2009年10月9日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Gasps as Obama awarded Nobel Peace Prize (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:08 PM PDT

President Barack Obama speaks about winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The announcement drew gasps of surprise and cries of too much, too soon. Yet President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday because the judges found his promise of disarmament and diplomacy too good to ignore.

UN plane crash in Haiti kills all 11 on board (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:04 PM PDT

AP - A surveillance plane assigned to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti crashed into a mountain Friday, killing all 11 military personnel on board, the United Nations said.

Pakistan vows offensive after bomb kills 49 (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 11:38 AM PDT

A man carries a dead body of a child after a suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle along a road near a well-known market in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar on Friday, underscoring militants' ability to strike in major cities despite U.S.-backed military offensives pressuring their networks. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Pakistan vowed to launch a new offensive against militant strongholds along the Afghan border after a suicide bomber blew up a car near a crowded outdoor market on Friday, killing 49 people in the bloodiest attack to hit the country in six months.

US forces leave isolated Afghan base after attack (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 11:06 AM PDT

An Afghan police officer uses his mobile phone to record the scene of a bombing attack near the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for Thursday's suicide car bomb in the Afghan capital, saying their target was the embassy. (AP Photo/Farzana Wahidy)AP - Taliban fighters claimed Friday their flag was flying victoriously over an eastern Afghan village U.S. forces abandoned after suffering casualties in one of the war's deadliest battles for American troops.

French arrest physicist suspected of al-Qaida link (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 01:57 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2008 file picture the inside view of a facility in the CERN laboratories is pictured near Geneva, Switzerland. French police have arrested a nuclear physicist on suspicion that he had links to terrorist organizations in Algeria, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said Friday Oct. 9, 2009. The man was one of more than 7,000 scientists working at the organization and has been assigned to analysis projects under contract with an outside institute, said the organization, known as CERN. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini,File). (AP Photo/Keystone/Keystone,Martial Trezzini,File)AP - A physicist working at the world's largest atom smasher has been arrested on suspicion of links to al-Qaida, adding to the woes of the $10 billion project that ceased operation a year ago — just days after its celebrated start up.

Hugo Chavez's Iran Uranium Offer: A New Security Threat? (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 11:30 AM PDT

Time.com - The Venezuelan President tweaks the U.S. with an offer to provide uranium to Tehran. Now, if only he could actually find the mineral in his jungles

Hungary pageant for surgically enhanced beauties (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:17 PM PDT

AP - It was a night for unnatural beauties.

Amnesty: Iran sentences opponent to death (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 02:19 PM PDT

AP - Iran has sentenced an accused member of an exiled opposition group to death, Amnesty International said Friday in an appeal for Tehran to rescind the ruling.

Major gains reported in Honduran crisis talks (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 05:06 PM PDT

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya's hat and radio sit on a desk at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. Allies of the rival claimants to the Honduran presidency are continuing face-to-face talks on ending the paralyzing political standoff, after visiting diplomats failed to achieve a breakthrough. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - Both sides in the Honduran political crisis are reporting progress as negotiatiors take a break for the weekend in their effort to resolve the standoff over the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya.

Burundi says it will 'firmly' relocate Tutsi refugees (AFP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 01:53 PM PDT

A Congolese Tutsi child looks out of a truck on the Congolese border in 2004. Burundi on Friday said it would act AFP - Burundi on Friday said it would act "firmly" in relocating Congolese Tutsi refugees to a camp in the east of the country after the Democratic Republic of Congo closed its borders to them.

Obama discusses troop levels for Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 04:53 PM PDT

Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, left, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrive at the Pentagon, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009. after a meeting at the White House to discuss` Afghanistan and Pakistan.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Hours after winning a Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama assembled his war council in the White House basement to talk about how many troops might be needed to right the 8-year-old Afghanistan conflict that military commanders are pressing him to escalate.

Strong Canada job gains surprise, other data mixed (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 09:28 AM PDT

Reuters - Starkly contrasting data on Friday showed Canada's jobs market giddily topping expectations in September after a dismal August trade performance, testing the Bank of Canada's resolve to hold rates unchanged through mid-2010.

Marshalls landowner sues government over US base (AFP)

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 07:24 PM PDT

A rocket is launched from the Reagan Test Site in Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. A powerful traditional chief in the Pacific island chain is suing the western nation's government over a treaty which gives the US the use of his land for a missile testing base.(AFP/HO/US Army/File)AFP - A powerful traditional chief in the Marshall Islands is suing the western Pacific nation's government over a treaty which gives the US the use of his land for a missile testing base.

Wounded soldier dies weeks after ambush in Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 03:30 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON -- An ambush in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan that raised questions about the whether U.S. troops had enough artillery, air support and intelligence has claimed a fifth U.S. service member.

Bomb in Pakistan's Peshawar sharpens prospect of military showdown (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - A suicide bomber that killed more than 40 people in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar capped a week of provocative moves by the Pakistani Taliban in defiance of a threatened military attack on their headquarters in the tribal region of South Waziristan. A military showdown now seems all but assured.

Why Obama Deserves the Prize: Wangari Maathai and Muhammad Yunus (Time.com)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 08:30 AM PDT

Time.com - TIME hears from two former winners, who firmly believe that the Nobel Committee made the right choice in picking the American President

Africa Drought 'Worst in Decades' (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 01:26 PM PDT

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (OneWorld.net) - Aid organizations are appealing for global help as millions of families face hunger, water shortages, disease, and death across the eastern part of Africa.

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