2010年1月18日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World News

Help steps up, but so does scale of Haiti tragedy (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:15 PM PST

Displaced Haitians whose homes were either destroyed or too unsafe to return to, wake up on the street in the aftermath of Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Survivors live outside for fear of unstable buildings and aftershocks. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - The staggering scope of Haiti's nightmare came into sharper focus Monday as authorities estimated 200,000 dead and 1.5 million homeless in the quake-ravaged heart of this tragic land, where injured survivors still died in the streets, doctors pleaded for help and looters slashed at one another in the rubble.

Gang members in Haitian slum profit from disaster (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:04 PM PST

A police officer detains a youth who had taken goods from quake-damaged stores in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Haitian police officials fear that gang leaders who escaped from prisons damaged in last week's earthquake are filling the void left by Haiti's decimated police and U.N. peacekeepers struggling to provide aid. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - "If you don't kill the criminals, they will all come back," a Haitian police officer shouts over a loudspeaker in the country's most notorious slum, imploring citizens to take justice into their own hands.

Taliban attacks paralyze Afghan capital for hours (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:07 PM PST

An Afghan police officer aims his weapon at the scene of attack in central Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Taliban militants struck the heart of the Afghan government in Kabul on Monday, prompting fierce gunbattles after a suicide bomber blew himself up near the presidential palace. (AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud)AP - Taliban militants wearing explosive vests launched a brazen daylight assault Monday on the center of Kabul, with suicide bombings and gunbattles near the presidential palace and other government buildings that paralyzed the city for hours.

Pope John Paul II gunman released from prison (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:12 PM PST

Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot Pope John-Paul II in Rome in 1981, arrives a hotel after he was released from prison in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 was released from prison on Monday after more than 29 years behind bars. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II nearly 29 years ago emerged from prison Monday, declared himself a messenger from God, then spent his first night of freedom in a luxury hotel room. Mehmet Ali Agca, 52, said he would talk to the media in the next few days.

Judge sentences 'Toronto 18' ringleader (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:46 PM PST

AP - The ringleader of a homegrown terror plot that planned to set off truck bombs in front of Canada's main stock exchange and two government buildings was given a life sentence on Monday.

Haitians Anxious for U.S. Troops' Aid in Port-au-Prince (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 10:00 AM PST

Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne load a U.S. Navy helicopter at Port-au-Prince international airport in Haiti January 18, 2010 as relief efforts continue for the island nation's capital after last week's devastating earth quake. REUTERS/Hans DerykTime.com - No store or shop or life is safe as looting and violence rush into the vacuum created by the collapse of the Haitian government after the earthquake

Cadbury poised to join Kraft after sweetened offer (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 03:49 PM PST

US giant Kraft Foods and British confectioner Cadbury were poised to announce a tie-up after the American firm agreed to raise its offer to as much as 11.7 billion pounds, British media reported Monday.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - US giant Kraft Foods and British confectioner Cadbury were poised to announce a tie-up after the American firm agreed to raise its offer to as much as 11.7 billion pounds, British media reported Monday.

Storms in Mideast kill British tourist, 6 others (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 03:17 PM PST

Egyptian villagers stand on their home at Aboul Rish village in Aswan, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, following heavy rains and flash floods. Heavy rains and flash floods left seven people dead in Egypt and Israel on Monday, including a British tourist who was killed when a sailboat capsized on the Nile River. (AP Photo/Hossam Ali)AP - Rare torrential rains across the Middle East swept away homes, marooned resort towns and killed seven people Monday, including a British tourist, in what officials are calling the worst flooding in at least a decade.

Mexico City to punish tweets on police checkpoints (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 05:00 PM PST

AP - Some Twitter users are revealing the locations of police drunk-driving checkpoints in Mexico City and the people behind the tweets could be prosecuted, police said Monday.

China's Africa footprint: a makeover for Algeria (AP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 02:55 PM PST

This Oct. 11, 2009 photo shows Chinese workers building a wall at a housing project funded by the Algerian government and built by a state-owned Chinese firm near Algiers, Algeria. While still struggling with the aftermath of a decade-long Islamic insurgency, oil-rich yet impoverished Algeria is getting a makeover: a new airport, its first mall, its largest prison, 60,000 new homes, two luxury hotels and the longest continuous highway in Africa. The power behind this runaway building spree is China. Some 50 Chinese firms, largely state-controlled, have been awarded $20 billion in government construction contracts, or 10 percent of the massive investment plan promised by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for a nation where jobs and housing are scarce and al-Qaeda has struck roots. (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou)AP - While still struggling with the aftermath of a decade-long Islamic insurgency, oil-rich yet impoverished Algeria is getting a makeover: a new airport, its first mall, its largest prison, 60,000 new homes, two luxury hotels and the longest continuous highway in Africa.

Chinese children sickened by school pressure: study (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 04:19 PM PST

Young students take lessons in China. A third of primary schoolchildren in China are suffering from psychological ill-health as a result of classroom stress and parental pressure, according to a study published on Tuesday.(AFP/Peter Parks)AFP - A third of primary schoolchildren in China are suffering from psychological ill-health as a result of classroom stress and parental pressure, according to a study published on Tuesday.

PM plans minor cabinet shuffle Tuesday: report (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 01:21 PM PST

Reuters - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will carry out a minor shuffle of his cabinet on Tuesday, CTV television and a source in the ruling Conservative Party said on Monday.

Prince William to meet Australian PM (AFP)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 12:41 AM PST

Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is set to meet Britain's Prince William when the second in line to the British throne visits Sydney this week, the Australian leader and avowed republican has said.(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno)AFP - Prince William will meet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd when Queen Elizabeth II's grandson visits Sydney this week, the Australian leader and avowed republican said Monday.

Taliban attackers strike heart of Afghanistan's capital (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 08:05 AM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - GARDEZ, Afghanistan — Seven Taliban attackers, including a suicide bomber driving an ambulance, hit the center of Kabul on Monday morning, killing five people, wounding at least 71 and demonstrating their ability to strike at the hub of the U.S.-backed Afghan government.

Chile, once Latin America's economic model, now overtaken by Brazil (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 17 Jan 2010 02:45 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - For two decades, Chile was the “teacher’s pet” of Latin America, the student who always brought home straight A’s.

For Haiti's Devastated People, Aid Comes Unequally (Time.com)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 10:00 AM PST

People beg for food and water outside a supermarket in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday even while hundreds of thousands of Tuesday's quake victims struggled to find water or food. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)Time.com - As rescuers race against time, it's the poorest parts of the city that seem to wait the longest

Haiti: Africa Lends a Hand (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 18 Jan 2010 01:03 PM PST

OneWorld.net - NAIROBI, Jan 17 (IRIN) - Africa has not been left behind in the scramble to provide international assistance to Haiti.

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