2010年1月29日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Haitians tire of waiting, start own rebuilding (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:24 PM PST

Jean Claude Seyal, right, is helped by a friend to carry zinc sheets to rebuild his home that collapsed in the Jan. 12 earthquake in the Canape Vert neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. Defying pleas to wait for Haiti's reconstruction, families are building new homes on top of old ones devastated in the earthquake. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)AP - Defying pleas to wait for Haiti's reconstruction, families lugged heavy bundles of wood and tin up steep hillsides Friday to do the unthinkable: build new homes on top of old ones devastated in the earthquake.

Tourists fly out as Machu Picchu begins isolation (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:59 PM PST

Foreign tourists take cover as a helicopter takes off while waiting their turn to be evacuated from the Machu Picchu Pueblo archeological site in Cuzco, Peru Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. Peruvian authorities are hoping to evacuate the last tourists stranded after heavy rains and mudslides in Peru blocked the train route to Machu Picchu, but the Inca citadel is likely to stay closed for weeks even if the weather improves.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia)AP - The last young backpackers flew away from Machu Picchu as clouds closed in again Friday, leaving Peru to grapple with flood damage that will close its top tourist site for weeks, or even months.

Argentina's Central Bank president resigns (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:14 PM PST

AP - Argentina's Central Bank chief resigned Friday, saying he could do no more to protect the nominally independent institution from the president's efforts to control its dollar reserves.

Social forum ends with vows to fight capitalism (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:43 PM PST

A boy selling candy leans against a wall next to a banner of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. The social forum is the annual counterpoint to the World Economic Forum. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - Leftists who converged in Brazil to protest what they view as uncontrolled capitalism ended the World Social Forum on Friday with vows to take advantage of the financial crisis to promote a global socialist agenda.

Niger Delta militants call off truce with Nigeria (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:28 PM PST

This 2008 photo shows fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND). The armed Nigerian group announced on Saturday it is calling off its unilateral ceasefire decreed on October 25 in the country's vital oil-producing southern region.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AP - The main militant group in the oil-rich Niger Delta called off its cease-fire with the government Saturday morning, dealing a potential death blow to a presidential amnesty program aimed at ending violence that has crippled production in the West African nation.

Breast-milk for Haiti: Why donations are being discouraged (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 12:00 PM PST

VIDEO: Post-quake stress and trauma means that many mothers in Haiti can't produce milk to feed their children, and malnutrition is a major concern. At a makeshift childcare unit in the capital's devastated general hospital, Swiss doctors help care for Haiti's youngest victims. Duration: 02:26(AFPTV)Time.com - Thousands of women have been clamoring to donate milk to babies on the Haitian mainland. But for now, at least, that's not the answer.

Blair says no regrets for removing Saddam (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:50 PM PST

TV sets showing former British Prime Minister Tony Blair giving evidence to the Iraq War Inquiry are pictured at a shop in London. Blair said he had no regrets about removing Saddam Hussein after delivering a robust defence of the 2003 invasion of Iraq at a public inquiry into the war.(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Former British prime minister Tony Blair said he had no regrets about removing Saddam Hussein after delivering a robust defence of the 2003 invasion of Iraq at a public inquiry into the war.

Bin Laden blasts US for climate change (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 02:13 PM PST

FILE - This is an undated photo of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden issued a new audio message claiming responsibility for the Christmas day bombing attempt in Detroit and vowed further attacks. (AP Photo, File)AP - Osama bin Laden sought to draw a wider public into his fight against the United States in a new message Friday, dropping his usual talk of religion and holy war and focusing instead on an unexpected topic: global warming.

US soldiers halt violence between guards, looters (AP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 06:07 PM PST

A US army soldier, with the 82nd Airborne Division, is cheered by locals as he arrives to the scene where looters stormed a home appliance store in downtown Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. Sporadic looting continues as earthquake survivors scavenge for anything they can find in the rubble left by Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - U.S. soldiers halted a violent confrontation Friday between looters and a private security guard who shot and killed one man inside an appliance store and appeared poised to shoot others.

Nigerian armed militants MEND call off unilateral truce (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:27 PM PST

This 2008 photo shows fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND). The armed Nigerian group announced on Saturday it is calling off its unilateral ceasefire decreed on October 25 in the country's vital oil-producing southern region.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Nigeria's main armed militant group announced Saturday it was calling off its unilateral ceasefire decreed on October 25 in the country's vital oil-producing southern Niger Delta region.

Seoul newspaper says US citizen seeks aslum in N.Korea (AFP)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 05:43 PM PST

Front of the US State Department is pictured in Washington, DC. The United States said it has been formally told by North Korea that it is holding a second US citizen and that authorities are investigating to find out the person's identity.(AFP/File/Mike Theiler)AFP - A second US citizen who was detained by North Korea for crossing the border has sought political asylum in the communist state, a South Korean newspaper said Saturday.

Hughes named Canada flag-bearer for Vancouver Games (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 04:33 PM PST

Reuters - Speed skater Clara Hughes, the only Canadian to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Games, has been selected to carry her country's flag into the opening ceremonies of next month's 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

Australian writer boycotts China over jailing of dissident (AFP)

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 10:38 PM PST

A protestor holds a picture of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo in Hong Kong in November 2009. Award-winning Australian author Frank Moorhouse said on Friday he would boycott an upcoming tour of China to protest the jailing of dissident critic Liu Xiaobo.(AFP/File/Mike Clarke)AFP - Award-winning Australian author Frank Moorhouse said on Friday he would boycott an upcoming tour of China to protest the jailing of dissident critic Liu Xiaobo.

Obama to seek major increase in nuclear weapons funding (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 04:21 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to ask Congress to increase spending on the U.S. nuclear arsenal by more than $5 billion over the next five years as part of its strategy to halt the spread of nuclear weapons and eventually rid the world of them.

Dodging bombs for a good book in Pakistan (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 01:54 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Secondhand bookstores are a storied institution in Islamabad, famous for their ubiquity. In one marketplace alone, Jumbo Books, Old Book Fair, and Mr. Old Books overflow with worn paperbacks; several more stores dot the Pakistani capital.

Among Haiti's Innumerable Dead, A Coffin-Maker Recession (Time.com)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 12:00 PM PST

A man pulls a cart carrying a coffin containing three bodies at the cemetery for burial in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010. Lacking funds for coffins, the survivors of the Sidney family were forced to fill one coffin with the bodies of an aunt and two brothers after their bodies were pulled from the rubble of their home Sunday. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving many homeless. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)Time.com - Only the rich can afford coffins nowadays. Many corpses of the poor are piled up on sidewalks to be carried off like garbage

Climate Change On Obama's Back Burner (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 29 Jan 2010 02:14 PM PST

OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Media Consortium) - In his first State of the Union address, President Barack Obama touched on climate issues only briefly. He called on the Senate to pass a climate bill, but did not give Congress a deadline or promise to veto weak legislation. Nor did he mention the Copenhagen climate conference, where international negotiators struggled to produce an agreement on limiting global carbon emissions.

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