2010年11月17日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News


Germany raises security alert after attack warnings (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 12:53 PM PST

A police officer patrols inside the main terminal of Frankfurt's airport, November 17, 2010. REUTERS/Alex DomanskiReuters - Germany said on Wednesday it had strong evidence Islamist militants were planning attacks in the next two weeks and ordered security at potential targets such as train stations and airports to be tightened.


Afghan handover could run past 2015 in areas: NATO (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 12:52 PM PST

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greets Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rassoul at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010.  (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)Reuters - The handover from NATO-led forces to Afghans should start in the first half of 2011 but poor security in some areas could see it run past a 2014 target, a NATO official said on Wednesday before an important summit.


Nigerian military free 19 oil delta hostages: sources (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 02:54 PM PST

Reuters - Nigeria's military rescued 19 hostages including foreigners being held by militants in the Niger Delta oil region in a land, air and sea operation on Wednesday, security sources said.

Madagascar troops vow to crush any rebellion (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 10:40 AM PST

Rebel Colonel Charles Andrianasoavina speaks to the media in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo in this still image taken from video November 17, 2010. REUTERS/Reuters TVReuters - Dissident officers declared a takeover of power in Madagascar on Wednesday, but the island's military leadership vowed to crush any rebellion and security forces dispersed a crowd that had gathered to back the rebels.


Haiti unrest hampers desperate fight against cholera (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 12:32 PM PST

A child suffering cholera symptoms is checked by a doctor at the Doctors Without Borders temporary hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010. Thousands of people have been hospitalized for cholera across Haiti with symptoms including serious diarrhea, vomiting and fever and hundreds have died. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)Reuters - Anti-U.N. riots in the Haitian city of Cap-Haitien have disrupted international efforts to tackle a spreading cholera epidemic, increasing the risk of infection and death for tens of thousands of poor Haitians in the north, aid workers said on Wednesday.


Will Haiti Have Its Own Livestrong Bracelet? (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 03:30 PM PST

Time.com - A group of American textile entrepreneurs are producing made-in-Haiti bracelets that have caught the eye of Bill Clinton and other philanthropists

After 200 years, Champagne lost fizz, not flavor (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 04:54 PM PST

The world's leading champagne expert Richard Juhlin samples one of the 168 bottles of champagne salvaged from a 200-year-old shipwreck in the waters off Aland Islands, between Sweden and Finland, which was opened at a sampling in Mariehamn, Finland on Wednesday Nov. 17, 2010. The divers originally said the bottles were believed to be from the 1780s but experts later dated the champagne to the early 19th century and could be the world's oldest drinkable champagne.  (AP Photo/Lehtikuva/Jussi Nukari)  FINLAND OUT. NO SALES.AP - Here's what nearly 200-year-old Champagne salvaged from the bottom of the sea tasted like to wine experts: lime blossoms, coffee, chanterelles.


Saudi king transfers National Guard duties to son (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 01:49 PM PST

AP - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah stepped down Wednesday as head of the country's National Guard and transferred the influential position to his son, in an apparent sign that the elderly monarch is beginning to lessen some of his duties.

Detainee says Mexico's La Familia gang in decline (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 05:22 PM PST

Forensics carry a corpse from a mini-market as city police investigate in the Zona Norte area of Tijuana, Mexico, late Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010. According to residents at the scene, a man was shot to death in the store.  (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)AP - A captured drug trafficker said Wednesday that the boss of one of Mexico's fiercest cartels is physically and emotionally drained and that the leader's recent offer to disband the gang is real.


Canada 'relieved' by release of hostages in Nigeria (AFP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 04:19 PM PST

Nigerian separatist militants wheel round their war boat on the Escravos River in southern Nigeria in 2006. Canada's Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said Wednesday that he was AFP - Canada's Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said Wednesday that he was "relieved" by news that 19 hostages, including a Canadian, were set free following a military operation in Nigeria.


Japan whaler: protest boat not rammed on purpose (AFP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 05:25 PM PST

Screengrab issued by Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research shows the smashed Sea Shepherd powerboat, the Ady Gil, shortly after its January 2010 collision with a Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters. The powerful Japanese ship did not deliberately ram and sink the protest boat during the high-seas confrontation, a New Zealand report found Thursday.(AFP/HO/Institute Of Cetacean Research/File)AFP - A Japanese whaler did not deliberately ram and sink a Sea Shepherd protest boat during a high-seas confrontation in Antarctic waters earlier this year, a New Zealand report found Thursday.


Bank of Canada secret documents stolen (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 02:05 PM PST

Reuters - Classified Bank of Canada documents were stolen from Governor Mark Carney's car earlier this month but none of the missing papers contained information that could move markets, a bank spokesman said on Wednesday.

Australian PM wants NATO 2014 Afghanistan target (AP)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 03:17 PM PST

AP - Australia's prime minister said Thursday she will argue at a NATO summit that Afghanistan should take charge of its own security by 2014.

Why 300 million more people are suddenly poor (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 01:45 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - In November, 300 million more people around the world were suddenly poor â€" on paper, at least. The latest numbers on poverty from the United Nations, released Nov. 4, include a new measurement for poverty and reveal some surprises.

Karzai: Increasingly Problematic Ally in Afghanistan (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 03:30 PM PST

Time.com - The Afghan President is anxious to publicize his willingness to cut strings with the U.S. -- even though he appears to be cooperating behind closed doors

Ireland's $90 billion question: Does it need a bailout? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 17 Nov 2010 12:18 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The Irish continue to play high-stakes hopscotch with the European Union. While Ireland has agreed to host a delegation of EU experts and International Monetary Fund officials tomorrow in preparation for a bailout package, it still insists it does not need one.

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