDT

FILE -- In this Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006 file photo miners dig for diamonds in Marange, eastern Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe's official media says the coalition government has vowed to withdraw troops from the Marange diamond fields and pledged to meet international mining standards. The report Sunday July 5, 2009 follows allegations of human rights abuses and illegal exports of 'blood diamonds' from the gem-producing district in the east of the country.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi-File)AP - Zimbabwe has promised to withdraw its soldiers from diamond fields in the east, an official newspaper reported Sunday — a week after a rights group alleged the military was committing killings and abuses in the area.

Trying Times for Russia's Nesting Dolls (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 05:50 AM PDT

Time.com - As the financial crisis rolls on, Russia's handicrafts industry is struggling, thanks to a drop in exports and a dip in tourism. The government is planning a $28.4 million bailout, but will that be enough to save Russia's iconic nesting dolls?

One British soldier killed in Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 04:42 PM PDT

Reuters - A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the Defense Ministry said, the fifth to die in five days as UK forces take part in a major U.S.-led offensive against Taliban strongholds.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,322 (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 04:29 PM PDT

AP - As of Sunday, July 5, 2009, at least 4,322 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Drug war, economy weigh on Mexico midterm election (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 04:51 PM PDT

A boy helps his mother to cast her vote on a polling station in Hermosillo, northern Mexico, Sunday, July 5, 2009. Mexicans went to the polls Sunday in elections for hundreds of mayors, six governorships and all seats in the lower house of Congress, in a vote that could decide the future of President Felipe Calderon's anti-crime and economic policies. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - Drug violence, an economic downturn and recent cases of political malfeasance weighed heavily in Sunday's midterm congressional elections that could decide the future of President Felipe Calderon's anti-crime and economic policies.

Nigerian militants claim attack on Shell facility (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 01:40 PM PDT

A member of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) poses with a heavy machine-gun in the Niger Delta in 2008. MEND rebels announced on Sunday they had launched a fresh attack on an oil facility run by the Anglo-Dutch group Shell in the restive Niger Delta.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AP - Nigeria's main militant group says it has attacked a Royal Dutch Shell oil facility in southern Nigeria.

North Korea engaged in 'attention seeking:' Biden (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 04:03 PM PDT

A pedestrian passes by a television screen showing news of a North Korean missile launch, at the Seoul Railway Station in on June 4, 2009. US Vice President Joseph Biden on Sunday dismissed North Korea's latest series of missile launches, saying the communist regime was engaged in AFP - US Vice President Joseph Biden on Sunday dismissed North Korea's latest series of missile launches, saying the communist regime was engaged in "attention seeking" as it faced increasing isolation.

Canadian police probe sixth gas pipeline bombing (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Jul 2009 05:57 PM PDT

Reuters - An explosion damaged a natural gas pipeline in northeast British Columbia on Saturday, the sixth attack on an energy facility in that area of the Canadian province in recent months.

First Asian elephant born in Australian zoo (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 04:22 AM PDT

In this July 4, 2009 image released by Taronga Zoo a newly born baby elephant is pictured with his mother. The male calf - so far without a name - was born in Sydney's Taronga Zoo on Saturday and was healthy and generating many curious responses from among its herd, zoo officials said. (AP Photo/Taronga Zoo)AP - A 265-pound (120-kilogram), big-eared and long-nosed bundle of joy was welcomed in Australia as an important step in helping to save the endangered Asian elephant.

Sandstorms plague Iraq and are getting worse (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 12:38 PM PDT

Iraqi policemen wear dust masks as they direct traffic during a sand storm in central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, June 28, 2009. Sandstorms are a regular occurrence in Baghdad although it is shielded from the desert by a thin strip of arable land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — Shamal.

Why Obama's Afghan War is Different (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 05:50 AM PDT

Time.com - A Marine offensive in Helmand prioritizes securing the local population over killing insurgents. That, say U.S. officials, is the key to defeating the Taliban

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