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Yahoo! News: World News


Brown blames US over Iraq reconstruction errors (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:38 PM PST

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrives at Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, Friday March 5, 2010, to give evidence at the Iraq inquiry in London, which is investigating the circumstances surrounding British involvement in the Iraq war. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted Friday the decision to invade Iraq was justified, but told a major inquiry into the war that the United States dismissed warnings of chaos and violence once Saddam Hussein was toppled.


Billions for Haiti, a criticism for every dollar (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:55 PM PST

Children wait for the inauguration of a school that will be run by an Israeli NGO at a camp for earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince, Friday, March 5, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12 left more than a million people living in makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - The world's bill for the Haitian earthquake is large and growing — now $2.2 billion — and so is the criticism about how the money is being spent.


China's economic promises focus on creating jobs (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:27 PM PST

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao reads the government work report during the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Friday, March 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged Friday to redouble the country's stimulus program to focus on job creation, signaling that Beijing's main worry is keeping its factories humming and its restive workers making money from strong exports to the world.


Somali pirates, security personnel in 4 shootouts (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:21 PM PST

In this image issued by EU NAVFOR on Friday March 5, 2010 shows the EU NAVFOR  French warship FS Nivose with Somali pirate skiffs off the Somali coast on Friday March 5, 2010. Swarms of Somali pirates are moving into the waters off East Africa, triggering four shootouts Friday including a skirmish with French military personnel that sunk a pirate skiff, officials said. The end of the monsoon season and the resulting calmer waters signal the beginning of the most dangerous period for ships traveling the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean. Nearly half the 47 ships hijacked off Somalia last year were taken in March and April. (AP Photo/EU NAVFOR)AP - Signaling a new offensive mindset, international military officials vowed Friday to fight the pirates as swarms of Somalis moved into the waters off East Africa. Four shootouts with pirates showed that high-seas attacks are intensifying with the end of the monsoon season.


Iraq's Sunnis fear election could spark violence (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:21 PM PST

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2010 file photo, mourners carry the coffins of Hussein Majid, his pregnant wife and their six children for burial in the Shiite city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq. Behind the March 7, 2010 election is a fear among Iraqis that the brutal sectarian violence of past years may return with the withdrawal of U.S. forces who have acted as a buffer.  (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani, File)AP - They're back, on street corners in places Sunnis had thought were safe again: the Shiite militiamen who drove them from their homes in a bloody campaign that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war.


Switzerland Keeping the Secrets of Alleged Tax Evaders (Time.com)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 02:00 PM PST

Time.com - UBS agreed to give up the names of alleged American tax cheats -- but for Switzerland, giving up secrecy is a hard thing to do

Oscar suites break out the gifts, Twittens anyone? (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:22 PM PST

Reuters - Here's a tip for Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller: want to improve your troubled marriage? Try Twittens.

Iraqis abroad cast ballots in homeland's election (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:32 PM PST

An Iraqi woman casts her vote at a polling center at the start of a three-day Iraqi balloting, in Amman, Jordan, Friday, March, 5, 2010. Iraqis flocked into polling stations across the Jordanian capital and three other provinces at the start of a three-day balloting organized by Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission in Jordan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Abu Ghosh)AP - Thousands of Iraqis living abroad lined up at polling stations to cast ballots in their homeland's crucial parliamentary elections Friday, a constituency Iraq's Sunni Arab minority hope will boost their showing.


Foreign hospitals help quake-damaged health system (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 04:26 PM PST

A boy reacts as he is vaccinated in Constitucion, Chile, Friday, March 5, 2010. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck central Chile last Feb. 27, causing widespread damage.(AP Photo/ Roberto Candia)AP - Chile launched a hepatitis and tetanus vaccination campaign Friday and doctors warned of outbreaks of diarrhea and infection among thousands of people displaced by the earthquake and the tsunami that heavily damaged or destroyed 36 hospitals and made garbage dumps of coastal towns and cities.


U.N. to start troop withdrawals from Congo in 2010 (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:40 PM PST

Indian United Nations peacekeepers conduct a night patrol in Goma in eastern Congo, February 15, 2009. REUTERS/Finbarr O'ReillyReuters - The United Nations could begin withdrawing troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world, as early as June, the peacekeeping chief said Friday.


China central bank to keep yuan basically stable (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 05:41 PM PST

Reuters - China's central bank pledged on Saturday to keep the yuan's exchange rate basically stable in 2010 and said it will enhance coordination with its foreign counterparts on major policy issues.

Pirates hijack tanker, head to Somalia, owner says (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 10:45 AM PST

Reuters - Pirates have hijacked a Marshall Islands-registered tanker off Madagascar and are heading toward Somali waters, the ship's Norwegian owners said Friday.

Problems with civilian 'surge' could upset U.S. Afghan timetable (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 03:46 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's "surge" of U.S. civilian officials and experts into Afghanistan is beset by a shortage of qualified personnel, a lack of housing and other problems that could disrupt its timetable for turning over full control of the country to the Afghan government, a new report Friday says.

Germany's Merkel meets Greece PM over debt bailout tensions (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 01:57 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - German Chancellor Angela Merkel met her Greek counterpart George Papandreou here tonight to discuss Greece’s financial crisis, as tensions rise over whether Germany will provide crucial support to an EU bailout for the heavily indebted Mediterranean country.

Togo Tip-Toeing Toward Reconciliation (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 07:40 AM PST

OneWorld.net - LOMÉ, Mar 4 (IRIN) - As up to 3.2 million Togolese cast their ballots in the presidential election on 4 March, IRIN asked voters and experts what it would take to reach true reconciliation after decades of political violence. This is the first of a two-part series on Togo's road to reconciliation.

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