2010年5月7日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


Europe tries to douse debt crisis (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 03:57 PM PDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, waits to cast her ballot in the German Federal Parliament in Berlin, Friday, May 7, 2010. Germany's parliament is expected to give the go-ahead for the country's share of the rescue package for debt-laden Greece. Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition has a comfortable majority in the lower house of parliament and also controls a majority in the upper house, which represents Germany's 16 states. Both chambers are to vote on the plan Friday. Germany is to grant as much as 22.4 billion euro  (US dlrs 28.6 billion) in credit over three years as part of a wider 110 billion euro  package backed by eurozone members and the International Monetary Fund. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel say EU leaders have agreed to a European intervention mechanism to calm markets that have been rattled by the Greek debt crisis.


Belgian bishops nix US sex norms but vow action (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 02:41 PM PDT

AP - Tough U.S. norms about dealing with clerical sex abuse that have been hailed as a model by the Vatican aren't appropriate for Belgium, even as it deals with dozens of new reports of priests molesting children, a leading archbishop said Friday.

APNewsBreak: Nuclear agency set to focus on Israel (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 02:36 PM PDT

AP - Israel's secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for the first time, according to documents shared Friday with The Associated Press.

Bosnian Serb war criminal assaulted in UK prison (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 02:32 PM PDT

File - Bosnian Serb general Radislav Krstic appears during his appeal hearing of the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague,  Netherlands, in this Monday April 19, 2004 file photo.  A Bosnian Serb war criminal serving time for his role in the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica was assaulted by fellow inmates Friday May 7, 2010, at a high-security prison in northern England, officials said. Radislav Krstic was hospitalized after an attack at Wakefield prison, about 190 miles (300 kilometers) north of London, an official at Britain's Justice Ministry told The Associated Press. (AP Photo / Pool, Paul Vreeker, File )AP - A Bosnian Serb war criminal serving time for his role in the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica was assaulted by fellow inmates Friday at a high-security prison in northern England, officials said.


A New Threat to Philippine Elections: Balky Machines (Time.com)

Posted: 07 May 2010 03:30 PM PDT

Time.com - Days away from the polls, the same machines designed to boost the Philippines' fledgling democracy are threatening to undermine it

Westwood leads by one at Players Championship (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 05:01 PM PDT

Lee Westwood of England hits his tee shot on the ninth hole during the second round of The Players Championship held at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Westwood couldn't be bothered contesting last year's Players Championship, but he's sure glad he decided to play this time after taking the second-round lead on Friday.(AFP/Getty Images/Richard Heathcote)AFP - Lee Westwood couldn't be bothered contesting last year's Players Championship, but he's sure glad he decided to play this time after taking the second-round lead on Friday.


Gunmen kill 2 peacekeepers in Sudan's south Darfur (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 12:15 PM PDT

AP - Gunmen killed two Egyptian peacekeepers and wounded three more in an ambush on their convoy in south Darfur on Friday, the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission said.

Correction: Grenada-Beheadings story (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 01:13 PM PDT

AP - In stories sent May 4 and May 6 about a man who walked into a police station with two severed heads, The Associated Press, relying on information from police, erroneously identified him as Steve Gory, 32. Police have since corrected the spelling to Gorrie and said he is 36.

Former leaders press for 'credible' elections in Nigeria (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 02:59 PM PDT

Incoming Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (R) shakes hands with chief justice Aloysius Katsai Alu (L) following his swearing-in ceremony in Abuja on May, 6. Three former Nigerian heads of state urged President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday to AFP - Three former Nigerian heads of state urged President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday to "do the right thing" and ensure that credible elections take place next year in Africa's most populous nation.


DOT: New Tokyo routes to Delta, American, Hawaiian (AP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 03:58 PM PDT

AP - Delta Air Lines, American, and Hawaiian are on track to get four new routes to Tokyo Haneda airport under a preliminary Transportation Department decision on Friday.

Canada posts record jobs gain in April (Reuters)

Posted: 07 May 2010 12:03 PM PDT

Reuters - A record number of Canadians returned to work in April, stunning markets and adding pressure on the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates in June, ahead of other major industrialized countries.

Mining firms push against Australian "super tax" (AFP)

Posted: 07 May 2010 12:03 AM PDT

An earth-mover shifts coal at the Illawarra mine in New South Wales. Major mining firms stepped up their fight against Australia's 40 percent tax on resources profits Friday with a coordinated campaign slamming it as a AFP - Major mining firms stepped up their fight against Australia's 40 percent tax on resources profits Friday with a coordinated campaign slamming it as a "real threat" to the country's prosperity.


Gulf spill reminds America: The era of 'easy oil' is over (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 07 May 2010 12:45 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — To meet the world's boundless thirst for oil, drillers are searching in the sand and mud of remote western Canada, the tough shale rock of North Dakota and more than a mile under the seas off the southern U.S. coast, where a drilling accident has sent hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Horse-trading begins amid messy UK election results (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 07 May 2010 05:27 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Following a chaotic general election result, political horse-trading aimed at cobbling together Britain’s first coalition government for decades has begun.

Election Over, Britain Faces Struggle to Form Government (Time.com)

Posted: 07 May 2010 03:30 PM PDT

Time.com - With no party winning an overall majority in the House of Commons, the U.K. election has delivered a hung Parliament. Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown is still in Downing Street, but his Conservative challenger David Cameron is making plans to move in

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