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Yahoo! News: World News


Dutch boy sole known survivor in Libyan jet crash (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 02:16 PM PDT

An unidentified Dutch child the sole survivor of  plane crash in Libya receives medical treatment  in a hospital in Tripoli in this image taken from TV Wednesday May 12, 2010. A Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli's airport, killing at least 96 people and leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris. (AP Photo/Libya TV, via APTN )  **  LIBYA OUT TV OUT  **AP - A 10-year-old Dutch boy lay in a hospital bed, head bandaged, skin pale and legs shattered â€" the lone "miracle" survivor of a plane crash Wednesday that killed 103 people in the Libyan capital. Most victims were Dutch tourists returning from vacation in South Africa.


Iraqi officials: 7 killed in Sadr City bombing (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 03:45 PM PDT

Iraqi soldiers examine a weapons cache they seized during security operations in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, May 12, 2010. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)AP - A bomb in a parked car ripped through a Sadr City neighborhood Wednesday evening, killing seven young people who had gathered at a nearby cafe to drink tea and play dominoes, Iraqi officials said.


EU proposes new rules on avoiding volcanic ash (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 04:12 PM PDT

In this aerial image from video made Tuesday  May 11 2010 a column of fire, smoke and ash rises from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano. Ash from the volcano  wound its way down to North Africa and curled over to Turkey on Tuesday May 11, 2010, forcing authorities to shut down Casablanca airport in Morocco as well as airports in Spain and airspace over Turkey.(AP Photo/RUV, via APTN)  **  ICELAND OUT TV OUT  **AP - The European air safety agency proposed new procedures Wednesday that would drastically shrink the no-fly zone around volcanic ash particles — a move that should decrease future airspace closures and travel delays.


7 children killed at China school in latest attack (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 02:38 PM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, medical workers take an injured child to ICU at 3201 Hospital in Hanzhong City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province Wednesday, May 12, 2010. An attacker hacked seven children and one teacher to death Wednesday and wounded 20 other people in a rampage at a kindergarten in northwest China, the latest in a string of savage assaults at the country's schools. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wu Tianchang) ** NO SALES **AP - A man charged into a kindergarten in northwestern China with a cleaver Wednesday and hacked to death seven children and two adults — the fifth such rampage in less than two months. The attacker then went home and killed himself.


Russia, US moving toward accord on adoptions (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 12:37 PM PDT

Russia's Children's rights ombudsman Pavel Astakhov reacts as he talks to the media after a meeting with adoption officials in Moscow, Wednesday, May 12, 2010.  Astakhov said Wednesday that Russia and the United States have reached agreement on all key issues for a bilateral agreement on adoptions, and that a draft agreement is expected to be approved later this week.  (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)AP - Russia and the United States are moving closer to signing a new accord on adoptions, officials from both countries said Wednesday.


David Cameron, Nick Clegg: Britain's Hot New Bromance (Time.com)

Posted: 12 May 2010 04:00 PM PDT

Britain's new Prime Minister David Cameron (L) and new Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, pose for pictures on the steps of 10 Downing Street in London. Cameron vowed a Time.com - The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats look happily spliced, as was evidenced by Wednesday's press conference with David Cameron and Nick Clegg. The real world will intrude, but not quite yet


Hamilton eyes prized Monaco F1 victory (AFP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 05:30 PM PDT

McLaren Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton signs autographs in the paddock of the Monaco street circuit, on May 12, three days ahead of the F1 GP race. The 2008 champion is winless so far this year despite a series of dazzling drives, but believes he is due a change of fortune as he seeks his 13th career victory and a repeat of his triumph on the Mediterranean street circuit two years ago.(AFP/Fred Dufour)AFP - A frustrated but determined Lewis Hamilton is hoping his decision to use a specially-painted helmet will change his 2010 luck and bring him a spectacular victory at Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix.


(AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 02:02 PM PDT

AP - Iraqi officials: 7 killed when parked car explodes near Sadr City cafe.

Mexico fears current change may bring spilled oil (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 05:07 PM PDT

AP - Mexican officials fear the Gulf oil spill could reach their coasts if the leak is not stopped by August, when seasonal currents start to reverse and flow south. They also worry about the impact of the upcoming hurricane season.

WHO advises precautions in South Africa virus outbreak (AFP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 01:18 PM PDT

New ambulances are pictured at Durban's Wentworth Hospital in February 2010. The World Health Organisation on Wednesday advised travellers to South Africa to take precautions against insect bites and contact with raw meat, after an outbreak of Rift Valley fever killed 18 people.(AFP/File/Rajesh Jantilal)AFP - The World Health Organisation on Wednesday advised travellers to South Africa to take precautions against insect bites and contact with raw meat, after an outbreak of Rift Valley fever killed 18 people.


Obama: Afghan war will worsen before it improves (AP)

Posted: 12 May 2010 05:04 PM PDT

US President Barak Obama meets with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC. Both the US and Afghan governments are trying to lay to rest questions about their relationship, following a damaging series of public disagreements, and open mistrust in Washington over Karzai's capacity to serve as a US partner.(AFP/Jim Watson)AP - The war in Afghanistan will get worse before it gets better, President Barack Obama warned on Wednesday, but he declared his plan to begin withdrawing U.S. forces next year remains on track.


U.S. government opposes Canadian's appeal on torture (Reuters)

Posted: 12 May 2010 04:18 PM PDT

Reuters - The Obama administration on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the appeal of a Canadian man who wants to proceed with his lawsuit against top U.S. officials for sending him to Syria, where he says he was tortured.

Aussie Olympic chief hails record budget boost (AFP)

Posted: 11 May 2010 08:50 PM PDT

Australia's Olympic chief John Coates (pictured in 2009) warmly welcomed a record budget funding boost for elite sports and said it would improve performances well beyond the 2012 London Games.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australia's Olympic chief John Coates warmly welcomed a record budget funding boost for elite sports and said it would improve performances well beyond the 2012 London Games.


Pentagon rethinking value of major counterinsurgencies (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 12 May 2010 03:40 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Nearly a decade after the United States began to focus its military training and equipment purchases almost exclusively on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. military strategists are quietly shifting gears, saying that large-scale counterinsurgency efforts cost too much and last too long.

Why Russia's Dmitry Medvedev is visiting Syria (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 May 2010 02:56 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spent part of his second day in Damascus in closed-door meetings with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, signaling Moscow's interest in bringing former Soviet allies back into its orbit.

China Knife Attacks on Children: 7 More Students Killed (Time.com)

Posted: 12 May 2010 04:00 PM PDT

A jobless knife-wielding man attacked and injured 28 young children and three adults at a kindergarten in eastern China on Thursday in the third school stabbing frenzy in a month, state media said.(AFP/File/Liu Jin)Time.com - Attacks against schoolchildren in China continue, prompting questions about mental health care and the country's legal system, as Beijing struggles to find a way to stop the bloodshed


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