2009年7月12日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

2 US Marines die in S. Afghanistan bomb blasts (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 06:00 PM PDT

A French soldier of the NATO-led coalition secures the area during a joint patrol with U.S. and Afghan troops in the village of Hajian, in the mountains of Wardak Province in Afghanistan July 12, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN POLITICS MILITARY)AP - A bomb blast killed two U.S. Marines in Afghanistan's dangerous south, where thousands of American troops have deployed in a massive operation to oust Taliban fighters from the country's opium poppy region, officials said Sunday.

China's ethnic groups struggle forward after riots (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 01:36 PM PDT

A relative of Han Chinese victims who were killed during last Sunday's riot cries on during their funeral in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province, Sunday, July 12, 2009. China on Sunday raised the injured toll from ethnic clashes a week ago to 1,680 — one more bit in the trickle of information the government has released on the unrest in the far west, though much remains unknown. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - Incense was lit and paper money burned at the funeral Sunday for a Han Chinese family — a man, his wife and his parents, all killed in last week's ethnic riots. Three Uighur neighbors approached, standing tentatively apart.

Honduras lifts curfew 2 weeks after military coup (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 04:58 PM PDT

Soldiers stand guard outside the Honduras' Congress in Tegucigalpa, Sunday, July 12, 2009. Honduran authorities on Sunday lifted a curfew imposed since the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya two weeks ago, a sign the interim government is trying to restore normality to life in the crisis-gripped country. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Honduran authorities on Sunday lifted a curfew imposed since the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya two weeks ago — a sign the interim government is trying to restore normality to life in the crisis-gripped country.

Obama and the Pope: Agreeing to Disagree on "Life" Issues (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 10:50 AM PDT

Time.com - On their first meeting, Benedict took the opportunity to remind the new President of where they differ

Red Cross worker freed in Philippines (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 05:54 PM PDT

Italian Red Cross worker Eugenio Vagni, center top, hugs his wife Kwan and two-year-old daughter Leticia upon arrival at Villamor Air Force base in Manila hours after his release from six months of captivity by al-Qaida-linked militants in the volatile island of Jolo in the southern Philippines Sunday July 12, 2009. Vagni, 63, appeared to be in good health but weak as Abu Sayyaf captors handed him over to a provincial vice governor in a jungle near Maimbung township on southern Jolo Island, officials said.(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - On the worst days, kidnapped Italian Red Cross worker Eugenio Vagni couldn't stop himself from picturing how he feared his monthslong jungle captivity in the southern Philippines would end: with his decapitated head in a basket.

Colombia leader gives $1M to victims of conflict (AP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 04:34 PM PDT

AP - President Alvaro Uribe presided at a ceremony Sunday to deliver reparations totaling nearly $1 million for 279 victims of Colombia's long-running conflict.

Nigerian militants claim attack on Lagos oil jetty (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 06:00 PM PDT

A fighter of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), holds his heavy machine-gun at the militia's creek camp in the Niger Delta. Nigeria's main rebel group, which has targeted oil facilities in the south, claimed responsibility for an audacious strike on an oil jetty in Lagos in its first attack in the country's economic capital.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Nigeria's main rebel group, which has targeted oil facilities in the south, claimed responsibility for a strike on an oil jetty in Lagos in its first attack in the country's economic capital.

Japan's Kirin, Suntory in merger talks: report (AFP)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 05:51 PM PDT

A Suntory banner advertises French wine in Tokyo. Japanese drinks companies Suntory and Kirin Holdings are negotiating a merger that would create one of the world's largest beverages makers, a report has said.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - Japanese drinks companies Kirin Holdings and Suntory are negotiating a merger that would create one of the world's largest beverages makers, a report has said.

China president Hu endorsed Rio arrests: report (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 04:29 PM PDT

Reuters - China's President Hu Jintao personally endorsed an investigation into global miner Rio Tinto that led to the detention of four of its China-based staff, a newspaper said on Monday, citing Chinese government sources.

McChrystal says he won't pull punches on Afghan proposals (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 03:00 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Sunday that when he gives his assessment to the Obama administration next month of what is needed to defeat the Taliban, he won't be deterred by administration statements that he cannot have more U.S. troops.

Urumqi unrest: China's savvier media strategy (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Chinese riot police arrested several Uighurs Friday after breaking up a small demonstration in Urumqi, the capital of China's western Xinjiang Province and the scene of a riot Sunday that killed 156 people and injured more than 1,000.

The Broken Hopes of a Spanish Generation (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Jul 2009 10:50 AM PDT

Time.com - The Broken Hopes of a Spanish Generation

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