2009年8月1日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Gunman kills 3, injures 11 at gay club in Tel Aviv (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 03:39 PM PDT

Israeli police officers and rescue work in a site of a shooting attack in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009. Israeli police say a gunman entered a gay club in central Tel Aviv Saturday night and sprayed the interior with automatic fire killing two and injuring twelve people.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)AP - Israeli police say a gunman entered a youth club for gay teens in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night and sprayed the interior with automatic rifle fire, killing three people and injuring 11.

Iran state TV confirms arrest of 3 Americans (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 05:01 PM PDT

Map locates border region of northern Iraq where three Americans were detained by Iranian forces when they wandered over the Iranian borderAP - Iran state TV confirmed Saturday that it has detained three Americans who crossed the border from northern Iraq, saying they failed to heed warnings from Iranian guards.

Iran begins first trial of postelection crisis (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 02:23 PM PDT

In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency, former vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi, second from right, is seen with other defendants sit at a court room in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009. Opposition political activists and protesters stood trial in Tehran Saturday on charges of rioting and conspiring against the ruling system in the country's first trial following the disputed presidential election, Iran's state media reported. (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Hossein Salehi Ara) 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 - Iran began its first trial of the postelection crisis on Saturday, a mass court case against more than 100 activists and protesters accused of plotting a "velvet revolution" to topple clerical rule.

Nigerian official says 700 died in recent violence (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 01:00 PM PDT

Map locates Maiduguri in northern Nigeria where Nigerian troops attacked Islamist mosque, killing scores1c x 2 inches; 46.5 mm x 50 mm;AP - A Nigerian military official said Saturday that about 700 people were killed in the northern city of Maiduguri during recent fighting between police and a radical Islamist sect. The toll was previously thought to be around 300.

US troops now a 'coalition of one' in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 01:05 PM PDT

FILE-- In this March 31, 2009 file photograph, a British soldier kisses the flag of Great Britain during a hand over ceremony to American forcesin Basra, Iraq, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The war in Iraq was truly an American-only effort Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009 after Britain and Australia, the last of its international partners, pulled out. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani, File)AP - The war in Iraq was truly an American-only effort Saturday after Britain and Australia, the last of its international partners, pulled out.

Afghan mission falls short of expectations: Lawmakers (AFP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 04:06 PM PDT

British soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force walk during a patrol in the Baba Ji district of Helmand province in July 2009. The international military mission in Afghanistan has delivered AFP - The international military mission in Afghanistan has delivered "much less than it promised" due to the lack of a realistic strategy, an influential committee of lawmakers said Sunday.

Sunni mosque bombed south of Baghdad (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 12:54 PM PDT

A man is seen at the site of one of five bombings that took place Friday in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009. A string of bombings targeted Shiite worshippers in the Baghdad area during Friday prayers, killing dozens in an apparently coordinated attack against followers of an anti-U.S. cleric who were blamed for some of Iraq's worst sectarian violence. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A bomb hidden inside a toilet struck a Sunni mosque south of Baghdad on Saturday, injuring two people, according to Iraqi police, the latest in a wave of attacks against Islamic sites of worship.

Raul Castro: Cuba won't undo communist system (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 05:07 PM PDT

AP - Raul Castro says Cuba will cut spending on education and health care, weakening the building blocks of its communist system to try to revive a floundering economy.

10 dead in rebel attacks in Central Africa: aid groups (AFP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 02:12 PM PDT

An armed fighter of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) stands guard in 2006. Members of a Ugandan rebel group have launched attacks against towns in the Central African Republic that have left at least 10 people dead in the last two weeks, humanitarian groups said Saturday.(AFP/File/Stuart Price)AFP - Members of a Ugandan rebel group have launched attacks against towns in the Central African Republic that have left at least 10 people dead in the last two weeks, humanitarian groups said Saturday.

6 Pakistani Christians die in riots with Muslims (AP)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 05:08 PM PDT

Pakistani Christians chant slogans during a rally to condemn the attacks on Christians by Sunni Muslims, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009 in Lahore, Pakistan. Rioting between Christians and Muslims in eastern Pakistan's Punjab region Saturday killed six people, including a child, and injured more than a dozen following allegations that a Quran was defaced, authorities said. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)AP - Hundreds of rioting Muslims attacked Christians in eastern Pakistan on Saturday, burning and looting homes in a rampage that killed six Christians, including a child, and wounded 10 others in the latest violence against minorities in the conservative Muslim country.

Australia votes to recognise same-sex unions (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jul 2009 11:15 PM PDT

File picture shows a couple waiting for the start of Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. Australia's centre-left ruling party on Saturday voted for national recognition of same-sex unions, but stopped short of lifting a ban on gay marriage(AFP/File/Anoek de Groot)AFP - Australia's centre-left ruling party on Saturday voted for national recognition of same-sex unions but stopped short of lifting a ban on gay marriage.

Trial begins in Iran for many arrested in opposition protest (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 01 Aug 2009 11:32 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - CAIRO, Egypt — More than 100 leading opposition activists stood trial in Iran on Saturday, the first since the government's crackdown in the violent aftermath of June's disputed presidential election, according to Iranian state media.

Russia Moves to Boost its Role in Central Asia (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Jul 2009 11:05 PM PDT

Time.com - Russian president Dmitri Medvedev's meeting with the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan signals Moscow's desire to play a bigger role in fighting the war on terror. But is its goodwill enough?

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