2009年11月28日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Iranian lawmaker: Iran could leave nuclear treaty (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 03:05 PM PST

US Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Glyn Davies speaks to journalists after the board of governors meeting at the UN agency's headquarters in Vienna. The UN nuclear watchdog censured Iran on Friday and demanded it immediately halt construction of a newly-revealed uranium enrichment plant as world powers united against Tehran.(AFP/Joe Klamar)AP - A conservative Iranian legislator warned Saturday that his country may pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty after a U.N. resolution censuring Tehran — a move that could seriously undermine world attempts to prevent Iran from developing atomic weapons.

3 Americans die in cargo plane crash in China (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 10:21 AM PST

Security officials stand guard at the crash site of a cargo plane at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, Saturday Nov. 28, 2009. A Zimbabwe cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off Saturday from Shanghai's main international airport, killing three crew members, a government official said. (AP Photo) CHINA OUTAP - A Zimbabwe-registered cargo plane crashed in flames during takeoff from Shanghai's main airport Saturday, killing three American crew members and injuring four others on board.

Leaders say momentum building on climate change (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 04:53 PM PST

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki moon, left, and Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, right, look on during a press conference on climate change at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Saturday Nov. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver)AP - Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change and a global fund with billions of dollars to help poor countries meet its mandates.

Geneva: Police use tear gas on WTO protest (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 04:53 PM PST

Several hundred demonstrators carrying banners participate in a protest against the Seventh WTO Ministerial Conference, in the streets of Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. The 7th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, is held in Geneva from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)AP - Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets Saturday to separate violent demonstrators from a protest of a meeting of top world trade officials, but the hooded "black bloc" activists were able to cause damage before 14 were arrested, spokesmen said.

Letter to reveal Blair was told Iraq war 'illegal' - report (AFP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 04:55 PM PST

Britain's Attorney General Lord Peter Goldsmith arrives at 10 Downing Street in London in 2006. Goldsmith informed then prime minister Tony Blair in 2002 that deposing Saddam Hussein would contravene international law, a newspaper reported on Sunday.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - The government's chief legal advisor informed then prime minister Tony Blair in 2002 that deposing Saddam Hussein would contravene international law, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

Hajj devil stoning ritual biggest swine flu risk (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 08:17 AM PST

A Saudi police officer monitors screens connected to cameras set up at all the holy places in Mina near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. The annual Islamic pilgrimage draws 3 million visitors each year, making it the largest yearly gathering of people in the world (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)AP - Millions of Muslim pilgrims, many wearing surgical masks, jostled together shoulder-to-shoulder furiously casting pebbles at stone walls representing the devil Saturday — the hajj ritual of highest concern to world health authorities watching for an outbreak of swine flu.

Lima apologizes to Afro-Peruvians for abuses (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 11:09 AM PST

AP - The government of Peru is apologizing to its Afro-Peruvian population for the first time for centuries of abuse, exclusion and discrimination.

Equatorial Guinea president eyes new term in poll (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 03:18 PM PST

Reuters - Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema is set to secure a new seven-year mandate to rule the oil-producing central African nation on Sunday in a poll widely dismissed by critics as lacking credibility.

US soldiers: Afghan war more challenging than Iraq (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 03:21 PM PST

In this Thursday Nov. 19, 2009, photo Sgt. Michael McCann from Enterprise. Ala., of the 118th Airborne MP Company, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan wars, watches as a driver is stopped at a checkpoint near the town of Balisal Afghan, Logar province, Afghanistan. Soldiers and officers involved in combat operations all cite the more punishing geography and climate, those focused on development the bare-bones infrastructure, and intelligence specialists the even greater difficulties in identifying the insurgents as among the many sharp contrasts between Afghanistan and Iraq. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)AP - Veterans of Iraq recall rolling to war along asphalted highways, sweltering in flat scrublands and chatting with city-wise university graduates connected to the wider world.

CN rail workers strike as talks break down (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 02:02 PM PST

Reuters - Locomotive engineers at Canada's largest railroad walked off the job on Saturday after talks broke down, but Canadian National Railway said it was using management and non-union staff to provide "the best possible service under the circumstances."

Australia welcomes giant pandas with city party (AP)

Posted: 28 Nov 2009 05:16 AM PST

Giant panda Wang Wang eats bamboo at the Bifengxia Giant Panda Breeding Center in Ya'an, in southwest China's Sichuan province, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. China will send two giant pandas, four-year-old male Wang Wang and 3-year-old female Fu Ni, to an Australian zoo this Friday as part of a joint research program. (AP Photo)AP - Two giant pandas from China were welcomed to Australia on Saturday with gifts of bamboo and a city party before settling into their new home, a 25-acre (10-hectare) natural enclosure at the Adelaide Zoo.

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