2009年8月24日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

Reality show contestant found dead in Canada motel (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:59 PM PDT

This photo provided by TMZ, shows Ryan Alexander Jenkins and Jasmine Fiore's March 18, 2009 wedding in Las Vegas. Jenkins, a reality TV contestant, is charged with killing his wife, a former swimsuit model. (AP Photo/TMZ)AP - Police said Monday they have identified and are investigating a woman who allegedly helped a former reality television show contestant hide from authorities in his native Canada after his ex-wife was found dead in the U.S.

Young Guantanamo prisoner back in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:44 PM PDT

This photo, reviewed by the US military, shows a US military trooper at Camp Justice, site of the US war crimes tribunal compound at Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base, Cuba, in July 2009. US Attorney General Eric Holder Monday named a prosecutor to probe claims CIA interrogators abused terror suspects, a move certain to unleash new recriminations over Bush-era war on terror tactics.(AFP/Pool/File/Brennan Linsley)AP - One of the youngest people ever held at Guantanamo was welcomed home Monday by Afghanistan's president and joyful relatives after almost seven years in prison — freed by a military judge who ruled he was coerced into confessing to wounding U.S. soldiers with a grenade.

Shiite groups form new alliance excluding Iraqi PM (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:18 PM PDT

Former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, center, is flanked by members of the newly formed Iraqi National Alliance at a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. Major Shiite groups have formed a new alliance that will exclude the Iraqi prime minister, lawmakers said Monday, a move likely to stoke fears of increasing Iranian influence and shake up the political landscape ahead of January parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - The Iranian-backed Shiite parties that helped propel Iraq's prime minister into power three years ago dumped him Monday as their candidate for re-election, forming a new alliance to contest the January vote.

Scottish govt defends Lockerbie bomber's release (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:18 PM PDT

This photograph released by the Scottish Parliament shows Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill making a statement to the Scottish Parliament on the decision to release Lockerbie bomber Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi Monday Aug. 24, 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Scotland's government has defended itself against unrelenting criticism from the United States over the decision to free the Pan Am Flight 103 bomber on compassionate grounds. Monday Aug. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/ Adam Elder/Scottish Parliament/PA Wire)AP - Scotland's justice minister on Monday defended his much-criticized decision to free the Lockerbie bomber, as the U.S. State Department said that though it disagreed "passionately" the move would not affect relations between America and Britain.

Relatives accuse Pakistan forces in Swat killings (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 01:00 PM PDT

This Aug. 21, 2009 photo shows a barber looking through the window of his barber shop in Mingora, Swat Valley district, Pakistan. Nearly three months after Pakistan retook the Swat Valley from the Taliban, bloodied corpses are still turning up on the streets. This time, the victims are suspected militants, and the killers are alleged to be security forces. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Nearly three months after Pakistan retook the Swat Valley from the Taliban, bloodied corpses are still turning up on the streets. This time, the victims are suspected militants — and the killers are alleged to be security forces.

As the Greek fires subside, outrage grows (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Time.com - As Greece brings the forest fire that raged through the outskirts of Athens under control, Greeks who remember suffering through a similar blaze just two years ago are demanding their government do more to stop the burning

Germany backs Magna, wants talks with GM on Opel (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 04:40 PM PDT

A flag bearing the logo of US car maker General Motors flutters in front of the plant of car maker Opel in Bochum, western Germany. Germany called Monday for immediate talks with GM to explain why it has not yet chosen a buyer for European unit Opel as the finance minister warned there would only be aid for its favoured candidate.(AFP/DDP/File/Clemens Bilan)AFP - Germany called Monday for immediate talks with GM to explain why it has not yet chosen a buyer for European unit Opel as the finance minister warned there would only be aid for its favoured candidate.

Israel's Netanyahu brings balancing act to Europe (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 01:47 PM PDT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009. Netanyahu has joined Israeli calls for the Swedish government to condemn an article in a Stockholm newspaper suggesting Israeli troops harvested the organs of Palestinians they killed. (AP Photo/Jim Hollander, Pool)AP - Benjamin Netanyahu's talks in Europe this week will force the Israeli leader to balance the demands of his right-leaning ruling coalition against an international front opposed to Israeli settlements.

Peru police seize cocaine sewn inside live turkeys (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:05 PM PDT

AP - Peruvian police expecting to find a shipment of cocaine hidden in a crate holding two live turkeys were surprised to discover the drug surgically implanted inside the birds.

Scottish minister defends Lockerbie bomber release (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:12 PM PDT

Reuters - Scotland's justice secretary Monday defended his decision to free the Lockerbie bomber on humanitarian grounds in the face of severe criticism from the United States government and relatives of U.S. victims.

Algorithms to stop fraud in medieval Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:57 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the elections in Afghanistan from the White House in Washington August 21, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueAP - In a largely illiterate country where donkeys delivered ballots to remote areas, Afghan officials say they are confident that algorithms, double-blind computer entries and other modern methods will catch 90 percent of the fraud from last week's presidential election.

Polls diverge on support for Conservatives (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:34 PM PDT

Reuters - The Conservatives have leaped to a strong lead, a poll released Monday showed, while a second survey showed the party remaining in a deadlock with the opposition Liberals.

Aussie town dumps Japan sister city over dolphins (AFP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 12:49 AM PDT

File photo issued by conservation group Sea Shepherd shows Japanese fishermen riding a boat loaded with slaughtered dolphins in the harbour of Taiji village. The Australian town of Broome with deep historical ties to the Japanese village has severed their sister city relationship to protest against its annual dolphin slaughter.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - An Australian town with deep historical ties to Japan has severed its sister city relationship with a Japanese village to protest an annual dolphin slaughter, civic leaders said Monday.

With Maliki's party out, Iraq's Shiite coalition splits (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 01:15 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD — The Shiite Muslim political alliance that's led Iraq since 2005 appears to be breaking apart, with Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's Dawa Party preparing to run for re-election independently of the other parties that had lifted him to power.

Baghdad bombing leaves hole in diplomatic corps (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Iraqi diplomats are clearing out the rubble of their bombed Foreign Ministry building while the nation grapples with the aftermath of an attack that has rocked the foundation of its fragile security and served notice that the country is still at war.

Libya holds powerful bargaining chip in bomber's release (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill addresses a press conference in Edinburgh on August 20. MacAskill said Libya had assured Scotland that it would give a Time.com - Anger over the release of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi rumbles on. Was the allure of Libyan oil and gas too much for British officials to resist?

No Treatment for Ill as Zimbabwe Doctors Strike (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 07:58 AM PDT

A patient is taken home on a stretcher by his relatives from Parirenyatwa hospital's accident and emergency ward in the capital Harare August 21, 2009. State doctors, who earn a basic wage of $170, started a job boycott last week demanding $1,000 per month, paralysing operations at the country's four major hospitals in Harare and Bulawayo. Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday the country's public health system was far from recovering after last year's collapse, although there were signs of improvement. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo (ZIMBABWE HEALTH SOCIETY POLITICS)OneWorld.net - BULAWAYO, Aug 24 (IPS) - Before, Zimbabwean families would take their ill relatives to rural clinics where medication was readily able and payment plans lenient. But now they are taking them there to die.

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