2009年12月25日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Family pleas for captive US soldier's release (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 02:20 PM PST

This image grab from an undated video reportedly posted on the internet by Taliban militants on December 25 allegedly shows US soldier Bowe Robert Bergdahl. The Taliban Friday released a video purportedly showing Bergdahl, who was captured in Afghanistan about six months ago.(AFP/HO)AP - The Taliban released a video Friday of an American soldier captured in Afghanistan, showing him apparently healthy but spouting criticism about the U.S. military operation.

6 Shiites killed during Iraqi religious ceremony (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 10:18 AM PST

Mourners react during the funeral procession of Mohammed Juma, 52, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Dec, 25, 2009. Juma was killed Thursday when a sticky bomb attached to a civilian car exploded near a funeral tent. Explosions killed at least 26 people across Iraq on Thursday, most of them Shiite pilgrims taking part in a holy mourning ceremony, authorities said, raising fears of further sectarian attacks at the approach of Shiite Islam's most solemn occasion. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - A roadside bomb killed six Shiite Muslim pilgrims Friday during a procession, the latest violence targeting the group during observances of a religious holiday, officials said.

Radical Yemeni cleric believed unhurt in airstrike (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 10:28 AM PST

Map locates Shabwa province, where Yemeni forces struck a series of suspected al-Qaida hideouts ThursdayAP - A U.S.-born radical cleric is alive and well following reports he may have been killed in a Yemeni airstrike against suspected al-Qaida hideouts, friends and relatives said Friday.

Iran willing to swap nuclear material in Turkey (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 09:41 AM PST

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid enters his office at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Reid pledged Thursday to move forward to a vote legislation allowing President Barack Obama to sanction companies that export gasoline to Iran.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)AP - Iran would be willing to swap nuclear material with the West in Turkey, the foreign minister said in the country's latest counteroffer to a U.N.-drafted deal aimed at thwarting Tehran's ability to produce atomic weapons.

Pakistan's Turmoil Endangers Its Archaeological Treasures (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 01:50 PM PST

Time.com - The fight against the Taliban has created a climate of fear and insecurity in parts of the country that still hold secrets from the world's unexplored past

'Big Brother' targets wounded soldiers for show: report (AFP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 04:30 PM PST

A British soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Helmand province in 2007. Producers of AFP - Producers of "Big Brother" were targeting wounded soldiers to be contestants in the show, sparking outrage from military charity groups, a report said Saturday.

Vatican's top cleric in Arabia walks a thin line (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 05:21 AM PST

In this image taken Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009 Archbishop Paul Hinder, top Roman Catholic cleric walks out of his residence at the Christian compound next to a mosque in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. As the top Roman Catholic cleric in the heart of the Muslim world, Hinder walks a thin line between meeting the demands of a diverse Christians community spread across six countries on the Arabian Peninsula and abiding by strict rules of their Muslim hosts that with the exception of Saudi Arabia allow Christian worship, as long as no symbols of faith, such as a cross, are displayed. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)AP - The Vatican's top cleric in the heart of Muslim Arabia tends to a flock of 2 million Christians spread around six desert nations. But he has to do it quietly: Most of them must still pray in secret and are forbidden to display crosses and other symbols of their faith.

Journalist killed in Mexico, 12th case in 2009 (AP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 02:32 PM PST

In this Dec. 22, 2009 photo made available Dec. 25, Mexican journalist Alberto Velazquez, of the Expresiones de Tulum newspaper, is transported to a hospital after being shot in Tulum, Mexico, before dying shortly after. Velazquez's killing has brought the number of journalist's deaths in Mexico to 12 this year, according to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission. (AP Photo/Rosy Lopez, Novedades de Quintana Roo)AP - A journalist was gunned down this week as he left a holiday party in the Mexican Caribbean resort town of Tulum, human rights officials and an international media group said Friday, bringing to 12 the number of reporters killed this year in the country.

Sudan-Chad ties thaw after meeting: Khartoum (AFP)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 10:50 AM PST

A Chadian soldier watches people march in Ndjamena in May 2009. A visit by a senior Chadian delegation to Sudan ended with a thaw in tense relations between the two countries, Sudanese presidential adviser Ghaze Salaheddin said on Friday.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)AFP - A visit by a senior Chadian delegation to Sudan ended with a thaw in tense relations between the two countries, Sudanese presidential adviser Ghaze Salaheddin said on Friday.

Taliban issue video of captive U.S. soldier (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 04:31 PM PST

Reuters - The Taliban on Friday issued a new video tape of a captured American soldier ridiculing the war in Afghanistan as "our next Vietnam," a move the U.S. military condemned as a cruel piece of Christmas Day propaganda.

GI Christmas in Afghanistan: hip-hop, iced tea and an antenna tree (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 01:38 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — Soldiers deployed to Afghanistan, thousands of miles away from their loved ones, did things this Christmas Day that they wouldn't at home. They improvised -- building an ersatz Christmas tree out of stacked communications equipment. And they partied.

Argentina's 'disappeared:' Justice at last or reneging on amnesty? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Dec 2009 09:48 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Just outside Buenos Aires, in the depths of the Rio de la Plata and the South Atlantic, lie the remains of thousands of bodies.

Will 2010 Be the Year the World Ends -- for Mexico? (Time.com)

Posted: 25 Dec 2009 01:35 PM PST

Time.com - The populace is anxious about the bicentennial of the founding of the country because really bad things seem to happen every 100 years

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