2010年2月3日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

Parents willingly gave children to US Baptists (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:20 PM PST

Women, who are U.S. citizens arrested for their involvement in a suspected illegal adoption scheme, talk to a journalist at a holding cell at the judicial police station in Port-au-Prince February 1, 2010. REUTERS/St-Felix EvensAP - Desperate parents in this struggling village perched above Haiti's earthquake-flattened capital said they gave their children away willingly, trusting the American missionaries who promised to take them to a better life.

Iran seeking nuke compromise — or is it? (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:37 PM PST

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, listens to his Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, as he looks at engine of a domestically-built satellite booster rocket, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. President Ahmadinejad unveiled the domestically-built satellite booster rocket, part of an ambitious space program that has worried Western powers because they fear the same technology used to launch satellites could also deliver warheads. (AP Photo)AP - Iran's effort to revive talks on a deal that would inhibit the country's ability to make a nuclear weapon was met with skepticism by world leaders Wednesday, a reaction to months of waffling by Tehran.

US military: 3 die in helicopter crash in Germany (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 02:28 PM PST

AP - A U.S. military helicopter crashed in western Germany on Wednesday, killing all three people aboard, according to a spokesman for U.S. Army Europe.

Pakistan bombing draws attention to US presence (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 01:54 PM PST

Pakistani soldiers stand guard near the site of a bomb blast on the outskirts of Peshawar in December, 2009. A powerful roadside bomb struck a convoy near a girls' school in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing eight people including four foreign aid workers and three school girls, police said.(AFP/File/A Majeed)AP - The deaths of three American special operations soldiers in a roadside bombing in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday drew unwanted attention to a U.S. program of training local forces to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida — a little-publicized mission because of opposition here to American boots on Pakistani soil.

Iraq court lifts ban on hundreds of candidates (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 11:45 AM PST

An Iraqi soldier stands guard as Muslim Shiite pilgrims head on foot from Baghdad to the holy city of Karbala to take part in the Aabaeen, 40 days of mourning after Ashura. A suicide attacker ploughed a bomb-laden vehicle into Shiite pilgrims in central Iraq, killing 23 of them, including women and children, the second deadly assault on devotees this week.(AFP/Ali al-Saadi)AP - An Iraqi appeals court Wednesday set aside a ban on hundreds of candidates for suspected ties to Saddam Hussein's regime, allowing them to run in next month's parliamentary election and offering a chance to ease political showdowns that had deeply worried the White House.

Why Germany Is Paying Millions in Ransom For Stolen Bank Data (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 10:35 AM PST

Time.com - The German government has agreed to pay a reported $3.5 million for stolenbank details on some 1,500 suspected tax evaders, a move some warn couldlead to a black market for personal electronic data

US encyclopedia sorry for old Irish Civil War goof (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 04:21 PM PST

AP - Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. apologized Wednesday for mangling the history of the Irish Civil War in past editions, but stressed that Ireland's 4,000 schools have access to the corrected version.

Syrian FM: US has nominated ambassador to Damascus (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 02:52 PM PST

AP - Washington has submitted to Damascus the name of its proposed new ambassador to Syria, the first since 2005, the country's foreign minister said, in the latest step toward improving ties between the two nations.

Ill leader, violence and oil woes plague Nigeria (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:46 PM PST

AP - Nigeria's president has been away ill for more than two months. A militant group vows to renew its war against the oil industry. And Muslim-Christian violence has drawn a threat of jihad from an al-Qaida-linked group.

Google complaint highlights China-based hacking (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:42 PM PST

Two pedestrians walk past the company logo outside the Google China headquarters building in Beijing in January 2010. Google's recently reported cyberattacks are a AP - Google's accusation that its e-mail accounts were hacked from China landed like a bombshell because it cast light on a problem that few companies will discuss: the pervasive threat from China-based cyberattacks.

Canada looking at ways to create, maintain jobs (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 08:48 AM PST

Reuters - Creating new jobs is the Canadian government's top economic priority, and a key ministerial committee is now studying ways to tackle unemployment, a senior official said on Wednesday.

Australia blocks suspicious shipments to Iran (AP)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:35 PM PST

AP - Australia recently blocked several export shipments to Iran because of concern the cargo may have been destined for Tehran's nuclear weapons programs, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Thursday.

3 American troops killed in Pakistani terrorist attack (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 01:35 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - Three American soldiers were killed and two were wounded Wednesday in a roadside bombing in troubled northwestern Pakistan that killed 10 people, including a Pakistani soldier and three children.

Rights groups under fire for scrutiny of Israel's conduct of Gaza war (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 11:25 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - As the United Nations prepares to decide what action to take on the Goldstone report, which alleges Israeli misconduct in last year's Gaza war, local human rights groups and their backers are facing a rising tide of domestic criticism for fomenting international scrutiny of Israel and its military.

A Brief History of Baby-Lifts (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Feb 2010 10:35 AM PST

Laura Silsby, the detained head of New Life Children's Refuge, is pictured at a police station in Port-au-Prince on January 31. Silsby is one of a group of Americans accused of trying to smuggle children out of quake-stricken Haiti. She has insisted that the group simply wanted to give the children a better life in an orphanage it planned to set up in the Dominican Republic.(AFP/File/Fred Dufour)Time.com - Law notwithstanding, are good intentions enough? Or is kidnapping just that no matter what the circumstance? History offers some examples.

Haiti's Planting Season in Peril (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 02 Feb 2010 09:26 PM PST

OneWorld.net - LEOGANE, Feb 2 (IRIN) - Ensuring seeds are sown during Haiti's principal planting season -- now just one month away -- is key to averting a food crisis in the wake of January's devastating earthquake, experts say.

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