2009年11月6日星期五

Yahoo! News: World News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Yahoo! News: World News

Yahoo! News: World News


Abbas' move reflects deep Palestinian despair (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:07 PM PST

The weapon of an Israeli soldier is seen in front of Palestinian demonstrators during a protest against Israel's controversial separation barrier in the village of Maasarah near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he does not want to run for another term in the January elections, blaming a stalemate in Mideast peace talks on Israel and the United States. Facing a hawkish Israeli government and an Obama administration reluctant to put muscle behind its demands on Israel, many Palestinians say they see no hope at all. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)AP - Neither strategy has yielded a Palestinian state, and Israeli settlements still encroach on lands that would make up their would-be nation.


G-20 officials to wrestle over economic imbalances (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 11:43 AM PST

A top US treasury official on Wednesday praised the role of emerging economies in the Group of 20 of the world's wealthiest nations for their role in reining in the global economic crisis.(G20)AP - The world's top financial officials on Friday sought a blueprint for securing future global growth and worked to break a deadlock over who bears the cost of fighting climate change.


World leaders needed at talks to cut climate deal (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:25 PM PST

An activist of the environmental group Avaaz  wearing costume representing an alien delegation mingles with UN delegates during the UN climate talks in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Barcelona hosts the final round of climate talks before December's Copenhagen UN climate summit. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)AP - After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world's rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenhagen.


Parents plan Web broadcast for disabled daughter (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 10:02 AM PST

This August, 15, 2009 hand out photo provided by Didier Lamic shows his 32-year-old daughter, Anne Lamic, dozing in bed in Tallard, French Alps region. Diagnosed with servere cerebral palsy, Anne Lamic's parents are planning to broadcast her quiet life to the world via webcam . (AP Photo/Didier Lamic/HO )AP - Disabled with severe cerebral palsy, 32-year-old Anne Lamic spends her days in southeastern France mostly in bed, surrounded by stuffed animals and dolls. She cannot speak or walk, and she sometimes has seizures.


Zelaya-Micheletti Honduras Deal Risks Trouble for Obama (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 07:20 AM PST

Time.com - As rival claimants on the presidency remain at odds over what they've 
agreed, the U.S. risks being seen in the region as having accepted a coup

Austrian Holocaust institute loses key members (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 04:35 PM PST

AP - Key members of an Austrian Holocaust research center have quit in a dispute with the city's Jewish community.

Egypt stops opposition leader from traveling to US (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:49 PM PST

AP - Egyptian authorities have prevented a leading political dissident from traveling to the U.S., saying Friday that the conditions of his early release from prison do not permit him to travel abroad.

Honduras leadership in limbo as accord dissolves (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 04:29 PM PST

Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya opens a door before a meeting with his representatives in Brazil's embassy where he has been holed up over a month in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Zelaya said Friday that a U.S.-brokered pact failed to end a four-month political crisis after a deadline for forming a unity government passed.  The pact gave the two sides until midnight Thursday to install a government with supporters of Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti, who was named interim president by Congress after Zelaya was ousted by a coup on June 28.  (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - They can't both be right. Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says a deal that could have returned him to power is defunct. Roberto Micheletti, who took power after a coup, says the same deal has been successfully accomplished.


Leicester stun world champions South Africa (AFP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 04:09 PM PST

South Africa's fly half Ruan Pienaar in action in 2008. Leicester clinched a famous 22-17 win over world champions South Africa at Welford Road on Friday as the mighty Springboks suffered a dismal start to their northern hemisphere tour.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Leicester clinched a famous 22-17 win over world champions South Africa at Welford Road on Friday as the mighty Springboks suffered a dismal start to their northern hemisphere tour.


Thaksin on a mission to humiliate Thai government (AP)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 05:06 PM PST

AP - Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has spent much of the past three years roaming the globe, shopping for diamonds in Africa, golfing at Asian resorts — and humiliating the government from a distance.

Canada October job losses reverse positive trend (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 08:28 AM PST

Reuters - Canada lost more jobs in October than even the gloomiest analyst had predicted, dashing hopes for a quick economic rebound and suggesting a recovery in the labor market may have gotten off to a false start.

Indonesia extends Australia refugee boat's stay (AFP)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 10:28 PM PST

Sri Lankan asylum seekers stand on the lower deck of the Australian Customs and Immigration Fisheries Patrol vessel anchored off Indonesia's Riau Island of Tanjung Pinang, in October 2009. The leader of a boat of Sri Lankan asylum seekers held in Indonesia is a known people smuggler previously deported from Canada, the government said Friday, a charge he has strongly denied.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)AFP - Indonesia extended by a week on Friday a deadline for an Australian customs ship loaded with 78 protesting Sri Lankan asylum seekers to leave its territory.


Obama's Asia tour kicks off at critical time on home front (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 12:34 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will leave the country for a four-nation tour of Asia starting Wednesday despite a host of domestic concerns, including the massacre at Fort Hood, a sharply rising jobless rate, his health care legislation stalled in the Senate and his Afghanistan troop decision still pending.

Palestinian President Abbas, critical of peace process, says won't seek reelection (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 01:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says he's made up his mind once and for all: There will be elections in January – and he will not be a candidate in them.

After Fort Hood: Count All the Dead (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 06 Nov 2009 12:34 PM PST

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 6 (New America Media) - Perhaps the most depressing aspect of Thursday's shoot-out at Fort Hood is that none of the 12 people who died in the melee will be counted as casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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