2010年7月17日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News


Roadside bombs kill 5 NATO troops in Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 01:52 PM PDT

A United States Marine helicopter door gunner holds a heavy machine gun during a flight over Nimroz Province on the border with the volatile Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, Saturday, July 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Five NATO troops died in roadside bombs in Afghanistan, the alliance said Saturday, as international forces announced that they had foiled a terrorist attack on an upcoming conference in Kabul to be attended by leaders from more than 60 nations.


Director Polanski attends Swiss jazz fest (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 12:58 PM PDT

Film director Roman Polanski, arrives to watch his wife Emmanuelle Seigner, French singer and actress, perform at the Stravinski Hall stage at the 44th Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland, Saturday, July 17, 2010.   This is the first public appearance for Polanski since the Oscar-winning director was freed earlier this month from house arrest when the Swiss government refused to deport him to the United States, on charges relating to a 1977 child sex case.  (AP Photo / KEYSTONE, Martial Trezzini)AP - Roman Polanski has made his first public appearance since being released this week from house arrest, attending the Montreux Jazz Festival on Saturday to watch his wife perform on stage.


Storm hits sports festival stadium, injures 5 (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 02:10 PM PDT

A car is seen damaged after a scaffolding collapsed due to strong wind gusts in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Saturday,  July 17, 2010. The scaffolding with lights collapsed at the stadium just hours before the opening ceremony for the XXI Central American and Caribbean Games, injuring at least five people, according to Felipe Perez, president of the organizing committee. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - A waterspout slammed into the stadium where thousands of people were expected to gather for the inauguration of the Central American and Caribbean Games on Saturday, injuring at least five people and forcing officials to delay the opening ceremony.


Car bomb in Mexican drug war changes ground rules (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 02:49 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 - The first successful car bombing by a drug cartel brings a new dimension of terror to a Mexican border region already shocked by random street battles, bodies dangling from bridges and highway checkpoints mounted by heavily armed criminals.


Feds nab alleged PR drug lord after 10-year hunt (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 03:39 PM PDT

Jose Figueroa Agosto is escorted handcuffed by DEA agents after his arrest in San Juan, Saturday July 17, 2010. Federal authorities arrested fugitive alleged drug kingpin Jose Figueroa Agosto Saturday after a decade-long chase through the Caribbean. (AP Photo/El Nuevo Dia, Tania Dumas) PUERTO RICO OUT - NO USAR O PUBLICAR EN PUERTO RICOAP - Federal authorities arrested a fugitive alleged drug kingpin Saturday after a decade-long chase through the Caribbean marked by his narrow escapes and public taunting that he paid off police to remain free.


Did Credit Suisse Help its German Customers Evade Taxes? (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 11:45 PM PDT

Time.com - As part of Germany's continuing crackdown on tax evasion, authorities raided the offices of Credit Suisse on Wednesday, with prosecutors claiming that employees of the Swiss bank were trained to help customers hide their money from the tax man.

Britain should not seek burqa ban: government (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 03:18 PM PDT

Reuters - Britain's parliament should not try to ban wearing full-length veils in public after France's lower house passed a bill which could see Muslim women fined for wearing the burqa, immigration minister Damian Green said.

Abbas says Israel must accept foreign border force (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 11:19 AM PDT

U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell, left, gestures as he speaks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting at Abbas' residence in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Saturday, July 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Ayman Nobani, Pool)AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he'll resume direct peace talks if Israel accepts its 1967 frontier as a baseline for the borders of a Palestinian state and agrees to the deployment of an international force to guard them.


Jobless in Cuba? Communism faces the unthinkable (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 11:53 AM PDT

AP - At a state project to refurbish a decaying building in Old Havana, one worker paints a wall white while two others watch. A fourth sleeps in a wheelbarrow positioned in a sliver of shade nearby and two more smoke and chat on the curb.

Va. man back in US after weeks on no-fly list (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 04:23 PM PDT

AP - Yahya Wehelie said Saturday he can't wait to eat his mom's lasagna now that he's back on U.S. soil after FBI scrutiny stranded him in the Middle East for nearly two months on a no-fly list.

Uzbek women accuse state of mass sterilizations (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 05:00 PM PDT

AP - Saodat Rakhimbayeva says she wishes she had died with her newborn baby.

Australian PM, 3 weeks on job, calls Aug elections (AP)

Posted: 17 Jul 2010 09:27 AM PDT

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Saturday, July 17, 2010. Gillard, who has led the country for three weeks, on Saturday called a general election on Aug. 21 and urged voters to show trust in her by returning her party for a second three-year term. (AP Photo/Mark Graham)AP - Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who called elections Saturday just three weeks after taking power, was once considered too far left to win a national vote. But polls and analysts say she has as good a chance of wooing the Australian public as her opponent: He was long thought too conservative to appeal to the mainstream.


Americans who spied for Cuba sentenced to prison (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 05:57 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — A confessed spy for Cuba was sentenced to life in prison and his wife to 81 months Friday after telling a judge that their "overriding objective" for 30 years of passing secrets to Cuba "was to help the Cuban people defend their revolution."

Why Venezuela's Chavez Dug Up Bolivar's Bones (Time.com)

Posted: 16 Jul 2010 11:45 PM PDT

Time.com - The leader of a self-styled 'Bolivarian' revolution hopes to prove that its namesake was poisoned -- in Colombia, his contemporary adversary

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