2010年1月23日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News


Rescuers pull Haitian man from deep under rubble (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 03:57 PM PST

A 23-year-old man is rescued by a French search and rescue team after being trapped in the rubble of a fruit and vegetable shop for 11 days after the massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - An international team of rescuers unearthed a shop clerk in good condition from deep beneath the concrete and wooden wreckage of a hotel grocery store Saturday, 11 days after an earthquake crumbled Haiti's capital.


Part of UK airport closed to analyze white powder (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 02:11 PM PST

AP - Police closed and evacuated part of Manchester Airport on Saturday after discovering a man preparing to board a flight was carrying a white powder in his hand luggage, but the substance turned out to be harmless.

Biden: US to appeal dismissal of Blackwater case (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 05:38 PM PST

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. Vice President Joe Biden is holding talks with Iraqi leaders amid growing tensions over plans to ban election candidates because of suspected links to Saddam Hussein's regime. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, Pool)AP - The U.S. will appeal a court decision dismissing manslaughter charges against five Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a deadly 2007 Baghdad shooting, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday.


Haiti elderly receive some medical care, need food (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 03:36 PM PST

An orderly passes with bowls of spaghetti at a nursing home for the elderly in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010.  More than a week after their nursing home partially collapsed, aid is slowly arriving for the dozens of elderly Haitians that were left to fend for themselves after a massive earthquake. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)AP - Relief groups brought doctors and medication to the ruins of a city nursing home Saturday, the first time its dozens of elderly residents have received significant care since the Jan. 12 earthquake. Still, caregivers said the residents continue to face a critical food shortage.


Haiti's Signal FM: The Little Radio Station that Could (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 08:05 AM PST

Time.com - How a radio station survived the quake and became the informational lifeline of the country's devastated capital

Expert lawyers to declare Iraq war illegal: reports (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 05:41 PM PST

A British soldier (R) walks along as US helicopters land during training operations for Iraqi troops at a desert range some 40 kms south of the town of Latifiyah in May 2009. Two former government lawyers involved in the preparations for Britain's invasion of Iraq will testify at a public inquiry this week that the March 2003 conflict was illegal, reports said Sunday.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AFP - Two former government lawyers involved in the preparations for Britain's invasion of Iraq will testify at a public inquiry this week that the March 2003 conflict was illegal, reports said Sunday.


Biden confident Iraqis to settle election dispute (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 04:19 PM PST

In this photo released by the Iraq Prime Minister's Office, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, shakes hands with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010. Vice President Joe Biden is holding talks with Iraqi leaders amid growing tensions over plans to ban election candidates because of suspected links to Saddam Hussein's regime. (AP Photo/Iraq Prime Minister's Office, HO )AP - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says he's confident Iraqis are working toward a solution to difficult pre-election dispute.


Group tackles animal welfare in Haiti after quake (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 03:54 PM PST

AP - Animal welfare groups arrived in Haiti on Saturday to help protect earthquake victims by vaccinating stray dogs and maintaining the health of livestock.

150 bodies recovered from wells after Nigerian massacre: official (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 12:02 PM PST

A health official examines a woman inside the Jos central mosque. The woman was injured during violent religious clashes in Jos in Nigeria's Plateau State. At least 150 bodies have been recovered from wells following deadly Muslim-Christian clashes in central Nigeria, a village headman said, taking the unofficial death toll past 400.(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - At least 150 bodies were recovered from wells after Muslim-Christian clashes in central Nigeria, a village head said Saturday, taking the unofficial death toll past 450.


Japan ruling party No. 2 denies scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 03:52 PM PST

Reuters - Japanese ruling party kingpin Ichiro Ozawa denied on Saturday any wrongdoing in a funding scandal that is dimming his party's mid-year election prospects, and vowed to stay on in his key position.

Aussies hopping mad at govt stance on toad-busting (AP)

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 09:00 AM PST

FILE - In this July 22, 2003 file photo, a cane toad sits at Kakadu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory. When cane toads crossed the border of Australia's largest state in 2009, the Kimberley Toad Busters knew the battle against the poisonous pest was on. What they didn't know: that government concern over animal rights might strip them of their most effective weapon against the hated environmental menace. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)AP - When the enemy reached Australia's largest state last year, the Kimberley Toad Busters knew the battle was on. But they didn't expect that officialdom might strip them of their most effective weapon.


New study argues war deaths are often overestimated (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 01:48 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - A new report released this week asserts that the human cost of modern warfare has decreased significantly, challenging both the methods and results of other studies.

The Distant Memories of Haiti Before the Quake (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Jan 2010 08:05 AM PST

Time.com - When a city like Port-au-Prince is leveled, you have so many memories of it and so many connections, now severed, that it's as if you'd lived a fiction instead of your real life.
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