2009年11月5日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News

Embattled UN rethinking Afghan-Pakistan role (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 05:05 PM PST

United Nations special envoy to Afghanistan Kai Eide speaks during a news conference in Kabul November 5, 2009. The United Nations said on Thursday it would temporarily evacuate hundreds of its international staff from Afghanistan due to deteriorating security, a sharp blow for Western efforts to stabilize the country. The UN would relocate about 600 of its roughly 1,100 international staff, with some being moved to safer sites within Afghanistan and the rest withdrawn from the country temporarily. The move, a week after five U.N. foreign staff were killed by militants in Kabul, is a blow for U.S. president Barack Obama's counter-insurgency war strategy, which foresees an influx of civilian assistance alongside extra troops. REUTERS/Jerry LampenAP - The United Nations is sending about 600 foreign staff out of the country or into secure compounds because of the deadly Taliban attack on U.N. workers, warning the Afghan government Thursday that international support will wane unless it cracks down on corruption fueling the insurgency.

Student stuns Iran by criticizing supreme leader (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 02:41 PM PST

This photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, and released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office shows Iranian student Mahmoud Vahidnia speaking in a meeting with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, unseen, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)AP - An unassuming college math student has become an unlikely hero to many in Iran for daring to criticize the country's most powerful man to his face.

Negotiators scale back UN climate pact ambitions (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 02:33 PM PST

Activists of anti-poverty group Oxfam wearing masks of world leaders fron left to right: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spain's Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, perform during the Climate Change Talks in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. Barcelona is host the final round of climate talks before December's Copenhagen UN climate summit. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)AP - With the U.S. Congress still struggling to agree on sharp cuts in greenhouse gases or how to fund them, European officials said Thursday they were now striving for a political agreement instead of a new treaty to allow the U.S. and other rich nations to make commitments that are not legally binding.

Palestinian shock: President says he wants to quit (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 03:14 PM PST

Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas heads a meeting of the Fatah party's executive committee in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Abbas said in a televised speech on Thursday that he will not seek re-election in Palestinian elections to be held in January.(AFP/Abbas Momani)AP - By announcing he doesn't want another term in office, embattled Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pushed the Mideast peace effort into unknown territory Thursday, opening the way to a succession battle that could play into the hands of his rival, the militant Hamas.

General Assembly urges Gaza investigations (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 04:00 PM PST

AP - The U.N. General Assembly urged Israel and the Palestinians Thursday to investigate alleged war crimes during last winter's conflict in Gaza and raised the possibility of Security Council action if they don't.

UK's Brown stands firm on Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 04:01 PM PST

AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to defend his government's commitment to Afghanistan in a major speech Friday, saying the war is essential to his country's security, according to excerpts released in advance by his office.

Israel: Weapons would let Hezbollah fight a month (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 05:16 PM PST

Israeli soldiers unpack rockets seized by Israeli authorities on a ship near Cyprus, and presented in the port of the Israeli city of Ashdod, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009. Israeli commandos seized a ship Wednesday that defense officials said was carrying hundreds of tons of weapons from Iran bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas, the largest arms shipment Israel has ever commandeered.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov )AP - Israel said Thursday that Hezbollah could have bombarded the Jewish state for a month with the weapons confiscated in the country's largest-ever arms seizure, and called on the world to focus on the Lebanese militants' chief backer, Iran, rather than assailing Israel.

Hurricane Ida rips into Nicaragua's Atlantic coast (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 05:18 PM PST

Graphic tracks the projected path of Hurricane IdaAP - Hurricane Ida swept onto Nicaragua's Atlantic coast Thursday, destroying homes, damaging schools and downing bridges before losing steam and becoming a tropical storm as it moved inland.

Tsvangirai calls off Zimbabwe unity government boycott (AFP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 02:07 PM PST

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is pictured at an emergency summit in Maputo. Tsvangirai on Thursday said he had called off a boycott of power-sharing ties with President Robert Mugabe that had paralysed the fragile unity government for three weeks.(AFP/Carlos Litulo)AFP - Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday called off a boycott of power-sharing ties with President Robert Mugabe that had paralysed the fragile unity government for three weeks.

New Afghan violence makes Obama decision tougher (AP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 05:05 PM PST

A burned U.N. bullet proofed vest and a helmet are seen in the destroyed guesthouse that left five U.N. staffers dead in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009. The United Nations said Thursday that it is temporarily relocating more than half its international staff in Afghanistan following last week's deadly Taliban attack against U.N. workers, the most direct targeting of its employees during decades of work in the country. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)AP - President Barack Obama's next move on Afghanistan is growing more difficult by the day. Deadly attacks this week deepened British and U.N. alarm over their commitments, and fresh worries about Iraq could delay the exit of U.S. troops there, squeezing an already overstretched military.

Canada flu spread and vaccination pace both pick up (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 11:20 AM PST

Reuters - Close to 6 million Canadians, or about 18 percent of the population, will be vaccinated against H1N1 flu by early next week, Canada's chief public health officer said on Thursday.

Shoe thrown at former Australian PM in Cambridge (AFP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 03:52 AM PST

An angry man threw a boot at former Australian prime minister John Howard, seen here in 2007, during a debate at Cambridge University.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - An angry man threw a boot at former Australian prime minister John Howard during a debate at Cambridge University, the quick-thinking student who caught the shoe said on Thursday.

Afghan insurgents make wreckage of U.S. armored vehicles (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 04:29 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Taliban-led insurgents in Afghanistan have devised ways to cripple and even destroy the expensive armored vehicles that offer U.S. forces the best protection against roadside bombs by using increasingly large explosive charges and rocket-propelled grenades, according to U.S. soldiers and defense officials.

Israel moves to rein in right-wing extremists (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 01:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - A US native from this isolated settlement was arrested by Israeli security services nearly a month ago amid allegations that he killed two Palestinians more than a decade ago and attempted to murder two others more recently. The local media are calling it the latest case of Jewish terrorism.

Water Concerns 1 Month After Indonesia Quake (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 08:27 PM PST

OneWorld.net - JAKARTA, Nov 4 (IRIN) - Thousands of survivors of an earthquake that devastated Indonesia's West Sumatra Province are still grappling with a lack of clean water and adequate sanitation more than a month after the disaster, relief workers say.

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