2010年5月24日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News


US backs South Korea in punishing North Korea (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 01:37 PM PDT

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, left, bows after he delivered a speech at the War Memorial of Korea near a U.S. army base in Seoul on Monday May 24, 2010. South Korea's president said Monday his nation will no longer tolerate North Korea's 'brutality' and said the regime would pay for a surprise torpedo attack that killed 46 South Korean sailors. (AP Photo/Lee Jae-Won, Pool)AP - South Korea won U.S. support Monday for slashing trade to North Korea and vowed to haul its communist neighbor before the U.N. Security Council for a torpedo attack that sank a South Korean warship and killed 46 sailors.


Gunbattles intensifying, spreading in Jamaica (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 02:45 PM PDT

Alleged drug gang leader Christopher 'Dudus' Coke is shown in this undated photo. Jamaican Police have an arrest warrant for 'Dudus', who is sought by U.S. authorities on drug and arms trafficking charges but residents in West Kingston neighborhoods have set up barricades to prevent the police for entering the slums to execute the order. (AP Photo/The Jamaica Gleaner) ** JAMAICA OUT **AP - Jamaica's security forces clashed with masked gunmen allied with an alleged drug kingpin for a second day Monday as an intensifying multi-front battle against gangs spread to volatile slums outside the capital.


Afghans: 7 arrests in deaths of 6 NATO troops (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 12:17 PM PDT

Former Afghanistan Foreign Minister and former presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, May 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Drew Angerer)AP - Afghan authorities Monday announced the arrests of seven people in last week's suicide car bombing that killed six NATO soldiers including four colonels — three of them American and one Canadian.


Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, in trouble again (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 09:41 AM PDT

Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson  leaves the Renaissance Hotel after receiving an award during the Variety International dinner at the 2010 Hollywood World Conference, Sunday, May 23, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Bret Hartman)AP - Sarah Ferguson was once considered a lively spark, just the thing to brighten up Britain's staid royal family when she married Prince Andrew and became Duchess of York.


Youngest Everest climber wants others to 'go big' (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 09:33 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2009 file photo provided by the Romero family, Jordan Romero, 13, Jordan Romero poses at the Carstensz Pyramid summit, Oceania's highest peak at 16,024 feet, making Jordan the youngest person to summit. Romero, a 13-year-old American boy has become the youngest climber to reach the top of Mount Everest. A spokesman for Romero says the boy's team called by satellite phone from the summit of the world's highest peak on Saturday, May 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Romero family, File)  ** NO SALES **AP - For Jordan Romero, the 13-year-old American who became the youngest climber to summit Mount Everest, it all began with the desire to dream big.


How Britain's King of Sting Nabbed Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York (Time.com)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:30 PM PDT

Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson  leaves the Renaissance Hotel after receiving an award during the Variety International dinner at the 2010 Hollywood World Conference, Sunday, May 23, 2010, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Bret Hartman)Time.com - The Fake Sheikh, one of Fleet Street's finest -- or most appalling -- journalists exposes Sarah Ferguson for apparent influence peddling


White House to host concert honoring Paul McCartney (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:14 PM PDT

Paul McCartney, seen here in January 2010, will perform a concert for US President Barack Obama next month when he visits the White House to receive a prize, the British pop legend announced Monday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Michael Tullberg)AFP - Legendary musician Paul McCartney will perform at the White House in June, where President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle will present the former Beatle with a prize honoring his career.


Gunmen kill newly elected lawmaker in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 01:52 PM PDT

US Army General Ray Odierno, prepares to testify before the House Armed Services Committee in 2009. Odierno, the commander of US forces in Iraq, will step down in the fall to take up a new assignment, after playing a pivotal role in the Iraq war, the Pentagon said on Monday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chip Somodevilla)AP - Gunmen in northern Iraq killed a newly elected lawmaker from a Sunni-backed list that narrowly won Iraq's March elections, officials said, in a slaying certain to rattle the fragile political system.


Ex-cop claims Uribe's brother led death squad (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:12 PM PDT

AP - A retired police major said Monday that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's younger brother commanded a right-wing death squad in the early 1990s from the family's cattle ranch. He estimated the militia killed at least 50 people.

Argentina cruise in Canadian friendly (AFP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:09 PM PDT

Argentina's midfielder Maxi Rodriguez celebrates after scoring against Canada during a friendly football match at Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires. Argentina won 5-0.(AFP/Juan Mabromata)AFP - Two-time World Cup winners Argentina eased to a 5-0 victory over Canada here on Monday for a morale-boosting win ahead of flying to South Africa on Friday for the World Cup finals, which run from June 11-July 11.


US, SKorea to test military in signal to North (AP)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:47 PM PDT

Addressing the graduates of the U.S. Military Academy, President Barack Obama outlined a foreign policy vision using diplomacy and a strong military together, in West Point, N.Y., Saturday, May 22, 2010.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday announced plans for two major military exercises off the Korean peninsula in a show of force aimed at North Korea, which has been blamed by investigators for a deadly torpedo attack on a South Korean warship.


Australia expels Israeli diplomat over Dubai hit (Reuters)

Posted: 24 May 2010 08:49 AM PDT

The travel ports of entry and exit of suspects is seen in this handout picture released by Dubai police February 24, 2010. Dubai has identified 15 new suspects in the assassination of a Hamas official at a Dubai luxury hotel, bringing the total number of people believed involved in the death to 26. REUTERS/Dubai Police/HandoutReuters - Australia's government said on Monday it had ordered the expulsion of an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake passports in the assassination of a top Hamas militant in Dubai in January.


McChrystal calls Marjah a 'bleeding ulcer' in Afghan campaign (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 24 May 2010 02:16 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - MARJAH, Afghanistan — Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top allied military commander in Afghanistan, sat gazing at maps of Marjah as a Marine battalion commander asked him for more time to oust Taliban fighters from a longtime stronghold in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province.

Cheonan warship sinking: Will South Korea blame Kim Jong-il directly? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 May 2010 10:53 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak is considering blaming North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-il by name for the first time Monday when he condemns North Korea’s sinking a South Korean navy ship as a “clear armed provocation.”

From Bangkok to Cannes, Thailand Political Tensions Remain (Time.com)

Posted: 24 May 2010 04:30 PM PDT

Time.com - Thousands of Bangkok residents volunteered to restore Thailand's ravaged capital, but political tensions still simmer. The landmark victory of a Thai director at the Cannes film festival serves as a surreal footnote to the current upheaval

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