2009年12月26日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Nigerian man charged in Christmas airliner attack (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 04:38 PM PST

Police enter the basement of a building where police are searching in Mansfield Street in London, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. The search was reportedly in connection with the attempted terrorist attack on a Northwestern Airline flight as it prepared to land in Detroit on Friday , (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)AP - A 23-year-old Nigerian man who claimed ties to al-Qaida was charged Saturday with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner, as authorities learned his father warned U.S. officials of concerns about his son's religious beliefs.

Explosion rocks Hezbollah stronghold near Beirut (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 01:41 PM PST

AP - Three bombs planted under a car exploded south of Beirut on Saturday, killing one person and wounding several others in an attack that apparently targeted an official from the Palestinian militant group Hamas, the state-run news agency said.

Israel kills 6 Palestinians in surge of violence (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 11:51 AM PST

Israeli soldiers are seen during an army operation in the West Bank city of Nablus, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. Palestinian officials say Israeli troops have killed three activists of the Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Saturday's operation in Nablus' old city came two days after Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli in a West Bank ambush. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)AP - Israeli troops blasted their way into the homes of three wanted Palestinians on Saturday, killing each in a hail of bullets and straining an uneasy security arrangement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Judge tells man he's charged with blowing up plane (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 02:34 PM PST

The Delta-Northwest Airlines plane N820NW is pulled back to the terminal at the Detroit Metropolitan airport in Romulus, Mich., Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009. A Northwest Airlines passenger from Nigeria, who said he was acting on al-Qaida's instructions, set off an explosive device Friday in a failed terrorist attack on the plane as it was landing in Detroit, federal officials said. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)AP - A federal judge has told a Nigerian man that he is charged with trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day.

Wreckage probe nears end; Jamaica awaits details (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 12:30 PM PST

Workers and police investigators sift through debris surrounding the cracked fuselage of American Airlines flight AA331 which crash landed overnight on a flight from Miami to Jamaica, just beyond the runway of Norman Manley International Airport, in Kingston Jamaica, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. More than 40 people were injured, at least 4 seriously, and there were no fatalities, according to officials, after the plane overshot the runway in Jamaica when it landed in heavy rain. (AP Photo/Lloyd Robinson) JAMAICA OUTAP - The pilot of an American Airlines jet that overshot the runway in Jamaica said Saturday that he's happy to be home with his family for the holidays, and praised his crew for their quick thinking and professionalism.

Why Indie Directors Are Releasing Movies Online -- For Free (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 11:30 AM PST

Time.com - In the age of YouTube, many filmmakers are finding success by rejecting the traditional studio distribution route and releasing their movies on the Internet instead

US bomb suspect was denied British visa: source (AFP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 04:12 PM PST

A police officer enters the entrance building in central London where a student who is alleged to have attempted to blow up a plane flying from Amsterdam to Detroit is thought to live. A London-educated Nigerian man charged with attempting to blow up a US airliner was barred from returning to Britain earlier this year, a government source confirmed Saturday.(AFP/Carl Court)AFP - A London-educated Nigerian man charged with attempting to blow up a US airliner was barred from returning to Britain earlier this year, a government source confirmed Saturday.

Activists push Egypt to grant access to Gaza (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 11:33 AM PST

AP - International activists from 43 countries have appealed to Egypt to reverse a decision denying them access to the blockaded Gaza Strip for a solidarity march.

Activist who denounced Mexico border killings dies (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 03:03 PM PST

AP - Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who first drew attention to the brutal slayings of women in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, has died, her nephew said Saturday. She was 73.

England on top in second Test after triple strike (AFP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 08:39 AM PST

South Africa batsman JP Duminy walks off after being trapped lbw for 4 by England bowler Graham Onions on the first day of the second Test between South Africa and England at Kingsmead in Durban, December 26. England grabbed three wickets after tea to wrest control of the match from South Africa.(AFP/Stephane de Sakutin)AFP - England grabbed three wickets after tea to wrest control from South Africa on the first day of the second Test at Kingsmead on Saturday.

Magma building up in Philippines' Mayon volcano (AP)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 04:45 PM PST

Lava continues to flow from the crater of the restive Mayon volcano in continuing mild eruption as viewed from Sto. Domingo, Albay province, about 500 kilometers southeast of Manila, Philippines. About 47,000 residents living around the 8-kilometer danger zone around the country's most active volcano spent their Christmas away from their homes after the volcano showed signs of increasing activity and possibly eruption. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)AP - Fewer earthquakes have been recorded in the Philippines' lava-spilling Mayon volcano, but magma continues to build up inside and any lull in activity could be followed by a bigger eruption, scientists said Saturday.

Nigerian charged with attempt to blow up U.S. aircraft (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 02:39 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON_The Justice Department on Saturday charged a 23-year-old Nigerian with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines jetliner with the same highly explosive chemical that convicted shoe-bomber Richard Reid used in a similar, unsuccessful attempt seven years earlier.

In Sri Lanka, Tsunami Anniversary Inspires Mixed Reactions (Time.com)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 11:30 AM PST

A Sri Lankan relative commemorates the victims of the 2004 tsunami with flowers and candles at Telwatta in Peraliya. Nearly half a billion dollars in tsunami aid for Sri Lanka is unaccounted for and over $600 million has been spent on projects unrelated to the disaster, an anti-corruption watchdog has said.(AFP/Lakruwan Wanniarachchi)Time.com - The approaching five year anniversary of tsunami in Sri Lanka, where the waves left over 35,000 dead and displaced over a million people in December 2004, inspired mixed reactions among the survivors along the coast

Christmas in Dalat, Christmas in San Francisco (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 26 Dec 2009 04:25 PM PST

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 25 (New America Media) - Wild orchids and colored, painted pine cones -- these things I remember of Christmas in Vietnam. It was in Dalat, the mountain city with its persistent fog and whispering pine forests, that I first celebrated Christmas. My father had been transferred there after the 1968 Tet offensive, and he brought the entire family with him.

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