2010年3月13日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News


Suicide attackers hit Afghan city; at least 30 die (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 05:27 PM PST

Map locates Kandahar and Kandahar province, Afghanistan where multiple explosions have been reportedAP - A suicide squad detonated bombs at a newly fortified prison, police headquarters and two other locations late Saturday, killing at least 30 people in the largest city of the southern Taliban heartland.


Child abuse claims sweep Catholic Church in Europe (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 04:18 PM PST

In this photo released by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, left,  meets Archbishop Robert Zollitsch during an audience in his private library at the Vatican, Friday, March 12, 2010. Germany's top bishop has informed Pope Benedict XVI on cases of clerical sex abuse in the pontiff's native Germany and said the pope encouraged him to pursue the truth and assist the victims. Zollitsch said the pope was greatly dismayed and deeply moved as he was being briefed on the scandal during Friday's meeting at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - It often starts as a voice in the wilderness, but can swell into an entire nation's demand for truth. From Ireland to Germany, Europe's many victims of child abuse in the Roman Catholic church are finally breaking social taboos and confronting the clergy to face its demons.


Irish police free 4 in alleged artist murder plot (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 03:41 PM PST

AP - Four people, including an American woman, arrested over an alleged plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks have been freed without charge, but three others remain in custody, Irish police said Saturday.

Iraqi vote signals shift from religious leaders (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 03:32 PM PST

Counting and data input workers at the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 12, 2010. Partial tallies have been released from seven of Iraq's 18 provinces, excluding Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political coalition took an early vote lead Saturday in the election's all-important battleground of Baghdad, pulling away from its two closest rivals in the latest indication that Iraqis want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation.


New border violence erupts with Mexico cartel rift (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 11:30 AM PST

AP - This border city and others near the eastern end of the U.S. border escaped the worst of Mexico's bloody drug war for years, but now the bodies are piling up, several journalists are reportedly missing or dead and once-busy streets are empty after dark.

When Humanitarian Aid Winds Up in the Wrong Hands (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 03:15 PM PST

Time.com - A BBC report alleging that Ethiopian rebels diverted humanitarian aid meant for famine victims in the 1980s has raised new questions about the efficacy of giving aid in times of war

Vatican officials defend pope on abuse (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 04:32 PM PST

In this photo released by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, left,  meets Archbishop Robert Zollitsch during an audience in his private library at the Vatican, Friday, March 12, 2010. Germany's top bishop has informed Pope Benedict XVI on cases of clerical sex abuse in the pontiff's native Germany and said the pope encouraged him to pursue the truth and assist the victims. Zollitsch said the pope was greatly dismayed and deeply moved as he was being briefed on the scandal during Friday's meeting at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland. It also insisted that church confidentiality doesn't prevent bishops from reporting abuse to police.


Al-Qaida suspect from US tricked his Yemeni guard (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 05:27 PM PST

This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in   Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son, Sharif Mobley, who grew up in Buena and is an alleged al-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen. (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESAP - An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapon as he went ahead at prayer time.


24 killed in western Mexico; 11 in one shootout (AP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 04:44 PM PST

A car of the local police is seen with two bullet holes in Acapulco, Guerrero state, Mexico. Drug-related violence left 25 people dead Saturday in Mexico's southern Guerrero state, including four people who were decapitated, authorities said.(AFP/Pedro Pardo)AP - A series of shootings killed 24 people Saturday in a Pacific coast state plagued by drug gang violence. Nearly half died in one shootout between soldiers and armed men.


Central African government says coup plot foiled (AFP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 02:43 PM PST

President of the Central African Republic Francois Bozize is pictured in 2008. The Central African Republic's government said Saturday it had foiled a plan to launch a coup d'etat on March 15, according to a recorded radio statement obtained by AFP.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)AFP - The Central African Republic's government said Saturday it had foiled a plan to launch a coup d'etat on March 15, according to a recorded radio statement obtained by AFP.


Strong quake hits off Indonesia, no major tsunami (Reuters)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 05:53 PM PST

Reuters - A strong quake of 6.4 magnitude struck in waters off Indonesia on Sunday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Korea OLEV concept vehicle sees the future, and it's magnets (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 05:01 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - There once was a time when horseless carriages were jeered on city streets. Suh Nam-pyo, president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), invokes that image as he introduces another technological breakthrough: a motor vehicle that consumes no fuel, gets electrical charges while in motion without plugging in -- and then goes “anywhere.”

The Falklands: For Argentina, Oil Reopens Old Wounds (Time.com)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 03:15 PM PST

Time.com - Almost three decades after they launched a disastrous war to reclaim the territory they call 'Las Malvinas', Argentina's leaders are again pushing their claims against Britain

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