2009年11月26日星期四

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Yahoo! News: World News


Philippines prepares to charge suspect in massacre (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 05:49 PM PST

Supporters and relatives carry bodies of members of the Mangudadatu family who were killed in Monday's massacre during burial rites in Buluan town, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines on Thursday Nov. 26, 2009. A scion of a powerful clan suspected in the massacre of 57 people in an election caravan in the southern Philippines turned himself in Thursday amid mounting pressure on the government to crack down on lawlessness and warlords.   (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Under threat of military attack, the scion of the clan suspected in the slaughter of 57 people in the southern Philippines turned himself, and prosecutors say he will face murder charges in the country's worst election violence.


IAEA chief: Iran investigation at 'dead end' (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 01:42 PM PST

Outgoing Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei waits for the start of the IAEA's 35-nation board meeting at Vienna's International Center, in Vienna, on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)AP - The outgoing head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday his probe of Iran's nuclear program is at "a dead end" and that trust in Tehran's credibility is shrinking after its belated revelation that it was secretly building a nuclear facility.


Experts: Bishops covered up priests' child abuse (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 03:12 PM PST

Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin speaks to the media in Dublin, Ireland, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. The Archbishop said no words of apology will ever be sufficient to the victims of child abuse. Speaking after the publication of the report of the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, he said that the report highlights devastating failings of the past, and that 'there is no room for revisionism regarding the norms and procedures in place'.  (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)AP - Roman Catholic Church leaders in Dublin spent decades sheltering child-abusing priests from the law and most fellow clerics turned a blind eye, an investigation ordered by Ireland's government concluded Thursday.


Iran seizes rights lawyer's Nobel Peace medal (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 05:23 PM PST

FILE - In this Thursday July 9, 2009 file photo, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, center, gestures with youths wearing T-shirts with 'Peace' written on the front, as she visits the Scampia district, in Secondigliano on the outskirts of Naples, southern Italy. Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the Norwegian government said Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009, accusing Iran of a shocking first in the history of the prize. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta, File)AP - Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.


China vows to dramatically slow emissions growth (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 10:31 AM PST

FILE -- In a Nov. 18, 2009 file photo President Barack Obama, left, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, right, gesture to each other during the arrival at Diaoyutai State Guest House before their bilateral meeting in Beijing, China.   China announced Thursday Nov. 26, 2009 that Premier Wen Jiabao will take part in the Copenhagen meeting on the global effort to reduce greenhouse emissions. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/file)AP - China promised Thursday to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade — a major move by the world's largest emitter, whose cooperation is crucial to any deal as a global climate summit approaches.


How a little town in Peru is becoming a hotspot (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 03:05 AM PST

Time.com - The name of the place was, if anything, a synonym for bad luck but now it ison the trade highway between Peru and Brazil, between the Pacific and theAtlantic

Post Office card error leaves Italians in the red: report (AFP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 04:01 PM PST

A woman collects money in a mobile post office set up near L'aquila in April 2009. A computer glitch left Italian Post Office customers in the red by processing card transactions at 100 times their value, Italian press reported Thursday.(AFP/File/Christophe Simon)AFP - A computer glitch left Italian Post Office customers in the red by processing card transactions at 100 times their value, Italian press reported Thursday.


Brazil: 'Gringos' must pay to stop Amazon razing (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 05:12 PM PST

Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, speaks, as France's president Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, center, look on during the Amazon Summit in Manaus, Brazil, Thursday,  Nov.26, 2009. The summit in the steamy jungle city of Manaus to set Amazon priorities on climate change is fizzling after the presidents of Colombia and Venezuela bailed out. (AP Photo/ Andre Penner)AP - Brazil's president said Thursday that "gringos" should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world's largest tropical rain forest.


Freed foreign journalists in Kenyan hospital (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 04:43 PM PST

Freed hostage journalists Canadian Amanda Lindhout, second right, and Australian Nigel Brennan, right,  sit together after their release from captivity, with unidentified officials at the Presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia,  Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009.  The two freelance journalists Amanda Lindhout, a Canadian freelance reporter, and Nigel Brennan, a freelance Australian photojournalist, were kidnapped in Somalia in August 2008 and freed on Wednesday after more than a year in captivity.  (AP Photo/Government of Somalia)AP - Two foreign journalists freed after 15 months in captivity in Somalia have been receiving medical care in neighboring Kenya, Canada's ambassador said.


Top suspect blames rebels for Philippines massacre (AFP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 05:34 PM PST

Ampatuan Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. (centre) is escorted by police agents after arriving in Manila on November 26. Ampatuan Jr., the alleged mastermind of an election-linked massacre of 57 people in the southern Philippines, has blamed Muslim rebels, in a dramatic interview from behind bars aired on local television on Friday.(AFP/Noel Celis)AFP - The alleged mastermind of an election-linked massacre of 57 people in the southern Philippines blamed Muslim rebels, in a dramatic interview from behind bars aired on local television on Friday.


Pickton gets leeway in murder appeal (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 09:43 AM PST

Reuters - Canada's Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to give serial killer Robert Pickton more legal leeway in appealing his conviction in the brutal murder of six Vancouver sex trade workers.

Invading camels to be shot in Australian town (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 04:32 AM PST

In this undated photo released by the Northern Territory government, camels are seen crowded around a drinking trough in MacDonnell Shire of the Northern Territory, Australia. State authorities announced Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009, they plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small town in Australia's Outback in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies. (AP Photo)AP - Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies.


Pakistan military moving to undercut Zardari over his close U.S. ties (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 02:24 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Suspicions by Pakistan's powerful army that the country's civilian leadership is growing too close to the United States are fueling a political crisis that analysts here believe threatens the survival of the government and could divert attention from the battle against Islamic extremists.

When Thanksgiving Comes to Afghanistan (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 12:30 AM PST

Time.com - TIME's Kabul correspondent talks about a tradition that is coming to an endas the tenor of the war changes and the expatriate community suffers a seachange
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