2010年8月20日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


Pakistan thanks world for opening wallets (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:13 PM PDT

Pakistani villagers carry their belongings as they wade through flood waters. The disaster-hit nation is to ask the International Monetary Fund to ease the terms of a 10-billion-dollar loan after enduring the worst floods in its history, a report has said.(AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi)AP - Pakistan thanked the world Friday for opening its wallets and said more than 20 million flood victims now know that nations and people around the globe are standing with them during the worst disaster the country has ever faced.


Australia votes on whether first woman PM survives (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:35 PM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, front right, waves as she walks through a shopping center in Sydney's suburb of Ryde Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. A national election will be held Saturday. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - Australians choose Saturday whether they will cut down their first woman prime minister after only two months in power and return to conservative rule in a cliffhanger election that threatens the survival of a first-term center-left government.


Wyclef Jean brings sizzle to Haiti election (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:23 PM PDT

Haiti's presidential candidate and  hip hop artist Wyclef Jean , center, walks surrounded by security at his mother's house in Croix de Bouquets, Haiti, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. Jean says he has received death threats, which is why he is in seclusion until the electoral list is released. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - An anxious public waited Friday to hear whether hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean would be allowed to run for president of Haiti, but one thing is already certain: The singer has brought sizzle to the election, attracting fresh attention to a country still devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake.


Dutch sailor girl set to leave on solo world trip (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 03:03 PM PDT

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 Laura Dekker hoists a flag of The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on her boat in the harbor of Den Osse, southwest Netherlands. The 14-year-old Dutch girl will try to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world when she sets off from Portugal on Saturday Aug. 21, 2010. Laura Dekker's ambition of completing the yearlong trip has fueled a global debate over the wisdom of allowing young sailors to take on the tremendous risks of sailing the high seas alone. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski, File)AP - A 14-year-old Dutch girl will set off Saturday on a controversial attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, her representatives said.


Police arrested in northern Mexico mayor's killing (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:50 PM PDT

Mexico's President Felipe Calderon, right, speaks during the anti-crime round-table  'Dialog for Security', beside Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake, center, and Mexico's Senate's President Carlos Navarrete in Mexico City, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Six city police officers were arrested Friday in the killing of a mayor in northern Mexico, as the country's escalating drug violence targets more public officials.


War Fears May be Overblown as Iran Brings its Nuclear Reactor Online (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Time.com - The Bushehr reactor built by Russia is not suspected of offering Tehran any weapons capability. And so, despite a furious war debate in parts of the media, the next phase of the standoff is likely to be a new round of talks

Huang withdraws bid to buy Liverpool (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:04 PM PDT

Chinese businessman Kenny Huang, seen hre in 2009, on Friday ruled himself out of the running to buy English Premier League club Liverpool, in a statement released by his spokesperson.(AFP/File)AFP - Chinese businessman Kenny Huang on Friday ruled himself out of the running to buy English Premier League club Liverpool.


Al-Qaida in Iraq claims army recruit bombing (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:09 PM PDT

Iraqis gather as security forces secure the scene of a suicide attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A suicide bomber blew himself up among hundreds of army recruits who had gathered near a military headquarters killing and wounding dozens of them, one of the bloodiest bombings in months in the Iraqi capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - An al-Qaida in Iraq front group on Friday claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing this week that killed 61 Iraqi army recruits in the deadliest single act of violence in Baghdad in months.


Mexico catches suspects with 3,756 sea turtle eggs (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:04 PM PDT

AP - Police in Mexico say six suspects have been detained on the southern Pacific coast with 3,756 illegally harvested eggs from protected sea turtles.

Nigeria: Election pressure mounts for quiet leader (AP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:23 PM PDT

AP - While Nigeria's president remains silent on whether he'll seek the oil-rich nation's highest office in upcoming elections, the campaign has all but begun on the Internet.

Australians vote in cliffhanger elections (AFP)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:27 PM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard smiles as she receives a rose from a supporter upon arriving for the official opening of the Top Ryde shopping centre in Sydney's west. Australians voted in the closest national elections in decades on Saturday with the country's first woman prime minister neck-and-neck with conservative challenger Tony Abbott.(AFP/Greg Wood)AFP - Australians voted in the closest national elections in decades on Saturday with the country's first woman prime minister Julia Gillard neck-and-neck with conservative challenger Tony Abbott.


Canada talks tough in jockeying over Arctic (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 12:32 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada will promote itself as an Arctic power in asserting its sovereignty over the resource-rich region, the government said on Friday in a paper laying out its foreign policy plans for the Far North.

Australians vote in cliffhanger election (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:07 PM PDT

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard greets supporters at the opening of a new shopping mall as part of her election campaign in Sydney August 20, 2010. REUTERS/Daniel MunozReuters - Australians voted on Saturday in the closest general election in decades with voters deeply divided on whether to give Labor a second term or opt for conservative rule, raising a real prospect of a minority government.


Skepticism widespread in Mideast over new peace talks (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 02:52 PM PDT

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, speaks with U.S. Mideast envoy George Mitchell during their meeting at Abbas' office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010.  The U.S. special Mideast envoy is returning to the region for a lightning-fast visit this week in a bid to get Israel and the Palestinians to agree to direct peace talks by Sept. 1, U.S. officials said Monday.  (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, Pool)McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — As the Obama administration heralded a new round of face-to-face talks on Mideast peace, the abiding reaction across the region Friday was skepticism, with many expressing doubt that conditions are ripe for much to come from negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.


Is Ground Zero mosque part of culture war or symbol of tolerance? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 06:15 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - Most of the opponents of the so-called Ground Zero mosque, scheduled for construction two blocks from the old World Trade Center in Manhattan, say their objections are largely out respect for the dead and concern for the families who have spent the past nine years trying to rebuild their lives.

Why Kashmir is Burning Again (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 04:20 PM PDT

Time.com - Why Kashmir is Burning Again

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