2010年2月5日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


Toyota chief apologizes for massive global recalls (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:02 PM PST

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda speaks during a news conference at a Toyota office in Nagoya, central Japan, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Toyoda apologized for the automaker's global recalls and promised to beef up quality control by setting up a special committee he would head himself. Toyoda said the automaker was still deciding what to do to fix braking problems with the popular Prius gas-electric hybrid. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP - Toyota's president emerged from seclusion Friday to apologize and address criticism that the automaker mishandled a crisis over sticking gas pedals. Yet he stopped short of ordering a recall for the company's iconic Prius hybrid for braking problems.


Haitians begin to return to unprepared capital (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 03:56 PM PST

In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, men travel atop a vehicle to Gros Morne, about 105 miles (170 km)  northeast  of Port-au-Prince. A half-million Haitians who fled their shattered capital are starting to flow back to a maze of rubble piles, refugee camps and food lines, complicating ambitious plans to rebuild a better Haiti. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - A half-million Haitians who fled their shattered capital after the earthquake are starting to return to a maze of rubble piles, refugee camps and food lines, complicating ambitious plans to build a better Haiti.


Preteen as Carnival queen stirs Rio controversy (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:03 PM PST

Julia Lira, 7, dances during a rehearsal by the Viradouro samba school in Rio de Janeiro late Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010.  The tiny dancer will be at the helm of the Viradouro samba school's parade at the upcoming Rio carnival.  The Viradouro samba school has been known in the past for having local superstar actresses at the front of their shows. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - She is the Shirley Temple of samba, a 7-year-old named to a coveted Carnival role normally reserved for barely clad models who have undergone more plastic surgeries than little Julia Lira has seen birthdays.


US offensive aims to turn page in Afghan war (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:33 PM PST

This photo taken Jan. 31, 2010 shows Qari Mohebulla Nakarar, left, and Fazel Rahman Farouqi, former pro-Taliban fighters, pose for a photograph while holding their newly-surrendered Soviet-era weapons, at an Afghan government-run reconciliation office, in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. Farouqi, who fled Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 and led a cell attacking NATO supply convoys in Pakistan, said he was willing to take a chance on reconciliation. If he gets what was promised, especially immunity from prosecution, he believes hundreds of his comrades may follow.  (AP Photo/Amir Shah)AP - A new and possibly decisive chapter of the Afghan war is unfolding. The U.S. is preparing a major attack on the Taliban, the militants are being squeezed in their Pakistani sanctuaries, and the Afghan government is trying to draw them into peace talks.


Iran Nuclear Deal: Is Ahmadinejad Serious on Fuel Swap? (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:20 PM PST

Time.com - A statement that Iran remains open to shipping enriched uranium abroad is greeted with skepticism in the West, but if Tehran is offering a credible compromise, it could leave the U.S. facing a dilemma

NATO putting more optimistic face on Afghan war (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:34 PM PST

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, listens to U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder, unseen, at the beginning of an informal NATO defense ministers meeting on Afghanistan, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. NATO defense ministers open a two-day meeting on Afghanistan.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - NATO and U.S. officials are putting a more optimistic face on the eight-year-old Afghanistan war, suggesting that tens of thousands more foreign troops can finally turn the corner against a growing Taliban insurgency.


Twin blasts kill 40 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:02 PM PST

Pilgrims enter the Imam Abbas shrine as they attend the religious ceremony of Arbain, which falls 40 days after the Shi'ite holy day of Ashura, in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, February 5, 2010.   REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ - Tags - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY)AP - A car bomb ripped through a crowd of Shiite pilgrims outside the holy city of Karbala Friday, sending many fleeing into the path of a suicide attacker who detonated a second bomb in coordinated blasts that killed at least 40 people and wounded 150.


Guatemala cops destroy 1,200 acres of poppy plants (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:51 PM PST

AP - Guatemalan police say they have destroyed about 1,200 acres (500 hectares) of opium poppies along the border with Mexico.

Nigeria sack Amodu, draw up Hiddink-led shortlist (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 02:51 PM PST

Nigeria's coach Shuaibu Amodu talks to the press at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) in Cape Town in 2009. Nigeria football bosses on Friday announced the sacking of coach Shuaibu Amodu, publishing a short-list of coaches they hope will lead the 'Super Eagles' through the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.(AFP/File/Stephane de Sakutin)AFP - Nigeria football bosses on Friday announced the sacking of coach Shuaibu Amodu, publishing a short-list of coaches they hope will lead the 'Super Eagles' through the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.


Toyota denies cover-up as repairs start (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:51 PM PST

Toyota denied on Friday it had covered up safety problems with its cars and said they were safe to drive, as it began to repair some of the millions of vehicles recalled due to faulty accelerators.(AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)AFP - Toyota denied on Friday it had covered up safety problems with its cars and said they were safe to drive, as it began to repair some of the millions of vehicles recalled due to faulty accelerators.


NDP leader sick, won't quit (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 11:38 AM PST

Reuters - The leader of Canada's left-leaning opposition New Democrats, who in late 2008 pushed hard to create a coalition to oust the minority Conservative government, said on Friday he has prostate cancer but would stay on in his role.

Attacks on Indians in Australia: Is it racism? (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 09:10 AM PST

AP - A spate of violent attacks on Indians in Australia is straining bilateral relations and costing Australian universities lucrative foreign student revenue. There is sharp debate, however, about whether racism is at the root of the problem.

'Win this war,' Obama says at service for 7 killed in Afghanistan (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 01:55 PM PST

The CIA symbol is shown on the floor of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Canada's former ambassador to Iran, Kenneth Taylor, revealed Saturday that he worked as a CIA spy during the 1979 hostage crisis in wake of the Islamic revolution.(AFP/Getty Images/File)McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama told hundreds of CIA employees Friday that the deaths of seven of their colleagues in a suicide bombing Dec. 30 in Afghanistan amounted to a "summons . . . to carry on their work, to complete this mission, to win this war and to keep our country safe."


Munich security conference: fresh focus on Afghanistan, nuclear weapons (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 09:05 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - After a year of uncertainty, “there are no more excuses” for Europe not to put its shoulder to the wheel; help its main ally, the US; and tackle pressing global security needs like Afghanistan and Iran, according to Wolfgang Ischinger, host of a prestigious annual security conference opening here today.

Haiti's Baby Lift: Don't Just Take the Children, Save Them (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Feb 2010 12:20 PM PST

Time.com - While the missionaries who took Haitian kids may have meant well, they may have been doing the children and the country a disservice -- as well as breaking the law

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