2010年7月16日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


Sunni group claims Iran mosque blast killing 27 (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 03:59 PM PDT

In this picture released by  Iran's official IRNA news agency, a man helps a victim who was wounded in a bomb blast in the city of Zahedan, 940 miles (1570 kilometers) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 15, 2010. Twin bombings killed at least 20 people outside a mosque in southeastern Iran on Thursday — including members of the powerful Revolutionary Guard — in attacks that came less than a month after Iran hanged the leader of a militant insurgent group in the region. (AP Photo / Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA)AP - A Sunni insurgent group said it carried out a double suicide bombing against a Shiite mosque in southeast Iran to avenge the execution of its leader, as Iranian authorities Friday said the death toll rose to 27 people, including members of the elite Revolutionary Guard.


Car bomb signals new dimension to Mexican drug war (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:47 PM PDT

The remains of a vehicle are cordoned off in a street in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday July 16, 2010. Mexican investigators ran forensic tests to determine whether drug gangs used a car bomb in an attack on police patrol trucks that killed two officers and wounded nine people on Thursday.  A car bomb would mark an unprecedented escalation of Mexico's drug war and confirm long-standing fears that the cartels are turning to explosives in their fight against security forces. (AP Photo)AP - A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico's decades-long fight against traffickers, setting a deadly trap against federal police in a city across the border from Texas, the mayor of Ciudad Juarez said Friday.


George Clooney radiates cool on witness stand (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 10:37 AM PDT

U.S. actor George Clooney leaves a tribunal in Milan, Italy, Friday, July 16, 2010. Clooney appeared in court as a witness in a fraud trial against defendants charged with co opting his name for a line of clothing. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)AP - It's no wonder the Italian businessmen claimed George Clooney was behind their fashion line — the actor knows how to wow an audience whether he's on the red carpet or the witness stand.


28 killed in hotel fire in Iraq's Kurdish region (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 03:04 PM PDT

View of the fire-damaged Soma Hotel in the Iraqi northern city of Sulaimaniyah. Four Americans and at least three other foreigners were among 29 people killed in a hotel fire in northern Iraq that saw some of the victims jump to their deaths.(AFP/Shwan Mohammed)AP - A fierce blaze at a hotel without fire escapes sent some desperate guests plunging to their deaths in a northern Iraqi oil boomtown, killing 28 people.


Afghan soldier's motive for killing Brits unclear (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 12:18 PM PDT

A flag-draped casket is placed in a hearse after a remembrance service for U.S. Army Spc. Keenan Cooper Friday July 16, 2010, at the National Guard Armory in Wahpeton, N.D. Cooper was killed while on duty in Afghanistan July 5. Cooper was with the Fort Bragg, N.C.-based 82nd Airborne Division.  (AP Photo/The Forum, Dave Wallis)AP - Four days after three British troops were slain at their base in the middle of the night, it remains unclear what motivated a rogue Afghan soldier to commit the crime — one made all the more puzzling because it was carried out by a member of an ethnic group that has largely backed the international forces and opposed the Taliban.


Transitional vs. Permanent Homes for Haiti's Displaced (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:40 PM PDT

Time.com - With 1.5 million people still homeless after the quake, one U.N. agency is pushing a cheap, "transitional" solution. But why not just build permanent housing?

England eye homegrown coach after Capello era (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 03:19 PM PDT

England's coach Fabio Capello speaks during a press conference in Rustenburg on June 2010. England are poised to appoint a homegrown coach when the reign of Italy's Capello comes to an end.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - England are poised to appoint a homegrown coach when the reign of Italy's Fabio Capello comes to an end.


Iran Guard firm pulls out of gas development deals (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 10:20 AM PDT

AP - The engineering arm of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard, recently hit by U.N. sanctions, has partially withdrawn from developing the giant South Pars natural gas field, the Oil Ministry announced on Friday.

Castro takes questions, warns of nuclear war (AP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:47 PM PDT

In this photo released by the state media Cubadebate website, Cuban former President Fidel Castro speaks with Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez as they attend a meeting with Cuban ambassadors in foreign countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs  in Havana Friday, July 16, 2010.(AP Photo/Cubadebate, Estudios Revolucion)AP - Fidel Castro is taking questions from dozens of Cuban ambassadors at the Foreign Ministry and warning them of the threat of global nuclear war, in his most overtly political public act since re-emerging from four years of near total seclusion.


Protests prompt Spain PM to skip meeting with Rwanda leader (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 12:56 PM PDT

Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (C) is pictured at the Moncloa palace in Madrid. Zapatero shunned Friday a UN-backed meeting with Rwandan leader Paul Kagame after protests that his regime was linked to the 1994 genocide as the UN chief called for a probe into recent deaths in the central African nation.(AFP/Dani Pozo)AFP - Spain's prime minister shunned Friday a UN-backed meeting with Rwandan leader Paul Kagame after protests that his regime was linked to the 1994 genocide as the UN chief called for a probe into recent deaths in the central African nation.


Australian PM poised to set election date (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:19 PM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, pictured on July 12, will visit the governor-general Saturday morning, her office said, all but confirming widespread speculation that she would call an election.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Australia's new Prime Minister Julia Gillard was Saturday expected to call a general election for late August that will be fought on the sensitive issues of boatpeople, the economy and global warming.


Canada to buy 65 F-35 jet fighters in C$9 bln deal (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 10:24 AM PDT

Reuters - Canada will buy 65 new fighter jets from Lockheed Martin Corp for C$9 billion ($8.6 billion), one of the biggest arms deals in the nation's history, Defense Minister Peter MacKay said on Friday.

Australia PM all but confirms election to be called (AFP)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:15 PM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, pictured on July 12, will visit the governor-general Saturday morning, her office said, all but confirming widespread speculation that she would call an election.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will visit the governor-general Saturday morning, her office said, all but confirming widespread speculation that she would call an election.


Failed Pakistan-India talks could hurt Afghanistan efforts (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 01:30 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD — Recriminations flew between India and Pakistan on Friday, a day after failed peace talks that could have negative fallout for the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan.

Vatican stirs storm on women priests in clarifying law on clergy abuse (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 12:58 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Vatican officials today said the attempt to ordain women in the Roman Catholic church is not an equal crime to priestly pedophilia â€" even as critics point out that in practice, the ordination of women is dealt with more harshly inside the church than are charges of priests abusing children.

Burma: Soldiers Of Fortune (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 04:40 PM PDT

Time.com - How Burma's Junta Is Cementing Its Wealth and Power

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