2009年12月27日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

At least 5 killed in Iran protests (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 05:56 PM PST

This photo, taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows an Iranian police officer, center with white shirt, is protected and is taken away by people after being beaten by protestors during anti-government protest at the Enqelab (Revolution) St. in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. (AP Photo) EDITORS NOTE AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING SOME EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP WAS PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT ACCESS TO THIS EVENTAP - Iranian security forces fired on stone-throwing protesters in the center of the capital Sunday in one of the bloodiest confrontations in months, opposition Web sites and witnesses said. At least five people were killed.

Bomb suspect came from elite family, best schools (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 05:10 PM PST

In this undated photo provided by the Web site saharareporters.com and verified by an Associated Press reporter present at the subject's arraignment, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is shown. Abdulmutallab, who claimed ties to al-Qaida, was charged Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009 with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner, just a month after his father warned U.S. officials of concerns about his son's religious beliefs. (AP Photo/saharareporters.com) NO SALESAP - As a member of an uppercrust Nigerian family, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received the best schooling, from the elite British International School in West Africa to the vaunted University College London.

Activist: US missionary likely detained in NKorea (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 03:19 AM PST

In this photo taken on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009, and released from Freedom and Life for All North Koreans, U.S. missionary Robert Park, a 28-year-old Korean-American, who crossed the frozen Tumen River into North Korea from China on Christmas Day, is seen in a rally in Seoul, South Korea. The Christian missionary from the U.S. has entered North Korea carrying a letter to leader Kim Jong Il in order to call attention to the tens of thousands of political prisoners believed held in the communist state, an activist said Saturday. (AP Photo/ Freedom and Life for All North Koreans)AP - An American missionary is believed to be in North Korean custody after he illegally entered the communist nation on Christmas Day in an attempt to call attention to the reclusive country's human rights conditions, an activist said Sunday.

Airliner plot raises fears about al-Qaida in Yemen (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 12:22 PM PST

Scott Studer takes his daughter Ella from his wife Jen as they prepare to return home to Boston at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport after visiting family in Detroit Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009 in Romulas, Mich. The U.S. government tightened airline security as it searches for answers to how a 23-year-old Nigerian man eluded extensive systems intended to prevent attacks like his botched Christmas Day effort to blow up a Northwest flight from overseas. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - A Nigerian man's claim that his attempt to blow up a U.S. plane originated with al-Qaida's network inside Yemen deepened concerns that instability in the Middle Eastern country is providing the terror group with a base to train and recruit militants for operations against the West and the U.S.

Hamas marks 1 year after war, but many stay home (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 10:15 AM PST

Palestinians hold pictures of relatives who were killed during the war with Israel as they attend a demonstration held by the Hamas movement, marking the one-year anniversary of Israel's offensive on Gaza, in Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. Israel launched the three-week long offensive on Dec. 27, 2008, to end years of rocket fire from Gaza toward Israeli border towns. About 1,400 Palestinians were killed, including hundreds of civilians, along with 13 Israelis. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - A meager turnout at a well-publicized Hamas rally Sunday to mark a year since Israel's devastating Gaza offensive appeared to reflect public despair over grinding poverty, stalled reconstruction and discontent over the militant Islamic group's attempt to turn the occasion into a victory march.

Tapping Into India's Growing Alcohol Market (Time.com)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 10:20 AM PST

Time.com - With India's fast-growing beer, wine and spirit market booming while demand elsewhere stalls, no international beverage company can afford to ignore it

Croatia: presidential election goes to runoff (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 05:00 PM PST

A combo shows three leading presidential candidates, Milan Bandic, left, Ivo Josipovic, center and Nadan Vidosevic. On Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009 Croatians will choose the country's third president since 1991 independence, to replace popular leader Stipe Mesic who has already served a maximum of two five-year mandates. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)AP - A leftist opposition legal scholar will face off against Zagreb's colorful mayor in Croatia's presidential runoff elections, the state-run Electoral Commission said early Monday.

Hamas: 2 members dead in Lebanon blast (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 10:47 AM PST

Palestinian Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas representative in Lebanon, speaks in front of reporters at a press conference in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009. An explosion in Lebanon targeting Hamas killed two members of the Palestinian militant group, Hamas said Sunday. The group did not say what caused the explosion but Lebanon's state-run news agency said the blast was caused by three bombs tied to each other placed under the car. Hamdan said the bomb targeted 'offices used by the group with a living quarters for bodyguards.' (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)AP - Hamas said Sunday that two members were killed in a mysterious late-night blast, and the Palestinian militant group said it was still trying to determine who was behind the attack.

Priest: 7 migrants killed in Suriname violence (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 02:09 PM PST

AP - At least seven foreign migrants are dead and hundreds more homeless after rioting and attacks against migrant workers in Suriname left a border town in ashes, a Brazilian priest aiding victims said Sunday.

Divisions await Egypt's new Muslim Brotherhood head (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 01:49 PM PST

Reuters - The next leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood will have to heal divisions between moderates and conservatives if the opposition group is to have any political role, a senior member of the group said.

China urged to keep policies flexible (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 05:36 PM PST

Reuters - China needs to keep its economic policies flexible to fight against excessive surges in asset prices and hot money inflows, a central bank adviser said over the weekend.

125 pilot whales die on NZ beaches, 43 saved (AP)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 01:52 PM PST

AP - Some 125 pilot whales died in New Zealand after stranding on the beach over the weekend — but vacationers and conservation workers Sunday managed to coax 43 others back out to sea.

Obama to probe security gaps that allowed terror suspect on plane (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 03:21 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON_ President Barack Obama has ordered an investigation into possible U.S. security gaps that enabled a Nigerian man of known extremist leanings to keep his U.S. visa, smuggle explosives aboard a Christmas Day passenger flight and ignite them, the White House said Sunday.

Will the West's criticism of China for jailing top dissident backfire? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 27 Dec 2009 09:47 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - China's sentencing of dissident Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison for "subversion" signaled a hardening of Communist party authorities who suppressed the news at home over the weekend even as it drew widespread international condemnation.

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