2009年12月5日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Guinea junta's No. 2 returns after president shot (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:25 PM PST

AP - The overnight return to Guinea on Saturday of the No. 2 man in the junta that seized power a year ago makes it more likely that the military clique will be able to hang on to power following an assassination attempt on the president.

Lax codes cited in Russia blaze that killed 107 (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:00 PM PST

People lay flowers outside the Lame Horse nightclub where a fire broke late Friday, in Perm, about 700 miles (1,200 kilometers) east of Moscow, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. Authorities said more than 100 people died and over a hundred injured. The fire tore through the popular Lame Horse nightclub in Perm late Friday, after fireworks set a suspended plastic ceiling ablaze, filling the crowded club with thick black smoke. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP - President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday demanded that Russia tighten its notoriously lax fire codes after the deadliest blaze since the Soviet era killed at least 107 people celebrating in a nightclub with a decorative twig ceiling and single exit.

US troop buildup is big; Afghan buildup is key (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:27 AM PST

United States Marines from the 2nd MEB, 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion escort new Afghanistan National Police officers to their base in Khan Neshin in the volatile province of Helmand, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. The police officers will be part of a mentoring program and work alongside the Marines. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - President Barack Obama has his troop surge. Afghanistan's beleaguered security forces have theirs.

Climate drama climax looks elusive in Copenhagen (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:41 PM PST

Preparations take place at the Bella Convention Centre, Saturday Dec. 5, 2009, in Copenhagen for the UN climate summit, COP15, due to start here Monday Dec. 7. (AP Photo/Jens Panduro/POLFOTO)AP - For 20 years, as this crowded planet grew warmer, nations have gathered annually to try to do something about it. History now brings them to this chilly northern capital, and to a crossroads.

Did Amanda Knox Get a Fair Murder Trial? (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:50 PM PST

Time.com - Two years after her British roommate in Italy was found brutally murdered, the American college student and her former boyfriend are found guilty. But her family and other supporters say she was never given a real chance to prove her innocence

Stuck in crisis, Romanians vote for president (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 04:19 PM PST

People walk past an election poster of presidential candidate Mircea Geoana, head of Romania's Social Democrats, in downtown Bucharest December 5, 2009. REUTERS/Radu SighetiReuters - Romanians vote for a president on Sunday in a ballot expected to unseat incumbent Traian Basescu in favor of a leftist who says he will end a political crisis that has put an IMF-led rescue package at risk.

Iraq VP: 'Optimistic' signs on election accord (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:32 AM PST

Joan Baxer of Ramsey, New Jersey holds a photograph of her son Sergeant Brian Baxer, 22, who has done two tours in Iraq and is awaiting deployment to Afghanistan, attends a rally against the plan to try those accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks at New York's Federal Court, in New York December 5, 2009. REUTERS/Finbarr O'ReillyAP - Iraq's vice president said Saturday there are "optimistic signs" toward a political agreement on parliamentary elections, but warned he could again veto the plan if it does not meet his demands for greater Sunni outreach in the balloting.

Morocco again blocks return of Sahara activist: Spain (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:38 PM PST

Women sit with banners stuck to their backs in support of Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar at the airport of the Spanish Canary Island of Lanzarote, in Arrecife. Spain said Moroccan authorities Saturday again refused to allow Haidar to return home, a decision it said it AFP - Spain said Moroccan authorities Saturday again refused to allow Western Sahara activist Aminatou Haidar to return home, a decision it said it "deeply regrets."

Lawmakers get little reaction to Obama's war plan (AP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:45 PM PST

FILE - In this May 9, 2007 file photo, Rep. Phil Hare, D-Ill., listens to testimony during a House Committee on Veteran's Affairs hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama's plan to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan is being met with a relative shrug by the public. The president's new policy has not ignited switchboards and e-mail inboxes on Capitol Hill in the way other issues have. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)AP - The switchboards and e-mail inboxes of members of Congress are not seeing much of a surge from President Barack Obama's plan to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan.

Canada says China importer to buy more canola oil (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 01:14 PM PST

Reuters - China's state-owned Sinograin will increase Canadian canola oil imports next year, the Canadian government said on Saturday after failing to secure broader access to the market for Canada's exports of the oilseed.

BHP, Rio Tinto sign joint venture deal (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 02:42 PM PST

This picture released by Rio Tinto shows Rio Tinto CEO Tom Albanese (R) and BHP Billiton CEO Marius Kloppers (L) shaking hands after the two mining giants agreed a joint venture in June 2009. Mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto said Saturday they had signed a binding agreement on combining their vast iron ore operations in Western Australia, and have submitted the deal to the EU.(AFP/HO/File)AFP - Mining giants BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto said Saturday they had signed a binding agreement on combining their vast iron ore operations in Western Australia, and have submitted the deal to the EU.

Monster mine-clearing tank goes to work in Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:07 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — The new NATO offensive in Helmand Province marked not only the largest assault yet for the VM-22 Osprey, but also the combat debut of the Marines' massive new combat mine and bomb-clearing machine, the Assault Breacher Vehicle (ABV), said a Marine Corps spokesman in Helmand.

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