2010年5月15日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News


As death toll rises, Thai PM defends crackdown (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2010 01:10 PM PDT

A Thai army soldier and a sniper fire at anti-government protesters after getting fire from them in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, May 15, 2010. Thai troops faced off against die-hard protesters vowing to defend their fortified encampment in downtown Bangkok on Saturday, following two days of running gunbattles that killed 16 people and wounded nearly 160.(AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)AP - Thailand's leader defended the deadly army crackdown on protesters besieging the capital's heart, saying Saturday the country's very future was at stake. Protesters dragged away the bodies of three people from sidewalks — shot by army snipers, they claim — as soldiers blocked major roads and pinned up notices of a "Live Firing Zone."


Cathay Pacific plane from HK escorted to Vancouver (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2010 05:08 PM PDT

AP - Canadian fighter jets escorted a Cathay Pacific airliner incoming from Hong Kong to a safe landing in Vancouver International Airport on Saturday due to a potential unspecified security threat, a North American Aerospace Defense Command spokesperson said.

Candidates threatened in local Mexico elections (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2010 04:31 PM PDT

AP - One candidate was gunned down with his son inside his business. Another is missing after assailants torched her home. In some towns near the U.S. border, parties can't find anyone to run for mayor.

Former Mexico presidential candidate missing (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2010 04:25 PM PDT

AP - A former Mexican presidential candidate who has remained a power broker in the ruling party was missing amid signs of violence, the federal Attorney General's Office said Saturday.

Bittersweet return for Dutch boy crash survivor (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2010 02:28 PM PDT

A Libyan policeman walks amid the debris of an Afriqiyah Airways passenger plane which crashed during landing at Tripoli airport on May 12. Crash investigators have said no technical problems were reported by the pilot before the jet went down.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)AP - The 9-year-old Dutch boy who miraculously survived a plane crash in Libya returned to the Netherlands aboard an airborne ambulance Saturday and was whisked away to a hospital in his hometown, where he must begin to rebuild his life without his parents or brother.


Who is Killing Honduran Journalists? (Time.com)

Posted: 15 May 2010 02:45 PM PDT

Time.com - A rash of murders of media figures has raised fears of a campaign to silence journalism. And the government's preemptive dismissal of such fears gives little cause for confidence

Britain on lookout after ash disrupts N.Ireland airspace (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2010 04:58 PM PDT

This NASA Earth Observatory image obtained on May 14 shows the plume of ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull Volcano as it rises above a sea of cloud. British aviation authorities were keeping a close eye Sunday on the possible return of a cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland after it forced the closure of parts of Northern Ireland's airspace.(AFP/NASA/File)AFP - British aviation authorities were keeping a close eye Sunday on the possible return of a cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland after it forced the closure of parts of Northern Ireland's airspace.


Officials: More than 160 killed in Darfur clashes (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2010 08:55 AM PDT

In this file picture, fighters from Sudan's JEM leave after a meeting between their leader and special envoys of the UN. Sudanese army forces say they have seized control of a key Darfur rebel stronghold, killing 108 members of the JEM in the restive Jebel Moon area.(AFP/Albany Associates/File/Stuart Price)AP - Clashes between Sudan's army and Darfur's most powerful rebel group have left more than 160 people dead, Sudanese security officials said Saturday.


(AP)

Posted: 15 May 2010 04:55 PM PDT

AP - Pakistani detained at US Embassy charged with bomb possession, freed pending probe.

Sudan arrests Islamist opposition leader Turabi: associate (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2010 04:25 PM PDT

Sudanese authorities arrested Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, pictured in April 2010, at his home late on Saturday, a month after the country's first competitive elections in 24 years, his secretary said.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)AFP - Sudanese authorities arrested Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi at his home late on Saturday, a month after the country's first competitive elections in 24 years, his secretary said.


Pakistani is charged in Chile for explosives, not terror (AFP)

Posted: 15 May 2010 04:20 PM PDT

A Chilean policeman escorts Pakistani Mauhannas Saif ur Rehnab (L) in Santiago on May 11. Chile on Saturday charged Rehnab with illegal explosives possession and not with violating anti-terrorism law, after he was found to have traces of explosives on him when he visited the US embassy, a court source said.(AFP/File/Ariel Marinkovic)AFP - A court in Chile on Saturday charged a Pakistani man with illegal explosives possession after officials detected traces of TNT on him when he visited the US embassy, a court source said.


Australian finishes round-the-world sail at age 16 (AP)

Posted: 15 May 2010 08:09 AM PDT

Sixteen-year-old Jessica Watson works with the rigging as she sails past the finish line at the entrance to Sydney Harbour in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, May 15, 2010, capping off a nearly 23,000 nautical mile voyage that many thought she wouldn't survive. Watson, from Buderim, Queensland, sailed out of Sydney on Oct. 18, despite protests from critics who said the trek was far too treacherous for someone so young. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - A 16-year-old Australian who braved boat knockdowns and seven months of solitude on a sail around the world set foot on dry land outside the Sydney Opera House on Saturday and quickly set an earthier goal: getting her driver's license.


Former Mexican presidential candidate goes missing (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 15 May 2010 02:33 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - MEXICO CITY — A former presidential candidate of Mexico's ruling party has gone missing, authorities said Saturday, the latest in a spate of political violence presumably linked to drug cartels.

Guatemala gangs to bus drivers: pay a fee, or risk death (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 14 May 2010 01:14 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The week before he was killed, Rogelio Chivalan paid gangs a protection fee of $240 to drive his bus safely through neighborhoods they controlled.

Britain's Labour Leadership Race: A (Mili)band of Brothers (Time.com)

Posted: 15 May 2010 01:45 PM PDT

Time.com - Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband faces a familiar rival in his quest to succeed Gordon Brown -- his younger brother, Ed

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