2010年1月31日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World News


Haiti detains Americans taking kids across border (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 03:21 PM PST

A boy, with a pink tape on his shirt that previously had his name written on it, and who was part of the group of children that U.S. Baptists were trying to take out of Haiti, looks at other kids playing at an orphanage run by Austrian-based SOS Children's Villages in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010.  Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - Ten U.S. Baptists detained trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti without government permission say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.


13 young students killed at party in Mexico border (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 04:13 PM PST

A surgical glove lies on a puddle of bloodied water outside of a home where unknown gunmen a day earlier stormed a gathering of students, killing at least 13 and injuring dozens in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Sunday Jan. 31, 2010. (AP Photo)AP - Armed men stormed a party in a violent Mexican border city, killing 13 high school and college students in what witnesses thought was an attack prompted by false information.


Chaos eases as Haiti food lines focus on women (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 03:28 PM PST

Women carry sacks containing rice during a food distribution watched by U.S. soldiers in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan 31,  2010. Relief workers prepared for a woman-only food distribution system in Haiti's capital, launching a new phase of what they hope will be less cutthroat aid distribution to ensure that families and the weak get supplies following Haiti's devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. (AP  Photo/ Rodrigo Abd)AP - The 79-year-old woman with a 55-pound bag of rice perched on her head gingerly descended concrete steps Sunday and passed it off to her daughter-in-law — who quickly disappeared behind the faded leopard-print sheets that are the walls of their makeshift home on the crowded turf of Haiti's National Stadium.


Russian police break up protests, scores detained (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 01:31 PM PST

OMON, riot police, officers detain a participant of an unauthorized anti-Kremlin protest in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. Riot police quickly broke up the protest and detained several dozen demonstrators.  The timing was a nod to the 31st Article of the Russian constitution, which guarantees the right of assembly.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)AP - Russian police broke up anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg on Sunday, and detained more than 100 demonstrators, including several opposition leaders.


Israel: Slain Hamas leader smuggled Iranian arms (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 01:21 PM PST

The mother of Palestinian militant Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was recently killed, holds up a photo of him at their home in the Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. Hamas claimed on Friday that Israeli agents assassinated one of the Palestinian militant group's veteran operatives in a killing allegedly carried out last week in Dubai, and vowed to retaliate. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)AP - Days after Hamas accused Israel of electrocuting and poisoning one of its commanders in his Dubai hotel room, Israel claimed Sunday that the dead man played a critical role in smuggling rockets from Iran to Palestinian militants in Gaza.


Who's to Blame for Suspending Haitian MEDEVAC Flights? (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 02:45 PM PST

Time.com - Administration officials point to Florida and vice versa for a more than four-day halt. But the upshot isthe aid effort looks distressingly dysfunctional

Somalia kidnap couple in urgent plea for help (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 05:14 PM PST

Briton Rachel Chandler (L) is examined by Somali doctor Abdi Mohamed Helmi AFP - A British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates in October said they were not being well treated and needed urgent help, according to an AFP reporter who met them in captivity.


Israel closes case on US man wounded in protest (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 10:23 AM PST

Israeli settler youths watch at a cornerstone ceremony for a new neighborhood at the Jewish settlement of Beit Hagay near the West Bank city of Hebron, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. In a mostly symbolic act Sunday, a hawkish minister laid a cornerstone for a new neighborhood at the settlement of Beit Hagay. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a 10 month moratorium on West Bank construction in November but it does not include projects approved before then. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)AP - Israel's Justice Ministry declared Sunday that no indictments will be filed against police in the case of an American activist who was hit by a tear gas canister and left comatose during a violent demonstration in the West Bank last year.


Antiguan police make arrest in US woman's slaying (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 05:52 PM PST

AP - A 24-year-old man from Dominica has been arrested as a suspect in the killing of a San Francisco woman during a cruise stopover to celebrate her sister's wedding, police said Sunday.

Egypt arrests 26 suspected of plotting terrorism (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 12:52 PM PST

Reuters - Egypt has arrested 26 suspects who the prosecutor said belonged to a cell of militant group Islamic Jihad and were plotting "terrorist acts" against tourists and state installations, the official news agency MENA reported on Sunday.

China fumes after U.S. arms sales to Taiwan (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 05:58 PM PST

Reuters - Chinese state media laid into the United States on Monday after the Obama administration unveiled its first arms package for Taiwan, a move that prompted China to impose sanctions on the firms involved.

Pakistan Islamist tied to CIA bombing believed dead (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 03:06 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan — The Pakistani Taliban leader tied to the Dec. 30 bombing of a CIA encampment in Afghanistan has died from injuries sustained in a U.S. missile strike in mid-January, Western military officials said Sunday.

Nigeria militants call off truce in oil-rich Niger Delta (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 12:58 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - The tentative peace in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region appears to have finally ended this weekend, sparking fears of a return to the violence that has cut output of the No. 3 crude oil supplier to the United States by more than 25 percent in recent years.

Archaeology in Jerusalem: Digging Up Trouble (Time.com)

Posted: 31 Jan 2010 02:45 PM PST

Time.com - Archaeology in Jerusalem: Digging Up Trouble
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