2009年7月21日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

Mumbai gunman describes indoctrination in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 01:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 26, 2008 file photo, a gunman identified by police as Ajmal Kasab walks through the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India. Kasab, the lone surviving gunman in the November Mumbai attacks, admitted his role in the shooting Monday, July 20, 2009, in a dramatic confession in an Indian court, reversing months of denials. (AP Photo/Mumbai Mirror, Sebastian D'souza, File) INDIA OUT. MANDATORY CREDITAP - An Indian court that heard a stunning confession from the lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai terror attacks put a gag order on his latest testimony — a message to his handlers in Pakistan and a description of the indoctrination he received before coming to India.

AP IMPACT: Mexican drug cartels expand abroad (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 11:29 AM PDT

FILE - In this April 23, 2008 file photo, a drug police agent carries a bag of cocaine packages to be incinerated in Guatemala City. Mexican crime syndicates are spreading their tentacles as never before, using their trademark brutality to take over in places like Guatemala and even Colombia, long the heart of Latin America's drug world. In all, they now operate in 47 countries, according to transnational crime expert Edgardo Buscaglia, a professor at Mexico's Autonomous Institute of Technology. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)AP - Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose "Juancho" Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers for what he was told was business. Instead, dozens of attackers ambushed his entourage with grenades and assault rifles, killing Leon and 10 others in a brazen demonstration of power.

Clinton declares the US 'is back' in Asia (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 05:35 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton answers questions from reporters during a press conference at the government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Clinton is on a three-day visit to Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, Pool)AP - On her second trip to Asia as U.S. secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton is carrying a no-nonsense message about American intentions.

Thousands gather across India to watch eclipse (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 05:48 PM PDT

Students practice using solar eclipse goggles after a demonstration on how to safely watch Wednesday's solar eclipse, in Allahabad, India, Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Millions of people across Asia will witness the longest total solar eclipse that will happen this century, as vast swaths of India and China, the entire city of Shanghai and southern Japanese islands are plunged into darkness Wednesday for about five minutes. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)AP - Scientists, students and nature enthusiasts gathered in open spaces in parts of India Wednesday to watch the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, although heavy cloud cover and overnight rains threatened to spoil the party.

Global health officials mull how to slow swine flu (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 02:30 PM PDT

U.S. students wave to journalists from the fenced off courtyard of the Yanxiang Hotel, where groups of students are being kept in quarantine, in Beijing, China, Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Students from the U.S. and U.K have been quarantined at the hotel after classmates were diagnosed with swine flu. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)AP - Some Muslim countries are advising pregnant women not to attend the hajj pilgrimage. China is quarantining any visitor suspected of having a fever, while priests in New Zealand have been banned from placing Communion wafers on worshippers' tongues.

Berlusconi Tapes: Ways Italy's PM Can Beat the Latest Controversy (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 04:00 PM PDT

Time.com - An Italian prostitute releases recordings of what she says are conversations she had with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi before and after they spent a night together

Flu to trigger hugs in British churches: report (AFP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 05:43 PM PDT

Manchester Cathedral. Some British parishioners are being advised to hug rather than shake hands AFP - Some British parishioners are being advised to hug rather than shake hands "as a sign of peace" in measures by churches to try to stop the spread of swine flu, a report said Wednesday.

18 dead in Iraq attacks (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 11:39 AM PDT

Men pick through debris after a double bombing in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, July 21, 2009. Police and hospital officials say two bombs exploded a few seconds apart on Tuesday morning near a group of day laborers. They say one bomb was hidden in a food stall and the other was concealed in a nearby pile of trash.(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Bombs killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in Iraq on Tuesday in a sign that insurgents, though weakened, remain intent on destabilizing a country that is struggling to consolidate U.S.-backed security gains.

Chavez objects to Colombia's base deal with US (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 05:21 PM PDT

AP - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is objecting to Colombia's decision to let the United States increase its military presence in the neighboring country.

Hague court to rule on Sudan's oil-rich Abyei (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:14 PM PDT

An aerial view shows Abyei town after rainfall in central Sudan July 21, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew HeavensReuters - An international court rules on Wednesday on the legality of the boundaries of the disputed oil-rich Abyei area claimed by both north and south Sudan.

AP sources: US debating payoffs to poppy growers (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 05:47 PM PDT

A female patient receives treatment at the self-immolation or AP - The Obama administration is considering whether to pay off Afghan farmers to stop them from growing heroin poppies on contract for the Taliban, senior officials said Tuesday.

Human trials of swine flu drug start in Australia (AP)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 08:51 AM PDT

A bottle containing the N1H1 virus-killing 'VirusBom' is seen in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, July 21, 2009. A Taiwanese government-funded research team from the National Taiwan University unveiled Tuesday a chemical that it says can kill swine flu and bird flu viruses in the environment to help prevent the spread of the epidemics. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)AP - An Australian pharmaceutical company will begin trials Wednesday of its experimental swine flu vaccine.

Poll: Canadians like their health care despite grumbles (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 01:51 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — It's the bogeyman of the heated debate about overhauling U.S. health care. Critics charge that revamping the American system will turn the country into Canada, with a nationalized health care system and people dying as they wait for needed services they no longer can get.

Is Israel serious about closing 23 fringe settlements? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A reported Israeli plan to forcibly evacuate 23 unauthorized settler outposts in a single day could finally fulfill a promise that successive Israeli governments have made to Washington, while minimizing the violence and bad public relations that have marred previous evacuations.

Maliki Heads to Washington (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 04:00 PM PDT

Time.com - Once deemed little more than a prisoner of stronger factions, Iraq's Prime Minister has since parlayed the deadlock among more powerful forces to give himself the political momentum

High Cost of Drugs 'Putting AIDS Patients at Risk' (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 01:17 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jul 21 (OneWorld.net) - Lack of funding for global HIV/AIDS programs and the high cost of new medications are endangering the lives of thousands of patients in impoverished countries, cautioned a humanitarian medical group at an ongoing international conference on the disease.

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