2010年2月23日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World News

Afghan leader takes control of vote fraud panel (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 07:49 PM PST

U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment rest after a three day operation in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - Afghanistan's president has raised concern he's reneging on promises to clean up corruption by taking control of a formerly independent body that monitors election fraud, complicating Obama administration efforts to erode support for the Taliban.

Latin America creates bloc sans US; spat mars mood (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:11 PM PST

Cuba's President Raul Castro, left, raises the arm of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez's during the closing ceremony of the Rio Group Summit, on the outskirts of Playa del Carmen, 68 kms (42 miles) south of Cancun, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. Leaders of 32 nations agreed Tuesday to create a new regional bloc including every country in the Americas except Canada and the U.S. (AP Photo/ Israel Leal)AP - Latin America and Caribbean leaders united Tuesday to create a regional bloc excluding Canada and the United States, but its birth was undermined by a spat in which the Colombian president told Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to "be a man."

Argentine stolen at birth, now 32, learns identity (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:34 PM PST

Francisco Madariaga Quintela, center, is welcomed by his father Abel Pedro Madariaga and Estela de Carlotto, President of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo organization, during a press conference in Buenos Aires, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. Madariaga Quintela, who was born in a clandestine prison after her mother was kidnapped by Argentina's security forces during the 1976-1983 Dirty War and raised by a military family, met his biological father last Feb. 19 after discovering his true identity. (AP Photo/ Natacha Pisarenko)AP - The search is finally over for Abel Madariaga, whose pregnant wife was kidnapped by Argentine security forces 33 years ago.

Haiti adoption fights mirror desperation (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:49 PM PST

American missionaries arrested on child kidnapping charges, Laura Silsby, 40, right, and Charisa Coulter, 24, both of Meridian, Idaho, walk towards the courthouse in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Foreigners detained, Haitians enraged, children caught in the middle: The scenario that played out this week echoed the case of 10 Americans caught trying to spirit youngsters out of this earthquake-ravaged nation.

Police: 6 dead, 66 buried by Indonesian landslide (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 07:52 PM PST

Map locating Bandung in Indonesia. Five people were killed and more than 30 remain missing after a landslide buried part of a tea plantation in Indonesia, an official said.(AFP/Graphic)AP - Rescuers used heavy digging equipment Wednesday to clear a muddy landslide that killed at least six people and left 66 buried on Indonesia' main island of Java, an official said.

Soeur Junon: Haitians Turn to a Prophetess for Hope (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 03:40 PM PST

Time.com - Government officials ignored the Haitian-American when she predicted disaster three years ago, now politicians are flocking to her side

Brown warns against legalising assisted suicide (AFP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 07:55 PM PST

Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy hugs her husband outside Parliament last year after pushing for a clairification of existing laws on assisted suicide. Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned against legalising assisted suicide, in comments published Wednesday on the eve of the introduction of new guidelines by prosecutors on the divisive issue.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned against legalising assisted suicide, in comments published Wednesday on the eve of the introduction of new guidelines by prosecutors on the divisive issue.

Al-Qaida leader in Yemen threatens new US attacks (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 02:02 PM PST

AP - A senior operative of the al-Qaida network in Yemen — the group that claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day attack on an American passenger jet over Detroit — has threatened more attacks on the United States.

Activists: Cuba dissident dies after hunger strike (AP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 05:34 PM PST

AP - An opposition political activist imprisoned since 2003 died Tuesday after a lengthy hunger strike, members of Cuba's human rights community said.

Plane believed carrying Nigeria leader lands in capital (AFP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 07:41 PM PST

A plane landed at the presidential wing of Abuja airport amid heavy security Wednesday, after reports that Nigeria's ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua, pictured last year, was returning home after three months, an AFP correspondent noted(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - A plane landed at the presidential wing of Abuja airport amid heavy security Wednesday, after reports that Nigeria's ailing president was returning home after three months, an AFP correspondent noted.

China toughens Internet rules (AFP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 08:06 PM PST

File photo shows customers using their laptop computers at a wireless cafe in Beijing. China has issued new restrictions on Internet use, requiring those wanting to set up a website to meet regulators and provide identity documents, in a move slammed Wednesday by one rights group.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China has issued new restrictions on Internet use, requiring those wanting to set up a website to meet regulators and provide identity documents, in a move slammed Wednesday by one rights group.

Canada blast through to quarter-finals (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 06:58 PM PST

Reuters - Canada overcame early jitters to storm into the Olympic men's ice hockey quarter-finals with a confidence-boosting 8-2 rout of Germany on Tuesday.

Australia, China resume trade talks after rows (AFP)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 07:51 PM PST

Australian Minister for Trade Simon Crean, pictured in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi, has said his country has resumed free-trade talks with China after a 14-month gap, sweeping aside a brief plunge in ties to focus on a booming partnership tipped to deliver decades of growth.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)AFP - Australia on Wednesday resumed free-trade talks with China after a 14-month gap, sweeping aside a brief plunge in ties to focus on a booming partnership tipped to deliver decades of growth.

Carlo Janka stakes claim as next ski star with giant slalom gold (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 04:36 PM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - This morning before the men's giant slalom, Carlo Janka might have felt a bit like an Austrian. The young Swiss alpine skier, of whom so much had been expected in the Olympics, had delivered no medals in the first three races â€" kind of like the Austrian men.

Baradar Capture: Was There a Rift with Mullah Omar? (Time.com)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 12:05 PM PST

Time.com - An alleged rift between Mullah Omar and his second in command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, may be the reason that Pakistan was willing to give Baradar up -- all part of fragile equation of U.S.-Pakistan cooperation

India's Indigenous Groups Step Up Anti-Mining Protests (OneWorld.net)

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 11:32 AM PST

OneWorld.net - BHUBASNEWAR, Feb 23 (IPS) - When 5,000 indigenous Dongria Kondhs trekked Sunday to Niyam Dongar hill, the abode of their presiding deity Niyam Raja, and designated it as inviolate, it meant they were stepping up their resistance to a controversial alumina refinery and bauxite mine project here.

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