2009年12月1日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News


South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 04:50 PM PST

A man passes a fence outside an office building on World AIDS Day in Johannesburg Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. Many businesses displayed banners to create an awareness  in a country that has more people living with HIV than any other. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)AP - South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS.


Report: Breast-feeding mother smothers baby on jet (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 03:59 PM PST

AP - A breast-feeding mother accidentally smothered her four-week old child aboard a United Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., to Kuwait, a British tabloid reported Tuesday.

Latin America's first gay marriage thwarted (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 03:53 PM PST

Alex Freyre, right, and his partner Jose Maria Di Bello kiss during a press conference in Buenos Aires, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009.  The couple planned to marry Tuesday but a national judge ordered the wedding blocked until the issue could be considered by the Supreme Court, reversing a decision by a city judge. The couple, who are HIV positive, wear red sashes to commemorate World AIDS Day. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - An Argentine couple's attempt to unite in Latin America's first gay marriage was thwarted Tuesday when city officials decided to block the wedding because of conflicting judicial rulings.


AP Exclusive: Letters tell of Moscow prison ordeal (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 03:19 PM PST

Nataliya Magnitskaya, mother of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in jail two weeks ago, holds a portrait of him and letters he sent to her from jail, as she speaks in an exclusive interview with the AP in central Moscow in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. Magnitsky worked for a British-born investor who fell from grace of Russian authorities and was barred from the country for vague national security reasons. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - The letters are neatly folded and written on soft white paper in a confident, elegant hand. They tell a story of horror in the bowels of the Russian prison system, a saga set against the backdrop of the world of multibillion-dollar investment funds in Vladimir Putin's Russia.


Peru's Murderous Fat-Stealing Gang: Crime or Cover-Up? (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 07:20 AM PST

Time.com - The alleged homicidal liposuctioners made headlines throughout the world. But could they be an attempt to distract attention from a more sinister story?

Iran warns of serious action against UK yachtsmen (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:51 PM PST

An Iranian boat takes part in naval manoeuvres in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman, April 6, 2006. REUTERS/IRNAReuters - Iran will take serious measures against five British yachtsmen detained in the Gulf if it proves they had "evil intentions", a close aide to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.


Iran warns it could prosecute British yachtsmen (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 12:32 PM PST

In this undated photo released by the Friendshiparabia.com website via AP Television Network, 'Kingdom of Bahrain' crew member David Bloomer is seen at an unknown location in Jordan. Iran is holding five British sailors, including David Bloomer, after stopping their racing yacht in the Persian Gulf, the British government said Monday, Nov. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Friendshiparabia.com via AP Television Network)  EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - Iran warned on Tuesday that it will prosecute five British sailors if it is proven they had "bad intentions" when their 60-foot racing yacht entered its waters, in what Britain says was an innocent case of a vessel accidentally going astray in the Gulf.


Another protected witness dies in Mexico (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 04:41 PM PST

Police officers guard  the entrance to a Starbucks coffee shop after former Federal Police agent Edgar Enrique Bayardo was gunned down in Mexico City, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. Bayardo was in a witness protection program of Mexico's Attorney Generals Office (PGR). (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - Gunmen burst in to a Starbucks coffee shop Tuesday and killed a former policeman who was a protected witness in a drug corruption case, the second death of a high-profile witness in Mexico in less than two weeks.


Libya jails two Swiss businessmen for 16 months: judiciary (AFP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 12:48 PM PST

A general view shows Tripoli's old town in 2008. Libya sentenced two Swiss businessmen to 16 months in prison and a fine on Tuesday, an official told AFP, in a row stemming from the arrest in Geneva last year of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's son.(AFP/File/Patrick Baz)AFP - Libya sentenced two Swiss businessmen to 16 months in prison and a fine on Tuesday, an official told AFP, in a row stemming from the arrest in Geneva last year of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's son.


FACT CHECK: Obama overlooks some tough realities (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 05:35 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks about the war in Afghanistan at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night did not always hew closely to the reality on the ground in Afghanistan. The president raised expectations that may be hard to meet when he told Americans his troop increase in Afghanistan will accelerate the training of that country's own forces and be accompanied by more help from allies.


CN Rail makes new offer to striking workers (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 05:12 PM PST

Reuters - Canadian National Railway offered a potential olive branch on Tuesday to striking Canadian locomotive engineers, who are angry about a change in the amount of time they have to work each month.

Australia's global warming bill defeated (AP)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 05:01 PM PST

AP - Australia's Senate has rejected legislation to set up an emissions trading system in the country to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.

Congress casts wary eye on Obama's Afghanistan buildup (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 02:58 PM PST

US soldiers patrol the streets of Kabul in November 2009. President Barack Obama will Tuesday announce a swift six-month surge of 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, but sketch an McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A wary, divided Congress raised serious questions Tuesday about President Barack Obama's new strategy for the war in Afghanistan, as well as its timetables and his plans to pay for the troop buildup.


John Demjanjuk, alleged Nazi death camp guard, goes on trial in Germany (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 30 Nov 2009 01:00 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The trial of former Nazi guard John Demjanjuk for the murder of 27,900 Jews began in Munich Monday in what is likely to be one of the last major trials of alleged Nazi war criminals and one of the final chances for Holocaust survivors to seek justice.

Demjanjuk on trial: The last Nazi war-crimes defendant (Time.com)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 05:50 AM PST

For Holocaust survivors and their families who crowded the Munich courtroom where John Demjanjuk went on trial on Monday, there was little doubt that the 89-year-old has blood on his hands from his alleged time as a Nazi death camp guard. Holocaust survivor Robert Cohen, whose family died in Sobibor, says the trial is an important test for Germany. Duration: 00:54(AFPTV/Pool)Time.com - John Demjanjuk, 89, is finally standing trial in Germany, 66 years after he allegedly served as a Nazi death-camp guard. Prosecutors face several challenges, however: no living witnesses and an ailing defendant


Growing Up with HIV (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 01 Dec 2009 10:58 AM PST

OneWorld.net - LUSAKA, Dec 1 (IPS) - Sixteen-year-old Andela Milambo* wants a husband. She is not looking for love, but for someone to share the burden of living with HIV. She wants to be able to take her medicine without having to hide, to discuss the recurring herpes with someone who understands.
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