2010年6月8日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News


Mexico teen killed by US Border Patrol, anger high (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:14 PM PDT

The body of a young Mexican migrant, 14, lies at the border between Mexico and the US, under the AP - A U.S. Border Patrol agent fatally shot a 15-year-old Mexican boy after a group trying to illegally enter Texas threw rocks at officers at an international bridge near downtown El Paso, U.S. authorities said Tuesday.


Dutchman to do crime scene walk-through in Peru (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:15 PM PDT

**CORRECTS CAPITALIZATION IN NAME: V IS CAPITALIZED  **FILE -- In a June 4, 2010 file photo Dutch citizen Joran Van der Sloot is escorted by police officers outside a Peruvian police station, near the border with Chile in Tacna, Peru.   Peruvian police said Tuesday June 7, 2010  Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot has confessed to killing a young woman in his Lima hotel room last week. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro/file)AP - Peruvian police plan to take Joran van der Sloot, who they say has confessed to last week's killing of a 21-year-old business student in his Lima hotel room, to visit the crime scene, officials said Tuesday.


Venezuela to relaunch market for currency exchange (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 04:46 PM PDT

AP - The Central Bank on Wednesday will relaunch the bond market widely used for foreign currency trading in Venezuela under new restrictions that will include a band of permitted prices updated each day.

Anglicans cut Episcopalians from ecumenical bodies (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 12:57 PM PDT

AP - The Anglican Communion has suspended U.S. Episcopalians from serving on ecumenical bodies because of the election of a lesbian as a bishop in California.

Sex abuse crisis gives new momentum to dissidents (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:14 PM PDT

Representatives of the Women's Ordination Conference stage a protest in front of St.Peter's Basilica, in Rome,  with holding poster at front, from left, Therese Koturbash from Dauphin, Matitoba, Canada, Mary Ann Schoettly from Newton, N.J, US, and Erin Saiz Hanna, Washington, D.C. US, as they protest on Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Groups that have long demanded that women be ordained Roman Catholic priests took advantage of the Vatican's crisis over clerical sex abuse to press their cause demanding the Vatican open discussions on letting women join the priesthood.  (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - The clerical sex abuse crisis is energizing Roman Catholic dissidents who want to open up the priesthood to women and ditch celibacy requirements.


Kerviel Goes to Court As French Public Opinion Shifts (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:50 PM PDT

Time.com - SociÉtÉ GÉnÉrale says its employee JÉrÔme Kerviel was a rogue trader. He says he was doing business as usual. Who's right?

Bernanke says Europe committed to euro's survival (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 04:31 PM PDT

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke attends a conference hosted by the Bank of Japan in Tokyo May 26, 2010. REUTERS/Yuriko NakaoReuters - European leaders are committed to ensuring the survival of the euro and have enough money to meet obligations of heavily indebted member countries, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Monday.


Anxious Gazans trying to leave blockaded territory (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 02:16 PM PDT

Palestinians wait for Hamas police officers to check their passports as they wait to cross to Egypt, at Rafah border crossing, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday June 8, 2010. The opening of Gaza's gateway to the world has turned into a scene of extreme anxiety with hundreds crowding around border officials to learn when, and if, they can cross into Egypt. Gazans sealed in for three years are grateful just to have the hope after Israel's deadly raid on a blockade-busting flotilla focused attention on the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)AP - A Palestinian who had to delay graduate school in Malaysia and an elderly man forced to put off eye surgery in Egypt are among thousands anxiously trying to get out of Gaza now that the blockaded territory's gateway to the world has opened just a little.


Guatemalan gets life sentences in bus massacre (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 02:57 PM PDT

AP - A man found guilty of killing 15 passengers on a bus that was then set on fire during a drug-related attack two years ago has been sentenced to multiple life terms.

Nigeria's lead poison outbreak unprecedented : CDC (AFP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 04:04 PM PDT

Children are seen in Maiduguri, Nigeria, in 2009. An outbreak of lead poisoning linked to illegal gold mining that left more 160 people dead in Nigeria is unprecedented, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - An outbreak of lead poisoning linked to illegal gold mining that left more 160 people dead in Nigeria is unprecedented, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday.


NATO goods for Afghanistan attacked in Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 05:07 PM PDT

A Pakistani fireman tries to extinguish fire after suspected militants attacked trucks carrying military vehicles and goods in Sangjani, near Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 9, 2010. Suspected militants attacked trucks carrying military vehicles for foreign forces in Afghanistan early Wednesday close to the Pakistani capital, killing at least two people and wounding seven others, police and witnesses said. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP - Suspected militants attacked trucks carrying military vehicles for foreign forces in Afghanistan early Wednesday close to the Pakistani capital, killing six people and wounding seven others, police and witnesses said.


Australian Parliament House trashes Obama mugs (AP)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 08:44 AM PDT

President Barack Obama delivers the commencement address for Kalamazoo Central High School, the winner of the 2010 Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge, at Western Michigan University Arena in Kalamazoo, Mich., Monday, June 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Australia's Parliament House gift shop trashed 200 Barack Obama commemorative mugs — though not because the U.S. president has twice canceled visits.


Why Iran's Revolutionary Guard wants to escort new Gaza flotilla (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 01:47 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today decried the “brutal and barbaric ... Zionist regime,” as if trying to catch up with Turkey's fierce criticism of Israel's raid on the "Freedom Flotilla" last week. In Istanbul for a regional security summit, he heralded the international outcry against Israel as a "reawakening of nations" in a fight of good versus evil.

Bhopal, BP Oil Spill: Two Disasters, Different Justice (Time.com)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:50 PM PDT

Time.com - A judgment in India may signal the unsatisfying end of the legal battle over Bhopal. It is a lesson the U.S. should heed as it tries to mete justice in the BP oil spill

After 23-Year Case, Verdicts in Bhopal; Victims Outraged (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 08 Jun 2010 03:19 AM PDT

OneWorld.net - BHOPAL, India, Jun 7 (IPS) - Twenty-five years after an industrial gas leak from the factory of a U.S. multinational firm in this ancient Indian city killed thousands and impaired nearly half a million, victims are still crying for justice.

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