2010年3月12日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


Iraq PM uses early lead to pursue new govt allies (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 12:51 PM PST

An electoral worker carries a ballot box at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 12, 2010. Partial tallies have only been released from only five of Iraq's 18 provinces, excluding Baghdad. They show the prime minister and his secular rival, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, locked in a tight contest amid fraud allegations. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Seizing on an early lead in Iraq's election, the prime minister's political coalition began reaching out to rivals Friday as partial results signaled a tight race that was unlikely to produce a clear-cut winner.


Twin suicide bombs kill 43 in Pakistani city (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 04:19 PM PST

Pakistan's security officials and investigator gather near an army truck damaged by suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, March 12, 2010. A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other, killing scores of people, police said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)AP - Two suicide bombers killed 43 people in near-simultaneous blasts Friday, the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week and a clear sign that militants have the power to strike targets despite months of army offensives and U.S. missile strikes.


Women on the pill may live longer, study says (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 10:06 AM PST

Contraceptive pills are seen at news conference in Tokyo August 26, 1999. REUTERS/Kimimasa MayamaAP - Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says.


Pope under fire for transfer, letter on sex abuse (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 05:13 PM PST

Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, head of Germany's bishops conference, is seen before the beginning of the spring meeting of Germany's bishops conference in Freiburg February 22, 2010. REUTERS/Johannes Eisele/FilesAP - Germany's sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese disclosed that while he was archbishop a suspected pedophile priest was transferred to a job where he later abused children.


2 months after Haiti quake, housing still elusive (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 03:13 PM PST

Marcel, 6, leans on the wall of his collapsed home as he looks toward a new home built by the Danish People's Aid organization in the Carrefour neighborhood on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Thursday, March 11, 2010. The UN and the Haitian government have approved the Danish organization's design for temporary shelters to be built for displaced earthquake survivors prior to the upcoming rainy season.(AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake — and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.


Israeli Settlements in East Jerusalem Imperil Peace Process (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PST

Time.com - Timing aside, the Netanyahu government's actions demonstrate that Israel sees its grip on East Jerusalem as nonnegotiable. But the Palestinians won't accept a state without a capital in the Holy City

Badminton: Lin Dan's history bid shattered by Bao (AFP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 03:30 PM PST

Lin Dan of China returns a shot in his quarter final match against Bao Chunlai of China during The All England Open Badminton Championships at The National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, central England. Lin Dan had his bid to achieve an open era record of five All-England titles shattered by his sixth-seeded compatriot Bao Chunlei on Friday.(AFP/Glyn Kirk)AFP - Lin Dan, the World and Olympic champion, had his bid to achieve an open era record of five All-England titles shattered by his sixth-seeded compatriot Bao Chunlei on Friday.


Al-Qaida: Freed Spanish hostage converted to Islam (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 12:26 PM PST

AP - Al-Qaida's offshoot in North Africa said Friday it released a Spanish woman it had held captive for 100 days in Mauritania because she voluntarily converted to Islam.

Peru says Machu Picchu service back soon (AP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 04:47 PM PST

General view of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in 2007. The heritage site will reopen March 29 after heavy rains cut off the ancient citadel earlier this year, a senior official said Friday.(AFP/File/Eitan Abramovich)AP - Peruvian officials say they expect train service to the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu will be restored March 29.


Police chief visits violence-hit Nigeria state (AFP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 02:04 PM PST

Thousands of women in black, one of them carrying a placard reading AFP - Nigeria's police chief Ogbonna Onovo visited violence-hit central Plateau State on Friday and vowed to hold divisional police officers responsible for future incidents.


Health care imbroglio delays Obama Pacific trip (AFP)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 04:37 PM PST

The fierce and escalating battle over health care reform Friday forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days until Sunday, March 21.(AFP/FIle/Saul Loeb)AFP - The fierce and fateful battle over health care reform Friday forced President Barack Obama to delay his departure on a trip to Indonesia and Australia by three days until Sunday, March 21.


Obama delays Pacific trip for healthcare (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 06:54 AM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama is delaying his trip to Indonesia and Australia next week to stay home and focus on his final push for a healthcare overhaul, White House officials said on Friday.

Burmese refugees face starvation in Bangladesh (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 03:15 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON _Thousands of Burmese Muslim refugees at an unofficial refugee camp in Bangladesh are facing starvation and acute malnutrition as the government continues to block international humanitarian aid, according to Physicians for Human Rights, a humanitarian watchdog group.

UN envoy: No indication of widespread fraud in Iraq election (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 06:15 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The United Nations is not seeing widespread fraud that could affect the outcome of the Iraq election, but it is still waiting for details of hundreds of complaints launched by political parties, according to senior UN officials.

Eminent Pakistani Cleric Issues Fatwa Against Terrorism (Time.com)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 05:05 PM PST

Time.com - Can an influential Pakistani cleric end terrorism by declaring a fatwa against it?

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