2010年3月10日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World News

Brazil leader rapped for stance on Cuba dissidents (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:36 PM PST

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, gestures during an interview with The Associated Press, in Brasilia, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Lula da Silva warned that U.S.-proposed sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program could lead to war in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)AP - Brazil's president came under withering criticism Wednesday at home and in Cuba for his deference to the island's communist government over political prisoners and hunger strikes for human rights.

Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from elections (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 01:39 PM PST

Members of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party read state-run newspapers carrying military government's announcement on election laws at the party's headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, March. 9, 2010. Myanmar's ruling junta will appoint the commission that will have final say over the country's first elections in two decades, state-run newspapers announced Tuesday as the country's military rulers began unveiling the laws that will govern this year's balloting. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)AP - Myanmar's military regime took yet another step to expunge Aung San Suu Kyi from the political scene Wednesday by effectively barring her from the first elections in 20 years and pressuring her opposition party to expel her from its ranks.

US-Israel row highlights quandary over settlements (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:37 PM PST

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden, left, talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jews in Palestinian-claimed east Jerusalem overshadowed Vice President Joe Biden's visit to the West Bank on Wednesday. Biden was to hold talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, in part to ease their doubts about the latest U.S. peace efforts. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)AP - An open diplomatic row during the visit of Vice President Joe Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions that the United States is too weak to broker a deal.

Disaster experts praise Chile quake response (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 03:15 PM PST

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet arrives to Constitucion, Chile, Monday, March 8, 2010. An 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit central Chile on Feb. 27, causing widespread damage. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)AP - President Michelle Bachelet leaves office Thursday with a chunk of her country in ruins — and her popularity in the clouds.

Church abuse scandal reaches pope's brother (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:10 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006 file picture Pope Benedict XVI, right, walks with his brother priest Georg Ratzinger in Regensburg, southern Germany. The pope's brother says in a newspaper interview that he slapped pupils across the face after he took over a renowned German boys' choir in the 1960s. He also says he was aware of allegations of physical abuse at an elementary school linked to the choir, but did nothing about it. In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse published Tuesday March 9, 2010 , he said 'repeatedly administered a slap in the face' to pupils at the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir. He says it was common then and he stopped after Germany banned corporal punishment in 1980. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher,File)AP - Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff himself.

Biden Israel Trip: Apology for Timing of Settlement News (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 12:00 PM PST

Time.com - Vice President Joe Biden was publicly humiliated by the Israeli announcement of a controversial settlement project, and said it undermined trust in a new U.S. peace effort. But Israel has no plans to shelve the project

'Britain's Fritzl' abused daughters for years (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 05:52 PM PST

A row of newspapers report the story of Austria's Josef Fritzl who was jailed for life last year for holding his daughter as a sex slave for 24 years. Two women in Britain who were raped and abused by their father for over 25 years becoming pregnant 18 times, prompting comparisons with the Fritzl case, have won an apology from local authorities for failing to prevent the serial incest.(AFP/File/William West)AFP - Two women who were raped and abused by their father for over 25 years, becoming pregnant 18 times, have won an apology from local authorities for failing to prevent the serial incest.

Gates keeps up pressure on Iran with Gulf visit (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:25 PM PST

In this photo released by Saudi Press Agency, Saudi King Abullah bin Abdul Aziz, right, greets U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates before their talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Saudi leaders Wednesday that the U.S. effort for diplomatic engagement with Iran had come to naught and he asked for the influential kingdom's help to win wide backing for biting economic penalties against Tehran.

In paying for sex changes, Cuba breaks from past (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 09:52 AM PST

In this March 5, 2010 photo, Yiliam Gonzalez, second from right, and her mother Janeth Anchia, left, visit with neighbors in Havana. Gonzalez is one of eight transsexuals to undergo a sex change under Cuba's universal health care system. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - Looking in the mirror used to make Yiliam Gonzalez sick to her stomach.

Pope denounces 'atrocious' Nigeria bloodshed (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 12:22 PM PST

Policemen stand guard at the police headquarters in Jos where suspects in the brutal religious killlings on March 5 in Dogo Nahawa village are being held. Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday denounced the AFP - Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday denounced the "atrocious" bloodshed in Nigeria after a massacre of Christian villagers, as police said 49 people would be charged over the killings.

Japan revises down 4Q economic growth (AP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:21 PM PST

AP - Japan says its economy grew notably less in the fourth quarter than initial estimates.

Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 12:35 PM PST

Reuters - Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products.

Sydney teens charged over attack on Canadian wheelchair-user (AFP)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:01 PM PST

Police are seen in Sydney in February 2010. Two Australian teenagers have been charged over a vicious attack on a disabled Canadian tourist who was knocked out of his wheelchair and battered with a metal bar, police said on Thursday.(AFP/File/Greg Wood)AFP - Two Australian teenagers have been charged over a vicious attack on a disabled Canadian tourist who was knocked out of his wheelchair and battered with a metal bar, police said on Thursday.

Israeli settlement plans give Obama little room to maneuver (McClatchy Newspapers)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 04:21 PM PST

McClatchy Newspapers - JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama faces what may be the biggest test to date of his credibility in the Middle East after Israel greeted Vice President Joe Biden's with an announcement that it will construct 1,600 new homes in disputed East Jerusalem, diplomats and analysts said Wednesday.

Joe Biden, in Ramallah, stymied by new settlement construction (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 11:03 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Vice President Joe Biden embarked on the Palestinian leg of his Middle East trip on Wednesday with tensions still high over Israel’s surprise announcement of new settlement construction in East Jerusalem.

Beyond Sanctions: How to Solve the Iranian Riddle (Time.com)

Posted: 10 Mar 2010 12:00 PM PST

Time.com - Beyond Sanctions: How to Solve the Iranian Riddle

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