2010年2月10日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News


Haiti gives conflicting counts for quake deaths (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:53 PM PST

Youths search the rubble of a collapsed building for anything they can reuse or sell in the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. Thousands were killed and many displaced by the Jan. 12 earthquake that left the city in ruins. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Haiti issued wildly conflicting death tolls for the Jan. 12 earthquake on Wednesday, adding to confusion about how many people actually died — and to suspicion that nobody really knows.


Britain discloses secret data on detainee abuse (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:34 PM PST

In this file photo dated 2000 and released by the human rights and legal defense organization Reprieve, Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed is pictured in London. The British government on Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010 disclosed once-secret information on the treatment of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed. The information, contained in seven paragraphs, summarizes an American account of Mohamed's treatment by U.S. authorities before he was interviewed by an MI5 agent in May 2002. Judges rejected the government's claim that revealing the information would damage U.S.-British intelligence cooperation.  (AP Photo/Reprieve, File)AP - Britain was forced by an appeals court Wednesday to reveal a long-secret description of how a former terrorism suspect was beaten, shackled and deprived of sleep during interrogations by U.S. agents.


Venezuela seeks God's help amid energy crisis (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 02:19 PM PST

AP - A state-run power company is urging its employees to seek divine intervention to help Venezuela resolve severe electricity shortages that prompted President Hugo Chavez to declare an energy emergency.

Girl, 7, gets OK to be samba queen in Rio Carnival (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 04:53 PM PST

Julia Lira, Viradouro's samba group drum corps queen, right, receives a kiss from her father Marco Lira as she poses for photographers before a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. A family court judge ruled Wednesday that the 7-year-old should be allowed to samba before a crowd of thousands as a Carnival drum corps queen, a coveted role normally reserved for sultry models. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)AP - A family court judge ruled Wednesday that a 7-year-old girl should be allowed to samba before a crowd of thousands as a Carnival drum corps queen, a coveted role normally reserved for sultry models.


Iran anniversary: Opposition tries to thwart a crackdown (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:10 PM PST

Student supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi hold red roses during protests in central Tehran in this December 7, 2009 file photo. Internet messages have been circulating about possible rallies on February 11, 2010, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution. But the climate in the Islamic Republic is much harder than before last year's post-election protests. Picture taken December 7, 2009. REUTERS/via Your ViewTime.com - Even as Tehran presses it nuclear program forward, its political crisis continues unabated, with every anniversary an occasion for protest


Freud self-portrait fetches 2.8 million pounds (AFP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 05:27 PM PST

A painting entitled 'Self-Portrait with a Black Eye' by artist Lucian Freud is displayed at Sotheby's auction house in central London, in January. The self-portrait of Freud has sold for more than 2.8 million pounds at a London auction.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - A self-portrait of Lucian Freud nursing a black eye after a fight with a taxi driver sold for more than 2.8 million pounds (3.2 million euros, 4.4 million dollars) at a London auction.


Iraq orders former Blackwater security guards out (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:58 PM PST

FILE - In this April 4, 2004 file photo, plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in a firefight as Iraqi demonstrators loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr attempt to advance on a facility being defended by U.S. and Spanish soldiers in the Iraqi city of Najaf. Iraq has ordered about 250 former and current employees of Blackwater Worldwide to leave the country within seven days or face having their visas pulled. The order comes in the wake of a U.S. judge dismissing criminal charges against five Blackwater guards who were accused in the September 2007 shooting deaths of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Gervasio Sanchez, File)AP - Iraq has ordered hundreds of private security guards linked to Blackwater Worldwide to leave the country within seven days or face possible arrest on visa violations, the interior minister said Wednesday.


Former Uruguayan dictator sentenced to 30 years (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 05:44 PM PST

AP - Former dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry was sentenced to 30 years in prison for violating the constitution when he led a 1973 coup that began 12 years of dictatorship in Uruguay, the prosecutor said Wednesday.

Exile of Guinea junta leader sparks hope back home (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 12:19 PM PST

In this photo taken on Friday,  Oct. 2, 2009, Guinea military leader Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara looks on during  independence day celebrations  in Conakry, Guinea. After only a year in power, Guinea's hated coup leader is in exile, his departure having breathed surprising new life into a country he had terrorized, and hopes are even stirring that the nation will hold its first democratic elections in half a century. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)AP - After only a year in power, Guinea's dictator is in exile, his departure having breathed surprising new life into a country he had terrorized, and hopes are even stirring that the nation will hold its first democratic elections in half a century.


Afghans airlift bodies as avalanche deaths hit 166 (AP)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 06:03 PM PST

Members of the Afghan army work to uncovered an overturned passenger bus buried in the snow at Salang Pass, some 115 kilometers (71 miles) north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010. The death toll from massive avalanches that blocked the mountain pass north of Kabul soared, as rescuers recovered 157 bodies, while hundreds more remained trapped in their snowbound vehicles, Afghan officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP - Helicopters ferried rescuers to and bodies away from the site of massive avalanches that blocked an important mountain pass north of Kabul as the death toll soared to 166, officials said. Hundreds more remained trapped in snowbound cars.


Snow finally falls on bare Cypress (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 02:16 PM PST

Reuters - Vancouver Olympics organizers breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday as Mother Nature finally cooperated and snow began to fall on the barren hills of Cypress Mountain three days before moguls competition begins.

Australia asks China for transparency in Rio case (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 04:31 PM PST

A man walks past the front desk at Rio Tinto Limited Shanghai Representative Office in Shanghai January 12, 2010. REUTERS/Aly SongReuters - Australia urged China on Thursday to deal quickly and transparently with the trials of four China-based employees of global miner Rio Tinto accused of bribery and stealing commercial secrets.


Afghan government in tentative talks with insurgent leader (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:50 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of Afghanistan's most brutal Islamist warlords, is holding tentative peace talks with the government of Afghanistan that could cause a split in the Taliban-led insurgency, Afghan politicians in Kabul said Wednesday.

Olympic Village: Athletes impressed, taxpayers angry (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 03:10 PM PST

A police boat patrols in front of the Olympic Athletes' Village along the shores of False Creek in Vancouver, British Columbia February 1, 2010. The 2010 Olympic Winter Games begin February 12.       REUTERS/Andy Clark        (CANADA - Tags: SPORT OLYMPICS)Time.com - The sparkling Olympic Village in Vancouver is a serious financial headache. As the world cheers, taxpayers cringe


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