2009年12月19日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Climate reality: Voluntary efforts not enough (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 06:14 PM PST

A power plant is seen behind Bella Center, the venue of the UN climate conference, in Copenhagen, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. A final session of the climate conference delegates that lasted through the night casted doubt on whether the president of the conference, Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, could declare the Copenhagen Accord approved. Several countries, including Bolivia, Venezuela and Sudan said the document is unacceptable because it lacks targets for reducing carbon emissions. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)AP - Around the world, countries and capitalism are already working to curb global warming on their own, with or without a global treaty.

Iraq sends forces to oil well seized by Iran (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 06:19 PM PST

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stops to talk to local officials during a walk through the Abu Ghraib market, in Abu Ghraib outside of Baghdad, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. Mullen is on a tour of the region and stopped to touch base with local military commanders. (AP Photo/Joe Barrentine - The News Tribune)AP - Iraq deployed security forces Saturday near a remote oil well seized by Iran, officials said, and its government pressed Tehran to withdraw its forces from the area along their disputed southern border.

Forest plan gets the ax at UN climate talks (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 08:48 AM PST

FILE - This file photo dated Sunday Aug. 24, 2008 shows visitors walking along the canopy walk, a series of foot bridges suspended 30 meters in the air over the treetops, in Kakum National Park, Ghana. This primeval forest in southern Ghana boasts 300 species of birds, unique monkeys and the highly endangered forest elephant and bongo antelope. A proposal aimed at saving the world's tropical forests suffered a setback Sunday Dec. 13, 2009 when negotiators at the UN climate talks ditched plans for faster action on the problem because of concerns that rich countries aren't willing to finance it. (AP Photo/Olivier Asselin, File)AP - A plan to protect the world's biologically rich tropical forests by paying poor nations to protect them was shelved Saturday after world leaders failed to agree on a binding deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

2,000 trapped as Eurostar trains break down (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 02:04 PM PST

Passengers wait at St Pancras Station in London after delays to the Eurostar train services, Saturday Dec. 19, 2009. The Eurostar train service between Britain and France was suspended Saturday morning after more than 2,000 passengers were stranded for hours after four passenger trains broke down in the Channel Tunnel. Initial reports blamed the breakdowns on wintry weather conditions on both side of the English Channel. (AP Photo/PA, Tim Ireland)AP - More than 2,000 people were stranded beneath the English Channel for up to 16 hours when their Eurostar trains came to a halt in a tunnel, leaving many of them without food, water — or any idea of what was happening.

U.S. Companies Shut Out as Iraq Auctions Its Oil Fields (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 07:40 AM PST

Time.com - Antiwar protestors insisted that the U.S. invaded Iraq for its oil, but nobody seems to have told the Iraqis. They've awarded most oil contracts to countries that opposed the war

Mancini knows time is against him at City (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 05:04 PM PST

Mark Hughes was sacked as manager of Manchester City on Saturday and replaced by former Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini, pictured here in 2008, the English Premier League side announced.(AFP/File/Giuseppe Cacace)AFP - Roberto Mancini will be confident he can make an immediate impact as the new manager of Manchester City.

Egyptians building Gaza barrier come under fire (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 12:06 PM PST

An Egyptian soldier atop an armored vehicle guards the Egyptian side of the border with the Gaza Strip, as seen from Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. Security officials say shots were fired at Egyptians installing an underground metal border barrier meant to seal smuggling tunnels with Gaza. Nobody was injured in incident that Palestinian and Egyptian officials say took place on Saturday morning. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)AP - Shots were fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday at Egyptians installing an underground barrier meant to choke off the smuggling of goods and weapons through tunnels into blockaded Gaza.

Bodies of 8 men found in burned truck in Mexico (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 04:11 PM PST

AP - The bound and burned bodies of eight men were found in the central Mexico state of Queretaro, prosecutors said Saturday.

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi's health deteriorates (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 05:44 PM PST

Freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi is pictured at a hospital in Tripoli in September 2009. Megrahi, the Libyan sentenced to life imprisonment for the Lockerbie bombing and repatriated in August, has deteriorated and the cancer that afflicts him has spread through his body, a medical bulletin said early Sunday.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - The condition of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan sentenced to life imprisonment for the Lockerbie bombing and repatriated in August, has deteriorated and the cancer that afflicts him has spread through his body, a medical bulletin said early Sunday.

Cambodia sends Uighur asylum-seekers back to China (AP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 05:50 PM PST

In this Wednesday, July 15, 2009 photo, a Uighur ethnic minority woman walks alongside her children next to a poster that reads 'Don't forget the party's kindness. Don't forget the warmth of the motherland. Don't forget the struggles of each minority group' in the town's market Bazaar in the city of Hotan, China, A propaganda campaign to promote ethnic unity by the Han Chinese is in full throttle . The message 'We all belong to the same family' is falling flat among Uighurs in this former caravan stop on the edge of the Taklamakan desert, far from last week's ethnic rioting. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)AP - Cambodia deported a group of 20 Muslim asylum-seekers back to China, despite protests from the U.S. and the U.N., which rushed people to the airport in an attempt to physically prevent their expulsion.

Canada's opposition says not keen on 2010 election (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 09:31 AM PST

Reuters - In a sharp change of position, the head of Canada's main opposition party said in an interview published on Saturday that he was not keen on trying to trigger an election next year.

WWII shipwreck found off Australian coast (AFP)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 04:31 PM PST

The Surfers Paradise skyline on Queensland's Gold Coast in 2004. Deep-sea searchers on Sunday found the wreck of an Australian hospital ship torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during World War II off the country's east coast, the government said.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Deep-sea searchers on Sunday found the wreck of an Australian hospital ship torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during World War II off the country's east coast, the government said.

Copenhagen summit: Major powers broker compromise voluntary climate pact (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Dec 2009 03:44 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The United States and four other countries agreed to a new, voluntary climate pact today.

Why I Would Sign the 'Copenhagen Accord' (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 19 Dec 2009 11:28 AM PST

OneWorld.net - COPENHAGEN, Dec 19 (OneClimate.net) - I was one of the very few people around the world listening to world leaders as they took the floor one after another in the wee hours of this morning to justify their positions in favor or against the so-called "Copenhagen Accord." I was one of the even fewer people who also followed the ups, downs, frenzies, and stagnations of the Copenhagen Climate Summit for the 11 days and nights that led up to last night's dramatic oratorical jousting session.

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