2010年7月19日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News


Syria bans full Islamic face veils at universities (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:53 PM PDT

A woman wears a burqa as she walks on a street in Saint-Denis, near Paris, April 2, 2010. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/FilesAP - Syria has forbidden the country's students and teachers from wearing the niqab — the full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman's eyes — taking aim at a garment many see as political.


Kabul meeting to lay ground for 2014 deadline (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:53 PM PDT

An Afghan National Army soldier prepares a machine gun before going on a patrol outside Combat Outpost Terra Nova, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - The strategy sits for now on a table in a locked-down Afghan capital: Hand over security in all 34 provinces to the government by the end of 2014 — more than three years after President Barack Obama's date for the start of an American troop drawdown.


Iraqi cleric meets with PM candidate in Syria (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:13 PM PDT

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, left, meets with Muqtada al-Sadr, one of Iraq's most powerful Shiite political clerics, right, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, July 19, 2010. Allawi and al-Sadr are on a current visit to Syria to discuss the deadlocked government in Baghdad.(AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)AP - Anti-American Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took a rare, public step into the political arena Monday, meeting in neighboring Syria with the man directly challenging Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for his office.


61 people killed as 2 trains crash in east India (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 10:15 AM PDT

Indians and rescue workers gather at the site of an accident at Sainthia station, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of Calcutta, India, Monday, July 19, 2010. A speeding express train collided with a passenger train at the station in eastern India early Monday, mangling the carriages and killing scores of people, railway police said. (AP Photo)AP - The 22-year-old was asleep on the overnight train, headed to his distant job at a call center, when an enormous jolt awakened him and his coach flipped. He lay with his leg broken for five hours, crushed under the dead bodies of other passengers as he waited for help.


After Car Bomb, Mexico Braces for An Even More Deadly Drug War (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 04:15 PM PDT

Time.com - Even as gunfights and massacres occur with depressing frequency, an incident in Ciudad JuÁrez -- and the fate of missing detonators -- has many Mexicans terrified

Moody's gives Motorola positive outlook after Nokia deal (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:37 PM PDT

The Motorola Backflip with Motoblur phone is displayed at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center in January 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. US credit ratings agency Moody's lifted the outlook for Motorola from negative to positive on Monday after the US mobile phone maker sold most of its networks infrastructure division to Nokia Siemens Networks.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Ethan Miller)AFP - US credit ratings agency Moody's lifted the outlook for Motorola from negative to positive on Monday after the US mobile phone maker sold most of its networks infrastructure division to Nokia Siemens Networks.


Al-Qaida cleric: Yemen to be Obama's Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:28 PM PDT

File - This Oct. 2008 file photo by Muhammad ud-Deen shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. The Obama administration has added the U.S.-born, al-Qaida-linked cleric accused of helping to plan the failed Christmas Day airline bombing to a terrorism blacklist, targeting him with sanctions aimed at cutting off his financial support. The Treasury Department placed Anwar al-Awlaki on its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists on Friday. That would aim to freeze his assets, bar Americans from sending him money and ban him from traveling to the U.S. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File)   ** MANDATORY CREDIT  NO SALES **AP - A U.S.-born, al-Qaida-linked cleric warned the American people that President Barack Obama will mire U.S. forces in Yemen just as Afghanistan, in a message appearing Monday on militant websites.


Suriname ex-dictator Bouterse elected president (AP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 01:26 PM PDT

AP - Former dictator Desi Bouterse was elected president by parliament Monday, following weeks of jostling by opponents who sought to stop a convicted drug trafficker and ex-strongman accused of killing political opponents from returning to power.

Cameron won't meet US senators on Lockerbie: embassy (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 03:20 PM PDT

Freed Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi wears a medical as he sits on a wheelchair in Tripoli in 2009. British Prime Minister David Cameron will not meet during his visit to Washington with four US senators angry over the Lockerbie bomber's release last year, Britain's embassy said Monday.(AFP/File/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - Prime Minister David Cameron will not meet during his visit to Washington with four US senators angry over the Lockerbie bomber's release last year, Britain's embassy said Monday.


Imran fears fast bowlers could become 'dinosaurs' (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:38 PM PDT

Pakistan great Imran Khan, pictured in 2008, fears fast bowlers AFP - Pakistan great Imran Khan fears fast bowlers "could go the way of the dinosaurs" if the international calendar retains its current congested schedule.


Canadian officer not guilty of Afghan murder charge (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:20 PM PDT

Reuters - A Canadian army officer was found not guilty on Monday of allegations he murdered a wounded Afghan insurgent, in the first criminal case of its kind since Canada sent troops to Afghanistan in 2002.

Australia, Britain bury WWI soldier in France (AFP)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 12:21 PM PDT

Britain's Prince of Charles (R) and Governor General of Australia Quentin Bryce (L) pay their respects in Fromelles, northern France. To the mournful strains of both the Last Post and the more upbeat Waltzing Matilda, Commonwealth servicemen honoured Monday the last body recovered from Australia's AFP - To the mournful strains of both the Last Post and the more upbeat Waltzing Matilda, Commonwealth servicemen honoured Monday the last body recovered from Australia's "forgotten battle".


Clinton unveils $500 million in aid projects for Pakistan (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 02:36 PM PDT

McClatchy Newspapers - ISLAMABAD — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday unveiled $500 million worth of civilian aid projects for key ally Pakistan, in an attempt to counter rampant anti-Americanism in the country by reaching out to the population with tangible help.

Tour de France Stage 15: Schleck vows 'revenge' after Contador steals lead (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 11:28 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Defending champion Alberto Contador moved into the overall lead of the Tour de France today, but it wasn’t without controversy.

"Utterly Wrong": Cameron Criticizes the Lockerbie Bomber's Release (Time.com)

Posted: 19 Jul 2010 04:15 PM PDT

Time.com - As accusations that BP lobbied for the release of the Lockerbie bomber continue to build, British Prime Minister David Cameron tries to stop the issue from overshadowing his first official trip to the White House

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