2009年10月14日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

Honduran factions agree on key point in talks (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 05:49 PM PDT

Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya wave Honduran flags as they demand Zelaya's return to power in Tegucigalpa, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009. Honduras' opposing factions agreed Tuesday on nearly every point of a pact to end the political crisis except the central issue: Zelaya's return to the presidency. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)AP - Negotiators reached a tentative agreement Wednesday on whether to return ousted President Manuel Zelaya to office, but both the deposed Honduran leader and the coup-installed president responded to the plan only by saying that talks would go on.

Palestinians urge Israeli punishment over Gaza (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 04:06 PM PDT

Israeli soldiers manoeuvre on the Israeli-Gaza border in January 2009. The United Nations pressed Israel and the Palestinians Wednesday to comply with a UN report calling for AP - The Palestinians called Wednesday for global action to punish Israel for alleged war crimes during its military assault on Gaza last winter, warning that the credibility of the United Nations and international human rights law was at stake.

Leonardo fingerprint reveals $150 million artwork (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 04:19 PM PDT

This undated photo provided Wednesday Oct.14, 2009 by Lumiere Technology in Paris shows the site of the fingerprint on a painting that art experts believe they have identified as a new Leonardo da Vinci. Peter Paul Biro, a Montreal-based forensic art expert, said Tuesday that a fingerprint on what was presumed to be a 19th-century German painting of a young woman has convinced art experts that it's actually a da Vinci. (AP Photo/HO/Lumiere Technology.com) NO SALESAP - Mona Lisa has something new to smile about.

85,000 Iraqis killed in almost 5 years of war (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 05:59 PM PDT

FILE - In this July. 15, 2009 file photo, family and comrades grieve as they escort the coffin of slain Iraqi traffic policeman in Baghdad, Iraq. It was reported Wednesday Oct. 14 2009 that at least 85,000 Iraqis lost their lives from 2004-2008 in violence, which the government said in its first comprehensive tally released since the war began, the toll counted Iraqi civilians, military and police. It did not cover U.S. military deaths, insurgents, or foreigners, including contractors or U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)AP - Iraq's government said at least 85,000 people were killed from 2004 to 2008, officially answering one of the biggest questions of the conflict — how many perished in the sectarian violence that nearly led to a civil war.

Rev. Moon marries 45,000 in global mass wedding (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 09:30 AM PDT

Couples and believers from around the world participate in a mass wedding ceremony arranged by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church at Sun Moon University in Asan, south of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009. The brides wore wedding dresses or their national dress; the men wore black suits with red ties, with white scarves around their necks. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)AP - It was his wedding day, but Choi In-seok admitted to a twinge of nervousness Wednesday about spending the rest of his life with the woman hand-picked for him by the Unification Church.

Capello tells Becks to start packing for SAfrica (AFP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 06:17 PM PDT

England's David Beckham (left) waits to come on as a sub next to team manager Fabio Capello during their final group 6 World Cup 2010 qualifying match against Belarus, at Wembley Stadium in London. England won 3-0.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Fabio Capello has dropped the strongest hint yet that David Beckham will be on the plane to South Africa for next year's World Cup finals.

Israel: Turkish TV paints troops as child-killers (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 03:11 PM PDT

AP - Israel's foreign minister has ordered ministry officials to summon Turkey's ambassador in Israel and protest to him over a Turkish TV series that reportedly portrays Israeli soldiers murdering children, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

Woman details 'fling' with homicide suspect in BVI (AP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 03:43 PM PDT

AP - A U.S. man accused of killing his wife while scuba diving told another woman several months before the death that she was his soulmate and that he was ready to leave "for good," according to evidence presented in court Wednesday.

Ibrahimovic to miss World Cup as Swedes fail to qualify (AFP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 02:28 PM PDT

Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic (L) fights for the ball with Albania's Armend Dallku during the World Cup Group 1 qualifying football match at Rasunda Stadium in Stockholm. One of Europe's top stars, Barcelona striker Ibrahimovic, will not be taking part in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa after Sweden failed to qualify Wednesday.(AFP/SCANPIX/Anders Wiklund)AFP - One of Europe's top stars, Barcelona striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, will not be taking part in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa after Sweden failed to qualify Wednesday.

US strike on suspected militant hideout in Pakistan (AFP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 05:24 PM PDT

In this file photo, US Marines launch an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle target drone during a live fire field training exercise, at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona. A US drone missile attack on a suspected militant hideout in a remote tribal area in northwest Pakistan early Thursday has killed at least four people, according to security officials.(AFP/HO/File/Lance Cpl. Matthew Lemieux)AFP - A US drone missile attack on a suspected militant hideout in a remote tribal area in northwest Pakistan early Thursday killed at least four people, security officials said.

Canada court quashes case against terror suspect (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 12:40 PM PDT

Reuters - The Federal Court of Canada on Wednesday set aside the last of the tough restrictions against a Moroccan man the government wanted to deport because of alleged links to al Qaeda.

USGS reports 6.0 magnitude earthquake off tsunami-hit Samoa (AFP)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 12:06 PM PDT

The Litia Sini Beach Resort lies in ruins in the tsunami devastated village of Lalomanu in Samoa on October 5, after being battered by a tsunami. An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck off the South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Thursday, seismologists reported, two weeks after a violent quake caused a tsunami that devastated Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck off the South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Thursday, seismologists reported, two weeks after a violent quake caused a tsunami that devastated Tonga, Samoa and American Samoa.

Taliban strength in Afghanistan nears military proportion (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 05:02 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON -- A recent U.S. intelligence assessment has raised the estimated number of full-time Taliban-led insurgents fighting in Afghanistan to at least 25,000, underscoring how the crisis has worsened even as the U.S. and its allies have beefed up their military forces, a U.S. official said Thursday.

Britain's Brown considers 500 more soldiers in Afghanistan (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - British prime minister Gordon Brown's announcement Wednesday that he will likely send 500 more troops to Afghanistan is being viewed with some puzzlement in a Europe that, so far, has turned a deaf ear to President Barack Obama's entreaties for more NATO forces.

Unsafe Abortions Killing 70,000 a Year (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 14 Oct 2009 11:36 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - LONDON, Oct 14 (IPS) - Unsafe abortions kill about 70,000 women a year, says a report by the U.S.- based Guttmacher Institute. An additional five million women are treated annually for complications arising from unsafe abortion, adds the report, based on a global survey.

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