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Yahoo! News: World News


UN chief sees dangers up-close in Haiti quake camp (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 04:45 PM PDT

Women carry a bag of rice on their heads at a food  distribution center in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, March 14, 2010. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12 left more than a million people living in makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised Haitians on Sunday that the world has not forgotten the quake-torn nation as it suffers from a shortage of shelter and growing violence in teeming camps for the homeless.


Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Swedish artist Lars Vilks talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday March 10 2010. The Swedish artist who angered Muslims by drawing the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog says he believes the suspects arrested in Ireland and the U.S.  in an alleged plot to kill him were not professionals . (AP photo/Scanpix, Bertil Ericson)AP - With the West locked in conflicts across the Muslim world, why would anyone throw fuel on the fire?


American, 22, completes solo row across Atlantic (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 04:10 PM PDT

AP - A 22-year-old American rower completed a solo journey across the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, touching a pier in the coffee-brown waters of Guyana to claim a record as the youngest person to accomplish the feat.

At least 2 snowmobilers dead in Canadian avalanche (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 04:10 PM PDT

A search and rescue helicopter heads toward the area where a large avalanche struck near Revelstoke, British Columbia, Sunday, March 14, 2010. The avalanche struck an informal snowmobile rally Saturday in Canada's Rocky Mountains, killing at least three people and leaving an unknown number missing. Rescuers resumed scouring remote Boulder Mountain at daybreak Sunday after halting the search overnight. Police also conducted a door-to-door search of hotel rooms early Sunday to piece together how many people were missing from the Big Iron Shoot Out rally. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jeff McIntosh)AP - An avalanche that killed at least two people at an informal snowmobile rally in Canada's Rocky Mountains may have been triggered by three daredevil sledders who apparently unleashed a deadly wall of snow on up to 200 people below, witnesses said Sunday.


Calling for New Election, Anti-Government Protesters Swarm Bangkok (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 10:30 AM PDT

Time.com - Tens of thousands of demonstrators surged the Thai capital on Sunday, pushing Thailand towards a tense political standoff

Sarkozy suffers setback in regional vote (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 04:57 PM PDT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy accompanied by first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, casts his vote at a Paris polling station for the French regional elections. Sarkozy suffered a stinging setback in French regional elections on Sunday as projections showed his right-wing party trailing in the first round vote.(AFP/Pool/Eric Feferberg)AFP - President Nicolas Sarkozy suffered a stinging setback in French regional elections on Sunday as projections showed his right-wing party trailing in the first round vote.


Iraqi PM holds slim lead in partial election tally (AP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 02:28 PM PDT

An electoral worker carries a ballot box at a counting center in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 14, 2010. 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 Iraqi people want a moderate government instead of Shiite religious hard-liners leading the postwar nation. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki edged ahead Sunday in a tight race in the country's parliamentary elections after partial results from all of Iraq's 18 provinces showed his bloc leading in seven — two more than his chief rival.


Kidnapped French aid workers freed in Darfur (AFP)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 03:43 PM PDT

Children reach towards a Red Cross volunteer at an orphanage in Abeche, Chad, in 2007. Two French aid workers abducted in the Central African Republic and held for four months were on Sunday freed in Darfur, the Sudanese region gripped by civil war and a wave of kidnappings.(AFP/File/Karim Sahib)AFP - Two French aid workers abducted in the Central African Republic and held for four months were on Sunday freed in Darfur, the Sudanese region gripped by civil war and a wave of kidnappings.


China clears Rio, Australia in failed Chinalco deal: report (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Reuters - China has cleared Rio Tinto and the Australian government of blame for the collapse of a $19.5 billion tie-up between Chinalco and Rio Tinto last June, an Australian newspaper reported from Beijing on Monday.

Flaherty: always worried by dollar's volatility (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Mar 2010 07:05 AM PST

Reuters - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, asked about the recent rise in the value of the Canadian dollar, said on Friday he is always worried about volatility in the currency.

Miracle baby elephant makes public debut (AFP)

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 11:25 PM PST

A baby elephant nick-named Mr Shuffles (pictured) which was thought to have died in the womb made its first public appearance at Sydney's Taronga Zoo on Sunday, amid predictions it will make a full recovery from its arduous birth.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - A baby elephant thought to have died in the womb made its first public appearance at Sydney's Taronga Zoo on Sunday, amid predictions it will make a full recovery from its arduous birth.


U.S. consulate employee slain in drug-ridden Mexican city (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 04:09 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Mexican government pledged Sunday to investigate the killings of a U.S. consulate employee and two family members of consulate employees in a rugged, drug-plagued metropolis across from the Texas border city of El Paso.

Netanyahu faces 'moment of truth' after US slams Israel 'insult' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 02:14 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu found himself on the defensive after an unprecedented public assault by US officials over the weekend, as the diplomatic furor over new building in Jerusalem escalated.

Giving Afghans (and More) a Vote in Britain's Election (Time.com)

Posted: 14 Mar 2010 10:30 AM PDT

Time.com - As part of a new project, U.K. residents are allowing people in developingcountries to tell them how to vote in parliamentary elections. The aim: togive poorer countries a say in elections that could end up impacting them

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