2010年1月19日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News


UN approves extra troops and police for Haiti (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 03:46 PM PST

A woman injured during the earthquake awaits medical assistance in front of a line of people waiting for food handouts from the United Nations in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. The U.N. Security Council approved extra troops and police officers to beef up security in Haiti and ensure that desperately needed aid gets to earthquake victims.  (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday unanimously approved 3,500 extra troops and police officers to beef up security in Haiti and ensure that desperately needed aid gets to earthquake victims as the world body defended itself against criticism that millions still don't have food or water.


Haiti quake creates thousands of new orphans (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 02:29 PM PST

Haitian Orphans arrive for medical care at Childrens Hospital in Pittsburgh Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010. The children were not orphaned by last week's massive earthquake, but their orphanage was destroyed. The orphans will  be placed in group homes until their adoptions are finalized. (AP Photo/John Heller)AP - Jean Peterson Estime was outside playing soccer when his home pancaked in last week's earthquake and killed his parents and five sisters.


'Love Story' author Erich Segal dies aged 72 (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 02:24 PM PST

AP - Erich Segal, the Ivy League professor who attained mainstream fame and made millions sob as writer of the novel and movie "Love Story," has died of a heart attack, his daughter said Tuesday. He was 72.

Haitians fleeing capital in search of food, safety (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 02:07 PM PST

People cram into a truck leaving the capital in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. On the streets, people are still dying, pregnant women are giving birth and the injured are showing up in wheelbarrows and on people's backs at hurriedly erected field hospitals. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - Thousands of Haiti's quake victims are struggling to board buses to flee hunger and violence in the shattered capital, hoping that food will be easier to find in the countryside.


Haiti and the Dominican Republic: A Tale of Two Countries (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 10:35 AM PST

US soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division arrive to secure the General hospital in downtown Port-au-Prince. The United States expects to transition Time.com - Why are the two nations that share the island of Hispaniola so different? Geography is one explanation; their differing despots is another


Two-goal Tevez back to haunt United in League Cup (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 03:11 PM PST

Manchester City's Argentinian forward Carlos Tevez chases the ball against Manchester United during their English League Cup semi final first leg football match at The City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester. City won 2-1.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Carlos Tevez, whose move across Manchester was the source of so much controversy, made the difference as City claimed a 2-1 win over United in the rivals' League Cup semi-final first leg here on Tuesday.


Egypt announces find of ancient cat goddess temple (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 03:22 PM PST

This undated photo released Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010, by Egypt's supreme council of antiquities shows the ancient cat-goddess Bastet found amongst the temple's ruins in the Kom el-Dekkah area of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Egypt says its archaeologists have unearthed a Ptolemic temple dating back more than 2,000 years and which may have been dedicated to the ancient cat-goddess Bastet. (AP Photo/EGYPT'S SUPREME COUNCIL OF ANTIQUITIES, HO)  ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALESAP - Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old temple that may have been dedicated to the ancient Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said Tuesday. The ruins of the Ptolemaic-era temple were discovered by Egyptian archaeologists in the heart of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, founded by Alexander the Great in the 4th century B.C.


Chavez foe to be imprisoned on graft charges (AP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 12:46 PM PST

AP - An opponent of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been sentenced to two years in prison for misuse of public funds.

Nearly 300 killed in Nigeria religious clashes (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 01:24 PM PST

Anti-riot policemen patrol the streets in Jos, Nigeria, in 2008. Three days of Muslim-Christian clashes in the Nigerian city of Jos have left around 300 people dead, clerics and a paramedic said Tuesday, as troops were deployed to control the unrest.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Three days of Muslim-Christian clashes in the Nigerian city of Jos have left around 300 people dead, clerics and a paramedic said Tuesday, as troops were deployed to control the unrest.


Canada cabinet shuffle focuses on deficit-taming (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 07:51 AM PST

Reuters - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper shuffled his cabinet on Tuesday to put more focus on the economic recovery and, as expected, left Finance Minister Jim Flaherty at his post.

Tribal welcome as Prince William goes Down Under (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 03:21 AM PST

Prince William, seen here, has been welcomed to Australia by an Aboriginal elder daubed in body paint and bearing smouldering gum leaves, on his first visit since he came here as a baby 27 years ago.(AFP/Dan Himbrechts)AFP - Prince William was on Tuesday welcomed to Australia by an Aboriginal elder daubed in body paint and bearing smouldering gum leaves, on his first visit since he came here as a baby 27 years ago.


U.S. military contemplates end of rescue phase in Haiti (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 02:23 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — U.S. military rescuers who are searching through the rubble of Haiti's earthquake-crushed buildings have found no American survivors in the last two days and are contemplating changing their efforts from seeking the living to recovering the dead, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Haiti earthquake: Parents try to shield children from the horrors (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 12:38 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - How can you give your seven-year old son a sense of safety when everything else has crumbled, literally, around him? When his house is gone, and maybe his brothers and sisters, too, and he is left sleeping on the ground with thousands of others who have no idea when, or if, they will ever return home?

Haiti's Chaos: Running with the Looters in Port-au-Prince (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Jan 2010 10:35 AM PST

International rescue team members work to clear rubble at what was once the Hotel Montana, in an effort to recover survivors in Port-au-Prince. The United States expects to transition Time.com - A TIME reporter goes to the ground zero of plunder in the Haitian capital and finds people taking the issue of relief into their own hands


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