2009年12月11日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Tough bargaining still ahead at UN climate talks (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:26 PM PST

An activist dressed as a polar bear holds a sign urging the U.S. to stick to the safe limit of 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere, at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Friday Dec. 11, 2009. The largest and most important UN climate change conference is underway in Copenhagen, aiming to secure an agreement on how to protect the world from calamitous global warming. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)AP - After a week of U.N. climate talks, some money is finally on the table and a draft agreement has been circulated. Now the really hard bargaining begins.

Costs and security fears weigh on Iraq oil auction (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 01:21 PM PST

Map shows 15 Iraqi oil fields that will be bid upon by foreign companiesAP - Iraqi officials cheered and clapped as the first oil field up for bid went to a major international consortium at the opening of the country's biggest postwar auction Friday. But from there, the chill set in.

Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:43 PM PST

An activist dressed as a polar bear holds a sign urging the U.S. to stick to the safe limit of 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere, at the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen, Friday Dec. 11, 2009. The largest and most important UN climate change conference is underway in Copenhagen, aiming to secure an agreement on how to protect the world from calamitous global warming. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)AP - Once every turn around the sun, inhabitants of our battered blue globe gather by the thousands in an assigned place, for a two-week ritual of despair and hope called a climate conference.

DomRep: Ousted Honduras leader, successor to meet (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:45 PM PST

Supporters of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya wave a flag with his image as they protest in Tegucigalpa, Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. Zelaya was ousted from power in June. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - The leader of the Dominican Republic said Friday that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will meet with his elected successor next week in his Caribbean nation.

Experts: Somali Islamists improving tactics, bombs (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 09:30 AM PST

AP - Somali Islamist insurgents have imported terrorist tactics and technology used with deadly results in Iraq and Afghanistan, threatening the African country's beleaguered government and causing alarm as far as Washington.

African Asylum Seekers Shot at by Egypt's Border Patrol (Time.com)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:55 AM PST

Time.com - Egyptian authorities have cracked down on the increasing number of African asylum seekers crossing into Israel -- including, say refugee rights groups, a policy of shooting those along the border. But those who make it to the Promised Land face hardship

Turkey's top court bans pro-Kurdish party (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:38 PM PST

Pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) leader Ahmet Turk addresses the media in front of his party headquarters in Ankara December 11, 2009. Turkey's top court on Friday closed the country's main pro-Kurdish party for having links to PKK Kurdish rebels in a ruling that could undermine efforts to end a long-running conflict with the separatists.The ruling imposes a five-year ban from politics on 37 members of the DTP, including Ahmet Turk. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Turkey's top court closed the only pro-Kurdish party in parliament on Friday for having links to PKK Kurdish rebels in a ruling that deals a fresh blow to the country's faltering bid to join the European Union.

Defense secy tells US troops Iraq mission critical (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:54 PM PST

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates greets members of the Iraqi police force at F.O.B. Warrior Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, in Kirkuk, Iraq. Gates stopped in Iraq following a two day trip to Afghanistan one week after U.S. President Barack Obama announced that he will send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Justin Sullivan, Pool)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that plans are on track to reduce American forces in Iraq next year and warned that neighboring Iran risks sanctions soon if it fails to cooperate on its controversial nuclear program.

Guatemalan ex-president Laugerud dies at 79 (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:47 PM PST

AP - Former President Kjell Eugenio Laugerud, who is credited with helping rebuild Guatemala after the devastating 1976 earthquake, has died from complications related to cancer. He was 79.

US voices concern over hunger-striking Sahara activist (AFP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 04:49 PM PST

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, seen in December 9, has raised US concern over a hunger-striking Western Sahara independence activist with Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi-Fihri, a US spokesman said Friday.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AFP - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has raised US concern over a hunger-striking Western Sahara independence activist with Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi-Fihri, a US spokesman said Friday.

AP sources: FBI questions students, eyes charges (AP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 05:10 PM PST

Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society, pauses while speaking to reporters at the Islamic Circle of North America Mosque, in Alexandria, Va., Friday, Dec. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - FBI agents have questioned some of the young Americans arrested in Pakistan as U.S. investigators gather evidence that could lead to a conspiracy charge against them, an American official and another person familiar with the case said Friday.

Canada opens mobile market to Globalive (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 12:25 PM PST

Reuters - Canada opened up competition in its telecoms sector on Friday by overturning a regulatory ruling that had blocked Egyptian-backed Globalive from offering wireless service in a market now dominated by three carriers.

Dozens treated over Australian airport leak: report (AFP)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 10:45 AM PST

Passengers check in at the Sydney International Airport in 2000. Part of Sydney Airport was evacuated Friday as 27 people were treated by paramedics for the effects of a suspected gas leak, a report said.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Part of Sydney Airport was evacuated Friday as 27 people were treated by paramedics for the effects of a suspected gas leak, a report said.

Worried father turned in 5 Americans to Pakistani police (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 11 Dec 2009 03:40 PM PST

A Pakistani man walks in front of the house where security personnel arrested foreign nationals in the eastern town of Sargodha on December 10. Five young American men arrested in Pakistan for trying to join Islamist militant groups will not be deported unless police clear them of any crimes, a Pakistani minister said Friday.(AFP/File/Farooq Naeem)McClatchy Newspapers - SARGODHA, Pakistan — Pakistani police arrested five American Muslims this week on suspicion of planning terrorist actions after Khalid Farooq, the father of one of them, turned them in, alarmed that they were determined to fight U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials and friends of the family said Friday.

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