2010年1月6日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

Gunmen kill 7 at Egypt church after Christmas Mass (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 05:27 PM PST

Pope Shenouda III, the head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church, leads prayers at the Coptic Cathedral in Cairo, Egypt, early Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. Gunmen attacked in a drive-by shooting outside a church in southern Egypt in the town of Nag Hamadi in Qena province, as worshippers left a midnight Mass to celebrate Coptic Christmas. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)AP - Gunmen killed at least seven people in a drive-by shooting outside a church in southern Egypt as worshippers left a midnight Mass for Coptic Christmas Thursday, the church bishop, security and hospital officials said.

Jamaica Muslim leader worries about radical cleric (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 05:11 PM PST

AP - The head of Jamaica's Muslim community expressed alarm Wednesday over the pending return of a radical cleric who served time in a British prison for urging the killing of Americans, Christians, Hindus and Jews.

Slovak miscue lands traveler in jail as terrorist (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 03:23 PM PST

Tibor Mako, head of the Slovak border and foreign police, talks to reporters in Poprad, Slovakia, on Wednesday, Jan 6, 2010. The Irish police arrested a Slovak man who unknowingly smuggled 90 grams of an explosive to Ireland, but released him soon after the incident as this was part of a Slovak police action. The explosive was planted in his luggage within a failed security experiment by Slovak security agents. Irish officials are outraged at the incident and the Irish government has asked Slovakia for explanation. Mako offered his resignation to the interior minister over the affair, he told journalists today. (AP Photo/CTK, Kamil Pisko)AP - A 49-year-old electrician emerged Wednesday as an unlikely symbol of what can go wrong in the war on terror after authorities in Slovakia planted an explosive in his backpack to test security — then let it travel all the way to Ireland.

Nigerian man indicted in plot to blow up plane (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 02:48 PM PST

This image released by the US Marshals Service on December 28, 2009, shows the booking photo of would-be bomber suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. US officials Wednesday charged the Nigerian with six counts after the Christmas Day botched jet bombing accusing him of attempted murder on a plane and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.(AFP/HO/File)AP - A Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day was indicted Wednesday on charges including attempted murder and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction to kill nearly 300 people.

Dead Octopuses Wash Up on Portuguese Beach (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 02:10 AM PST

An octopus (octopus vulgaris) lifts one of its tentacles in his bassin at the zoo in Basel, Switzerland Wednesday Aug. 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone, Georgios Kefalas)Time.com - Twelve hundred pounds of dead octopuses has locals worried and scientists scratching their heads

Iceland's president defends Icesave veto (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 05:26 PM PST

Iceland's President, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, has defended as AFP - Iceland's president has defended as "democratic" his decision to veto a compensation deal to cover the Icesave bank collapse, amid anger in Britain and the Netherlands.

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Posted: 06 Jan 2010 04:15 PM PST

AP - Egypt security and hospital officials: Drive-by shooting kills 6 leaving Coptic Christmas Mass.

Costa Rica extends evacuation near active volcano (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 04:07 PM PST

An abandoned shed stands near the crater of the Turrialba volcano , 42 miles east of San Jose, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. Costa Rica's national Emergency Commission has declared a medium-level alert after an eruption of ash at the 10,958-foot (3,340-meter) volcano on Tuesday, whose last major eruption occurred 145 years ago. A small number of people were evacuated from the area. (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert)AP - Costa Rica has widened evacuations around the Turrialba volcano in response to eruptions of ash.

US mother, baby girl killed by elephant in Kenya (AP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 02:20 PM PST

Friends and colleagues wait outside Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi, Kenya to attend funeral services Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010 for US teacher Sharon Brown, 39, and her daughter Margaux, 1, who were trampled to death by an elephant while on a guided nature walk on Monday . Four adults and the baby were walking with an unarmed guide just outside Mt. Kenya National Park on Monday morning when the elephant charged, said a Kenya Wildlife Service official. Brown and her husband are listed as faculty members at the International School of Kenya, who declined to comment. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)AP - A lone elephant charged out of the brush as an American family was hiking near Mount Kenya and trampled to death a mother and the 1-year-old daughter she held in her arms, officials said Wednesday.

Blackwater staff among CIA-base attack victims: reports (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 05:23 PM PST

File photo shows US soldiers searching for buried enemy weapons caches in a cave near Shah Wali Zarat in Khost province. A suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan a week ago killed two contractors with XE, the controversial private security firm once known as Blackwater, US media reported.(AFP/US Coalition Forces/File/Sergeant Andrew Smith)AFP - A suicide attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan a week ago killed two contractors with XE, the controversial private security firm once known as Blackwater, US media reported.

U.S. end Canadian reign with overtime winner (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jan 2010 09:49 PM PST

Reuters - John Carlson fired the overtime winner to claim a dramatic 6-5 victory for the United States and deny Canada a record sixth consecutive gold at the world junior ice hockey championships on Tuesday.

New Zealand to investigate whaling protest collision (AFP)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 04:16 PM PST

This handout photo received from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society shows the Sea Shepherd's ship Ady Gil, a wave-piercing boat formerly known as AFP - New Zealand will investigate an alleged ramming by a Japanese whaling vessel that crippled a protest boat in Antarctic waters, New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Thursday.

New U.S. push for Mideast peace faces old obstacles (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 03:32 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — A new U.S.-led initiative to revive Middle East peace talks faces steep hurdles even before it's launched, with Israelis and Palestinians resisting new concessions despite a fresh application of American diplomacy.

Gaza border clashes leave Egyptian soldier dead (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 10:11 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - One Egyptian soldier was killed and at least 20 Palestinians were injured after violent clashes erupted on both sides of the Gaza-Egypt border during a Hamas-led demonstration against Egypt’s continued closure of its only crossing with the embattled enclave.

Al-Qaeda in Yemen: Sana'a Citizens Fear War (Time.com)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 02:10 AM PST

Time.com - Yemeni citzens worry about the presence of both the foreign media and undetected terrorists. But what do they hate most? Their corrupt government

Cancer - The Deadly Legacy of the Invasion of Iraq (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 06 Jan 2010 02:57 PM PST

OneWorld.net - SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 6 (New America Media) - Forget about oil, occupation, terrorism or even Al Qaeda. The real hazard for Iraqis these days is cancer.

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