2010年6月18日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


Ethnic Uzbeks in squalid camps fear returning home (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Ethnic Uzbek women and children sit in a tent near Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in outskirts southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Ethnic Uzbeks sheltering in squalid tent camps say they don't have enough food or clean water but are terrified of going back to live alongside those they hold responsible for days of shootings, arson and sexual assaults.


Police nab 30 in pre-dawn raid on Haiti quake camp (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:04 PM PDT

AP - U.N. and Haitian police raided a crowded earthquake survivor camp on Friday to capture 30 criminal suspects in the biggest law-enforcement operation since the Jan. 12 earthquake.

iPad coming to church altars with daily missal app (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:30 PM PDT

AP - An Italian priest has developed an application that will let priests celebrate Mass with an iPad on the altar instead of the regular Roman missal.

Son kills father who translated for US in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 05:00 PM PDT

Two US soldiers died in northern Iraq in recent days, the US military said in brief statements.(AFP/File/Alexander Nemenov)AP - An al-Qaida-linked insurgent shot and killed his own father as he slept in his bed Friday for refusing to quit his job as an Iraqi interpreter for the U.S. military, police said, a rare deadly attack on a close family member over allegations of collaborating with the enemy.


Little hope for trapped Colombian miners (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 01:49 PM PDT

Carolina Torres, right, and Diana Sepulveda, relatives of a person killed in a coal mine explosion, grieve outside the morgue in Amaga, Colombia, Thursday, June 17, 2010.  The explosion in northwestern Colombia is believed to have been caused by a buildup of methane gas, which killed at least 16 miners and left dozens trapped, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe said. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)AP - Authorities held out little hope Friday for the dozens of workers trapped underground after an explosion ripped through a coal mine, killing at least 18 during a shift change.


Pakistan Madrasahs Draw U.S. Students Despite Scrutiny (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Pakistani students line up outside a tent serving as a makeshift classroom, after their school was destroyed by Taliban militants, in Mingora, the capital of Pakistan's troubled valley of Swat on Wednesday, May 26, 2010. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)Time.com - Scores if not hundreds of American citizens have enrolled in Pakistan's madrasahs, even though they will be under scrutiny upon returning. TIME visits one school in Karachi


Woeful England draw with Algeria (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:46 PM PDT

Algeria's defender Madjid Bougherra(R) vies with England's striker Wayne Rooney during their Group C first round 2010 World Cup football match in Cape Town. The two teams were tied 0-0 at halftime.(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam)AFP - A woeful England failed to find the killer touch in a disappointing 0-0 draw with Algeria on Friday, putting them under huge pressure to beat Slovenia in their final group game and stay alive in the World Cup.


(AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 11:19 AM PDT

AP - Officials say insurgents killed 7 Iraqi soldiers in a checkpoint ambush near the Syrian border.

Venezuela calls for arrest of TV channel owner (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:25 PM PDT

AP - Venezuela on Friday called for the capture of a government opponent who owns a critical television channel and who recently fled the country after authorities sought to arrest him.

Smith ton gives South Africa control in second Test (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 03:19 PM PDT

South African captain Graeme Smith celebrates after making a century on day one of the second test against the West Indies at the Warner Park ground in the St Kitts capital of Basseterre. South Africa look set to continue their dominance over West Indies in Tests, and formalise another Test series victory, in the second Test at Warner Park.(AFP/Mark Ralston)AFP - Graeme Smith collected his 21st Test hundred to lead a strong South Africa batting performance in the second Test against West Indies on Friday.


Jury awards $2.4M in first Chinese drywall trial (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 05:15 PM PDT

AP - A Florida couple who fled their dream home because of foul-smelling, ruinous Chinese drywall was awarded $2.4 million in damages Friday in the nation's first jury trial over the defective wallboard that could have legal ramifications for thousands of similar cases.

Canada police slammed over fatal Taser case (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 02:53 PM PDT

Reuters - "Shameful conduct" by Canadian police officers led to the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski in a stun gun incident at Vancouver's airport that drew world attention, an inquiry said on Friday.

NZ lawmaker claims Chinese security attacked him (AP)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:59 AM PDT

AP - A New Zealand lawmaker accused the Chinese vice president's security staff of pushing him, hitting him with an umbrella and tearing from his grasp a Tibetan flag during his one-man protest Friday.

Filmmaker pays 'reverse bribes' to show Afghan police corruption (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 12:40 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — On the hidden camera video, it looks like any other Kabul police checkpoint where motorists are asked for small bribes.

G-20 summit: financial reform is needed. But how fast? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 01:37 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The heads of state for the Group of 20 (G-20) â€" a body that seeks to coordinate financial regulation and standards across some of the world's largest economies â€" will hold a two-day summit in Canada starting June 26 at which almost all participants are expected to call for more banking regulation but where some, echoing St. Augustine's famous prayer, are expected to say "please, not yet."

Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Jews Clash with Secular Courts (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Jun 2010 04:35 PM PDT

Time.com - A massive protest action against a ruling forcing forbidding segregation in a religious school reflects a mounting struggle between the Jewish State's religious and secular authorities

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