2010年2月20日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World News

Fighting rages as Karzai urges restraint from NATO (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:42 PM PST

U.S. Marine Lt Scott Holub of Pasadena, MD and from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment runs carrying an Afghan National Army soldier who was shot in the lower leg during a battle with the Taliban in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Saturday Feb. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers advanced through poppy fields of Marjah on Saturday under withering gunfire from Taliban fighters shooting from mudbrick homes and compounds where families huddled in terror.

All Haitian 'orphans' with Baptists had parents (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 04:01 PM PST

Maletid Desilien, 27, lies on a bed as a man washes next to her in makeshift camp set up in a neighbors yard in Port-au-Prince, Saturday Feb. 20, 2010. Ever since Desilien gave all four of her children, including a 3-month-old, to the U.S. missionaries who promised safekeeping across the border in the Dominican Republic, she has been emotionally unstable, according to neighbors.(AP Photo/Frank Bajak)AP - There is not one orphan among the 33 children that a U.S. Baptist group tried to take from Haiti in a do-it-yourself rescue mission following a devastating earthquake, The Associated Press has determined.

32 reported dead in storm on Portuguese island (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 02:42 PM PST

A man is helped while trying to cross a flooded street in Funchal, the Madeira Island's capital, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010. Heavy rain caused flash floods all around the Portuguese island and the local government has confirmed 32 dead. (AP Photo/Octavio Passos)AP - Flooding and landslides swept away cars and knocked down houses as a violent storm killed at least 32 people Saturday on the Portuguese island of Madeira, a news agency reported.

Mexican cops find 2 bodies on road near Acapulco (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 01:35 PM PST

A soldier speaks on a mobile phone as his colleague shines a torch next to him at a crime scene where two teenagers were killed while drinking at a garage in Ciudad Juarez February 19, 2010. Ciudad Juarez is the main flashpoint in a war between some half a dozen drug cartels, who are also fighting police and the army. About 18,000 people have died nationwide since President Felipe Calderon took office in late 2006 and deployed tens of thousands of troops against the gangs. Picture taken February 19, 2010. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (MEXICO - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS CRIME LAW)AP - Police found the bound bodies of two men on a highway just outside Mexico's Pacific coast resort of Acapulco on Saturday.

Vancouver Olympic Volunteers: Unpaid Job Draws Global Help (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 08:15 AM PST

Time.com - The volunteers at the Vancouver Olympics have given up sleep and salary to help the Winter Games run smoothly. They also get yelled at a lot. Why in the world would anyone want this job?

Ancelotti expects title boost to aid Euro mission (AFP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 05:35 PM PST

Chelsea's striker Didier Drogba celebrates scoring his second goal during their English Premier League football match against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux Stadium in Wolverhampton. Drogba enabled Chelsea to build a four-point lead over Manchester United in the Premier League title race as the Ivory Coast striker's double earned a 2-0 win at Wolves on Saturday.(AFP/Ian Kington)AFP - Carlo Ancelotti believes Chelsea's vital Premier League win at Wolves was the perfect boost ahead of Wednesday's Champions League encounter with their former manager Jose Mourinho and his Inter Milan team.

Hamas: Assassinated operative put himself at risk (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 12:20 PM PST

Palestinian Hamas militants participate a rally for the memory of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, seen in the portrait, in town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. Israel's foreign minister said Wednesday there was no reason to assume the Mossad assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai, even as suspicions mounted that the country's vaunted spy agency made the hit using the identities of Israelis with European passports. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP - A Hamas leader assassinated during a visit to Dubai last month exposed himself to attack when he breached security protocol by talking about his trip over the phone and making hotel reservations on the Internet, the militant Islamic group said Saturday.

Jailed ex-president hospitalized in Guatemala (AP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 01:26 PM PST

AP - The Guatemalan government says jailed former President Alfonso Portillo has been taken to a military hospital after developing respiratory problems.

UN, AU envoys head to Niger for talks with junta (AFP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 05:32 PM PST

People rally in Niger's capital Niamey on February 20, 2010 in support of their new military rulers after a coup ousted the strongman of the uranium-rich nation, Mamadou Tandja. A crowd of around 10,000 men and women, students and jobseekers, massed outside the parliament building in downtown Niamey early Saturday following an appeal by an opposition coalition.(AFP/Boureima Hama)AFP - UN and African Union envoys were expected in Niger Sunday, a day after thousands of people demonstrated in support of the military coup that ousted the country's president.

Japanese oldie's golden dreams never die (AFP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 03:55 PM PST

Japan's Kazuhiro Koshi finishes the third heat in the men's Skeleton final at the Whistler Sliding Centre during the Vancouver Winter Olympics on February 19. Koshi, Japan's oldest ever Winter Olympic competitor, finished 20th in his third and last Games, but his AFP - Skeleton rider Kazuhiro Koshi, Japan's oldest ever Winter Olympic competitor, finished 20th in his third and last Games, but his "gold medal" dreams will live on by inspiring the next generation of sliders.

UK regulator files $3.3 billion Nortel claim: report (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 07:18 AM PST

Reuters - A British pension-fund regulator has filed a claim for 2.1 billion pounds ($3.3 billion) against failed telecom equipment giant Nortel Networks Corp, Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper reported on Saturday.

Whaling in Australia's sights as Japan FM visits (AFP)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 02:50 AM PST

Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada (left) meets with Australian Defence Minister John Faulkner at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Sydney, February 20. A row over whaling is threatening to overshadow Okada's visit, a day after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned of legal action to stop Japan's annual whale hunt.(AFP/Pool/Sergio Dionisio)AFP - A row about whaling hung over a visit to Australia by Japan's foreign minister on Saturday, coming a day after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd warned of legal action to stop Japan's annual whale hunt.

How Anchorage fell in love with Olympian Holly Brooks (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 19 Feb 2010 02:27 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Holly Brooks isn’t a favorite in today’s Olympic cross-country 15 km pursuit race. But back home in Anchorage, she sure is.

Greek Financial Crisis: Will It Lead to Demise of Euro? (Time.com)

Posted: 20 Feb 2010 08:15 AM PST

Time.com - The Greek deficit crisis has sparked a round of hand-wringing about the long-term viability of the euro. Is the common currency doomed to fail?

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