2009年9月21日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

Ousted leader returns to Honduras, defies arrest (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 05:03 PM PDT

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya waves to supporters from inside Brazil's embassy in Tegucigalpa, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. Zelaya said he returned to Honduras Monday to reclaim his presidency, defying threats of arrest and summoning supporters. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - Deposed President Manuel Zelaya made a dramatic return to Honduras' capital on Monday, taking shelter from arrest at Brazil's embassy and calling for negotiations with the leaders who forced him from the country at gunpoint.

UN climate chief says China poised to take lead (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:07 PM PDT

People take part in a mobile phone 'Wake-up Call' event at Parliament Square in London, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. The campaigners on Monday used their mobile phones to call on Gordon Brown to attend the Copenhagen climate change summit this December. The event was one of more than 2,000 'Global Wake-up Call' events happening worldwide on Monday, urging their leaders to re ignite stalled climate talks at the United Nations meeting on Tuesday Sept. 22. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - China's ambition to grow quickly but cleanly soon may vault it to "front-runner" status — far ahead of the United States — in taking on global warming, the U.N. climate chief said Monday.

After years of war, Iraqis hit by frenzy of crime (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 01:25 PM PDT

This undated photo provided Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 by the Muhsin family shows Muhsin Mohammed Muhsin, who was beheaded by kidnappers. Iraqis, who have begun to cautiously resume normal routines of life they abandoned as sectarian violence peaked in 2006 and 2007, are being engulfed again, this time by a frenzy of violent crime. (AP Photo/Muhsin family)AP - The kidnappers holding an Iraqi auto mechanic's 11-year-old son gave him just two days to come up with $100,000 in ransom. When he could not, they were just as quick to deliver their punishment: They chopped off the boy's head and hands and dumped his body in the garbage.

Iran's Ahmadinejad proud of Holocaust denial (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 05:47 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks in front of pictures of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, before Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009. Ahmadinejad lashed out at Israel and the West saying Friday the Holocaust was a lie and a pretext for occupying Palestinian lands. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)AP - Iran's president said Monday he is proud to stoke international outrage with his latest remarks denying the Holocaust as he heads for the United Nations this week — showing he is as defiant as ever while his country comes under greater pressure to curtail its nuclear program.

German teen who attacked school awakes from coma (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 08:26 AM PDT

German policemen block a road in front of the Carolinum school (R) in Ansbach near Nuremberg September 17, 2009. Police have arrested a man and evacuated a school building in the Bavarian town of Ansbach after four students were injured, police said on Thursday. REUTERS/Michael Dalder (GERMANY POLITICS CRIME LAW)AP - A German teenager who wounded nine students and a teacher in a terrifying ax and arson attack on his school was motivated by a "hatred for humanity" and had been planning the rampage since April, officials said Monday.

Sarkozy vs. de Villepin: French Clearstream Trial Begins (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Time.com - A court case that pits French President Nicolas Sarkozy against fellow conservative and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has all of France hooked

Germany's Merkel turns caution to strength (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 05:07 PM PDT

An election campaign poster of Angela Merkel, German Chancellor and leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is pictured in Berlin September 16, 2009. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschReuters - Hans-Ulrich Beeskow still recalls the quiet determination of teenager Angela Kasner as she swept aside male rivals to reach the local, regional and then national math championships in communist East Germany.

Report: Gunmen kill 80 in southern Sudan attacks (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 01:01 PM PDT

AP - Gunmen attacked a village in southern Sudan and killed some 80 people and wounded 46, said a southern government official Monday, adding that he believed the militia was organized by the central government.

Another 60-day delay for Gitmo trials (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:35 PM PDT

Three men accused of plotting the September 11 attacks, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, seen here in an undated handout, refused Monday to appear at a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay.(AFP/Muslm.net-HO/File)AP - A military judge agreed Monday to another delay in the war crimes trial of five Guantanamo prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks to give U.S. officials more time to decide how to try them.

Rwanda and Congo making progress toward peace (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:39 PM PDT

AP - Rwanda's president says his country and neighboring Congo are making very good progress in restoring peace to one of the most conflict-wracked areas of central Africa.

Sources: US eyes more drone hits on terror havens (AP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 05:47 PM PDT

U.S. Marine Cpl Kyle Campbell walks on a patrol in Nawa district, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - The White House is considering expanding counterterror operations in Pakistan to refocus on eliminating al-Qaida instead of mounting a major military escalation in Afghanistan.

Liberals say no tax increase on agenda (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 12:45 PM PDT

Reuters - Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff said on Monday he would not propose tax increases to balance the budget if he became prime minister, saying Canada's economic recovery is too fragile.

Quadriplegic dies after winning right to starve (AFP)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:50 AM PDT

Photo illustration. An Australian quadriplegic who last month won the landmark legal right to starve himself to death by preventing his carers from feeding him died on Monday, his family said.(AFP/File/Jean-Philippe Ksiazek)AFP - An Australian quadriplegic who won a landmark legal battle to starve himself to death by refusing food died on Monday, his family said, ending an existence he described as a "living hell".

More U.S. troops to Afghanistan? Obama's caught in a vise (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 04:37 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — With the military and Republicans publicly pressuring him to send more troops to Afghanistan soon and his own administration now deeply divided about how to proceed there, the eight-year war against al Qaida and the Taliban has become an increasingly urgent policy and political dilemma for President Barack Obama.

Sri Lanka under fire for lack of Tamil reconciliation (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - When Sri Lanka's government finally defeated the secessionist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May, even its harshest critics rejoiced. Here, at last, was a chance to bring peace to an island that had suffered 26 years of war, in which as many as 100,000 people were killed.

Obama's Meeting with Abbas, Netanyahu: Reluctant Parties (Time.com)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 03:10 PM PDT

Time.com - Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in New York with Barack Obama, but only because the U.S. President wants them to

Malaysian Tribe Finally Winning Some (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 21 Sep 2009 11:46 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 21 (IPS) - In wealthy Malaysia that employs over 4 million Asians to service its high-rolling lifestyle, a tiny indigenous tribe is fighting for its survival against state inaction and bureaucratic apathy, as well as marauding giant multinationals and timber loggers.

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