2010年9月24日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News


Ahmadinejad says Iran may end enrichment (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 05:13 PM PDT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reacts during a press conference in New York, Friday Sept. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)AP - Iran would consider ending higher level uranium enrichment, the most crucial part of its controversial nuclear activities, if world powers send Tehran nuclear fuel for a medical research reactor, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told reporters Friday.


Tropical Storm Matthew threatens Central America (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 05:13 PM PDT

A man carries his son and belongings as he arrives by boat at Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, Friday Sept. 24, 2010, after the government of Nicaragua issued a hurricane watch. The center of Tropical storm Mathew is expected to make landfall over extreme northeastern Nicaragua within the next couple of hours. (AP Photo/Mayerling Garcia)AP - Nicaragua was evacuating about 10,000 people from the path of Tropical Storm Matthew as the storm drenched the Caribbean coast and threatened much of a Central American region prone to disastrous flooding.


Japan releases Chinese boat captain amid dispute (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:29 PM PDT

File - In this Sept. 8, 2010 file photo, Zhan Qixiong, center, the 41-year-old Chinese captain of a Chinese fishing boat, is led by Japan Coast Guard personnel to disembark from a coast guard boat at a port on Ishigaki island, southwestern Japan. Japanese prosecutors said Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 they will release the captain of a Chinese fishing vessel involved in a collision near disputed islands. (AP Photo/Okinawa Times, Karii Matayoshi, File) ** JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES **AP - Japan on Saturday morning released a Chinese fishing boat captain involved in a collision near disputed islands, following intense pressure from China in the worst spat between the Asian neighbors in years.


Small-town mayors targeted by Mexican drug gangs (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:25 PM PDT

Soldiers guard the crime scene where Prisciliano Rodriguez, mayor of the Doctor Gonzalez municipality, was shot dead by gunmen at his ranch 50 kilometers, some 31 miles, east of Monterrey, northern Mexico, Thursday Sept. 23, 2010. Rodriguez is the fourth mayor in northern Mexico to be murdered in little more than a month. (AP Photo/Carlos Jasso)AP - Bladimiro Montalvo has one of the most dangerous jobs in this colonial town, and in all of Mexico. He's the mayor.


2 million people displaced in Nigeria flooding (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:04 PM PDT

AP - Nigerian authorities opened the gates at two swollen dams in the country's rain-soaked north, sending a flood into a neighboring state that has displaced 2 million people, officials said Friday.

Is the End Near for Basque Separatist Group ETA? (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Time.com - After 50 years of fighting, Basque separatist group ETA is smaller, weaker and rattled by infighting. As it puts out a call to the Spanish government for peace negotiations, experts say the group won't survive much longer

Queen tried to get UK poverty fund to heat palace (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 02:19 PM PDT

FILE - This is a Tuesday, May. 17, 2005 file photo of  Buckingham Palace in London. A government fund intended to provide subsidized heating to low-income Britons got an application from an unexpected citizen: Queen Elizabeth II, who wanted help paying the heating bills at Buckingham Palace. The official response, according to documents unearthed by a British newspaper, Friday Sept. 24, 2010,  was that the handout might prove to be an embarrassment if word ever got out.   (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)AP - Even a monarch needs a little help from time to time — especially when the cost of heating those drafty old palaces spirals past $1.5 million a year.


Israel, Palestinians look to salvage Mideast talks (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:01 PM PDT

This photo taken Tuesday, Sept. 21. 2010, shows a view of a construction site in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Ariel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)AP - JERUSALEM — In a case of high-stakes diplomacy, the Palestinians were waiting Friday for the latest American effort to break the standoff with Israel over Jewish settlement construction in areas the Palestinians want for their future state.


Knife removed from Brazil man's head after 3 years (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:02 PM PDT

Edeilson Manoel do Nascimento holds an X-ray showing a knife that was inside his head at the Hospital das Clinicas in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Nascimento is recovering nicely after a team of surgeons removed the 4-inch knife that had remained stuck in his head for three years after a bar fight. (AP Photo/Helia Scheppa, JC Imagem)AP - A man in northeastern Brazil is recovering after surgeons removed a 4-inch (10-centimeter) blade that had been stuck in his head for three years following a bar fight. Edeilson Nascimento, a 29-year-old tire repairman, tells reporters Friday he is feeling great after the three-hour surgery earlier this week.


Sudan seeks global support as vote nears (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 05:07 PM PDT

President Barack Obama attends a Ministerial Meeting on Sudan, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, at the United Nations. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Sudanese officials asked world leaders including President Barack Obama on Friday for international support to maintain peace as they near a critical independence referendum on south Sudan that is likely to split Africa's largest country in two.


China hits back at Japan after boat captain returns (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 05:00 PM PDT

A Chinese fishing boat is inspected by Japan Coast Guard crew members after it collided with two Japanese coast guard vessels near the disputed islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku isles in Japan and Diaoyu in China, September 7, 2010. REUTERS/Japan Coast Guard/HandoutReuters - China on Saturday demanded that Japan apologize for holding a Chinese boat captain, showing little immediate sign of giving ground in a dispute between the two Asian powers after Japan released him.


Harper picks Onex executive as his top aide (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 11:39 AM PDT

Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has chosen a top executive from big private equity firm Onex Corp to be his new chief of staff, charged with focusing on the economy, a government official said on Friday.

Moderate quake rocks New Zealand's North Island (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 01:56 AM PDT

AP - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has rocked New Zealand's North Island. No damage or injuries have been reported.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's UN speech may have just helped Israel (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 09:32 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks at the United Nations Thursday that suggested an American hand in orchestrating 9/11 to "save the Zionist regime" may have disturbed US observers, but Israelis are used to the Iranian president's shock tactics.

How Will India Resolve Political Protests in Kashmir? (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 04:05 PM PDT

Time.com - New Delhi found it easier to deal with Pakistan-sponsored terror in Kashmir than with mass popular protests

Communist Cuba turns to private enterprise (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 06:38 AM PDT

People buy flowers in a market in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Cuba's government began laying out the details of their drive to create more free enterprise on the island on Friday, mapping out a brave new world of bosses and employees, personal accountants and a dizzying number of small-time businesses. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)The Christian Science Monitor - Since swallowing the news that 500,000 state workers will be laid off in Cuba in an effort to raise productivity and fix the ailing economy, construction worker Antonio Charadán says he is experiencing the rare feeling of "going it alone" in this communist-run nation.


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