2009年8月10日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

Restive youths burn cars in new suburban unrest (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 04:55 PM PDT

AP - Restive youths in a Paris suburb torched a tourist bus and nearly a half-dozen cars and hurled objects at police early Tuesday, a night after fullblown unrest prompted by the death of a teen fleeing police.

USGS: huge earthquake hits in Indian Ocean (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:51 PM PDT

AP - U.S. officials on Monday reported that a huge 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck in the Indian Ocean and issued a regional tsunami watch for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh that was lifted later.

Police: 400 unaccounted for in Taiwan mudslide (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 05:05 PM PDT

A collapsed apartment building lays on its side in a rushing river in Taimali, Monday Aug. 10, 2009, in southeastern Taiwan's Taitung county. Taiwan's official death toll from Typhoon Morakot stands at 14, with another 51 missing, not including an estimated 400 Taiwanese unaccounted for after a landslide struck an isolated mountain village. (AP Photo)AP - A mudslide touched off by a deadly typhoon buried a remote mountain village, leaving at least 400 people unaccounted for Monday, and military rescue helicopters unable to land because of the slippery ground dropped food to desperate survivors.

Iraq suffers bloodiest day since US pullback (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:43 PM PDT

Women grieve at the site of a double truck bombing which tore through a Shiite minority community near the northern city of Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 10, 2009. A series of blasts struck Baghdad Monday in a wave of predawn violence that killed at least 40 people, according to Iraqi officials. (AP Photo)AP - A double truck bombing Monday in Mosul and blasts in Baghdad brought the Iraqi death toll to more than 100 in three days, the worst spasm of violence the country has suffered since U.S. forces left the cities.

Earthquakes shake Tokyo area, Indian Ocean (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 04:08 PM PDT

A quake reading on a seismograph. A major 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck central Japan early Tuesday, with a tsunami warning issued in the region, the meteorological agency said.(AFP/File/Nicolas Asfouri)AP - A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 hit Tokyo and nearby areas shortly after dawn Tuesday, halting trains and forcing two nuclear reactors to be shut down for safety checks.

Pakistani Taliban Leaders Fighting Among Themselves? (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:55 PM PDT

Time.com - Rumors that Mehsud's followers are shooting at each other have not been confirmed, but a lot is at stake following the death of the chief of Pakistan's Taliban

Mom behind child death that shocked UK unmasked (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 04:18 PM PDT

AP - Britons got their first look Tuesday at the mother behind a horrific child death that shocked the country.

Major attacks in Iraq since Jan. 1 (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 02:10 PM PDT

AP - Major bombings in Iraq since Jan. 1, when a new U.S.-Iraqi security pact took effect:

AP NewsBreak: Mexican cartels smuggle oil to US (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 04:21 PM PDT

AP - U.S. refineries bought millions of dollars worth of oil stolen from Mexican government pipelines and smuggled across the border, the U.S. Justice Department told The Associated Press — illegal operations now led by Mexican drug cartels expanding their reach.

People flee to bush in African conflict (AP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:37 PM PDT

AP - More than 25,000 terrified people have fled their homes in the Central African Republic, the world's second poorest nation, and are living in the bush to try to avoid government forces, armed groups and bandits, a U.N. official said Monday.

Huge quake strikes off India's Andaman Islands (AFP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 04:39 PM PDT

This undated picture shows a view of North Bay Island, one of the islands which make up the Andaman Archiapelago. A tsunami alert issued for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh was later cancelled by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of the US National Weather Service.(AFP/File)AFP - A huge 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, triggering panic as people fled their homes amid initial warnings of a possible tsunami.

Nortel loss balloons, CEO to step down (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 09:27 AM PDT

Reuters - Nortel Networks said on Monday its chief executive will step down immediately and its board will shrink from nine directors to three as the bankrupt telecom equipment maker sheds major assets.

Australia pledges $8 mln for native languages (AFP)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 02:12 AM PDT

An elder from Australia's Ngarrindjeri indigenous people, performs a traditional ceremony. Australia has pledged 7.8 million US dollars this year to help save more than 100 indigenous languages which are in grave danger of dying out.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Australia has pledged 7.8 million US dollars this year to help save more than 100 indigenous languages which are in grave danger of dying out.

U.S. commander seeks civilian 'surge' in Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 02:59 PM PDT

Afghan policemen stand guard near a pile of burning drugs near Herat city, in June. Fifty alleged Afghan drug traffickers with suspected ties to the Taliban have reportedly been placed on a Pentagon list of people targeted for elimination, reflected a major shift in US counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan.(AFP/File/Reza Shirmohammadi)McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — In addition to requesting some 45,000 additional U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the country's top American military commander will ask the Obama administration to double the number of U.S. government civilian workers who are in the country.

Hillary Clinton aims to revive US influence in Angola (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Hillary Clinton's visit to Angola on Sunday and Monday shows that the cold war is well and truly over, but that its techniques are alive and well.

Delhi Confidential: Can India Reform Its Wayward Police Force? (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:55 PM PDT

A police officer spits, as others look on at the site of a protest demonstration in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. The police system of the world's largest democracy needs a major overhaul to raise it to international standards, with large investments needed for training, the recruitment of new personnel and the repeal of outdated laws, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)Time.com - The crisis in Indian policing is not restricted to the country's border states, and runs much deeper than the police's proclivity for "encounters"

Laws, Not Words, Urged on Indigenous Rights Day (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 10 Aug 2009 02:12 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (OneWorld.net) - Commemorating yesterday's UN Day of Indigenous Peoples, an international rights group is urging all the world's nations to ratify an international law recognizing and protecting the land rights of indigenous people.

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