2009年9月28日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News


Desperate Honduran leaders vow to restore freedoms (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:15 PM PDT

Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti speaks during a press conference at the presidential house in Tegucigalpa, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. The coup-installed government is backing off of its increasingly desperate measures to hold onto power. Micheletti said Monday afternoon that an emergency decree restricting civil liberties for 45 days will soon be lifted, less than a day after his government imposed the emergency order. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)AP - The coup-installed president of Honduras backed down Monday from an escalating standoff with protesters and suggested he would restore civil liberties and reopen dissident television and radio stations by the end of the week.


Fujimori pleads guilty in Peru corruption trial (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 03:20 PM PDT

AP - Former President Alberto Fujimori, who already faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison, pleaded guilty on Monday to authorizing illegal wiretaps and bribes of politicians, journalists and businessmen.

France rushes to Polanski's defense (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:04 PM PDT

A woman  signs a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski at the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris, Monday Sept. 28, 2009. The international tug-of-war over Roman Polanski escalated Monday as France and Poland urged Switzerland to free the 76-year-old director on bail and pressed U.S. officials all the way up to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the case. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)AP - Was Roman Polanski "thrown to the lions because of ancient history?" That's what the French culture minister says — though not everyone in France agrees.


Iran says advanced missiles can target any threat (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 04:29 PM PDT

This satellite image taken Saturday Sept. 26, 2009, provided by GeoEye shows a facility under construction inside a mountain located about 20 miles north northeast of Qom, Iran. Although there is no confirmation, analysts at both the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security and London-based IHS Jane's believe this satellite photo of a site on a military base near Qom, Iran, is most likely the location of the newly revealed centrifuge facility. Analysts at both ISIS and Jane's point to apparent tunnel entrances leading into a mountain. (AP Photo/GeoEye Sateliite Image, IHS Jane's Analysis)AP - Iran tested its longest-range missiles Monday and warned they can reach any place that threatens the country, including Israel, parts of Europe and U.S. military bases in the Mideast. The launch capped two days of war games and was condemned as a provocation by Western powers, which are demanding Tehran come clean about a newly revealed nuclear facility it has been secretly building.


Prosecutors: Polanski efforts go back decades (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 04:45 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 29, 2008 file photo Polish director Roman Polanski is seen in Oberhausen, western Germany. Organizers of the Zurich Film Festival say director Roman Polanski has been taken into custody on a 31-year-old U.S. arrest warrant. The organizers say Polanski was detained by police Saturday Sept. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Roberto Pfeil, File)AP - Prosecutors said Monday that they made contact multiple times with several countries in their efforts to arrest Roman Polanski since he fled overseas in 1978, disputing claims by the director's attorneys that they never pursued extradition because it would expose misconduct by the court that handled his sex case.


Roman Polanski's arrest: Why the French are outraged (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:05 PM PDT

FILE - In this May 19, 2007 file photo, French director Roman Polanski arrives for the screening of the film 'No Country For Old Men,' at the 60th International film festival in Cannes, southern France. Polanski was taken into custody, Swiss police confirmed Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009 on a 1978 U.S. arrest warrant for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)Time.com - The arrest of Roman Polanski shows that a cultural divide still exists across the Atlantic. Outraged Europeans say their beloved director is the victim of puritanical American values, while U.S. authorities believe justice is finally being served


Crash scene overwhelmed by bees in Turkey (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:04 PM PDT

AP - A van carrying beehives crashed into a truck on Monday, and huge swarms of bees broke free and stung the injured and rescue workers at the scene.

A breakdown of Iran's missile arsenal (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:34 PM PDT

AP - A breakdown of Iran's missile arsenal:

Ecuador's Indian group protests water, mining laws (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 05:01 PM PDT

Indigenous surround a bonfire set up to blockade a highway  during a protest in Guachala, some 50 km north of Quito, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. Indigenous people started protests against government's laws regulating the exploitation of oil and miner, and the water regime. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)AP - Hundreds of Indians have blocked Ecuador's Pan American highway in several provinces with rocks, tree trunks and burning tires to protest new water, mining and oil laws.


Further injury woes rock New Zealand (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 01:33 PM PDT

New Zealand's Daryl Tuffey at SuperSport Park in Centurion on September 24. New Zealand have suffered a further injury blow before their must-win Champions Trophy cricket match against England in South Africa with fast bowler Tuffey ruled out because of a broken hand.(AFP/File/Prakash Singh)AFP - New Zealand have suffered a further injury blow before their must-win Champions Trophy cricket match against England in South Africa with fast bowler Daryl Tuffey ruled out because of a broken hand.


Japan prices tumble by record in August (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 04:51 PM PDT

AP - The government says prices in Japan tumbled at a record pace in August amid growing worries about jobs and wages.

Canada gov't looks set to survive confidence vote (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:59 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada's minority Conservative government gained the temporary support of an opposition party on Monday and is poised to survive a non-confidence motion in Parliament later this week.

Australian parents jailed for death of their baby (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 04:49 AM PDT

AP - A husband and wife were jailed Monday for the manslaughter of their baby, who died after they chose to use homeopathic remedies rather than conventional medicine to treat her severe skin disorder.

Honduras shuts Zelaya-aligned stations, suspends civil liberties (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 07:45 AM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The de facto government that's in power in Honduras closed down television and radio stations Monday morning that are aligned with ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

Olympics: Obama vs. Lula? Chicago vs. Rio? Which would you choose? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Bringing justice and more power to the little guy has been a theme stressed by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva almost every day of his long political career. Now, Brazil's president is hoping the International Olympic Committee (IOC) might see things his way.

Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire: Is Fragile Peace Breaking Down? (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Sep 2009 02:05 PM PDT

Time.com - Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict see provocations, and some observers believe it's only a matter of time before the fragile peace breaks down again
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