2009年7月25日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Suicide attackers strike southeastern Afghan city (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 01:31 PM PDT

An Afghan police officer look at a guard post which was damaged in an attack in Khost, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 25, 2009. Taliban fighters wearing suicide vests and armed with AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked the main police station Saturday in the southeast city of Khost, triggering hours-long gunbattles that left seven militants dead and 14 people wounded, officials said. (AP Photo/Nishanuddin Khan)AP - Less than a month before Afghanistan's presidential election, Taliban fighters wearing suicide vests attacked a provincial capital Saturday, triggering gunbattles that killed seven militants. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke said it is "extraordinary" to hold a presidential election during a war.

Protesters call for end to Iranian rights abuses (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 04:46 PM PDT

Protesters attend a demonstration on the Global Day of Solidarity with Iran, in Berlin July 25, 2009. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY POLITICS CONFLICT)AP - Protesters across the world called on Iran Saturday to end its clampdown on opposition activists, demanding the release of hundreds rounded up during demonstrations against the country's disputed election.

Iran's opposition turns to top clerics for help (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 11:39 AM PDT

FILE - This July 20, 2009 file photo released by an official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office shows Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sitting under a portrait of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, during a meeting in Tehran, Iran. Ahmadinejad is sticking by his controversial appointment for first vice president in an unusual defiance of a reported order from the supreme leader for his removal. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader, File) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENTAP - TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's opposition leaders appealed on Saturday to top clerics in the holy city of Qom to help stop the ruling Islamic regime's violent postelection crackdown — reaching out to the one group that could go head-to-head with the country's supreme leader.

Last UK veteran of WWI trench battles dies at 111 (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 08:40 AM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 27, 2007 photo shows Harry Patch, then aged 109, from Wells, England, as a guest of honor during commemorations in Weston-super-Mare, England to launch the local poppy appeal. An English nursing home says Harry Patch, the last British veteran of World War I, has died at 111. Patch had been the last surviving British soldier who served in the 1914-18 war. The only other surviving British veteran of the war, former airman Henry Allingham, died a week ago at age 113. (AP Photo/Barry Batchelor/PA Wire)AP - Harry Patch, Britain's last survivor of the trenches of World War I, was a reluctant soldier who became a powerful eyewitness to the horror of war, and a symbol of a lost generation.

French pilot re-enacts 1st English Channel flight (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 08:01 AM PDT

A view of the Bleriot XI plane presented at the Arts et Metiers museum in Paris, Wednesday July 22, 2009. The Bleriot XI is the plane on which Louis Bleriot, a French aviator, inventor and engineer crossed the English Channel on July 25, 1909. The flight came six years after the Wright brothers flew overland over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and during a decade in which pioneers in Europe and North America were developing the rudiments of airplane technology and expanding its limits. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)AP - A French pilot on Saturday recreated the first-ever flight across the English Channel in a monoplane like the one that Louis Bleriot flew in 1909, complete with a wooden propeller, bicycle wheels and an engine about as powerful as a lawnmower.

First Blood Diamonds, Now Blood Computers? (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 09:45 AM PDT

Time.com - Are companies doing enough to make sure that the minerals that go into their laptops and hi-tech toys don't come from blood-soaked war zones?

Britain urged to engage with Hamas moderates (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 05:21 PM PDT

A Palestinian woman holds the flag of the Islamist movement Hamas in the West Bank village of Al-Bireh, south of Hebron, in May. The British government was urged to start engaging with moderates in Hamas in a report by lawmakers scrutinising London's foreign policy published on Sunday.(AFP/File/Hazem Bader)AFP - The British government was urged to start engaging with moderates in Hamas in a report by lawmakers scrutinising London's foreign policy published on Sunday.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,329 (AP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 05:27 PM PDT

AP - As of Saturday, July 25, 2009, at least 4,329 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Fourie try seals Tri-Nations rugby triumph for Boks (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 10:27 AM PDT

New Zealands All Blacks Sitiveni Sivivatu (R) runs the ball against South African Springboks during Tri-Nations rugby in Bloemfontein. Centre Jaque Fourie scored a late breakaway try as South Africa got their Tri-Nations campaign off to a winning start by defeating arch foes New Zealand 28-19 here on Saturday.(AFP/Alexander Joe)AFP - Centre Jaque Fourie scored a late breakaway try as South Africa got their Tri-Nations campaign off to a winning start by defeating arch foes New Zealand 28-19 here on Saturday.

US warns of 'extraordinarily difficult' Afghan poll (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 04:53 PM PDT

US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke (C) arrives at the Independent Election Comission in Kabul. Holbrooke warned that holding elections in the middle of war in Afghanistan would be AFP - US regional envoy Richard Holbrooke warned Saturday that holding elections in the middle of war in Afghanistan would be "extraordinarily difficult" as the Taliban carried out bloody attacks.

Ericsson takes Nortel wireless assets for $1.13 billion (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 02:33 PM PDT

Reuters - Sweden's Ericsson has won an auction for the wireless assets of bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp, paying $1.13 billion for the crown jewels of the one-time Canadian telecom star.

Child's flu death sparks race tensions in Australia (AFP)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 05:10 AM PDT

Gumatj Aboriginal children play by a fish net at Yirrkala in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory in 2005. A doctor was evacuated from an Aboriginal community in Australia's remote north amid race tensions following the death of a four-year-old girl believed to be suffering swine flu, reports have said.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - A doctor was evacuated from an Aboriginal community in Australia's remote north amid race tensions following the death of a four-year-old girl believed to be suffering swine flu, reports said Saturday.

Kurds vote in a spirited campaign between incumbents and new party (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 25 Jul 2009 12:27 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - SULAIMANIYA, Iraq — Kurdish voters on Saturday packed polling places in Iraq's second election this year, weighing the promises of a new party that pledged to shake up the status quo by exposing corruption in the incumbent regional government.

Germany Sees Departing Porsche Boss as Symbol of Capitalism's Excesses (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Time.com - Wendelin Wiedeking, who leaves with a $71 million payout, tried to buy Volkswagen. But his ambition is now frowned upon as an example of all that is wrong with big business in Germany -- and the world

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