2010年2月19日星期五

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Yahoo! News: World News

Canadian school ship sinks off Brazil; all rescued (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 04:41 PM PST

In this in this July 24, 2000 photo, the Canadian tall ship SV Concordia heads past downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia. The SV Concordia, filled with high school and college students, sank off the coast of Brazil Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010 in strong winds, but officials said all 64 people aboard were rescued Friday after about 16 hours in rafts tossed by rough seas. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Andrew Vaughan)AP - A Canadian sailing ship filled with high school and college students sank off the coast of Brazil in strong winds, but officials said all 64 people aboard were rescued Friday after about 16 hours in rafts tossed by rough seas.

US officials ask Cuba to release jailed American (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 03:11 PM PST

This undated family photo released by Judy Gross, posted in the Internet and taken from a computer screen, shows her with her husband Alan Gross, left, in an undisclosed location. Alan Gross, a 60-year-old U.S. government contractor from Potomac, Maryland, arrested in Cuba on Dec. 3. Gross, a longtime international development worker who Cuba contends is a spy, has been held at Havana's high-security Villa Marista jail without charge for allegedly supplying communication equipment to members of Cuba's tiny Jewish community. (AP Photo/Family HO)AP - Top U.S. diplomats used a high-level meeting with their Cuban counterparts Friday to call for the release of an American held in a maximum security prison without charge for nearly three months.

US Marines seize Taliban headquarters, IDs, photos (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 04:59 PM PST

U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment stop for the night at a compound in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province Friday, Feb. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - After a fierce gunfight, U.S. Marines seized a strongly defended compound Friday that appears to have been a Taliban headquarters — complete with photos of fighters posing with their weapons, dozens of Taliban-issued ID cards and graduation diplomas from a training camp in Pakistan.

Dutch cabinet locked in talks over NATO Afghan request (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 05:39 PM PST

The Dutch cabinet remains locked in talks amid speculation of a ruling coalition split over a NATO request to extend the Netherlands' military mission in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (pictured) told parliament on Thursday that the meeting would discuss a Labour Party (PvdA) demand for a rejection of NATO's request.(AFP/File/Jean-Christophe Verhaegen)AFP - The Dutch cabinet remained locked in talks in the early hours of Saturday amid speculation of a ruling coalition split over a NATO request to extend the Netherlands' military mission in Afghanistan.

Egypt: Hundreds welcome return of ex-nuclear boss (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 01:09 PM PST

Women supporters of former United Nations nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei, hold his portrait and give the thumbs up, as they prepare to give him a hero's welcome at Cairo, airport, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010. ElBaradei was returning home for a visit, expressing high hopes he might challenge longtime president Hosni Mubarak for power, and usher in an era of democratic reform in the country.(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)AP - Hundreds of supporters greeted former U.N. nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei at the airport upon return to his native Egypt on Friday, singing songs, chanting pro-reform slogans and calling on the Nobel prize winner to run for president.

DR agent shares orphanage plans of US missionary (AP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 05:03 PM PST

American missionary Laura Silsby, 40, center, and Charisa Coulter, 24, left, both of Meridian, Idaho, are escorted by police officers towards the courthouse in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010. A Haitian judge has quizzed two U.S. Baptist missionaries who remain jailed on child kidnapping charges about their visits to orphanages prior to last month's earthquake. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Six months before Haiti's earthquake, the leader of a group of U.S. missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 children flew to the Dominican Republic to open an orphanage, a real estate agent said Friday.

36 killed in Morocco minaret collapse (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 04:26 PM PST

This image by Agence Maghreb Arab Presse (PH MAP) shows people removing rubble after the minaret of a mosque collapsed during weekly Friday prayers in Morocco's central town of Meknes. At least 36 people died and 71 were injured in the central Moroccan city of Meknes during Friday prayers, the interior ministry said.(AFP/PH MAP)AFP - At least 36 people died and 71 were injured after the minaret of a historic 18th century mosque collapsed in the central Moroccan city of Meknes during Friday prayers, the interior ministry said.

Canada says to block G20 deal on global bank tax (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 11:06 AM PST

Reuters - Canada will oppose efforts to create a global bank tax to force financial firms to pay for government intervention, a senior government official said on Friday, exposing a major split among G20 leaders ahead of a June summit.

Libya paid out on Lockerbie 'to settle row': Kadhafi (AFP)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 07:27 AM PST

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi delivers a speech during the opening session of a World Summit on Food Security organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) onat its headquarters in Rome, November 2009. Libya agreed to compensate Lockerbie relatives to resolve a diplomatic row, not because Tripoli was behind the 1988 bombing, Kadhafi said in a television interview.(AFP/POOL/File/Alessandro Di Meo)AFP - Libya agreed to compensate Lockerbie relatives to resolve a diplomatic row, not because Tripoli was behind the 1988 bombing, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has said in a television interview.

Ex-U.N. official ElBaradei eyes run for Egypt's top job (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 03:32 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - CAIRO — Nobel Peace Prize winner and former United Nations nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei is shaking up Cairo's entrenched political elite by eyeing a run for the presidency of this authoritarian state.

Judging Olympic figure skating: More numbers than art? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Feb 2010 05:45 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - While the rest of the world debates whether Yevgeny Plushenko of Russia, Japan’s Daisuke Takahashi, or US skater Evan Lysacek â€" all in a near tie after Tuesday’s short program â€" has the best shot of winning Olympic skating gold tonight, there’s one thing the American knows for sure.

Niger: Constitution Crisis Turned Coup (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 01:08 PM PST

OneWorld.net - NIAMEY, Feb 18 (IRIN) - Small vendors abandoned their stalls as the typical lunch hour break opened with gunfire at the presidential palace shortly after 1pm local time in Niger's capital, Niamey. Firing continued intermittently with the military blocking all roads leading to the palace. Government helicopters were circling the city and fired in the afternoon, according to residents.

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