2010年1月17日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News

Haitians pray, cry for help in the ruins (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:05 PM PST

Jean Gerber, 11, center, grimaces as medic Buddy Davis removes a bandage to check on the boy's wound at a country club used as a fort operating base for the 82nd Airborne Division in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Relief groups and officials are focused on moving aid flowing into Haiti to survivors of the powerful earthquake that hit the country on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Prayers of thanksgiving and cries for help rose from Haiti's huddled homeless Sunday, the sixth day of an epic humanitarian crisis that was straining the world's ability to respond and igniting flare-ups of violence amid the rubble of Port-au-Prince.

Elderly and abandoned, 85 Haitians await death (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 05:07 PM PST

An old man is fed a few nuts from his nephew while lying outside his quake damaged nursing home in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. More than 100 old men and women were living outside the home, that was damaged during Tuesday's earthquake, with no food or care other than an occasional bath from two medical orderlies who remained to help. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - The old lady crawls in the dirt, wailing for her pills. The elderly man lies motionless as rats pick at his overflowing diaper.

UN's Ban in Haiti to support relief efforts (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:18 PM PST

Search and rescue personnel tend to Jens Christensen, from Denmark, a United Nations worker, who managed a smile shortly after being pulled from the rubble of the collapsed U.N. headquarters building, in Port-au- Prince, Haiti. Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Workers have been trapped in the building since Tuesday's deadly earthquake which killed thousands and left the city in ruins. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made an emotional visit to the Haiti peacekeeping mission's devastated headquarters Sunday and delivered a message of hope to the country's earthquake victims, acknowledging that many of the survivors are growing desperate.

Billionaire Sebastian Pinera wins Chile presidency (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:15 PM PST

Sebastian Pinera, presidential candidate of the opposition Coalition for Change, shows his inked finger after voting in a runoff presidential election Santiago, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Billionaire Sebastian Pinera won Chile's presidential vote Sunday in the country's first democratic election of a right-wing ruler in 52 years.

Foe of Orange revolt tops Ukrainian vote (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 03:36 PM PST

Ukrainian opposition leader and presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych waves at a polling station during presidential election in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)AP - The archenemy of Ukraine's pro-democracy movement won a first-place finish in the initial round of presidential voting Sunday, setting him up for a showdown with the heroine of the 2004 Orange Revolution, exit polls showed.

With the Military in Haiti: Breaking the Supply Logjam (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 10:10 AM PST

Time.com - Riding with U.S. military choppers, a TIME correspondent watches as aid finally stars reaching Haitians devastated by the quake

Britain facing decade of economic pain: forecasters (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:05 PM PST

Shoppers are pictured on Oxford Street, in central London, in 2009. Britain faces the prospect of a decade of economic pain, after binging on cheap debt, and its recovery will rely on trading more with Asian tigers like China, forecasters warned on Monday.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Britain faces the prospect of a decade of economic pain, after binging on cheap debt, and its recovery will rely on trading more with Asian tigers like China, forecasters warned on Monday.

Iran ex-prosecutor denies role in torture deaths (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 12:02 PM PST

File picture dated August 2007 shows hardline Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi in the Iranian capital. Mortazavi dismissed charges he was to blame for sending post-election protestors to a notorious jail where some youths died, in a report on Sunday.(AFP/File)AP - Tehran's former chief prosecutor on Sunday rejected a parliamentary report blaming him in part for the torture and deaths of at least three anti-government protesters during the turmoil after June's disputed presidential election.

Religious Haitians see hand of God in earthquake (AP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:03 PM PST

People pray during a mass outside the collapsed St. Louis King of Spain Catholic Church in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - Deeply religious Haitians see the hand of God in the destruction of Biblical proportions visited on their benighted country. The quake, religious leaders said Sunday, is evidence that He wants change.

Muslim, Christian clashes erupt in Nigeria (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 01:45 PM PST

Anti-riot policemen patrol the streets of Jos in central Nigeria, 2008. Clashes erupted between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria's central city of Jos Sunday, killing at least 10 people and prompting the government to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew, residents and officials said.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Clashes erupted between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria's central city of Jos Sunday, killing at least 10 people and prompting the government to impose a dusk-to-dawn curfew, residents and officials said.

At age 50, US-Japan bond hits growing pains (AFP)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 04:30 PM PST

Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama walks back to his seat after making a speech to members of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) during the party's annual convention in Tokyo on January 16. Fifty years after signing a landmark security pact, the United States and Japan are renewing their vows but also confronting some of the biggest questions yet on how to shape their alliance.(AFP/File/Toru Yamanaka)AFP - Fifty years after signing a landmark security pact, the United States and Japan are renewing their vows but also confronting some of the biggest questions yet on how to shape their alliance.

Britain's Prince William on official visit to NZ (AP)

Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:26 PM PST

Britain's Prince William at the helm onboard NZL41 during a sail around Auckland as part of William's three-day visit to New Zealand, in Auckland, New Zealand, Sunday, January 17, 2010. (AP Photo/NZPA, Wayne Drought)AP - Britain's Prince William took the reins of the winning America's Cup yacht and visited the site of the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand on Sunday at the start of his first official overseas trip on behalf of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.

After the devastation, the emotional wreckage (Time.com)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 10:10 AM PST

A boy lies injured in a makeshift hospital after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010. World leaders pledged aid to rebuild Haiti after what the United Nations called the worst humanitarian crisis in decades, but earthquake survivors were still waiting on Sunday for food, water and medicine. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER)Time.com - It may be hard to imagine now, amid such horrific suffering, but Haitians too will be subject to post-traumatic stress disorder

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